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11 Sep 2015, 8:10 am
Merpel urges the Administrative Council (AC) to act, and to act quickly. [read post]
11 Sep 2015, 1:38 am
[Merpel, having read this post, is no expert when it concerns sport but has a nose for foul play. [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 10:03 am
Mark Anderson's IP Draughts quotes the lyrics from Simon and Garfunkel's The Boxer, "A man hears what he wants to hear/And disregards the rest", in the context of interpretation of IP contracts [Merpel prefers Bob Dylan's cover version, not least because he sounds more like a boxer than either Simon or Garfunkel]. [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 4:57 am
Merpel adds: can we not do some crowd-funding to pay for the time and effort it would take to redraft the CDPA, renumbering all the sections so that they can be more easily understood and located by users of the legislation? [read post]
8 Sep 2015, 4:07 am
[Merpel is considering inventing her own IP katistic to see how far it goes.] [read post]
8 Sep 2015, 12:27 am
That's why the IPKat and Merpel are so pleased to welcome this surprise and quite out-of-the-blue guest post from recent guest Kat Suleman Ali, a man who has done some deeper thinking on the significance and future prospect of a patent litigation episode that is now too old for news but still fresh for full appreciation. [read post]
2 Sep 2015, 4:25 am
If anyone has something really exciting to say, can they copy Merpel in, please? [read post]
31 Aug 2015, 2:39 am
Merpel assumes that, if the number of applications greatly exceeds the number of positions available, market forces will ensure that this will be reflected in a correspondingly lower salary. [read post]
30 Aug 2015, 3:08 am
Since most readers won't be used to this rule, the IPKat and Merpel will be making it binding only with effect from next Monday, 7 September. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 9:35 am
Adds Merpel, when parties feel aggrieved by a decision, it can be difficult for them to live with it: the urge to appeal is what one might call a Basic Instinct. [read post]
24 Aug 2015, 8:23 am
Still on patents, PatLit's parallel post on partial prior publication and poisonous provisionals [how's that for alliteration, purrs Merpel!] [read post]
24 Aug 2015, 4:49 am
Who would be a patent litigator in the New Europe, Merpel wonders ...Not crazy enough: Red Bull succeeds over Crazy Bull in Greece From guest Kat Nikos comes the story of some energetic litigation in Greece over a fairly well-known trade mark. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 9:29 am
Merpel thinks that Sarah could have saved herself some trouble by finding three European cities that were a bit closer together. [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 7:39 am
Data compiled by Statista shows that Apple took the crown for the most number of lawsuits filed against it in the first half of 2015 with an eye-watering 35 ["Somewhere, some external lawyer is doing a little jig", muses Merpel]. [read post]
14 Aug 2015, 9:15 am
Still on the 1709 Blog, Andy Johnstone updates an earlier post with news that big-cat loving Shakira [you have to be really famous not to have a surname, purrs Merpel who is still trying to lose hers] is not after all a plagiarist. [read post]
14 Aug 2015, 4:38 am
Also, there is often pressure on the Parliamentary timetable, so when offered a slot for a Bill, it is not surprising if the Law Commission and Intellectual Property Office (IPO) jump at the offer [says Merpel, this is a bit like catching a bus to the wrong destination because there isn’t a bus to the right one]. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 3:33 pm
", wonders Merpel], providing supporting facilities to the legal sector. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 9:49 am
This Kat will therefore give but a brief overview of the situation.But first, some background.Even Merpel is subject to partial priorityThis decision relates to patent number EP 0 921 183 (which is the result of a divisional application) in the name of Infineum. [read post]
12 Aug 2015, 8:48 am
As the flyer states (and how can Merpel disagree?) [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 4:32 am
Well, although it could not sound that friendly (or even plain wise) to threaten one's own fans with legal action, copyright - or, to be more precise, performers' rights [on which the most authoritative contribution from a UK perspective is likely this one] - could be potentially of some help in this case.Of course: Merpel's favourite theatre productionReaders with a particular fancy for the history of intellectual property will promptly recall that protection of… [read post]
