Category Archives: IP Practice

The European Court of Justice Explained

Posted on 21 Jul 2009 by

Barbara Cookson Chartered Patent Agent/European Patent Attorney Filemot Technology Law The Rt Hon Sir Francis Jacobs KCMG QC and former ECJ Advocate General was the surprise guest speaker at the Hogarth Chambers Summer IP Seminar on Wednesday 15th July. Quietly … Continue reading →

Posted in Advocate-General, ECJ, Francis Jacobs, IP Practice | Leave a comment

Practice: Large US Businesses plan to cut Spending on Outside Lawyers

Posted on 12 Jan 2009 by

During November 2008 the well known legal consultants, Altman Weil Inc., polled 1,292 general counsel (in-house legal advisors) in the USA as to whether they faced budget cuts in 2009 and, if so, what they planned to do about them.   … Continue reading →

Posted in Altman Weil survey, IP Practice | Leave a comment

Practice: Desmond Browne: ‘The Bar is not for me’

Posted on 12 Dec 2008 by

On the very day that Rio Tinto announced 14,000 redundancies, Sony another 8,000, Mercedes short term working and Woolworths finally gave up the ghost The Independent published an extract of a speech by Dersmond Browne (the Chairperson-Elect of the English … Continue reading →

Posted in Desmond Brown's speech, future of the bar, IP Practice | 1 Comment

Practice: A2B Day

Posted on 27 Nov 2008 by

I have just returned from the first two sessions of the Bar Council’s Access to the Bar Day at Inner Temple.  The first was on public access and the second on licensed access. I wanted to attend the last session which … Continue reading →

Posted in 27 Nov 2008, A2B day, IP Practice | 4 Comments

Patents: Court Guide

Posted on 25 Nov 2008 by

When I reviewd the new Patent Court Guide on 6 Nov I pointed out that it did not have a specimen order.    That has now been corrected and the complete guide appears in its full glory at http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/cms/files/Patents_Court_Guide_as_revised_on_18_November_2008.pdf.   However, the … Continue reading →

Posted in IP Practice, Patents Court | Leave a comment

Practice: How will the Economic Downturn affect IP Practice

Posted on 12 Oct 2008 by

Regardless of whether the steps agreed in Paris today will work (see “EU chiefs confront markets crisis” BBC website 12 Oct 2008), markets will eventually stabilize. However, that is unlikely to be the end of the economic crisis as there … Continue reading →

Posted in IP Practice | Leave a comment