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Can you register, as a trade mark, the name of an author, including an author – like George...

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has finally delivered its long-awaited judgment...

As autumn settles in and leaves begin to fall, one thing stays firmly in place: the judicial,...

Like all sectors, the movie industry has been both affected by and exploring potential uses of...

Back in the spring, The IPKat reported on the then fresh Opinion of Advocate General (AG) Szpunar...

The use – and abuse – of IP rights to achieve objectives other than protecting what those rights...

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must...

International copyright law (Article 2(3) of the Berne Convention) mandates the protection of “[t...

What does 'pastiche' mean? A question like this, raised a few years ago, would probably have...

Over the weekend, reports circulated that the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has...

Is it true that originality is the only thing that matters in copyright law, including for works...

Joint ownership of IP rights: is it an area governed by national or rather EU law? More...

Can a work that is presented as being entirely AI-generated receive protection under copyright...

A few weeks ago, the 5th Board of Appeal (BoA) of the European Union Intellectual Property Office...

Overwhelmed by AI-related commentaries and looking for something that thinks – at least partly –...

Would you say that the circumstance that a container for liquids was protected by a patent...

Can the Spanish phrase ‘MARICON PERDIDO’, which roughly translates as ‘hopeless faggot’, be...

As students of EU law know, a key principle – which the now Court of Justice of the European...

One of the best-known frames of Todd Phillips’s 2019 Joker film starring Joaquin Phoenix is that...

Over the years, The IPKat has reported on the growing body of case law issued by Italian courts...