Last week, the EU General Court dismissed an opposition to the Irish Grass Fed Beef PGI in Case T-62/24. A group called the Independent Farmers Of Ireland (IFOI) opposed the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) on the grounds that they were deprived of procedural rights to raise objection after the PGI application was substantially amended to extend the protected ge...

Can the mystique of a world-famous castle prevent its name from functioning as a trade mark? In its Neuschwansteiner decision (case 26 W (pat) 34/17), the German Patent Court ("GPC") grappled with the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU ("CJEU") on geographical indications and arrived at a different conclusion than the Board of Appeal ("BoA") of the European Union Intelle...

Champagne Problem Series Image‘Hey! When you get down, oh you’re a lit one,Never been a dull one, Always been a big star’(Amyl and the Sniffers, Big Dreams)Big star indeed, Amy Louise Taylor. Musician, activist and all-round punk extraordinaire, best known as the songwriter and the lead vocalist of the ARIA-award winning Australian “pub rock” and punk band called Amyl and the Sn...

It was a lively week on the IPKat, with a set of posts full of insights worth your attention. In case you didn’t catch everything, here’s your round-up: Fordham IP Conference Kat taking a short nap between conference sessionsKatfriends Sarah Bui and Seth B. Pearson took us to the Upper West Side for the 33rd Annual Intellectual Property Law & Policy Conference (2026), organi...

Many in the IP profession remain considerably sceptical of AI. AI may be useful for checking for typos and simple calculations of deadlines, but it cannot replace in-depth human reasoning about complex scientific and legal issues. However, the data suggests something different. How do we know LLMs are any good? Generative AI is an exceedingly competitive field. It is p...