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Monthly Archives: December 2007
New Blogs: Securing Innovation
I am grateful to Stephen Nipper for drawing my attention to a new blog published by ip.com Inc called “Securing Innovation”. He actually calls it an IP blog of note. The blog focuses on IP management and it has some … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, ip.com.Securing Innovation, Ron Jones
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Registered Community Designs: EC Accession to the Hague Agreement
On 1 Jan 2008, the EC (including the UK notwithstanding our wonderful PM’s prior engagement at the Kirkcaldy Sea Otters’ early morning Hogmanay swim around the Bass Rock or indeed to do just about anything to avoid showing enthusiasm for … Continue reading
Pork Pie Winner
I am glad to announce a winner of my pork pie offer. The first and so far only person outside West Yorkshire to pronounce Slaithwaite like a local is Mrs Jean Sutherland. Jean is a Scottish solicitor of West Country … Continue reading
Posted in George Bush, pork pies, Slaithwaite, Tony Blair
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Going to the Dogs – Quite Literally
After sounding off about the contemptible attack on the rule of law in Pakistan including the sickening sight of attacks on peaceful demonstrations by lawyers a few weeks ago, I vowed to stick to intellectual property in future. However, this … Continue reading
Posted in dogs, George Bush, Tony Blair
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General Gossip: wiki revisions, EPC2000, my wonderful MP and the Copyright Act 1956
Just to let you know that I have uploaded the passing off page in the brands tree of WikIP.Just in case you missed it, the revisions to the European Patent Convention agreed at Munich on 29 Nov 2000 came into … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright Act 1956, EPC2000, Patents, wikis
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IP Crime: Intellectual Property Crime Report
One of the recommendations of the late lamented DTI’s Innovation Report of 2003 was to develop a new strategy for dealing with IP Crime. Accordingly the UK-IPO set up set up a specialist IP Crime Group in 2004 to: – … Continue reading
Posted in Enforcement, IP Crime
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Wikid – Change of Name and New Pages
Thank you to everyone who has had a kind word for my IP Wiki, especially David Pearce who pointed out that my IP wiki was not the first in the UK. It rather reminds me of “IPKat eats Humble Pie” … Continue reading
Posted in IPKat, wikis, zrii
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Design Right and Personal Liability of Directors: Societa Esplosivi Industriali Spa v Ordnance Technologies (UK) Ltd Round 2
This was the second round of a case that had already been partly decided by Mr Justice Lewison nearly 4 years ago (see Societa Esplosivi Industriali SPA v Ordnance Technologies Ltd. and Others [2004] EWHC 48 (Ch) (21 Jan 2004)). … Continue reading
Posted in Design right, liability fo directors
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Wikid – Services for SME, Inventors and Designers
We were one of the first barristers’ chambers with a website, one of the first with a blog, one of the first with a “.eu” TLD (though we have not yet decided how to use it), one of the few … Continue reading
Posted in wikis
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Claims against States: Czech Republic v European Media Ventures SA
Governments undertake international obligations to protect the intellectual assets of their own and other countries’ nationals but what happens if they don’t? What if, for example, a state does not enforce its brand new copyright statute or even enact copyright … Continue reading
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