Topics featured in this issue include the following:* Gillian Davies, formerly of the European Patent Office and now a barrister in Hogarth Chambers, summarises significant decisions of the EPO boards of appeal in 2007;* Birgit Clark (Boult Wade Tennant) discusses the German Bundesgerichtshof COOL WATER/ICY COLD decision on the legitimacy or otherwise of allusive product names as a means of comparative advertising for imitative perfumes;* Marianne Schaffner and Sandra Georges (from… [read post]