Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice

2021 - 2025

Current editor(s): Eleonora Rosati, Stefano Barazza and Marius Schneider

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Volume 16, issue 12, 2021

The UK IPO AI and IP consultation: answers in search of (more) questions? pp. 1291-1292

Stefano Barazza

US Supreme Court finds authority held by administrative patent judges to be unconstitutional and mandates procedural cure to give USPTO Director more control pp. 1293-1296

Charles R Macedo, David P Goldberg and Chandler Sturm

Thaler strikes again, down under: artificial intelligence systems as inventors not ruled out (yet) pp. 1296-1298

Georgia Jenkins

US Supreme Court upholds assignor estoppel while narrowing the doctrine pp. 1298-1301

Charles R Macedo, David P Goldberg, Chandler Sturm, Devin Garrity and Thomas Hart

My plate, not thine—copyright infringement of Würtz utensils pp. 1301-1303

Vishv Priya Kohli and Stina Teilmann-Lock

The nature of moral rights in Turkish copyright law pp. 1304-1318

Hasan Kadir Yilmaztekin

Fighting the tech giants—news edition: competition law’s (un)suitability to safeguard the press publishers’ right and the quest for a regulatory approach pp. 1319-1332

Tone Knapstad

Can the courts of England and Wales establish a ‘character of copying’ in the assessment of similar fact evidence for cases regarding musical copyright? pp. 1333-1339

Thomas G C Hood

Patents (Amendment) Rules 2020: India’s patent working requirement at stake pp. 1340-1346

Prabhat Kumar Saha and Shivam Kaushik

The IP waiver and COVID-19: reasons for unwavering support pp. 1347-1359

Katarina Foss-Solbrekk

Pleading standards for patent-related declaratory judgment in the USA pp. 1360-1366

Gregory Len, Haden Marrs and Eric Pettis

The treachery of images: non-fungible tokens and copyright pp. 1367-1385

Andres Guadamuz

Legal ink: an overview of copyright law and tattoos pp. 1386-1390

Michael Hobbs and Kimberly Coghill

Trade secrets protection: an interim update of Belgian and EU case law pp. 1391-1397

Michaël De Vroey and Margo Allaerts

Observing creativity in fashion: implications for copyright pp. 1398-1414

William van Caenegem and Violet Atkinson

Understanding, assessing and rethinking copyright exceptions in the EU pp. 1415-1416

Giulia Priora

Morcom, St Quintin and Roughton hit a 6 pp. 1417-1418

Craig Laverty

Art of copyright: how to protect artworks? pp. 1419-1419

Cyrielle Gauvin

Volume 16, issue 11, 2021

Intellectual property transactions: the third leg of the stool pp. 1161-1162

Mark Anderson

Growing judicial support for a ‘Formstein’ defence in English patent litigation pp. 1163-1164

Bethany Pendock, Krishna Kakkaiyadi and Sarah Taylor

The hiss produced by the opening of a drink can cannot be registered as EUTM pp. 1164-1167

Stefan Martin and Jonathan Boyd

Balancing act between rights holders and platforms given further consideration by CJEU pp. 1167-1171

Abigail Wise and Sean Ibbetson

No champagne for ‘Champanillo’: the protection of PDOs and PGIs against evocation for services pp. 1171-1174

Olivier Vrins

Does black-box machine learning shift the US fair use doctrine? pp. 1175-1185

Yangzi Li

Delhi High Court unbalances the seesaw of ‘fair play’ and ‘trade secret protection’: an analysis of Interdigital ‘v’. Xiaomi pp. 1186-1191

Sahil Kumar Purvey and Anushka Aman

The UNDP/WHO remuneration guidelines: a proposed formula for inadequate remuneration for compulsory licencing in violation of the TRIPS agreement pp. 1192-1202

Eric M Solovy and Deepak Raju

Statutory inconsistency and jurisdictional conflict between the Controller of Patents and the Competition Commission of India pp. 1203-1219

