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14 Jul 2014, 3:10 am
Says Merpel, the slow speed of operation of the Community trade mark system is still no excuse for the slow writing-up of decisions of the General Court ...Magnetic Personality hereNatural magnet here [read post]
13 Jul 2014, 5:21 am
FIFA accused Blue Man of ambush marketing and, on 30 June, Blue Man received FIFA’s extrajudicial interpellation [Merpel loves the term "extrajudicial interpellation" but has never seen or heard it before: can readers explain what it means?]. [read post]
11 Jul 2014, 9:11 am
Given the number of hours that the seminar is to last, says Merpel, you can be sure that it will cover the subject thoroughly. [read post]
11 Jul 2014, 1:56 am
This is a possible sign that the court is becoming more confident in its ability to deal with trade mark questions thinks the IPKat or, [more likely, says Merpel] that it considers that the questions currently being referred from Germany simply aren't difficult enough to justify the extra six-month delay caused by asking the Advocate General for an Opinion and then going to the trouble of reading it.. [read post]
10 Jul 2014, 1:03 am
From its contents, which this Kat has briefly perused and to which he hopes to return in time to come, one gets the impression that Her Majesty's Finest are finally coming to the conclusion that if, even with the best search facilities available, it's not possible to find the author of a copyright work, there's a high likelihood that the author isn't going to be coming forward ...Minesoft, a business the name of which the ever-so-slightly dyslexic Merpel persists in… [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 7:04 am
This was closely related to the second issue - whether the expiration of a patent for the same invention in another country (here, Egypt, where patent term at the time was only ten years) before grant of the Jamaican patent rendered the patent invalid under Section 29 [Merpel will post the wording of the section at the end of this post] of the Jamaican Patent Act 1857, or whether the applicant had to be the same in the foreign and the Jamaican patent for this provision to take… [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 3:35 am
Merpel wants to know whether Carol is related to Katfriend and leading patent judge Richard Arnold, and whether there are any other Arnolds waiting in the wings ...Around the weblogs. [read post]
6 Jul 2014, 1:39 pm
Merpel thought there was plenty of way to go before we can say that] and complex, spanning over a large number of different treaties which have been compiled and amended over more than 125 years. [read post]
3 Jul 2014, 2:00 pm
Adds Merpel, these battery chargers are all very well, but the cheapest and most efficacious way of getting your car battery charged up is to look helpless and bat your eyes at someone who kindly does it for you ...How to charge a battery here, here and hereHow to charge a client here [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 1:48 pm
(Merpel notes that when economist Paul Krugman strays from popular topics into the arcane and academic in his New York Times column, he flags this in the headline with the word “wonkish”; a similar warning might be appropriate here for those not innately excited by EPO procedural law.)A rare photo of the IPKat with Nobel Laureate Krugman, contemplating all things wonkish Interlocutory revision requires EPO first instance departments to review any appeals filed against their… [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 6:53 am
The Commission will consider at a later stage [this is not so surprising, says EU IP policy expert Merpel] whether further, potentially legislative, measures are necessary. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 12:35 am
Much of the content is narrated by two fictional cats, the IPKat himself and Merpel. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 3:22 am
Both he and Merpel are willing to pursue any allegation of plagiarism that is supported by evidenceAround the weblogs. [read post]
28 Jun 2014, 4:49 am
Questions Merpel, They burn my paws!). [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 3:46 pm
Also included and translated are specially commissioned commentaries by the exact judges who decided each case, clearly explaining the “behind-the-scenes” reasoning they used [Merpel pricks up her ears when she hears phrases like "behind the scenes reasoning". [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 4:22 am
It was then up to McCambridge to choose between damages or an account of profit [as Merpel notes, McCambridge had to use its loaf because it can't have its cake and eat it]. [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 7:00 pm
", Merpel asks.] [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 4:16 am
Merpel has of course done her best to prove Ruth wrong, with some success: there are actually two whole references to copyright. [read post]
24 Jun 2014, 8:08 am
Consequently, the GC continued, one “cannot rely, to his advantage and in order to secure an identical decision, on a possibly unlawful act committed to the benefit of someone else” [is this a British-style, understatement suggesting that some Community trade marks are actually unlawful, Merpel wonders?] [read post]
23 Jun 2014, 7:20 am
Merpel proudly showing her pawsSuper-breaking news! [read post]
