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4 Feb 2015, 2:41 am
According to impeccable and verified sources within the IPO, the ideal candidate will possess either interest or experience in IP [Merpel thinks that both/and would be best!] [read post]
3 Feb 2015, 1:54 pm
On behalf of Merpel and on behalf of us all, I apologise unreservedly to her for any annoyance and embarrassment caused. [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 9:22 am
Merpel wonders whether readers have any useful tips to offer the BPTO in speeding things up, though she wonders whether the best way to get things going is to encourage applicants to write shorter, simpler and more intelligible patent applications ... [read post]
2 Feb 2015, 2:20 am
Does the EPO really need to open its pockets in order to attract suitable candidates, wonders Merpel? [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 1:00 am
Not the appeal from the Nestec v Dualit High Court decision (which Merpel is keenly awaiting for the reasons discussed in two earlier blogposts, hereand here); no, a new player is at the table. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 2:31 am
While it is always annoying to have to keep returning to the CJEU to get it to amplify or fine-tune earlier rulings, that may still be more desirable than giving a broad ruling that causes subsequent injustice or inconvenience to national trial courts.Every successful IPlitigant's costs dream ...Merpel adds, the words "reasonable and proportional legal costs" in Article 14 will be an invitation to counsel to plead before the CJEU that these concepts should also be measured… [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 8:49 am
Merpel, who is a bit cross-eyed from reading backwards and forwards through the CPR costs rules, wonders if there isn't an easier way of doing things. [read post]
28 Jan 2015, 3:35 am
The IPKat, Merpel and blog team are committed to providing a lean and mean Twitter service, letting followers know when new blogposts appear, making pertinent IP comments sparingly and being highly selective in the third party tweets we retweet. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 8:08 am
The product is made by Ferrero [Merpel thinks this means "Smith"], which also includes Nutella as the filling of its Ferrero Rocher chocolates. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 4:00 am
Merpel wonders what readers think about the article itself, and whether the EPO should be paying for placement of such pieces. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 3:22 am
A Cat speaks ...The events that unfolded in the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich in December 2014 have been extensively covered by Merpel on this blog, and have attracted many comments. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 12:37 am
Also Merpel was recently asked to pose for PlayKat3) If the answer to question 1) is in the affirmative: Is it a relevant factor whether the restriction measures on the original site can be circumvented as meant in point 31 of the decision of 13 February 2014, C-466/12 (Svensson et al/Retriever)? [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 4:03 am
Is that a good thing, wonders Merpel? [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 2:15 am
Please do not direct your queries or send your submissions to the IPKat or Merpel ... [read post]
23 Jan 2015, 5:19 am
Merpel, noting that the Kat has so far mentioned only women, reminds him to name at least a token male, so he opts for Simon Cohen (Partner, Taylor Wessing) and Sam Granata (a judge in the Commercial Court, Antwerp). [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 4:45 am
Best regards,It seems to Merpel that the letter speaks for itself, and therefore she will refrain from further comment. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 3:00 am
Says Merpel, if Grundig wanted EU-wide protection for PIANISSIMO, despite its obvious problem in Italy, why didn't it apply to register PIANISSIMO as a national mark in all the countries in which Italian isn't spoken, build up a web of national registrations while it used the mark in Italy and elsewhere, then file for a CTM on the basis that it had acquired distinctiveness through use within the EU? [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 11:37 am
Incidentally, the redoubtable Merpel has lent her support to this event ...The SPC Blog logoAround the weblogs. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 8:09 am
Never too late 26 [week ending Sunday 28 December] -- Arnold J on Ice cream van design in Whitby Specialist Vehicles v Yorkshire Specialist Vehicles | Adios to positive right of TM in Spain | Costs of Vestergaard Fransen v Bestnet Europe | Irish PTO on slogan TMs | Merpel summarises what’s going on with EPO | CoA for England and Wales on patent infringement by numbers in Jarden Consumer Solutions (Europe) Ltd v SEB SA& Another |… [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 12:12 am
But will it be also feasible, wonders Merpel? [read post]