Aditya Gupta

The governing law in global FRAND patent licencing disputes: a civil law perspective on the UK Supreme Court’s Huawei v Unwired Planet judgment pp. 1220-1228

Nicolas Binctin and Jacques de Werra

Abstract ideas and patent-eligible subject matter in the US patent system: who can provide guidance in this uncertain legal landscape? pp. 1229-1241

Ekaterina Stolbova and Federica Baldan

Compulsory licensing of trade secrets: ensuring access to COVID-19 vaccines via involuntary technology transfer pp. 1242-1261

Olga Gurgula and John Hull

The purpose of copyright—moving beyond the theory pp. 1262-1272

Simone Schroff

Malicious trade marks in the Turkish legal system: the villains of trade mark law pp. 1273-1282

N Berkay Kirci

A critical history of the pharmaceutical industry, but not all criticism seems justified pp. 1283-1285

Darren Smyth

Copyright licences and private law: fitting a sharp-edged peg into a worn-smooth hole pp. 1286-1287

Mark Anderson

An authoritative guide to the DSM Directive pp. 1288-1290

Richard Arnold

Volume 16, issue 10, 2021

Are directives good for the EU internal market? The case of the Copyright DSM Directive and its national transpositions pp. 1027-1028

Eleonora Rosati

The Treaty on trademarks, service marks and appellations of origin of the Eurasian Economic Union and instructions to it entered into force pp. 1029-1030

Stepan Abramov

General Court rules that Guerlain’s shape of Rouge G lipstick enjoys trade mark protection pp. 1030-1032

Giulia Maienza

Miley Cyrus ‘came in like a wrecking ball’: the American pop star succeeds in registering her name as an EU trade mark pp. 1032-1034

Alexandros Antoniou

Bombay High Court (re)assures that copyright registration is not required to remedy infringement pp. 1034-1036

Muskaan Wadhwa and Manvee Kumar Saidha

The public availability of online journal articles in United States patent litigation pp. 1037-1046

Scott Bennett

Lady Ada: Limor Fried, Adafruit industries, intellectual property and open source hardware pp. 1047-1061

Matthew Rimmer

Hit or miss: a brief analysis of the Brazilian system for rejecting ‘offensive’ trade marks and why it should not remain this way pp. 1062-1071

Leandro Barbas

The CE marking in Turkey: is it indeed a guarantee trade mark? pp. 1072-1077

Melih Sönmez and Ahmet Furkan Türkdoğan

EU patent harmonization policy: reconsidering the consequences of the UPCA pp. 1078-1090

Douwe de Lange

Negotiating FRAND-encumbered patent licences pp. 1091-1108

G E Evans

Are collecting agencies a model that fits to SEP licensing? pp. 1109-1114

Rui Li and Axel Contreras

NFTs and copyright: challenges and opportunities pp. 1115-1126

Pınar Çağlayan Aksoy and Zehra Özkan Üner

Website blocking injunctions in flux: static, dynamic and live pp. 1127-1143

Giancarlo Frosio and Oleksandr Bulayenko

The regulatory approach to copyright contracts revisited: a perspective from the UAE pp. 1144-1153

Saleh Al-Sharieh

GAR’s guide to IP arbitration (2021): a critical appraisal pp. 1154-1156

Siddharth Jasrotia

A legal tripartite for protecting TCEs: a step forward from the IP narrative pp. 1157-1158

Abhijeet Kumar

An essential copyright guide for all with music in mind pp. 1159-1160

Lisa Koetz Wildt

Volume 16, issue 9, 2021

Drones and smart phones: new technologies benefit African patients pp. 897-897

Marius Schneider

Is Article 8(3) EUTMR applicable only to identical marks and identical goods? ‘No’, says the Court of Justice pp. 898-900

Stefan Martin and Jonathan Boyd

Genuine use of a trade mark established where proprietor is offering second-hand or spare parts service pp. 900-902

Roland Scarlett

Seeing Red: representing a mark consisting of a colour combination pp. 902-905

Stefan Martin and Jonathan Boyd

Revocation of an EUTM: the relevant time for determining the five-year period of non-use is the filing date of the counterclaim pp. 905-906

Marie-Sophie Bergazov and Yann Basire

How pharmaceutical companies can prevent falsified medicine and vaccines from entering African markets pp. 907-915

Marius Schneider and Nora Ho Tu Nam

Review of the year in Chinese patent litigation 2020 pp. 916-922

Kenneth Zhou and Tingting Liu

Review of the year in German patent litigation 2020 pp. 923-929

Vanessa Wettner and Harald Frey

Round-up of European design law decisions 2020 pp. 930-952

Gordian Hasselblatt, Katja Middelhoff, Patrick Schneider and Adrian Zarm

China 2020 trade mark round-up pp. 953-957

Michele Ferrante

Plant Breeders’ Rights v Farmers’ Rights: a contradistinction between the Indian approach and international protection pp. 958-967

Anushka Verma

Registrability of pattern marks: Louis Vuitton’s Damier Azur before the General Court of the EU pp. 968-973

Michele Giannino

Orange is the new black—IP High Court of Japan and single colour trade marks pp. 974-987

John A Tessensohn

Unwired Planet: The UK’s approach to FRAND pp. 988-993

Andrew Moir and David Webb

Global FRAND licensing: the UK Supreme Court Judgment in Unwired Planet v Huawei and Conversant v Huawei and ZTE pp. 994-999

Pat Treacy and Francion Brooks

What patent practitioners can learn from Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Actavis Laboratories FL, Inc pp. 1000-1005

Lars H Genieser

The scope of legal protection for designs of integrated circuits in Bahraini and comparative legislation pp. 1006-1012

Nasiem Khalid Alshawawreh

Plant variety protection law and farmers’ rights to save, exchange and breed seeds: the case of Indonesia pp. 1013-1025

Saurav Ghimire, Nurul Barizah, Intan Soeparna and Kim Van der Borght

Volume 16, issue 8, 2021

Back to the future: from Brexit to IP 4.0—reshaping Paris, Berne and TRIPS for the 21st century pp. 761-762

Alexander Tsoutsanis

Turkish Court of Cassation disregards the identity of the device elements of the signs when examining similarity pp. 763-774

Berrin Dinçer Özbey and Ayşen Kunt

Jog on: General Court finds no likelihood of confusion between DECATHLON and ATHLON pp. 765-767

Janet Strath

Indonesian Commercial Court finds selfie theme park liable for copyright infringement pp. 768-769

Yayoi Shionoiri, Muhammad Ryan Dwi Saputra and Miranda Risang Ayu Palar

Constitutionality of Georgia’s private copying levy—where we stand now pp. 770-772

Tamar Kankava

TuneIn for insight from the Court of Appeal on the troubling concept of communication to the public pp. 773-776

Marc Linsner and Jeremy Blum

Expert evidence in English patent cases: recent guidance from the Bench pp. 775-777

Zoe Grant

The Commission’s vision for Europe’s digital future: proposals for the Data Governance Act, the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act—a critical primer pp. 778-784

Matthias Leistner

Genericization of trade marks: an Indian perspective on challenges posed and potential solutions pp. 785-800

Debby Jain

Registered designs as source identifiers and availability of common law remedies during infringement proceedings—exposition of the law in India pp. 801-811

Vaarad Shende

For a clarification of the concept of similarity—a critical look at European case law on the infringement of trade marks with a reputation pp. 812-826

Louis Louembé, Pierre Massot and Mythili Thaya

Territorial scope of the authorization requirement and liability regime under Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the digital single market pp. 827-849

Inga Zapala

Governing the fashion industry (through) intellectual property assets: systematic assessment of individual trade marks embedding sustainable claims pp. 850-868

