Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

Catch-up on last week's IP news and events with the IPKat!

Copyright

Oliver Fairhurst analyzed the Kidron amendments in relation to the intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright law.

Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams provided a guest post examining Nigeria's recent copyright law.

Patents

Katfriend Adanna Onah discussed a recent South African decision on patent entitlement and interim relief in the pharma sector.

Rose Hughes explored the challenges and approaches to defining a cell and what this means for devising an effective IP strategy.

Rose Hughes reported on the first decision from the Unified Patent Court (UPC) to address the specific issue of second medical use claims in patent litigation.

Rose Hughes discussed a recent reent EPO Board of Appeal which argued that a Large Language Model (LLM) does not yet qualify as a "person skilled in the art" in patent examination.


Trade marks

Marcel Pemsel delved into the ongoing implications of Brexit for intellectual property, particularly concerning the Advocate General (‘AG’) Ćapeta’s opinion in EUIPO v Nowhere (C-337/22).

Katfriend Diego Guerrero Obando provided a guest post discussing the exhaustion of trademark rights within a particular legal framework of a Dutch ruling on the burden of proof.

Marcel Pemsel discussed the legal implications surrounding Glaxo's color trade mark for inhalers.

General IP News and Policy

Jocelyn Bosse reported on the UK government's announcement regarding its intellectual property policy.

Source: https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/05/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_21.html