Around the IP Blogs!
Take a tour of the IP blogosphere with IPKat! Highlights this week include a series of articles on the impact of brexit on the patent system, a commentary on whether blockchain can reasonably be used to protect trade secrets and a case of invalid priority in the US. Trademarks The Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice (JIPLP) provides an "Authors' Take" by Daniel R. Bereskin, Q.C. on Likelihood of Confusion: The Irrational Basis of Trademark Protection . Is the “likelihood of confusion” (“LOC”) test, as in the view of Professor Roger Bone, a "mess"? Likelihood of confusion? Patents Kat friends Matthias Lamping and Hanns Ullrich of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, have recently published two articles on the impact of Brexit on the unitary patent system and the unified patent judiciary: " The European Union’s Patent System after Brexit: Disunited, but Unified?" and " The Unified Patent Court, and How Brexit Br...