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  1. A back-handed compliment: an author of an article submitted to JIPLP gives thanks for the "unseen efforts" of various people. about 8 hours ago from web
  2. The North Face takes on The South Butt: an interesting problem for a serious brand faced with a parodistic rival http://tinyurl.com/yewn2ph 10:06 AM Dec 17th from web
  3. I've commented on the EPO document on our future EEUPatent system http://tinyurl.com/ylfsqqt To think, Europe was once the home of style! 9:48 AM Dec 17th from web
  4. Even after his death, Salvador Dali continues to cause problems -- enriching a few lawyers in the process http://tinyurl.com/yhfm6ps 3:29 AM Dec 17th from web
  5. Pleased that WIPO is justifying IP rights to the climate change lobby http://tiny.cc/RQomf but a little sad that WIPO still needs to do so 9:06 AM Dec 16th from web
  6. I've posted a note on today's Court of Appeal decision in Lucasfilms v Ainsworth, http://tiny.cc/Yqrxx with links to the decision 5:03 AM Dec 16th from web
  7. Star Wars helmet infringement dispute: Court of Appeal just dismissed the appeal and allowed the cross-appeal in part http://tiny.cc/Ux7wQ 4:20 AM Dec 16th from web
  8. @IPStrategist Make the most of it. From where I sit 2010 looks like 'goodbye IP strategy, hello knowledge management ' - the new stalinism 11:30 AM Dec 15th from web in reply to IPStrategist
  9. Getting initial feedback on my little article for the WIPO Journal on badly done and badly written-up IP research http://tinyurl.com/yb7crl3 7:21 AM Dec 15th from web
  10. Noting that Liechstenstein has acceded to the Singapore Treaty on TMs,I wonder how many notable TMs have ever emerged from that principality 2:44 AM Dec 15th from web
  11. Rights in secrets, know-how etc are only exercisable in personam, which narrows the concept of 'property' in them to near meaninglessness 2:42 AM Dec 15th from web
  12. @filemot The fact that clients want their know-how to be called 'property' in assignments + licences doesn't make it 'property' if it isn't 2:41 AM Dec 15th from web in reply to filemot
  13. Remaining unconvinced that practitioners ever need to worry if trade secrets need to be categorised as 'property'; it's an academic debate 1:37 AM Dec 15th from web
  14. @Azrights Never mind 'Razzle Dazzle' - surely the place for 'The Ultimate Experience' is Dignitas (the last place I'd want to be seen ...) 3:11 AM Dec 10th from web in reply to Azrights
  15. Lamenting the lexisnexis website search facility. Just keyed in phillips + e-commerce + handbook and got a zero 7:29 AM Dec 9th from web
  16. Celebrating: it seems the 10% tax on patent income in the UK is instead of the existing 28%, not in addition to it http://tiny.cc/wwZO5 7:00 AM Dec 9th from web
  17. UK government's going to slap a tax on income from patents in the belief that it will boost life sciences and biotech http://tiny.cc/qixvt 6:30 AM Dec 9th from web
  18. @filemot I don't think Apple's arrogant in saying iPhone is inherently distinctive. It's just saying what all tm owners say in similar circs 4:07 AM Dec 9th from web in reply to filemot
  19. I've been asked if non-consumable items are protected as GIs in the EU. My first thought: edible but unpalatable, yes; non-consumable, no 1:53 AM Dec 9th from web
  20. Toning down a peer reviewer's comments a little. What he regards as a 'major' revision of an article seems quite minor to me 11:12 AM Dec 7th from web