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17 Jul 2015, 10:15 am
"Bye-bye 17th Draft", says Merpel, waving a paw, "we shall miss you".Those OJs. [read post]
17 Jul 2015, 7:24 am
Merpel wonders whether the slow pace might have had something to either with the parties' lawyers wanting to see first what the CJEU did with other "putting goods on the market" cases before getting on with their own actions -- or maybe there was some speculation concerning the extent to which the market price of rum might appreciate while the case was itself 'in transit'. [read post]
16 Jul 2015, 9:49 am
The Stadtsparkasse argued that the request for a preliminary ruling was inadmissible, since the dispute before the referring court was governed not by Directive 2004/48 but by national law alone, since the request for information at issue in the main proceedings did not relate to proceedings concerning an infringement of an intellectual property right but rather to a case of obvious infringement of rights attached to a Community trade mark [don't worry if you didn't understand the… [read post]
15 Jul 2015, 4:06 am
This Kat will be watching this blog with interest; Merpel is sure that it's a recipe for success and hope it will give her lots of food for thought ...That 20%: is it here ...? [read post]
10 Jul 2015, 7:55 am
On a more serious note (unless you happen to be a bicycle), you can join Merpel and chip in with a donation via Sarah's Virgin Money Giving page, here. [read post]
9 Jul 2015, 6:11 am
Arguably the ball is now back [but had it ever left it, wonders Merpel] in the Commission's court. [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 1:58 am
Could this have been anything to do with Merpel's saucy comments about how appropriate it was to host such a sexy subject in a city famed for its Red Light District? [read post]
6 Jul 2015, 12:36 pm
.* The IPKat and his friends: the latest round-up of our IP weblog newsOnce 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]
6 Jul 2015, 9:39 am
This Kat learns from his ever-vigilant friend Merpel that the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office (EPI) is getting aspirant patent attorneys involved in European Patent Office (EPO) governance issues at an early stage. [read post]
5 Jul 2015, 11:48 am
Merpel disagrees: she is more likely to want to keep her fur dry by catching a black cab at night and when it's raining -- conditions in which all cats cabs are said to look alike ...Le Rouge et Le Noir hereThanks go to Chris Torrero for the first item, and to an anonymous benefactor for the second. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 4:28 am
What a shame that it has taken so long to reach this point, adds Merpel, who hopes that this decision will not be subject to a further appeal. [read post]
1 Jul 2015, 1:03 pm
The hearing officer [the seasoned George Salthouse, interjects Merpel] dismissed the opposition under s 3(1)(c) since he concluded that the terms "go walking" or "go running" did not actually describe the basic activities of walking or running: while "walking" and "running" described the basic activity, the addition of the word "go" altered their character by turning them into an order or exhortation to carry out the activity… [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 4:06 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]
30 Jun 2015, 2:54 pm
Once again the IPKat, Merpel and all the blog's contributors take the opportunity to say a big thank-you to their readers and information-providers and to the litigants, legislators, judges and consumers who have combined to make copyright what it is today ...Matters arising 1. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 4:05 pm
The Vogels [who could have saved an awful lot of hassle and inconveniencing a good many IP bloggers and commentators, whether they were right or wrong, by just paying up 262.50 euro and getting on with their lives, says Merpel] denied liability to pay the full C-Licence fee and said they owed, at the most, a reduced fee, on the ground that the planting was ‘authorised’ within the meaning of Article 14(1). [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 9:36 am
And who could tell this story better than our own lovely Merpel? [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 5:34 am
"]Merpel is often prone to a little roundingThe Court then considered precisely how imprecise the patentee intended the limits to be understood. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 4:53 am
Arnold J urged the parties to agree a joint approach to the pharmacies.Warner-Lambert is allowed to expand its confidentiality club by one further person, but not two.Evidence of the common general knowledge in the prior art of off-label use of gabapentin (a chemically similar compound) for the treatment of pain is not to be admitted, because of the lateness of the request to admit [Merpel thinks that this could be quite significant]Evidence about the degree to which pregabalin is… [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 4:01 am
Merpel again would bet that nothing of this sort would happen, which would be good news for selfie & other types of photographs aficionados. [read post]
25 Jun 2015, 3:10 pm
For example, an application for the name of a city far inland such as 'Coventry' might be allowed for 'lobster pot repair services' (unless the evidence was that the public would expect lobster pots to be sent away to inland industrial areas to be repaired [which is naturally the case, says Merpel, who is indebted to Katfriend Edward Smith for the illustration on the left]).* the services for which CWG applied to register CANARY WHARF were precisely the sort of services… [read post]
