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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Practice: UK Patent Office changes its Name, Logo and Website. Again!
What we had called the Patent Office for over 150 years has just got a new website, a new logo and even a new name. My first impression was that the new logo (sorry “device mark” if It has been … Continue reading
Posted in IP Office, new logo, new website
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Practice: A2B Day
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
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Patents: Court Guide
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
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Software Patents: Talks on Symbian
Colin Birss QC is giving a talk for the AIPPI at Allen & Overy on Symbian entitled “Symbian: Where do we stand now?” on 4 Dec. It should be good. I have heard Colin speak before. The cost is only … Continue reading
Posted in Colin Birrs, Liverpool Seminar, Symbian
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Space: Meet a Spaceman in Bradford
Former Soviet spaceman, Col. Akexander Volkov, and the head of ballistics for the Soviet space programme, Dr. Alexander Martynov, will be at the WOW Academy in Bradford between 12:00 and 15:00 on 11 Dec 2008. The timetable is as follows: 12:00 – … Continue reading
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Moderation Policy
Someone called “Planet” contributed a comment to my blog in Mandarin. I have not yet got round to learning that language (a project for retirement perhaps) but I ran it through Google translate and it came out as “Evidence … Continue reading
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Northern Intellectual Property Review
Between 1997 and 2001 we published a number of newsletters which won a lot of praise. They even earned me and my tenants a few free lunches with the likes of Hobson Audley (now Faegre & Benson), Wragge & … Continue reading
Patents: Software Protection after Symbian and Bilski
Possibly the most important intellectual property decision of this year from the point of view of British business will be the Court of Appeal’s decision in Symbian Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents [2008] EWCA Civ 1066 (8 Oct 2008). … Continue reading
Company Names Tribunal: New Fixed Fee Service
One of the many innovations of the Companies Act 2006 is a right under s.69 to object to the incorporation of a company in a name that is: (a) the same as a name associated with the person raising the objection in which … Continue reading
Posted in adjudicator, company names, fixed fee service, tribunal
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USA: What will Obama do for IP?
While queuing for tea during the mid-afternoon break at the WIPO domain name panellists’ meeting in Geneva last month, I got chatting to am American colleague. I asked her which state she was from and she replied Illinois. “Oh Senator … Continue reading
Posted in IP, Obama, peer-to-patent
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