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12 Jun 2009, 4:32 am
Although the current proposals include rights for patent attorneys to represent their clients, there is considerable pressure from lawyers across Europe for the new court system to be closed to specialist IP attorneys, regardless of who can do the best job for the client [The Kat hopes that this issue is resolved in terms of reality rather than principle, since any proposed system is only as good as the people who work it. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 2:27 pm
Attendees included the one of the founders of Boney M, the IPO, one of the organisers of the Notting Hill Carnival, assorted music producers and, bringing up the rear, a liberal mixture of lawyers [The Kat notices that it is the mixture which is liberal, not the lawyers ...].The meeting covered a whistle-stop tour of the history of copyright, copyright developments in the US and Europe contrasted with the UK, the problems associated with illegal downloads (as yet, unsurprisingly, unsolved)… [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 11:34 am
Indeed, in some parts of this noble planet, the Kat understands, the slogan has become a jokey colloquialism-cum-conversation-booster, frequently deployed by people when they can't think of a sensible response to what someone else has just said to them. [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 7:13 am
Registered rights are difficult to define and protect too, says the Kat -- look at the automotive industry's attempts to protect the shapes of cars and their accessories through the use of registered Community and national designs over the years [visit Class 99 and search for 'car'], as well as through trade mark registration. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 10:07 am
...The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has very wide ranging powers to ensure that no-one piggy-backs on the event [not so fast, says, the Kat: piggy-back races have yet to achieve Olympic recognition!] [read post]
7 Apr 2010, 3:49 am
FRAPA aims to ensure that television formats are respected by the industry and protected by law as intellectual property [The Kat is not aware of WIPO's Members having taken a position on TV formats being a subject that should be protected by IP. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 12:53 am
The Kat wonders if the new generation of Yellow Pages customers knows why there are any fingers in its logo at all; he seems to recall a slogan, from the distant past when we all used paper products, "Let your fingers do the walking". [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 2:30 am
This Kat imagines the problem might be worse, as the issue in NOC proceedings are usually re-litigated, but if misleading or incomplete evidence kills a patent at the EPO, then the patentee will never have the chance to disprove this evidence in a national court. [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 8:09 am
Many thanks to Annsley Merelle Ward (that's a person, not a law firm ...) for letting the Kats know about this, and the other videos in the series. [read post]
1 Sep 2011, 7:49 am
A Thinking Ape Airbnb Bump CarWoo DailyBooth Disqus Dropbox DotCloud Greplin Heyzap Hipmunk Justin.tv Loopt Posterous Songkick Stripe Weebly Wepay Was this Kat hallucinating, or did his eyes serve him correctly? [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 6:03 pm
This Kat is going to have a lie down... [read post]
5 Jul 2009, 9:59 pm
This is actually quite a worthwhile prize in financial terms - the present ed. plus 3rd supplement are retailing at £545.There's now less than a month to go (31 July 2009), but unfortunately, despite your kindly featuring us on the IPKat some time ago, the dedicated competition mailbox (Copinger@hogarthchambers.com) has received vastly more spam messages than competition entries".The Kats -- whose mailbox suffers from the same malaise -- do hope that their readers will rise… [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 5:56 pm
He'll be following developments on the Budget Blog of Olswang LLP, which you can follow too if you can't wait for the Kat's pronouncements. [read post]
12 Nov 2009, 5:16 am
Say the Kats in unison: we may not have agreed with everything he wrote, but we all agree that we shall all miss him. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 7:18 am
-originated "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day"] In a new Cato Institute book entitled The Tyranny of Silence: How One Cartoon Ignited a Global Debate on the Future of Free Speech, discussed at more length by Kat Murti at Cato at Liberty, Danish journalist Flemming Rose, who was at the center of the Motoons controversy, traces the grim aftermath of that controversy in the self-silencing of Western opinion. [read post]
31 May 2010, 9:59 pm
This Kat would like to see OHIM and the National Offices focus on their current role, but with more resources and meaningful practical cooperation for the various enforcement agencies],— the creation of a legal basis for distributing an amount equivalent to 50% of OHIM's renewal fees to the National Offices in accordance with fair, equitable and relevant distribution criteria [fair and equitable? [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 5:11 am
Kat Griffin of Corporette.com points out that going to a human resources person is probably the best route. [read post]
21 Mar 2010, 1:28 pm
k 2 kat? [read post]
25 Sep 2012, 1:15 am
nda davaya kat? [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 1:19 am
The IPKat's Cheese and Wine Celebrity Poetry Reception is quite oversubscribed now, so can the Kats' friends, family, colleagues and creditors please stop begging shamelessly for admission. [read post]
