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21 Sep 2014, 3:37 pm
For example, and not entirely flippantly, one might suggest the following:In the first place, there's an old saying that, among the blind, the one-eyed man is king [Merpel wants to know about the prospects of one-eyed women being queen ...]. [read post]
19 Sep 2014, 9:33 am
This questionnaire should take less than five minutes to complete [Merpel has just been sent to bed without her tea for daring to suggest that, the more often you complete it, the less time it takes. [read post]
18 Sep 2014, 4:00 am
CR: "I don't know how truly inconsistent the Boards are" [... but readers of this blog do, murmurs Merpel] "and I'm not convinced the problem is so big". [read post]
16 Sep 2014, 3:59 am
Merpel is just a little disappointed that the vehicle doesn't have a number-plate. [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 3:07 am
Merpel meows and asks more details about the authors of this paper.* A Most Un-Magical of U.S. [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 1:12 am
Naturally he is delighted to oblige, even if in Merpel's opinion E-CRIME is just a teensy-weensy bit descriptive for a project focusing on cyber crime. [read post]
12 Sep 2014, 1:45 am
Merpel responds to a suddenpang of hunger ...Unfortunately for Rovio, IPOS did not recognize any similarity, visual or conceptual, between the marks. [read post]
11 Sep 2014, 4:01 pm
Commenting on the Follow the Money report, the Prime Minister [who was in Scotland at the time, campaigning to preserve the UK's unitary patent, trade mark and design systems, Merpel notes] said: “Mike Weatherley's Follow the Money discussion paper is an interesting addition to this important area of work and the Government will look at it closely [Merpel hopes that the Government will go one step beyond looking closely at it and will actually take the trouble… [read post]
11 Sep 2014, 3:10 am
This Kat is saying nothing, but Merpel observes that "Nepotism" comes quite close to being an anagram of (you guessed it?) [read post]
11 Sep 2014, 2:11 am
A sample of Merpel's own digital library - historic sectionThe library then made the digital version available to its users. [read post]
9 Sep 2014, 1:05 am
On 4 September Deadmau5 sent a cease and desist letter to Disney claiming that Disney used portions of its song “Ghosts 'n' Stuff” without authorization in an online video starring none other than Mickey Mouse, entitled "Ghosts 'n' Stuff-re-Micks" [subsequently removed from Disney's portal but Merpel reports that you can still find it here] which allegedly infringed Deadmau5's copyright in Ghosts N Stuff, as well… [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 8:38 am
This Kat hopes that someone well informed [or highly opinionated, adds Merpel] will offer some appropriate words of wisdom or, failing that, the truth. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 3:33 am
Merpel, ever fascinated by people, wonders who Jennifer Brant and Sebastian Lohse are. [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 8:15 am
Merpel thinks it would be good if you could "mix and match" by getting a special registration package that let you flit effortlessly from one to the other, and back again. [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 4:32 am
The latter lists series of judgements where ' simple geometric devices such as circles, lines, rectangles or common pentagons are unable to convey any message that can be remembered by consumers and will accordingly not be seen by them as a trade mark'.Merpel is still struggling to imagine not jumping to the conclusion that the signs concerned, regardless of the goods or services for which registration was sought, were neither an approbation of four- or five-star quality or… [read post]
4 Sep 2014, 8:33 am
Merpel wonders whether all these EU-imposed boundaries just mean that full-harmonisation of the national copyright laws is not just on its way, but already among us. [read post]
4 Sep 2014, 4:23 am
Merpel however is not convinced at all that the existence of a problem is itself an argument for legislative intervention. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 4:01 pm
The World Trademark Review's blog caught the Kat's eye earlier this week with news that President Barack Obama has taken time off from his golfing commitments to nominate a new IP czar (technically "Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator"), Kilpatrick Townsend's Daniel Marti, though Merpel thinks he got back to the links in time to avoid choosing a new Director for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 2:40 am
, wonders Merpel] should be prohibited. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 2:10 am
Like all IPKat events, it's freeWe've received news of some late cancellations [thanks for letting us know, says Merpel], which means that we now have some more spaces to spare. [read post]
