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5 Oct 2015, 1:16 am
As you were.** Merpel's kidding, it's not uncharacteristic at all. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 8:08 pm
Well, here Merpel is forced to guess. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 8:07 pm
 Merpel hopes that her readers will agree that both files should be treated equally in the same queue. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 4:05 am
 Merpel adds: this applies to any foreign language, and not just English. [read post]
30 Sep 2015, 4:01 pm
Once every three months or thereabouts, the IPKat and Merpel post an update of the goings-on both on this weblog and on other IP-flavoured blogs to which members of the IPKat's blog team contribute. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 3:35 am
King in the Central District of California has just established that Warner-Chappell do not hold any valid copyright in the Happy Birthday lyrics, Merpel recounts.* The "Happy Birthday" saga: when it may have been better not to have sued? [read post]
27 Sep 2015, 6:58 am
 It's ten years since the European Commission announced its intention to organise a major reform of EU copyright law [a job it has since abandoned to the Court of Justice, says Merpel]. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 7:41 am
The government is convinced that this is good news, but Merpel is not so sure. [read post]
25 Sep 2015, 4:21 am
This Kat, like many other Kat readers, read with a sense of relief Merpel’s report that the copyright claim byWarner-Chappell Music in the song—Happy Birthday- has been rejected on the technical but legally dispositive ground that the necessary chain of title in the hoary song had not been proven. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 11:58 am
Merpel agrees and feels that this might just be a neat area for a fresh application of the principle of exhaustion of rights: once a tattoo has been released into the world, its author cannot stop its owner doing anything with it, in so far as it is part of him or her. [read post]
22 Sep 2015, 1:35 am
Is he, as Merpel suggests, in training for a Gold Medal in the Cancellation Olympics Ohimpics? [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 7:03 am
 Merpel is locked in a temporal anomaly - she always thought that "adversely affected" was judged at the time of appeal and wonders how it can be retrospectively lost by what is put in the Statement of Grounds of Appeal (filed up to two months later). [read post]
18 Sep 2015, 9:47 am
 While Merpel, who has been inspired to write on European Patent Office (EPO) matters is no doubt contemplating the best way to sharpen her quill, this Kat will content himself by merely recording, without any comment, the existence of some astonishing content on the FOSS Patents weblog earlier this week. [read post]
18 Sep 2015, 4:27 am
"In other words, and to use a language borrowed from economists, the EU legislature considered intermediaries the best placed to bring infringing activities to an end [but also prevent new infringements from occurring, as the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) most recently recalled at para 37 of its Telekabel judgment, discussed here] because these subjects are the lowest-cost avoiders.He also noted how Article 8(3) of the InfoSoc Directive does not contain… [read post]
18 Sep 2015, 1:37 am
[Merpel, acting as research assistant, asks that Collecting Societies make their exciting digital plans more visible on their websites because she knows they exist and she'd like to link to them.] [read post]
15 Sep 2015, 1:57 pm
  ["Unless the parties come to their senses, " sniggers Merpel]. [read post]
11 Sep 2015, 8:10 am
Merpel urges the Administrative Council (AC) to act, and to act quickly. [read post]