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13 Apr 2016, 11:56 am
Therefore, the relative lack of sales volume can be compensated for by the frequency and duration of use and vice versa [Merpel adds that, for more details on the principle of interdependence in connection with proof of use, see here]. [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 4:05 am
It’s all about the good/bad willing of the infringer, says Jeremy, while Merpel launches the brand-new word “Haconian” – which carries a rather different meaning from Draconian.* Monday Meraviglia & Les Fantaisies du VendrediHow lovely these continental variations are.PREVIOUSLY, ON NEVER TOO LATENever too late 19 [week ending Sunday 9 November] – Copyright over Kim Kardashian’s bottom | EPO under EU Parliament’s investigation? [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]
31 Oct 2014, 8:29 am
The first interesting detail of this new ALAI Opinion is that, unlike its earlier statement, this new document does no longer state that the Opinion was adopted unanimously by the Executive Committe [Merpel wonders why: have people changed their mind? [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 1:00 pm
| Firings will continue until morale improves - Merpel revisits the EPONever Too Late 121 [week ending on Sunday 6 November] | Sunday Surprises | Firings will continue until morale improves - Merpel revisits the EPO | Will too much of one and not enough of the other spell bad news for innovation? [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 12:50 pm
.* The IPKat and his friends: a round-up of some IP weblog news Every three months or thereabouts, the IPKat and Merpel give an update of the goings-on both on this weblog and on other IP-flavoured blogs to which members of this blog team contribute. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 11:37 am
Incidentally, the redoubtable Merpel has lent her support to this event ...The SPC Blog logoAround the weblogs. [read post]
9 Sep 2013, 5:40 am
. * The evidence confirmed that there had been supplies that were from an authorised distributor of the product [though Merpel notes that the fact that supplies have been sourced from an authorised distributor does not mean that other supplies have not been sourced from unauthorised suppliers: this is part of the evidential scenario that can make even same-goods-same-mark infringement actions so tricky]. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 8:30 pm
The defendant was Mr Pablo Soto, a software developer known as the “Spanish Napster” [an elegant metonymy, notes Merpel] who invented created P2P platforms Blubster, Piolet and Manolito. [read post]
24 Jul 2014, 3:27 am
Merpel's favourite kind of linkingOf course it did. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 12:23 am
Merpel is puzzled about the reference to the parties "disengaging from hostilities". [read post]
7 Apr 2013, 1:25 pm
Merpel is itching to find out. [read post]
6 Jun 2014, 3:31 am
"Personally", sniffs Merpel, "I prefer the old title ... [read post]
20 Oct 2016, 6:53 am
[There is no right under competition law to launch an infringing product, says Merpel!]. [read post]
29 Jan 2014, 1:58 am
Such a difference did not therefore create on the part of the relevant public an impression sufficiently far removed from that produced by the geographical name referred to by the earlier GI [CASTEL and Castell do sort of sound the same, thinks Merpel, but this doesn't seem to have been an issue. [read post]
19 Jan 2016, 2:12 am
* Breaking News from the EPO - SUEPO officials fired, downgradedWith a heavy heart, Merpel reports that she has just learned that Mr Battistelli, President of the EPO, has just fired the current chair of SUEPO.* Mr Justice Birss shines light on experiments and scientific advisers in English patent litigationThe AmeriKat reports about the interim decision of Mr Justice Birss in Electromagnetic Geoservices v Petroleum Geoservices [2016] EWHC 27. [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 7:47 am
The wording of these articles clearly leaves ample room for interpretation [and, says Merpel, misinterpretation]. [read post]
12 Mar 2014, 12:34 pm
Those penalties, however, will only extend to those who have blatantly and deliberately copied a registered design [no jail for discrete and naive infringers, Merpel deduces].A design jail.(4) New exceptions for unregistered designsExceptions for “private acts, experiments and teaching”currently provided by s.244A CDPA for registered designs will be extended to unregistered ones. [read post]
7 May 2015, 5:17 pm
Merpel wonders why the brand extension process doesn't seem to go in the other direction. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 2:10 am
<Merpel, were she an economist, would swoon at this point. [read post]
