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Netflix has been slapped with a lawsuit related to its hit documentary, “Wild Wild Country” — which claims the producers stole “substantial portions” of copyrighted work from a company that represents Indian cult leader and series subject Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh aka “Osho.”

A filmmaker named Michael Hilow is also suing the streaming giant for copyright infringement, saying they used footage from his 1993 documentary “Rajneeshpuram: An Experiment to Provoke God” without his consent.

The Gulf Cooperation Council comprises the following six countries: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Historically, these countries and the region at large have been recognized as key suppliers of oil and gas. The economies of the GCC countries were primarily, and in earlier years, based on the export of these crucial and indispensable products.

The EPO’s Problem-Solution-Approach is, on the face of it, simple and widely applied also in the national jurisprudence of the EPC member states. It starts with the determination of a “closest prior art document” (CPAD) which is to serve as the starting point of the further analysis. It is then evaluated which technical differences exist between this closest prior art document and the claimed invention, and which problem the claimed invention objectively solves over this CPAD.

Is survey evidence regarding secondary meaning relevant when the trade mark is composed of only two generic elements? Is an 1888 precedent of the US Supreme Court useful when deciding whether a domain name can be registered as a trade mark? And, most importantly, is the whole greater than the sum of its parts? This Kat did not expect to find answers to all of these questions (and more) in a recent decision given by the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in the case on the registration of the trade mark “BOOKING.COM”.
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