JIPLP: Our first 2018 issue

Our first 2018 issue - what's in it?

Our first issue for 2018 has been available for about two weeks now - if you haven't yet checked it out, here is its table of contents. If your New Year's resolutions include subscribing to JIPLP, you can find more information on OUP's dedicated page (we also offer personal subscriptions and a discounted rate for GRUR members); if, instead, your resolution is to write an article or a Current Intelligence note for the first time, you can find guidelines here or you can get in touch with our managing editor, Sarah Harris, to further discuss your ideas. Finally, we'd like to remind you of our Advance Access facility, which allows subscribers to read articles before their formal inclusion in print/online issues - this is usually the best way to catch up with the latest scholarship published by JIPLP.

A very happy 2018 from all of us at JIPLP and OUP!

EDITORIAL

Business common sense? European IP licences and Brexit

Paul Joseph

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 1–2, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx217

CURRENT INTELLIGENCE

Further clarification from the English High Court on jurisdiction to hear claims involving foreign patents

Gregory Bacon; Katie Rooth

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 3–4, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx172

CJEU clarifies the notions of unitary character of an EUTM in light of trade mark coexistence

Emily Karpinski

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 4–6, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx196

Trade mark protection and EU state aid law: European Commission rules that assignment of Danish trade mark ‘Lurpak’ amounts to state aid

Michele Giannino

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 6–7, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx178

Swedish Patent and Market Court excludes any link between coffee and beer

David Leffler

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 7–9, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx206

Short marks composed of four letters with different last two consonants held to be confusingly similar

Mutlu Yıldırım Köse; Begüm Soydan

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 9–10, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx205

Spiegel Online: Do copyright exceptions and fundamental rights make easy bedfellows?

Tito Rendas

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 10–12, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx207

ARTICLES

Patentable subject matter under Article 52(2) and (3) EPC: a whitelist of positive cases from the EPO Boards of Appeal—Part 1

Stefan V Steinbrener

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 13–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx139

‘Turn and face the strange’—how changes in commercial circumstances determined the outcomes in Scandecor and Starbucks (HK)

Neil Wilkof; Eleanor G Wilson

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 36–48, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx164

Are online music platforms undermining the principles of copyright law?

Aisling Quinn

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 49–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx148

The interpretation of second medical use claims and the indirect nature of their infringement

Olena Butriy

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 61–67, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx158

A manufacturing-for-export exception to patent protection: a proposal for exporting violations of the trips agreement and beyond?

Eric M Solovy; Deepak Raju

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 68–77, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx161

FROM GRUR INT.

Should trade secrets be protected by private and/or criminal law? A comparison between Finnish and German laws

Natalie Ackermann-Blome; Joanna Rindell

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 78–87, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx209

IP IN REVIEW

An excellent desk reference on international brand protection online

Magdalena Borucka

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 88–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpx174

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