Sara Cavagnero

Preclusion due to tolerance: conditions for applying the acquiescence rule in trade mark law pp. 869-877

Michal Bohaczewski

Open government data licensing in the Gulf Cooperation Council pp. 878-886

Riyadh Al-Balushi and Al-Waleed Al-Kiyumi

The EU press publishers’ right: where do Member States stand? pp. 887-893

Ula Furgał

A guide to IPR enforcement on the African continent pp. 894-894

Darren Olivier

The celebration of a great IP academic pp. 895-896

Eleonora Rosati

Volume 16, issue 7, 2021

European trade mark law: Quo Nunc Vadis? (The Sequel) pp. 631-632

Willem Leppink

The Patentability of Computer-Implemented Simulations and Implications for Computer-Implemented Inventions (CIIs) pp. 633-635

Timo Minssen and Mateo Aboy

Market Court of Finland rules on reasonable compensation in a trade mark infringement case concerning cheaper foreign alcohol and a national retailing monopoly pp. 636-637

Max Malvikko and Teemu Matikainen

US Second Circuit Court of Appeals tames ‘transformative’ fair use; rejects ‘celebrity-plagiarist privilege’; clarifies protectable expression in photographs pp. 638-646

Jane C Ginsburg

Protection of traditional art forms under geographical indications law: a case study of Madhubani and Sujini art forms of Bihar, India pp. 647-665

Akanksha Jumde and Nishant Kumar

Protection of well-known foreign marks in the USA and China pp. 666-676

Huang Wenting

Protection of intellectual property rights for agricultural innovations: evaluating Bangladesh’s progression towards the international plant variety protection regime pp. 677-691

Khorsed Zaman

Intellectual property on the cusp of the intangible economy pp. 692-704

Adrian Kuenzler

CJEU Santen: No more SPC protection for new indications and new galenic formulations?* pp. 705-711

Marco Stief and Robert Wenzel

A common law doctrine of exhaustion based on an implied licence: a Canadian perspective pp. 712-719

Shuji Sumi

Creativity and artificial intelligence: a view from the perspective of copyright pp. 720-728

Anna Shtefan

Anti-suit injunctions for standard-essential patents: the emerging gap in international patent enforcement pp. 729-737

Haris Tsilikas

Legal grounds of the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office's patent backlog combat plan pp. 738-747

Jacques Labrunie and Marcos Chucralla Moherdaui Blasi

Compulsory licences and ISDS in Covid-19 times: relevance of the new Indian investment treaty practice pp. 748-759

Prabhash Ranjan

Volume 16, issue 6, 2021

Food labels, trade marks and how to prevent the next pandemic pp. 453-454

Danny Friedmann

Connected cars, SEP and FRAND—CJEU referral with a focus on multi-tier supply chains pp. 455-457

Marco Stief and Heike Röder-Hitschke

Canadian Federal Court of Appeal Rules it can interpret contracts: rejects Goldilocks approach to jurisdiction Salt Canada Inc v Baker, 2020 FCA 127, 28 July 2020 pp. 457-468

Emir Crowne

Tell me what you C: Chanel loses monogram battle against Huawei pp. 458-469

Eleonora Rosati

‘Software’: clear and precise? pp. 459-461

Stefan Martin and Jonathan Boyd

CJEU clarifies that framing infringes copyright if TPMs are circumvented pp. 461-463

Péter Mezei and Bernd Justin Jütte

The lawsuit of the decade—Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.: a victory for interoperability and the future of innovation pp. 463-465

Ieva Vaitkūnaitė, Mindaugas Beniušis and Paulius Jurčys

Oh, The Places You Went Too Boldly!—Dr Seuss Enterprises wins appeal in fair use case on Star Trek mash-up pp. 465-468

Mindaugas Beniušis, Paulius Jurčys and Mantas Rimkevičius

Can you keep a secret? The trail of confidential information and the need for reasonable enquiries pp. 468-472

