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7 Apr 2014, 9:00 am
So far, so yawn ..." says Merpel, "but here comes the juicy part." [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 5:49 am
Merpel loves dreaming up eyecatching headlines, but for once the work has been done for her by the experts at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. [read post]
2 Jan 2014, 9:18 am
Merpel notes that there's no Community or UK trade mark registration in place and wonders which country or countries account for the '®'. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 8:10 am
Merpel is concerned that the scope of the issue is much wider, and considerably more nuanced, than this. [read post]
2 Sep 2013, 4:29 am
[Merpel apologises to this blog's readers in the Southern hemisphere, for whom summer is winter and who have been entertaining both themselves and us with such fascinating gems as New Zealand's prophetic or head-in-the-sand attitude towards the patentability of computer programs. [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 12:49 pm
” * Merpel roars: the EPO respondsThis is quite epic. [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 2:04 am
Readers of this weblog will not fail to have noticed the quantity of blogposts on the legal, administrative and social issues that have turned the European Patent Office (EPO), once a byword for expertise, efficiency and excellence, into the setting for a modern soap opera in which the three 'e's are replaced by the three 'p's: power-politics, point-scoring and paranoia.By recognising both the "social unease" that exists in the EPO and by timetabling the need to address… [read post]
31 Mar 2015, 4:01 pm
Merpel has always admired the European Copyright Society (ECS). [read post]
16 Mar 2015, 4:00 pm
Whether you own IP rights or act for someone who does, these seminars -- which are absolutely free -- are a great way to learn about the latest developments in global IP systems, to find out what WIPO can do for you [and to have a good moan and be sure someone from WIPO will be listening, adds Merpel]. [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 2:13 am
Either way, the Subcommittee’s Report contributes some useful and interesting illumination to a topical issue [Merpel thinks the report won't contribute any illumination in a black hole, but that's another matter]. [read post]
Is the UPC's Code of Conduct "fit for purpose"? CCBE encourages Preparatory Committee to re-evaulate
6 May 2016, 11:41 am
Merpel's state of play prior to reading CCBE'sletter about the draft UPC Code of ConductMerpel has many rules. [read post]
18 Jul 2014, 4:34 am
Merpel adds: readers' comments won't be "be published, sold or used for sales purposes" -- but it doesn't say that they'll be read either ...Some people say that printing outblogposts to read them at your leisureenhances the reading experience ...Around the weblogs. [read post]
16 Aug 2013, 9:05 am
Merpel wonders whether, in the legal profession, we should be talking about Tweetors and Tweetees ... [read post]
5 Aug 2015, 12:18 am
Merpel has attempted with limited success to discern the financial position of the EPO and has called for more financial transparency. [read post]
18 Dec 2013, 8:05 am
Merpel was really enjoying her day ...There are few things in this world that have the power to upset overly sensitive Merpel more than seeing the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) being still referred to as ECJ [as it was before the adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007]. [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 8:35 am
Merpel however now contemplates launching a copycat product under the brand Merpel’s Most Purrfect Buggy Company. [read post]
5 Feb 2014, 12:04 pm
Merpel closes with the thought that, while no-one ever got fired for buying IBM, people do get sacked for tweeting (here). [read post]
14 Feb 2013, 3:31 am
Merpel bets that this will be indeed the case … [read post]
17 Apr 2013, 5:46 am
the details of how such a service should work in practice, including fees [Merpel wonders: is this like paying extra for fast boarding on easyJet? [read post]
11 Sep 2014, 4:01 pm
Commenting on the Follow the Money report, the Prime Minister [who was in Scotland at the time, campaigning to preserve the UK's unitary patent, trade mark and design systems, Merpel notes] said: “Mike Weatherley's Follow the Money discussion paper is an interesting addition to this important area of work and the Government will look at it closely [Merpel hopes that the Government will go one step beyond looking closely at it and will actually take the trouble… [read post]
