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3 Jun 2014, 2:22 am
” (Merpel points out that the case refers to the law pre-AIA, but her US friends assure her that the reasoning will apply to the new law as well). [read post]
2 Jun 2014, 8:44 am
Wails Merpel. [read post]
2 Jun 2014, 12:33 am
” [Merpel assumes that this is an inference drawn from the figures above and not a proposition based on probabilities or game theory. [read post]
31 May 2014, 4:01 pm
Merpel is ready to (text and data) mineOther essential changes will help organisations from charities to museums and archives both use and protect their own material.Intellectual Property Minister Lord Younger said:“These common sense reforms will update the UK’s copyright system for the digital age, and help to build and maintain public confidence and respect for copyright. [read post]
31 May 2014, 3:13 am
Should the humorourous effect be assessed: (a) only in relation to the particular Member State in which the case is litigated; (b) the broader "European society" to which the AG referred when conducting his fundamental rights analysis; or (c) even the notion of an 'average EU consumer' of copyright-protected content [this trademark-specific notion does not (yet) exist in the EU copyright world, but may well be developed if one starts importing - see Deckmyn questions and AG… [read post]
30 May 2014, 6:10 am
Google and the Right to be Forgotten, an update on Google’s reaction to the Court of Justice of European Union’s (CJEU) decision in Google Spain effectively granting EU citizens the right to be forgotten, aka the “right to oblivion”, and the removal from the Google search engine of links to outdated or irrelevant information returned in search results for an individual’s name.The start of one night Merpel would like to be forgottenThe BBC has reported that the… [read post]
28 May 2014, 3:47 pm
For example:Best in life sciencesLaëtitia Bénard, Allen & OveryCécile Derycke, Hogan LovellsPenny Gilbert, Powell GilbertMorag Macdonald, Bird & BirdLaura Orlando, Simmons & SimmonsLucinda Osborne, Covington & BurlingJustyna Wilczynska-Baraniak, DLA Piper WiaterBest in patent Nicola Dagg, Allen & OverySally Field, BristowsPenny Gilbert, Powell GilbertIsabelle Leroux, DentonsMorag MacDonald, Bird & BirdMorag Peberdy, Covington & BurlingSophie Rich,… [read post]
28 May 2014, 2:16 pm
The Courts would then examine such claim and provide accordingly, if reasons for establishing a secrecy regime exist.Who is Merpel? [read post]
28 May 2014, 5:57 am
After Merpel's news relating to "unrest" at the EPO yesterday (see here), some much less controversial, indeed happy patent news. [read post]
27 May 2014, 7:04 am
Merpel also notes that the resolution of the situation appears to have been decided by the President and not the Chairman of the Enlarged Board of Appeal.Merpel will continue to hunt for news on these matters and will endeavour to keep our readers informed. [read post]
27 May 2014, 3:33 am
Merpel’s just coughed up a fur ball in disgust, she thinks Harris deserves everything he gets. [read post]
27 May 2014, 12:15 am
While she may be officially on sabbatical, Catherine Lee (alias Cat the Kat) has not taken her eye of the array of recent judicial attractions that have flowed like water into a host of eager in-boxes. [read post]
26 May 2014, 1:08 pm
Merpel should have written 'in part' ...] in favour of Microsoft and SAP. [read post]
26 May 2014, 12:57 pm
This Kat is delighted to learn that his friends at Edward Elgar Publishing [disclosure: he edits its Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property Law series and the same company publishes fellow Kat Eleonora's excellent tome on copyright and originality in the EU] were presented with the Independent Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year Award at The Bookseller Industry Awards' annual dinner [Merpel is appalled at the thought of an annual dinner: she… [read post]
23 May 2014, 7:22 am
says IP purist Merpel. [read post]
22 May 2014, 8:44 am
Merpel has decided to use the term Salesian to refer to judgments that are in either the literal or figurative sense not Arnoldian.No, not THAT Salesian...But seriously, this brief validity-only decision of Mr Justice Sales relates to EP(UK) 1 448 207, directed to a dosage regimen for use of levonorgestrel as a method of emergency contraception. [read post]
22 May 2014, 4:58 am
It may be a while before we get another case like the present one, so Merpel advises to make the most of it.Thanks to Dr Ross Forgan for alerting this Kat to the article. [read post]
20 May 2014, 12:49 am
MAPPING is the acronym of Managing Alternatives for Privacy, Property and Internet Governance [Merpel prefers MAPPIG], a project funded by the European Commission to draw together people from different strands of life within the information sectors and allow them to discuss their differences and points of common interest. [read post]
16 May 2014, 7:22 am
Being Director General of WIPO is actually a bit like being an IP blogger, thinks Merpel: you're expected to get things right first time, every time; everything you say gets carefully scrutinised and painfully dissected -- but you get to meet and work with some wonderful people in pursuit of some useful causes, and it's that which makes it all worthwhile.Forthcoming events. [read post]
14 May 2014, 7:47 am
“Cat-like cunning” Merpel says.If the proposed legislative changes in the UK were found to be not in conflict with the UPC Agreement, perhaps countries currently using the “Bolar+” wording could implement similar provisions. [read post]
