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  1. Now we know exactly what questions are referred to the ECJ on the meaning of "acquiesced" in trade mark law http://tinyurl.com/yahjzbg
  2. Answering email responses to my post re the UK initiative on quantifying the role of IP in the knowledge economy http://tinyurl.com/ygdmr2b
  3. Dawn has assured one of the paying conference participants that he's not the proverbial 'moron in a hurry'. He must be pleased to know this
  4. Dawn Franklin: "the average consumer is exposed to 3,000 to 5,000 advertising messages a day". Thank goodness we filter most of them out
  5. Anoushka: "get your fashion design information checklist together, for both offensive and defensive reasons"
  6. Anoushka Der Kurgherian (on fashion copies): "Magazines are handing infringements over on a plate with 'spree v steal' features".
  7. Per Michael Edenborough: Lord Hoffmann's words in Amgen on interpretation "could have come from the mouth of any 19th century judge"
  8. Michael Edenborough's lamenting the loss of 19th century literal interpretation of patent claims:"pink means pink, not magenta or aubergine"
  9. "The Universal Copyright Convention is as irrelevant now as WIPO will be in twenty years"
  10. Hugo Cox, speaking on Google Search, spoke of his difficulty in finding a PowerPoint illustration that didn't infringe copyright ...
  11. Gwilym Harbottle has just given an excellent and balanced account of the current state of play regarding orphan works and UK/EU copyright
  12. There's a consensus of speakers that there's little chance of the UK government copyright reform proposals passing before the next election
  13. I'm chairing 'Copying Without Infringing' today and resisting the temptation to bombard the twittersphere with bon mots from the speakers
  14. Do you suffer from diaresis? There could be trouble brewing for tm owners in the vicinity of the .eu zone http://tinyurl.com/yhsnot2
  15. Hot off the press: Dirk Visser has produced an English translation of a new Dutch ECJ copyright/Infosoc reference http://tinyurl.com/ygfvvew
  16. Finally learning the new citations for the Community Trade Mark Regulation and Trade Mark Directive by heart: No.207/2009 and No.2008/95
  17. @Azrights Soaked while walking the dog? I thought of inventing a 'self-walking dog', but the prior art is vast: over a million Google hits
  18. @Azrights Elk in the Woods is a great name for a restaurant. Hope there's not too much wood in the elk, and that the price is not too 'deer'
  19. Interesting problem: how far do you have to go to prove the date when prior art first appeared on the internet? http://tinyurl.com/y9ka6ux
  20. @filemot Most of my emails are going out, but c.85 are coming back each time. I've asked fellow Kat David Pearce if he can solve the problem