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24 Mar 2011, 4:59 am
Today's budding jurisprudence comes in the form of an Opinion from Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen (all the way from Finland where, the Kat learns, spging has yet to arrive: it's currently freezing and the temperature feels like minus 7 Celsius).Essentially, the problem here was that Marks & Spencer bought the word 'interflora' as a keyword for Google's AdWord paid referencing service, so that people who were looking for the world-famous Interflora… [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 4:43 pm
Oh, lawsie, it is a chocolate biscuit made by Arnott's Biscuits in Australia, and makes an American Kit Kat look like kibble. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 2:10 am
The Kats will all be watching with interest ... [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 3:19 pm
But today, his voice choking with unfeigned emotion (the Kats fondly imagine), in Dame Vivienne Westwood OBE v Anthony Edward Knight [2011] EWPCC 008, the judge was heard to utter the long-awaited words: "This is the first trial in the Patents County Court conducted under the new procedural scheme applicable in this court which came into force in October 2010". [read post]
22 Mar 2011, 8:26 am
Indeed, as with ending a relationship, there is a right way and a wrong way to quit your job.Vivia Chen, of The Careerist, and Kat Griffin, of Corporette, offer some advice on how to quit properly.While most of the tips are common sense — give an appropriate amount of notice, quit after you get your bonus — two points bear repeating.(1) Leave on good terms The old adage is true: do not burn any bridges. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 6:08 am
Gus and Inez tell the Kat, not a little proudly, "We don't have to pay legal fees as we did it ourselves". [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]
18 Mar 2011, 5:14 am
Merpel adds, a big thanks is owed as usual to the IPKat's readers, whose questions and comments have done so much to add spice to the Kats' offerings. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 4:24 pm
But, in this Kat's opinion, there is one area in which Sir Robin has excelled: it is not a judicial quality but a human one, the quality of caring passionately about the law and its impact on litigants, lawyers and administrators. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 4:15 pm
Is it a trick of an old Kat's imagination, or is he right to say that the suggestion that patent-examining and granting authorities share each other's examination results has been made regularly since the 1980s and certainly since before the dawn of the internet age? [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 6:06 am
The IPKat, being an inherently gallant Kat, is always moved by entreaties from damsels in distress. [read post]
16 Mar 2011, 3:55 am
Says the Kat, if this happens again, this blog will supply its own ministerial quote, much more interesting and enjoyable quote, which will certainly draw far more attention to the Minister than the usual, cautiously banal fare. [read post]
15 Mar 2011, 4:10 am
Anyway, we must move from fantasy to fact: the amiable duo of Ruprecht Hermans and Klaas de Vries (Brinkhof) have reported back to the Kats' HQ that they attended a court hearing last Thursday at which, no doubt on account of their presence in the vicinity, the border measures and seizure were immediately lifted. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 3:50 am
A cultured Kat, the IPKat explains that "White Rose" is an allusion to the symbol of Yorkshire, the county in which Leeds is situated. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 8:17 am
Since this seminar is coming up very soon, the Kat is helping the 1709 Blog to spread the word. [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]
10 Mar 2011, 7:24 am
Much has been speculated on the grounds for the "border seizure" obtained by LG against the import of Sony PS3 game consoles into the EU/Netherlands (this Kat has not been innocent, either, and proven wrong).The ever vigilant EPLAW Patent Blog now delivers the goods, the actual judgment by the Rechtbank Breda of 28 February 2011. [read post]
10 Mar 2011, 3:02 am
Today's the day the Kat has been waiting for since 2009, when he first discovered the battle between Brüstle and Greenpeace concerning the legality of human stem cell patents (click here for Mark Schweizer's piece on this very weblog on the decision of the German Bundesgerichtshof to refer these questions to a court higher, though less IP-savvy, than itself). [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 9:55 pm
This Kat's far too busy to be messing around with passworded weblogs, but feels sure that his friends and readers will tell him how good it is. [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 12:58 pm
Thanks are also due to the Kat's friend Mehmet Artemel, for the kind supply of links to this news. [read post]
