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1 Sep 2014, 11:20 am
"A good try, thinks Merpel, who wonders what would have happened if the City had dug its heels in and decided to persevere with the campaign. [read post]
31 Aug 2014, 2:55 pm
Merpel thinks it's quite appropriate for an event of this nature to be held in a city that is notorious for its Red Light district. [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 7:30 am
Merpel's already excited to find out who this year's keynote speaker is, but she'll just have to wait ...Whatever happened to Astellas? [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 1:34 am
This Kat is fairly certain that there may be others and has a hunch that his readers may be jogging his memory ...Merpel notes that there is a seamier side to Hello Kitty's existence. [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 2:46 am
Better still, the closing date for interested parties [proprietary drug manufacturers, their generic competitors and pet owners, says Merpel] to make their comments, thus indicating to the UK government what position it should take on the questions, has been extended from tomorrow, 29 August, to 4 September. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 1:23 am
Merpel adds: Bemisia is quite unrelated to another Silverleaf, much respected in IP circles ...EP2140023 has generated a good deal of interest, not to mention controversy; it has even been the subject of a question before the European Parliament which recites that 34 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and farmers' and breeders' bodies are united in their opposition to it. [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 12:30 am
[Merpel adds: the Coco v Clark three-step test is as follows: (i) the information itself must have the necessary quality of confidence about it; (ii) that information must have been imparted in circumstances importing an obligation of confidence; (iii) there must be an unauthorised use of that information to the detriment of the party communicating it. [read post]
25 Aug 2014, 5:06 am
Another busy week has passed for the IPKat and Merpel, but you can catch up on all the posts from last week that you have not had a chance to read yet. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 4:04 pm
Headed by the new IP Minister Baroness Neville-Rolfe and with numerous IPO luminaries [a luminary is a sort of human light-bulb, explains Merpel] together with Mr Justice Birss, the visit is many-pronged, with appearances in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Suzhou, Nanjing and Hong Kong and will take in topics across the IP spectrum. [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 10:20 am
What about portraits or self-portraits (also known as selfies) [Merpel sighs: of course, what else? [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 2:35 pm
If you have any thoughts or comments, let's here from you [and you don't have to be anonymous unless you really have something to hide, adds Merpel]. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 10:12 am
IPRs and their interaction with other factors such as such as the quality of knowledge institutions (e.g. academia, public research institutes or industrial research centres such as science parks), availability of trained human capital [Merpel wonder, in these days of artificial intelligence, should the term 'trained human capital' extend to robotics and cybernetics ...?] [read post]
19 Aug 2014, 1:00 am
According to this news item, posted on the chunky and unlovable GOV.UK website which is replacing the elegant and sophisticated UK Intellectual Property Office website (among others): Two of the most blatant offenders – ‘Patent and Trademark Office’ and ‘Patent and Trade Mark Organisation’ – and the persons behind these organisations, Mr Aleksandrs Radcuks and Mr Igors Villers, have admitted and settled our claims and agreed to be bound by an Order of the… [read post]
19 Aug 2014, 12:17 am
Merpel says, with hindsight this was plainly not the best way to proceed; the interesting thing is to map out the best way that Chester could have put its shares in Richmond on the market in the event that the majority shareholders were (i) cooperative and (ii) uncooperative.Richmond Hill here and hereLass of Richmond Hill herePound-breach here [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 7:04 am
It remains a matter of great happiness to the IPKat and Merpel that these posts have been so well received. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 1:45 am
The 1709 Blog's sidebar poll on copyright in selfies taken by monkeys [this is nothing to do with SurveyMonkey, adds Merpel] is doing very nicely, thank you. [read post]
15 Aug 2014, 2:43 am
"Patent examiners more likely to approve marginal inventions when pressed for time" is the not-quite-shock-horror headline of a post in (e) science news [Merpel bets that there are lots of other things they're likely to do when pressed for time, like scalding themselves with their first coffee of the day. [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 3:16 pm
It's a review of a somewhat unlikely document on a decidedly unsexy subject [except for us IP addicts, notes Merpel]. [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 7:19 am
There is probably need to recall neither the background story nor what a macaque looks like: everybody knows already but, just in case, here you go.The update on this story is that, following much copyright-related speculation, YOU can now have your say by selecting one of the following options:The monkey owns the copyright: she's the author, after all [this is fairly reasonable, just look at the IPKat: he has never doubted that Merpel - his favourite feline - owns the copyright to the… [read post]
14 Aug 2014, 2:50 am
Merpel notes that currently the USPTO website has no vacancies. [read post]