Alexandros Antoniou

Trade marking ‘COVID’ and ‘Coronavirus’ in the USA: an empirical review pp. 473-483

Irene Calboli

Compulsory licence and Crown use provisions in the Covid-19 pandemic—the Australian perspective pp. 484-497

Sarah Matheson Am and Artemis Kirkinis

National copyright decisions round-up 2020 pp. 498-526

The Bird and Bird IP Team

Round-up of CJEU copyright decisions in 2020 pp. 527-533

Eleonora Rosati

Review of some of the most important cases of the year in US copyright law 2020 pp. 534-539

Charles R Macedo, David P Goldberg and Christopher Lisiewski

UK trade mark disputes of 2020: a round-up pp. 540-546

Darren Meale

Round-up of EU trade mark decisions in 2020 pp. 547-560

Gordon Humphreys, Nedim Malovic and Stefan Martin

Review of the year in English patent litigation 2020 pp. 561-571

Trevor Cook

EU enforcement case law round-up 2020—CJEU and selected national case law pp. 572-583

Carina Gommers, Willem Leppink and Marius Schneider

Africa intellectual property decisions and legislative reforms round-up 2020 pp. 584-594

Chijioke Okorie, Caroline Wanjiru Muchiri, Ekene Chuks-Okeke, Marius Schneider, Nora Ho Tu Nam, Sibongile Dee and Vanessa Ferguson

Fashion-related IP decisions round-up 2020 pp. 595-625

The Bird and Bird IP Team

Where is the growing conflict between copyright and fundamental rights headed? pp. 626-626

Jake Campbell

A thorough exploration of the maturing interface of intellectual property and investment law pp. 627-628

Bernd Justin Jütte

An essential reading on IP and international investment law pp. 628-629

Pratyush Nath Upreti

Volume 16, issue 4-5, 2021

Geographical Indications: new perspectives and recent developments pp. 289-290

Irene Calboli

EU General Court says that there is no likelihood of confusion between EU collective trade mark ‘HALLOUMI’ and ‘BBQLOUMI’ pp. 291-292

Nedim Malovic

Ashes to ashes for cheese featuring the ‘Morbier’ visual appearance? pp. 293-294

Ortrun Günzel

Food for thought: the EU–China Agreement on GIs pp. 295-297

Michele Ferrante

German court says that product specification for PDO is exhaustive without room for additional requirements prescribed by national legislation pp. 296-297

Ortrun Günzel and Berenike Dinkel

Genericness in US certification marks: the ‘GRUYÈRE’ case pp. 298-300

Davide Schiavetti

The GI structure (the model behind the EU rules) or the complexity of this subjective right pp. 301-309

Alberto Ribeiro de Almeida

Will coffee be the new wine? The EU–Central American Association Agreement and the European shaping of GIs in Costa Rica pp. 310-315

Adrian Esquivel

The protection of PDOs and PGIs against evocation: a ‘Grand Cru’ in the CJEU’s cellar? pp. 316-330

Manon Verbeeren and Olivier Vrins

The Farm to Fork strategy as an external driver for change: possible impacts on nested GI rule systems pp. 331-340

Flavia Guerrieri

How the European Union is expanding the protection levels afforded to Geographical Indications as part of its global trade policy pp. 341-347

Liam Sunner

Current and future protection of Geographical Indications in Australia pp. 348-356

Paula Zito

Country name designation and international IP protection of national competitive identities pp. 357-367

Natalie G S Corthésy

The new Russian Law of Geographical Indications: a critical assessment pp. 368-375

Andrea Zappalaglio and Evgeniia Mikheeva

Turkish law on infringement of Geographical Indications and its degree of alignment with the EU law pp. 376-383

Hasan Kadir Yilmaztekin and Banu Eylül Yalçın

Geographic Indications in Brazil and their socio-environmental dimensions: gaps and opportunities of the Brazilian GI regulation for agricultural products pp. 384-393

