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7 Sep 2012, 3:00 am
Merpel has done some research on Lord Marland. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 3:31 am
While the IPKat and Merpel regard it as their public duty to criticise the UK government for its shortcomings, misperceptions and erroneous assumptions concerning intellectual property, they do so with a certain degree of sadness. [read post]
19 Sep 2012, 2:11 pm
This Kat was later joined by a second fictional feline, Merpel. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 12:17 am
For the avoidance of doubt, adds Merpel, there is no truth in the story that the Belgians argued before the court that putting Rioja into the tankers and driving it across the Pyrenees was designed to improve it ... [read post]
18 Jan 2010, 1:43 am
Merpel asks if the study of tortoises is tautology. [read post]
5 Jul 2011, 4:28 am
And can someone tell Merpel whether IMPACT has made, er, an impact? [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 5:05 am
Don't be silly, Merpel, says the IPKat: this is the British Brand Group, not the British Bands Group ...]. [read post]
16 May 2012, 4:41 am
Merpel thinks that this is a bit like setting up a Supporters' Club for a football team. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 6:24 am
Merpel's latest book? [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 9:55 pm
Merpel says, is one of the prizes an non-opposable European patent? [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 2:49 am
[Crummy trade mark, says Merpel: just a combination of "instant" and "automatic"]. [read post]
1 Nov 2011, 11:03 am
Merpel adds: if you have any good suggestions for the location of the Unified Patent Court, do let me know. [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 4:46 am
Merpel demands to know] wants to introduce herself as the new contact for Richard Hooper, Ros Lynch and any DCE-related enquiries. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 1:34 am
[A Merpel Kat-rant starts here] Merpel adds that it's worth noting the words "what, if anything, should we do to change the UK's IP system? [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 11:09 am
The blog's name is Cinscesitvasif, which Merpel hopes is the Turkish for "I'll buy you a drink next time you're passing by .. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 4:37 am
Merpel gets a taste of the new Italian opposition process The Italian procedure pretty much echoes the practice of most EU members, with the peculiarity that Italy does not allow oppositions based on non-registered trade marks [Hmm, sniffs Merpel: if you can't use a non-registered trade mark as the basis of an opposition, you may as well not have it in the first place ...] or other IP rights such as corporate names, domain names or copyright: you basically need to be… [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 7:57 am
The defendants, a UK company and its director, Mr Carter [the company has been subsequently liquidated and Mr Carter currently works as a "forklift truck driver at a warehouse for Tesco"], provide "similar and competing services" to those of the claimant, and also operate a website (www.escortgps.xxx) [Merpel wonders whether this domain name means that escorts are fully equipped with a GPS device?]. [read post]
29 Jan 2013, 8:54 am
Best thing about thecoffee: it was in a mug"Helping UK Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises succeed in a global marketplace" was the title of a breakfast briefing which provided this Kat with his first cup of coffee of the day: the venue, the InterContinental Hotel [hmm, too close to InContinental to be a truly successful brand, mewses Merpel], St James Park, Central London. [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 5:32 am
Ultimately, notes Merpel, the judge was influenced not only by a lack of admissible and probative evidence but by his assessment that Mattel's own employees were not only not confused by the appearance of Zynga's game but played it themselves. [read post]
9 Sep 2015, 10:03 am
Mark Anderson's IP Draughts quotes the lyrics from Simon and Garfunkel's The Boxer, "A man hears what he wants to hear/And disregards the rest", in the context of interpretation of IP contracts [Merpel prefers Bob Dylan's cover version, not least because he sounds more like a boxer than either Simon or Garfunkel]. [read post]
