” Gareth Dickson astutely provided the best response so far: “@technollama Prob around the same time we withdraw from global banking in favour of putting cash under our mattresses” This is totally accurate, but depressing nonetheless. [read post]

Instead, we will be asking the European Commission to consider the question as part of the ongoing review of the functioning of the trade mark system in Europe [...].As the IPKat assumes that this change of mind may be due to the fact that "users' associations" in fact consist of "people who get paid by clients to represent them in matters concerning Community trade marks" (which is a bit exaggerated, since many of above NGO's equally represent trademark owners),… [read post]