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15 Nov 2006, 4:28 pm
Merpel agrees - if no-one's copying it, is it really worth protecting? [read post]
14 Jul 2008, 8:15 am
Please send it to the IPKat here, with the subject line "Merpel Limerick", by not later than midnight (IPKat Time) on 1 September 2008.Right: wearing nothing but her necklace and her fur, Miffles wondered why the captions that accompany IPKat blog illustrations are always more titillating than the pictures that accompany them ...Multiple entries are welcome and the best entries will be posted. [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 7:33 am
The archives go back to November 2006, so it's a fairly recent addition to the IP bloggie family: the IPKat and Merpel wish it well. [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 1:38 pm
Merpel says, watch this space -- I feel a competition coming up ... [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 2:39 am
Merpel notes that the Guardian calls the decision a "landmark" ruling: she wishes people wouldn't use the word for first-instance decisions in disputes that go on appeal -- it's the final ruling that makes the landmark, since trial judges' decisions are often writ in water. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 11:51 pm
Merpel adds, from the fact that this seems to have caught practitioners by surprise, is it possible that there hasn't been quite as much consultation as one would ideally wish? [read post]
19 Oct 2008, 11:16 pm
Merpel says, it seems to me that the IP criminals are far more successful than those who seek to track them, even though they don't have training schemes, information packs and government backing. [read post]
15 Jul 2012, 7:18 am
Merpel is much amused by the observation that, while Henry Ford famously exclaimed: "History is bunk", the Ford brand trails the History Channel in the US list. [read post]
1 Dec 2006, 12:33 am
Minuses * the speakers' voices were insufficiently differentiated: the IPKat wasn't always totally sure who was speaking (Merpel says, what we need is more Welsh accents, boyo - or either Mike or Michael should have a female voice-over, if an authoritative female commentator is not to be selected); * the website info tells you how big the file is (which is unlikely to be a problem given the lack of video and mega-musicalcontent), but not how long the podcast lasts (the IPKat… [read post]
10 Sep 2008, 2:56 pm
Merpel adds, what's the betting that someone will post a comment to say that it's not irony but something else, and you've got the wrong word again? [read post]
20 Jan 2010, 1:16 pm
In case you don't know, says the ever-helpful Merpel, today is 20 January or 21 January, depending on your time zone at the moment of posting. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 11:22 pm
Merpel adds, if we're all going to be kept in ignorance, we can at least be better informed ... [read post]
11 May 2007, 8:37 am
Merpel adds, if Geller's a psychic, why didn't he see this lawsuit coming? [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 7:38 am
Merpel says, I reckon that the relevant consumer would have to drink a hell of a lot of vodka before confusing those two.Quite by chance, when looking for something completely different, the IPKat stumbled across The Patent Search Blog, masterminded by the British Library's Steve van Dulken. [read post]
15 Feb 2012, 8:16 am
While Merpel is delighted that the good folk of Macedonia take so much interest in the appearance of their shoes, the IPKat is puzzled. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 1:42 am
Now, following the hugely-publicised billion-dollar patent infringement damages award in the recent Californian trial of Apple v Samsung, pungently depicted by the ever-perceptive Merpel here, he thinks he has his answer. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 5:49 am
Merpel however thinks it should be trumpeted out: in October the IPKat weblog received 74,314 visitors -- and that's apart from the nearly 2,500 email subscribers and the 1,700+ readers via RSS feeds.Right: A Happy Cat, by Brenda GaracciThank you so much for visiting this blog -- and thanks also for your comments. [read post]
29 May 2007, 8:13 am
Merpel is glad to see CD-Wow nailed, since it hasn't exactly done much to boost the local British economy in terms of job-creation or subsidising creativity, but she can't help thinking that British consumers wouldn't have been so keen to shop at CD-Wow if the retail price of CDs in the UK had been as cheap as it was in some other jurisdictions where the same goods were lawfully marketed, such as the US.Earlier IPKat posts here, here and here [read post]
28 Nov 2008, 11:23 am
Moreover, the proceedings of today's public meeting about the Commission's preliminary findings (stated by Commissioner Neelie Kroes, right, as being solely confined to reporting the facts and not making judgements) can be watched here live as a webstream (even the Kat can't pretend he knew that ...).Merpel says, let's remind readers why this is so important. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 2:50 pm
Merpel says, even if the FBI is right, is its position not a futile one, designed to generate ill-will and achieve nothing by way of compensatory advantage? [read post]