Alexandre San Martim Portes, Marina Demaria Venâncio and Lukas Ruthes Gonçalves

A pathway to international registration for African Geographical Indications under the Geneva Act: The case for Oku White Honey pp. 394-401

Charlene Musiza

Adding value for avocados grown in Kenya through geographical indications: A legal perspective pp. 402-404

Caroline Mwaura

Geographical indication protection for non-agricultural products in Indonesia pp. 405-414

Miranda Risang Ayu Palar, Ahmad M Ramli, Dadang Epi Sukarsa, Ika Citra Dewi and Saky Septiono

Protecting Ghana’s intellectual property rights in kente textiles: the case for Geographical Indications pp. 415-426

Michelle Okyere and Janice Denoncourt

Towards a core unitary legal regime for Geographical Indications in the European Union digital market* pp. 427-434

Pilar Montero

The concept of terroir tested: sharing of the same terroir between two EU Member States pp. 435-441

Branka Marušić

The ever-growing scope of Geographical Indications’ evocation: from Gorgonzola to Morbier pp. 442-449

Vicente Zafrilla Díaz-Marta and Anastasiia Kyrylenko

A helpful companion to navigate European geographical indications and designations of origin pp. 450-451

Marius Schneider

Volume 16, issue 3, 2021

Happy 20th birthday, InfoSoc Directive! pp. 191-192

Eleonora Rosati

Settling the saga of patenting plants obtained through essentially biological processes: a dynamic approach by the EPO pp. 193-194

Naina Khanna

Is milk made for humans? Exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis or a new trend in the case law relating to slogans? pp. 194-196

Stefan Martin and Jonathan Boyd

The Bentley Battle: Family firm triumphs over luxury car manufacturer in trade mark dispute pp. 196-198

Janet Strath

Bullfighting denied copyright protection by Spanish Supreme Court pp. 198-199

Victoria Sofía Martín Santos

High Court grants website blocking injunction in relation to sports streaming and reconsiders confidentiality of such orders pp. 199-201

Sean Wood and Laura Hartley

Screenplay collaborator granted authorship credit in IPEC ‘encore’ pp. 201-203

Daniela Simone

Final decision from a UK Community Design Court clarifies how to interpret a registered design pp. 203-206

Darren Smyth

The case guidance system in China: a practical guide to intellectual property cases pp. 207-212

Tian Lu

The Pelham Chronicles: sampling, copyright and fundamental rights pp. 213-225

Bernd Justin Jütte and João Pedro Quintais

A critical review of intellectual property rights in the Kenyan tea sector pp. 226-235

Isaac Rutenberg

Re-use the news: between the EU press publishers’ right’s addressees and the informatory exceptions’ beneficiaries pp. 236-246

Ana Lazarova

Three routes to protecting AI systems and their algorithms under IP law: The good, the bad and the ugly pp. 247-258

Katarina Foss-Solbrekk

Dance as the language of love—considering joint authorship in the era of TikTok and after Kogan v Martin pp. 259-264

John Shaw

Five considerations for the transposition and application of Article 17 of the DSM Directive pp. 265-270

Eleonora Rosati

Patentability of computer-implemented ‘business methods’ in Australia—a closer look at the ‘technical improvement’ test pp. 271-277

Roy Leigh

Intellectual property management for small and medium-sized enterprises in the United Arab Emirates pp. 278-288

Rami Olwan

Volume 16, issue 2, 2021

2021: The Year Of Data? pp. 89-90

Stefano Barazza

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit finds that administrative patent judges were unconstitutionally appointed in case now the subject of multiple appeals to the US Supreme Court pp. 92-94

Charles R Macedo, David P Goldberg and Chandler Sturm

The CJEU abolishes Neurim and SPCs for new therapeutic indications pp. 94-97

Żaneta Zemła-Pacud

Patent pending: the law on AI inventorship pp. 97-98

Laura Adde and Joel Smith

Registration of a sign contrary to public interest and good morals is prohibited in Iran pp. 98-99

