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23 Oct 2014, 12:23 am
Merpel is puzzled about the reference to the parties "disengaging from hostilities". [read post]
22 Oct 2014, 3:39 am
It is in a spirit of genuine appreciation that the IPKat, Merpel and all the blogging team thank our readers for their continued interest and support. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 9:37 pm
Says Merpel: why not have a special class of perpetual motion patents, which applicants can happily be granted? [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 5:03 am
* The fact that the shape of a product is regarded as giving it substantial value does not mean that other characteristics may not also give the product significant value [Hmm, wonders Merpel: what, at para.30, is the difference between "substantial" and "significant"?]. [read post]
19 Oct 2014, 8:06 pm
Well, says Merpel, they are certainly on the ball]. [read post]
19 Oct 2014, 10:20 am
[This raises an interesting question, says Merpel: if the Commission was not undertaking an economic activity or an industrial activity, what does it need a Community trade mark for? [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 5:41 am
Merpel is delighted to learn about Niue too: it's yet another country that drives on the left. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 5:20 am
Patents & Trademarks, who learnt of it last week at a meeting between EPO exam committee members and the EPO tutors, where it apparently created quite a stir .The EQE: apparently 7,000 candidates have passed it since 1979, so Merpel reasons it can't be that hard, can it? [read post]
10 Oct 2014, 5:47 am
Testers can supply feedback using the 'BugHerd' feedback application using the button at the bottom right-hand of the screen (this allows you to click on and highlight certain parts of the prototype, such as fields in forms, and write notes about them).Hargreaves warning On a slightly more familiar ground, ienew UK copyright exceptions, the news is that Prof Ian Hargreaves of the Hargreaves Report has warned [or rather 'threatened', wonders Merpel]… [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 3:15 am
The IPKat and Merpel are already on the edges of their seats, all agog for the next instalment ... [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 12:52 am
Merpel is still wondering why this case ever got as far as a hearing. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 5:03 am
.* The IPKat and his friends: time for an updateEvery three months, the IPKat and Merpel give an update of the goings-on both on this weblog and on other IP-flavoured blogs. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 3:03 am
The introduction of this paragraph will be interpreted by many as an attempt by the EPO to redress the balance [but how will others interpret it, Merpel wonders]. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 2:07 am
Merpel agrees: trade mark registrations would not be so wide if registrants knew in advance (i) where their business would be heading during the currency of their initial registration and (ii) where and how the trade mark squatters would be seeking to do their dastardly deeds. [read post]
2 Oct 2014, 6:12 am
That knowledgeable and vigilant Antipodean in exile, David Stone, writes to tell Merpel that curiously, for UN purposes, Australian fall within the category of “Western European and Others”. [read post]
2 Oct 2014, 4:51 am
(Merpel says, if only OHIM had taken time to check these basics before inflicting its web filing system on users last year... [read post]
30 Sep 2014, 4:01 pm
Every three months, 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 also contribute. [read post]
28 Sep 2014, 4:00 pm
Merpel notes that, if it wasn't for the Arctic fringe region of Norway, Europe would be entirely unrepresented at the top of the WIPO tree ...New man at the top for GRUR. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 3:21 pm
Finally, Laetitia Lagarde posts a two-part thriller on the Battle of the Polo Players in the General Court (here and here), far more exciting for trade mark lawyers than for members of the sports fraternity [Merpel is still a little surprised that the image on the left was held similar to the Polo/Lauren man-on-horse logo. [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 6:38 am
Merpel notices that the decline seemed to reach a plateau in 2006, but started up again in deadly earnest in 2007 -- the very year in which the UK IPO teamed up with Wallace & Gromit to promote the latter's Cracking Ideas. [read post]
