Monthly Archives: August 2006

BPP’s students at Leeds and Manchester did very well last year. Both schools published excellent newsletters and the Manchester students ran an IP legal advice clinic for the Manchester Inventors Group. I have now somewhat belatedly uploaded the June edition … Continue reading →

On 10 May 2006 I chaired a seminar on alternative dispute resolution of intellectual property disputes. We had three star speakers: Ignacio de Castro from the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre in Geneva Peter Back of the UK Patent Office, … Continue reading →

A very interesting article by Ed Bott has appeared on ZDNet entitled “How much is Windows worth?” It starts with the observation: “Years ago, Microsoft created a multi-tier pricing structure for Windows that emphasized pre-installing its software on new PCs. … Continue reading →

One of the longest running cases in English intellectual property litigation appears finally to have come to an end. In Ultraframe (UK) Ltd v Fielding and others [2006] EWCA Civ 1133 (08 Aug 2006) the Court of Appeal set out … Continue reading →

It hardly seems like a year since I launched this blog – but it is. I haven’t always been able to update it as regularly as I should – but I have tried.The incident that launched me into blogging was … Continue reading →

I appreciate that this is still a minority view but I believe that China stands very much where the USA stood before 1917 and the USA stands where the British empire stood at the time of the Boer war. That … Continue reading →

Several of you have asked what has happened to this blog recently, particularly over the last few weeks when it has been silent. The answer is that I have been exceedingly busy. I am after all a barrister first and … Continue reading →