Ali Rezaei

Swedish Patent and Market Court of Appeal says that Crocs’ three-dimensional trade mark lacks acquired distinctiveness pp. 100-101

Nedim Malovic

EU General Court tackles notion of ‘average consumer’ when goods/services are aimed at both specialized and everyday consumers pp. 102-103

Nedim Malovic

Something old, something new? Indian High Court permits unauthorized use of registered trade marks on Google AdWords pp. 103-105

Pragya Singh

Turkish Court of Appeal finds likelihood of confusion based on a common weak element pp. 105-107

Güldeniz Doğan Alkan and Ayşenur C¸ıtak

With its IP action plan, the European Commission is stepping up its IP game pp. 107-108

Bertrand Sautier

An assessment of the UK approach to parametric claims after Actavis v Eli Lilly pp. 109-123

Ilya Gribanov

AI-generated works and copyright law: towards a union of strange bedfellows pp. 124-135

Emmanuel Salami

Clash of the Titans: conflict between the regulatory and patent systems around second medical use claims pp. 136-145

Natali Goginashvili

Brazilian Supreme Court considers ruling on patent case for the first time this century pp. 146-149

Roberto Rodrigues and Ana Calil

The fate of the ETSI FRAND declaration in the transfer of SEPs pp. 150-163

Lea Tochtermann

The Australian tobacco plain packaging legislation: a case study on intellectual property enforcement and policy intervention to promote public health pp. 164-178

Olasupo Owoeye, Oladapo Fabusuyi and Mathews Nkhoma

The legal nature of a domain name: the Ukrainian dimension pp. 179-183

Nataliia Bulat

Cornucopia of comparative case law: trade mark law in Asia pp. 184-186

Danny Friedmann

Deciphering the transnational aspect of IP law pp. 187-188

Kshitij Kumar Singh

Volume 16, issue 1, 2021

Let’s do away with the notion of the “personal brand” pp. 1-2

Neil Wilkof

A patentable computer program could only be one button press away pp. 3-4

Oliver Lam and Jeremy Smith

Wheely good result for BMW in the Patents Court pp. 5-7

Janet Strath

US Supreme Court precludes judicial review of time-bar challenges of US Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board institution decisions pp. 7-8

Charles R Macedo, Christopher Lisiewski and Chandler Sturm

Lionel Messi v EUIPO: 2-0. Court of Justice blows final whistle on opposition proceedings involving Leo Messi pp. 9-11

Stefan Martin

Genuine use of a mark without a single sale. Possible? ‘Yes!’, says the General Court pp. 11-13

Stefan Martin

Land Rover fails to defend 3D shape mark oppositions pp. 13-15

Alex Woolgar

SkyKick—a continuing saga: infringement, injunction, costs and appeals pp. 16-17

Darren Meale

AG Hogan advises CJEU to rule that disclosure of evidence in court proceedings is not a communication to the public pp. 17-18

Nedim Malovic

Brazil is one step closer to implementation of the Nagoya Protocol pp. 19-20

Suelen Carls

‘Thou shalt not pass’—trade mark and design offices and courts as guardians of public policy and morality pp. 21-40

Carina Gommers, Eva De Pauw and Ine Letten

The destruction of copyright—are jurisprudence and legislators throwing fundamental principles of copyright under the bus? pp. 41-55

Kerstin Bäcker and Ursula Feindor-Schmidt

The lost tribe: SEP licensing practices in German post-Huawei jurisprudence pp. 56-65

Jonas Heitto

Meet my artificially-intelligent virtual self: creative avatars, machine learning, smart contracts and the copyright conundrum pp. 66-78

Eugene C Lim

Claiming rights to Augmented Space: current and future scenarios pp. 79-88

Serena Faccio