In Personality rights of a politician – new ruling by Austrian Supreme Court, Rainer Schultes of the Kluwer Trademark Blog reports on a case dealing with party games, politicians accused of corruptions, name initials and satire.And to close off still with an eye on politics, the Blog de Droit Européen des Brevets presents as invention de la semaine a patent application for genetic profiling to select politicians lodged by Greenpeace. [read post]

The deciding Board of case T 1178/04 takes this statement of principle from the commentary “Patentgesetz mit Europäischem Patentübereinkommen”, 7th edition (2005), by Dr Rainer Schulte and others, paragraph 7.6.1, note 72, at page 986 which concerns the appeal procedure under German law. [read post]