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More than a ‘box of flowers’, FLOWERBX is good enough for Posh Spice and not descriptive of florist-related goods and services
Do an online search for FLOWER BOX and you will likely stumble across two types of flower-related products: (1) a box for planting flowers sometimes referred to as a ‘planter box’; and (2) a gift box for flowers. While the…
[Book Review] Patent Claims: Interpretation, validity and infringement
This is a review of the book Patent Claims:
Interpretation, validity and infringement (Federation Press, 2025) by
David Brennan, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Law Faculty.
This is a rare textbook that is worth reading…
[Guest post] Standard Essential Patent Litigation in Brazil: A Short Story of Sharp Practices
The IPKat has received and is
pleased to host this guest contribution from Katfriends Pedro Marcos Nunes
Barbosa (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro; Denis Borges Barbosa
Advogados) and Ryan Benjamin Abbott (University of Surrey; University of
California, Los…
G1/25: What are the consequences?
Following the release of G1/25, questions have been circling as to what the decision means for the pending referral in G 1/26 and what the consequences (good or bad) are for applicants and patentees. On G1/26, some of the questions…
Schrödinger’s saddle – visible and invisible at the same time?
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BREAKING: When real doubt hits – G1/25 changes the description adaptation requirement for the worse
G 1/25, issued today, holds that the description must be adapted only where an “inconsistency” between the claims and description causes non-compliance with another requirement of the EPC. Legal basis for adaptation of the description, says the Enlarged Board of…
Hayden v Koons: US Court of Appeals says it was 30 years too late
In a copyright law dispute between Michael Hayden (claimant) and Jeff Koons (defendant), the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the claimant’s copyright infringement claim failed because of the statute of limitations: a ‘reasonable copyright owner’…
[GuestPost] What has long arms and lives in Switzerland? The cross-border injunction club gains a new member
The list of courts willing to reach across
borders after BSH v Electrolux has a new entry. Katfriend Peter Ling
(Lenz & Staehelin) provides the following analysis of the Swiss Federal Patent
Court’s first cross-border preliminary injunction decision, in which…
Is consignment a novelty destroying prior use in Australia?
A recent Australian Patent Office (APO) opposition decision,
voestalpine Rail Technology GmbH v Nippon Steel Corporation [2026]
APO 17, considered whether delivery of a product on consignment can
amount to novelty destroying prior use in Australia. This decision is a…