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1 Dec 2006, 6:27 am
Details of the competition and the conference prize here.Left: the Kat sits in judgment - his decision is final.Finally, say the IPKat and Merpel - don't forget to have a lovely weekend ... [read post]
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]
19 Jun 2009, 4:51 am
The Kat's correspondent ("an anonymous fan") writes: "Lord Hoffmann delivered a suitably stellar (and including as it did, personal reminiscences, touching) inauguration to the annual Sir Hugh Laddie lecture series to a packed house at the UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law, offering a witty and incisive discussion of Sir Hugh's complicated (to use a modern and youthful colloquialism) relationship with the ECJ on the subject of trade marks. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 2:10 am
The Kats will all be watching with interest ... [read post]
8 Jul 2009, 9:28 pm
By-line: This article is written by Kat Sanders, who regularly blogs on the topic of court reporter school online at her blog Court Reporter Schools. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 1:01 am
As is well known, this boils down to stating that the scope of protection is not too broad, and not too literal, but somewhere in between [Indeed, says the Kat -- and while he's not convinced that there is such a thing as "too literal", we all know what this means]. [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]
29 Jul 2008, 2:52 pm
Right: strenuous efforts have been made to keep the Nominet Experts in tune with key developments...If you want to know more, but either can't understand the information on the Nominet website or can't be bothered to read it, you can make human contact the Nominet Dispute Resolution Service team by phoning +44 (0)1865 332211 or by aiming your email here.Says the IPKat, even a Kat should be able to comprehend the changes, which are handily listed below as 11 key points. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 9:22 pm
One thing occurs to the Kat at this point: IP lawyers are acutely conscious of the jurisdictional differences that are reflected by copyright law, enforcement and licensing at national level, but this doesn't seem to be something that overly concerns economists. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 4:30 am
Evidence was produced of retailers and wholesalers categorising [Kat-egorising?] [read post]
2 Nov 2006, 1:30 am
Both Kats agree on one thing, though: the time and effort spent referring transit cases and exhaustion cases to the ECJ could have been saved if more time was invested in drafting answers to these totally predictable questions in the original Community legislation rather than leaving it to the court - mainly comprised of judges with little or no commercial and IP experience - to infer the answers from gappy law, pompous recitals and hopeful punts into the area where IP protection meets… [read post]
3 Aug 2010, 1:15 am
According to Der Spiegel has has so far "...received more than 160 endorsement offers, including a book deal" and, brace yourself, Paul now also has an agent.This Kat can't help wondering whether this is a cultural phenomenon, since it is rather reminiscent of the (German) trade mark craze over the polar bear cubs Knut, Flocke and Co (see IPKat reports here and here)? [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]
18 Mar 2011, 8:11 am
While YouGov does the techie online survey bits, the legal input is fronted by John Enser (a founder member of the 1709 Blog team) and this Kat's namesake, but no relation, Matt Phillips. [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 8:24 am
Checking form 1001 today, the Kat can verify that this is still the case. [read post]
4 Mar 2011, 6:44 am
Elsewhere, fellow Kat Neil, writing for IP Finance, takes a scathing look at the future of the Oscars and their role in promoting an increasingly archaic-seeming IP-driven business model here. [read post]
17 Mar 2007, 3:01 pm
The Eye looks with anticipation to your comments, IP Kat. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 4:38 am
He is accordingly very grateful to Bart Kiewiet (President, Community Plant Variety Office) for taking the time and effort to draw his attention to a recent Advocate General's Opinion (of 3 December) which the Kat knew was coming but quite overlooked at the time it was published online. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 1:32 am
In "Firms hampered by failure to keep law up to date with internet age", eminent scholar and lawyer TJ McIntyre argues in the Irish Times that much of the Irish law governing the internet is archaic, restrictive and hampers growth, which explains why the Taoiseach (Irish for 'prime minister' or, the Kat understands, an old Erse term for 'man who graciously accepts the credit when things work out but gets first choice at blaming someone else when things… [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 6:00 am
Middle and junior level staff, rather than senior lawyers (excluding this hoary Kat, who quite likes being involved in IP due diligence) tend to be engaged in carrying out the bulk of the work. [read post]
