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4 Apr 2014, 4:24 am
Merpel is just pleased to see that, for once, a blog post that contains the words "EPO", "robust decision" and "however high the stakes" has nothing to do with industrial action ... [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 11:17 am
Merpel wonders, exhausted, whether this means that another referral to the CJEU is to be expected, if the applicant appeals to the Patents Court or higher. [read post]
2 Apr 2014, 8:27 am
Finally it considers alternatives to intellectual property, such as subsidies and prizes, which seek to encourage advances in environmental protection technologies".If this volume gives you a sense of déjà-vu, there may be a reason: it's a 'greatest hits' compendium of 16 articles which have already been published between 1977 and 2012 [Merpel cheekily wonders how many of them she could track down online and read free of charge, but that's another story]. [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 11:43 am
Worst of all, IP gets a hammering too: the system is seen as being insufficiently sensitive to the nuances of creativity that lurk beneath the easily definable levels of patents, copyright, designs and trade marks.The nine defendants engaged three firms of solicitors and two barristers between them in order to defend against claims which had not a snowball in hell's chance of success: Merpel wonders whether there might have been a cheaper option. [read post]
31 Mar 2014, 9:40 am
Merpel notes that this ruling and that of the OHIM Second Board of Appeal are not necessarily contradictory, even if they reach opposite conclusions: the degree of flexibility open to courts in Europe is vast, despite two decades of rampant harmonisation. [read post]
30 Mar 2014, 12:21 pm
Merpel recently mentioned Finnish on the IPKat - and as luck or perhaps bad luck) would have it - it seems that Finland is now facing an invasion of "copyright trolls". [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 9:32 am
Earlier today, the IPKat and Merpel achieved something which they can in all honesty say the wouldn't have been able to do without the valuable assistance and support of their readers: they are proud and not a little humble too when they realise that this weblog has now notched up its nine millionth page-view [or should that be page-mew ...?]. [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 5:31 am
The IPKat and Merpel are happy to leave the answer to this far from rhetorical question in the capable hands of Olivia Gregory, a trade mark assistant at Appleyard Lees, no doubt with a little interference help from former guest Kat Robert Cumming. [read post]
28 Mar 2014, 4:51 am
Despite frantic googling, Merpel has been unable to find detailed news of this. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 3:00 pm
Since this is not apparently so, the IPKat suggests that both parties to these proceedings hire an Italian consultant for the next phase before the GC [Merpel has got some valuable names up her sleeve, if they want them ...]. [read post]
27 Mar 2014, 4:35 am
As expected, this morning the CJEU issued its handy [just 66 paragraphs: is this a new trend, wonders Merpel, who is however very fond of those good old CJEU decisions composed of - minimum - 180 paragraphs] decision [also available in English!] [read post]
26 Mar 2014, 2:42 am
speculates Merpel)Around the weblogs 2. [read post]
25 Mar 2014, 8:14 am
Merpel wonders just who is going to want to steal the image of so obscure a football team.More on Guernsey's image right here and here [read post]
25 Mar 2014, 1:43 am
Merpel awaits with interest the response to the current unrest.In the nearer future, Merpel would be very interested to hear how the strike itself is going. [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 8:25 am
Merpel suspects that when that time comes, even Bruno Mars's publicists might have started using photos of him that we have not yet seen. [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 3:15 am
To Merpel it sounds like a cross between 'bundle' and 'trundle'. [read post]
23 Mar 2014, 4:42 am
Merpel wonders whether references to the latter [in particular copyright] are sometimes used mainly - if not solely - to scare people off, with the result that even copyright is perceived by the general public as a monster, rather than the pretty creature that it is in reality ...But what do readers think? [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 3:17 am
I ask that the parties prepare a schedule of profits to append to the judgment which reflects the conclusions set out above".Given that this case has trundled along through three rulings and six days of hearings, this Kat wonders whether the sum finally agreed (assuming that a sum can be agreed) will have been worth the effort, and how that sum, once awarded, will compare with the fees earned by two sets of barristers and solicitors.Both the IPKat and Merpel continue to wonder whether… [read post]
20 Mar 2014, 7:41 am
While Merpel spent the past few weeks swearing that she would never waste precious time trying to learn the full and mouthful title of this directive by heart, this Kat kept wondering about its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 11:24 am
CBS seeing that the future was now ["And not seven years down the line", chides Merpel] established its own YouTube channel; entering into a deal with YouTube to receive a share of the advertising revenue, CBS has not seemingly turned back.At the time, law professors including Tim Wu at Columbia University and John G Palfrey Jr at Harvard Law did not rate Viacom’s chances of success. [read post]
