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

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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". 🧵

Celebrating a new book- Injunctions in Patent Law: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Flexibility and Tailoring -ed. by @contreraslegals & myself, w stellar group of authors (open access: https://t.co/CpZAGUjlTP). Expect the book launch & some exciting @LSELaw events in early Spring 23.

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. https://t.co/ArJ6IHt4zz

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"!

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

Hopefully, today's decision (which tells DE courts to disregard settled domestic case law!) will make stays more common in merits proceedings to close the #injunctiongap, as I argue they should in a forthcoming article in @GrurInt!

The decisions seems entirely correct to me: as the ECJ writes, PIs would become devoid of purpose if patentee first needs to survive validity challenge in merits proceedings. But it will put further pressure on infringement courts.

The decision is C-44/21 Phoenix Contact, https://t.co/Bwz1EqdePt, for now only available in German and French.

I realize everyone's still processing Tuesday's decision on Art 17 DSM, but today the ECJ handed down another consequential ruling: Germany's PI regime requiring prior confirmation of patent validity by a court is *unallowable* under Enf. Dir.

https://t.co/pPanErrkkE

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.

Have you ever thought of how the Soviet Union dealt with patents and technology? @EUI_EU researcher Svitlana Lebedenko discusses inventors' certificates in the Soviet Union and their impact on modern IP in 🇷🇺. Read more 👉 https://t.co/vaWSwG5fpl @EUI_TechCluster

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

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My commentary to the DSM Directive has just been released! Many thanks to AG @maciejszpunar for his foreword and to @OUPLaw for the impeccable work The book is also available for sale on OUP website with a 30% discount, using code ALAUTHC4 at checkout https://t.co/HycMyg3I6j

Amendment of German patent law: small step or giant leap for proportionality?

No get-out-of-jail-free card for Hasbro as General Court affirms bad faith in MONOPOLY appeal

It is not uncommon for a game of Monopoly to end with quarrels and accusations of cheating. Turns out even the MONOPOLY trade mark lives up to the reputation: