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7 Apr 2015, 9:42 am
New and recent readers of this weblog may not know it yet, but every three months or thereabouts, the IPKat and Merpel give an update of the goings-on both on this weblog and on other IP-flavoured blogs to which members of this blog team contribute. [read post]
6 Apr 2015, 7:31 am
******************PREVIOUSLY, ON NEVER TOO LATENever too late 39 [week ending Sunday 29 March] – Merpel writes to the EPO AC | CJEU and hyperlinks | New gTLD regime | AG on TM reputation and genuine use in Case C‑125/14 Iron & Smith Kft v Unilever NV | AMBA speaks | Digital exhaustion | CJEU on linking to live shows in Case C-279/13 C More Entertainment| EPO Enlarged Board on amendments’ clarity in G 3/14 | EPO on… [read post]
4 Apr 2015, 1:48 pm
He died in New York City in 1943 aged 86 [Curiously, notes Merpel, Nikola Tesla's name lives on today through at least two posthumous things: Tesla Motors and OMD's 1984 classic Tesla Girls]. [read post]
3 Apr 2015, 1:39 am
The IPKat and Merpel always appreciate a good chuckle. [read post]
31 Mar 2015, 4:01 pm
Merpel has always admired the European Copyright Society (ECS). [read post]
31 Mar 2015, 7:50 am
Merpel's not sure, but if you are in Albania you may find that you can hear the sound of distant screaming ...This Kat is pleased to see that Albania is getting its act together when it comes to dealing with imported infringing goods. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 11:11 am
* AMBA speaks - with a brand new websiteAMBA is the Association of the Members of the Boards of Appeal, and has just launched a brand-new website, writes Merpel. [read post]
30 Mar 2015, 2:46 am
It occasionally happens that an important case comes along for which there isn't an available Kat to write a blog-post. [read post]
29 Mar 2015, 8:03 pm
Merpel tells the IPKat that she will be continuing to monitor the position.Around the weblogs. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 6:14 am
", cries Merpel as we carry her kicking and screaming away from her keyboard]". [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 2:04 am
Readers of this weblog will not fail to have noticed the quantity of blogposts on the legal, administrative and social issues that have turned the European Patent Office (EPO), once a byword for expertise, efficiency and excellence, into the setting for a modern soap opera in which the three 'e's are replaced by the three 'p's: power-politics, point-scoring and paranoia.By recognising both the "social unease" that exists in the EPO and by timetabling the need to address… [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 12:57 pm
We have also been informed that the European Commission has sent a letter of formal notice to the United Kingdom pursuant to Article 258 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union in relation to s.73, but we have not been provided with a copy of this notice and no party has suggested that it should affect our decision [not even Merpel has seen this letter, but she says it would be good to know what her European servants are writing to her English ones, since she her taxes pay… [read post]
26 Mar 2015, 9:58 am
As ever, Merpel welcomes comments, but begs to remind readers of the following:Henceforth, in respect of all EPO-related blogposts, no comment will be posted if it is merely ascribed to "Anonymous". [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 1:24 pm
As Merpel reported earlier today, there is a new blog on the block, belonging to AMBA, the European Patent Office's Association of Members of the Boards of Appeal. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 6:20 am
Merpel suggests that comments on the site would be better addressed to site's webmaster than to her.As the website proclaims:The purpose of the Association is to monitor issues of relevance for the judicial functions of the members of the boards of appeal, especially with a view to safeguarding their independence and promoting their self-government as members of a judiciary, and to gather its members for deliberations on questions of common interest, in order that they will be… [read post]
24 Mar 2015, 12:44 pm
The Opinion of Advocate General Wahl was published today in Case C‑125/14 Iron & Smith Kft v Unilever NV, a request for a preliminary ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) from the Hungarian Fővárosi Törvényszék -- that's the Budapest Municipal Court, if you didn't know ["I knew that", said Merpel ...]. [read post]
24 Mar 2015, 7:00 am
" exclaims Merpel, who wonders what happens for people who want to register for an even number of years. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 3:38 am
I knew that already, sniffs Merpel].Beer brand borrowed. [read post]
23 Mar 2015, 1:42 am
Who could take care of this, if not our beloved Merpel? [read post]
22 Mar 2015, 5:01 pm
This is what Merpel writes:Dear Administrative Council,You are meeting this week at a crucial time in the history of the European Patent Organisation. [read post]
