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Happy midweek, everyone! As the count-down to the weekend begins, the <br> Kats remain busy enough, gathering up some choice offerings for you and <br> trying their very best to come up with some fresh insights <br> <p>European trade mark organisation MARQUES is now tweeting. You can <br> follow MARQUES on Twitter here.

Jeremy j...@btinternet.com 2009-11-23T20:20:05Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/5915133806af5d1e/992e1b7dfb21d652?show_docid=992e1b7dfb21d652

Do you suffer from Diaresis? Do you have an Acute Circumflex or a Grave <br> Cedilla? If so, says the IPKat, there's no need to see a doctor. But <br> you should get wise to the fact that Thursday 10 December is the <br> apparently arbitrary date on which you will be able to register .eu top <br> level domain names with twiddly bits on the letters. The culprit, or

Jeremy j...@btinternet.com 2009-11-23T05:58:00Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/9c8cd8177b502882/93142b60a96ab240?show_docid=93142b60a96ab240

The IPKat, Merpel, Tufty and the AmeriKat wish all their readers a very <br> happy new week! <br> <p>Coming soon. This Tuesday, 24 November, is the annual &quot;Copying Without <br> Infringing&quot; conference (programme here), with IPKat team member Jeremy <br> in the chair. Late bookings are still welcome! In two Tuesdays time, on

Annsley Merelle Ward annsl...@gmail.com 2009-11-23T00:01:31Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/8dd0d2ca843be421/dda30c9471d9d69c?show_docid=dda30c9471d9d69c

Last week the AmeriKat could be seen rushing all over the city <br> attending hearings, running errands, moving a bed across town or just <br> trying to get to a variety of appointments all on time. In fact you may <br> have been one of the unsuspecting shoppers on Oxford Street yesterday <br> whom she mowed down while racing to her fur appointment. The distances

Annsley Merelle Ward annsl...@gmail.com 2009-11-23T00:22:36Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/f25786e9dbc75865/2309012ba8097306?show_docid=2309012ba8097306

• Microsoft’s Trade Secrets Case - Microsoft settled a lawsuit filed <br> earlier this year in Washington against a former employee that it had <br> charged with fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of <br> contract. Miki Mullor had applied for a job at Microsoft in 2005, <br> stating that he had been employed by Ancora as its CEO, a company that

Jeremy j...@btinternet.com 2009-11-20T12:43:35Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/05c43ccf0fff0f58/812da0376f773475?show_docid=812da0376f773475

Have you checked the IPKat's list of Forthcoming Events? There's plenty <br> coming up, as you can see from the side-bar on the IPKat's front page. <br> It gets a bit quiet over Christmas, but January's only just around the <br> corner. <br> <p>Are you IP-savvy, as fit as a fiddle and always carry an umbrella in <br> case it rains? If so, the United Kingdom's IPO has a job for you as

Jeremy j...@btinternet.com 2009-11-19T13:12:46Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/5fc8d577593f0603/64a51bc43d006227?show_docid=64a51bc43d006227

Drink and drugs were the main preoccupation of some of Europe's finest <br> legal brains this morning, when the Court of First Instance rendered <br> its decision in Case T‑234/06, Giampietro Torresan v Office for <br> Harmonisation in the Internal Market, Klosterbrauerei Weissenohe GmbH &amp; <br> Co. KG, a decision which some of the IPKat's readers may feel to have

Jeremy j...@btinternet.com 2009-11-20T08:56:25Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/b1a8f3dc2fe1fb80/bedce41a92cdff24?show_docid=bedce41a92cdff24

While most felines have little affection for vegetation, the IPKat is <br> something of an exception. He has just been perusing &quot;Patents and <br> Vegetable Crop Diversity&quot;, a US research paper by Paul J. Heald (Allen <br> Post Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law) and his <br> colleague Susannah Chapman of the same university's Department of

David d.h.pea...@gmail.com 2009-11-19T18:34:02Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/66f0932a1c59d582/d24b57eaf730743b?show_docid=d24b57eaf730743b

Nick McDonald of Browne Jacobson has written to the IPKat with the <br> following: <br> <p>&quot;Her Majesty in yesterday's Queen's Speech said the following: &quot;My <br> Government will introduce a Bill to ensure communications <br> infrastructure that is fit for the digital age, supports future <br> economic growth, delivers competitive communications and enhances

Jeremy j...@btinternet.com 2009-11-20T10:00:53Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/3fdc50e61101544c/6e9583d3a366c463?show_docid=6e9583d3a366c463

In a recent hearing concerning a UK patent application, Ranger Services <br> Ltd's application, BL O/362/09, 17 November 2009, Hearing Officer <br> Lawrence Cullen was faced with a question relating to the status of <br> cited prior art which had been obtained from an internet archive. <br> Rejecting the application before him, which was for a system of using

Jeremy j...@btinternet.com 2009-11-20T10:15:34Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/b1a8f3dc2fe1fb80/4d9f682da45d96f6?show_docid=4d9f682da45d96f6

While most felines have little affection for vegetation, the IPKat is <br> something of an exception. He has just been perusing &quot;Patents and <br> Vegetable Crop Diversity&quot;, a US research paper by Paul J. Heald (Allen <br> Post Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law) and his <br> colleague Susannah Chapman of the same university's Department of

Mark Schweizer mark.schwei...@gmail.com 2009-11-19T08:44:18Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/ffa38135bad106de/83bbba97619ce8fb?show_docid=83bbba97619ce8fb

The 2009 EU Industrial R&amp;D Investment Scoreboard gives some interesting <br> facts and figures on the biggest spenders on research &amp; development - <br> R&amp;D that will, hopefully, also lead to some IP. <br> <p>From the press release: <br> Worldwide corporate R&amp;D investment increased by 6.9% in 2008, in spite <br> of the economic crisis. With an 8.1% increase, the R&amp;D investment

Jeremy j...@btinternet.com 2009-11-18T20:27:40Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/f8c349079a15a479/85e7a4cfcf34bfb2?show_docid=85e7a4cfcf34bfb2

Although he is generally reluctant to criticise individual IP rights <br> owners for seeking to protect their market position, and equally <br> reluctant to criticise those members of the IP professions who <br> represent them, there are times when the temptation to do so becomes <br> very great. <br> <p>One such occasion when the temptation became fairly strong was today,

David d.h.pea...@gmail.com 2009-11-18T17:33:00Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/edec991388f90594/819b8dd7a18e2c0b?show_docid=819b8dd7a18e2c0b

According to UK and European patent law, an invention in a patent claim <br> is not new if what is claimed has been made available to the public <br> before the priority date of the application. There may, for example, be <br> a clear statement in a prior published document that describes a <br> chemical compound and how to make it, which would make a claim to that

Jeremy j...@btinternet.com 2009-11-18T05:51:00Z http://groups.google.com/group/ipkat_readers/browse_thread/thread/d9788d5163223f7f/851af12f9311daf7?show_docid=851af12f9311daf7

Official Proclamation: for the sake of consistency and the avoidance of <br> confusion, the IPKat and Merpel do hereby decree that the round-up <br> features that appear on this weblog on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays <br> shall henceforth be known and described as 'Monday <br> Miscellany', 'Wednesday Whimsies' and 'Friday Fantasies' respectively.