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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]
18 Jan 2015, 4:27 am
Merpel is still concerned, though, about the efficacy of the grounds of objection. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 4:07 am
 Merpel is of course pleased to see that the Germans spell "Katastrophe" with an initial "K" ... [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 7:19 am
Probably to be sued, suggests Merpel] towards the rightholders that he has not been able to find [or should one rather say: "the rightholders from whom he has not waited to hear"?] [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 4:43 am
In other words, the Principality of Monaco sought to benefit from the application of EU law and, therefore, became subject to its rules, without being able to rely on its entitlement in principle to be the proprietor of the trade mark MONACO [quite right too, says Merpel, who is pleased to see that Monaco is subject to the application of EU law even if the European Patent Office isn't]. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 3:09 am
Incidentally Merpel notes that neither the lack of an AG Opinion nor the fact that the CJEU only had to address one question prevented the Court from taking almost one year to deliver its ruling.But what was this case all about? [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 2:18 pm
" Anyone interested in visiting pubs and watching football should apply directly to Sky, says Merpel. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 10:05 am
Enterprise's skeleton argument ran to 155 paragraphs and Europcar's skeleton argument ran to 201 paragraphs [rather plump skeletons, Merpel thinks]. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 4:01 am
 The IPKat and Merpel have both written to the Department of Media, Culture and Sport to demand that CIPA be given absolute control of next year's British entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest, in which the British record since this weblog's foundation in 2003 has been dreadful (coming last three times in the past 12 years). [read post]
13 Jan 2015, 7:34 am
How about a Christmas catalogue for 2015, suggests Merpel ...] [read post]
13 Jan 2015, 2:30 am
It concerns an application that has just been filed to register 'Je suis charlie' as a trade mark in Benelux in classes 3, 16, 25, 28, 32, 35 and 38 of the Nice classification.Albeit an IP enthusiast, Merpel is not at all sympathetic to IP-conscious initiatives of this kind, even if she notes that they have become increasingly frequent.Readers might in fact remember two recent attempts: first, the applications to register trade marks for the flight numbers of the two… [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 7:23 am
230 (82%)  The message is plain, says Merpel: why annoy people by sending them more e-junk when you can find ways of wishing them well in a far more personal and meaningful manner? [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 1:39 am
 In her earlier post, Merpel looked at the current Business Distribution Scheme of the Boards of Appeal (BoA) of the European Patent Office. [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 2:11 am
Merpel wonders what his German friends and colleagues could have found to discuss, seeing as Munich is such an easy and congenial city for even patent litigators and their clients to navigate, whether sober or, er, inspired ... [read post]
9 Jan 2015, 1:47 am
Merpel, who knows all about John Innes, hopes that the event will prove to be an intellectually fertile one, and that such compost as may be present is confined to bags and not to any of the conference papers: you can however help to ensure the high quality of the presentations by offering to deliver one yourself ...Around the weblogs. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 1:51 am
The IPKat and Merpel have just received the following letter, the contents of which are self-explanatory and expressed with an admirable lucidity. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 12:34 am
Following on from yesterday's post, Merpel has been alerted to intriguing conclusions that can be drawn from a detailed study of the Business Distribution Scheme for the Technical Boards of Appeal. [read post]