Monthly Archives: December 2005

My email today brought New Year’s greetings from India and Australia (which I warmly reciprocate and pass on) and a bulletin of today’s stories in the New York Times. There are three stories on the law though none on intellectual … Continue reading →

I have converted yesterday’s WAV file into an MP3 file. I should like to thank Matt and James for their helpful suggestions. On listening to myself I noticed that I said that performances were protected by copyright. What I meant … Continue reading →

In 1999 I was asked to present a paper to the meeting of the Section of Business Law of the International Bar Association in Barcelona on misuse of internet access by employees. At the time there was a lot of … Continue reading →

My second broadcast is up but I fear I have been far too ambitious. Instead of relying on the Windows “Sound Recorder” which I used yesterday for my Introduction to Intellectual Property Law which limited the recording to 60 seconds … Continue reading →

A very useful resource on the WIPO website is the WIPO Index of Patent Systems. While ostensibly “a tool to help users of patent statistics to understand the impact of differences between patent systems on the interpretation of patent statistics,” … Continue reading →

This may not be the most sensible for a barrister of my years to do but what the hell. I’ve gone on air. I have given the first of a series of talks on IP Basics. Tonight’s was entitled “What … Continue reading →

One of the questions from the floor at the presentation by Peter Hayward and Ian Lewis on Patent Office Advisory Opinions at Leeds on 24 Nov 2005 was “Why do lawyers advise their clients to seek patents or other intellectual … Continue reading →

One of the most interesting contributions to the Patent Reform Group’s conference at Marks & Clerk’s last March was Jon Miles’s presentation on “innovation patents”. These are Australian utility models which stake a claim to a new invention for a … Continue reading →

All the events that chambers are running or to which we are collaborating are now gathered together on one “Events” page at http://www.hip.org.uk/events.htm.The main one for the New Year will be a half day event on IP dispute resolution. We … Continue reading →

S.25 (3) of the Patents Act 1977 provides: “Where any renewal fee in respect of a patent is not paid by the end of the period prescribed for payment (the ‘prescribed period’) the patent shall cease to have effect at … Continue reading →