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No get-out-of-jail-free card for Hasbro as General Court affirms bad faith in MONOPOLY appeal ift.tt/3nx1YYX

Amendment of German patent law: small step or giant leap for proportionality? ift.tt/2WqaPCj

My commentary to the DSM Directive has just been released! Many thanks to AG Maciej Szpunar for his foreword and to OUP Law for the impeccable work The book is also available for sale on OUP website with a 30% discount, using code ALAUTHC4 at checkout global.oup.com/academic/produ…

If you are passionate about IP, enjoy writing about it, and want to be part of a group of IP loving folks, do apply to become a GuestKat or an InternKat! ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/09/katcal…

We won!!! De echte kers op de taart na ons eerste jaar Law Hub bij de Amsterdam Law School van de UvA Amsterdam - winnaar van de #goudenzandlopers Sdu met ons vak Justice Entrepreneurship

Have you ever thought of how the Soviet Union dealt with patents and technology? European University Institute researcher Svitlana Lebedenko discusses inventors' certificates in the Soviet Union and their impact on modern IP in 🇷🇺. Read more 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.100… @EUI_TechCluster

Dear former students, if you, your friends or family from Ukraine need any help with getting from the Slovak/Ukrainian border or legal advice in Slovakia, just get in touch.

'"Klaar voor de show?"' 31 mei verschijnt John-Alexander Janssen's derde roman Va-banque (De Arbeiderspers). Donderdag 9 juni om 13.30 signeert Janssen het boek bij Athenaeum Boekhandel Spui. Wees erbij, en lees een fragment!

Congratulations to #EUI #Law alumnus Yussef Al Tamimi for winning this year's #AntonioCassese Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in International Law with his dissertation on "Law, Identity and Emotions: A Sentimentalist Analysis of Human Rights"!

Short article with @ByrneHamilton now available online in Nordic Journal of Human Rights. We look at recent references between the African and European HR courts to lay out interlinked future paths. Come for the Borges reference, stay for our soothsaying. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Celebrating a new book- Injunctions in Patent Law: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Flexibility and Tailoring -ed. by Jorge Contreras & myself, w stellar group of authors (open access: cambridge.org/core/books/inj…). Expect the book launch & some exciting LSE Law School events in early Spring 23.

Italy is back in the news due to debates over the ECB and bond purchases. Unfortunately, there are again lots of distorted stories and statements around. Here's a data-based summary thread that may help in debunking the claims about a "profligate, reform-lazy Italy". 🧵

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And to conclude … a picture of all current and past Kats in attendance today: to the next 20 years of The IPKat! 🥂🎉🎈