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Stuff the (Single) Market -- with canapés;
Tax the Rich -- lightly ... |
“A Kat reflects”. On 12 June 2012 this member of the IPKat weblog team takes time off from his gruelling training schedule ahead of the London Blogging
Olympics O******s in order to devote some time to Union activities. The Union in question is the Union of European Practitioners in Intellectual Property and he is attending a meeting of its British cell. Since the Union couldn’t afford the prices at The Old Nick and they don’t have good prospects of leverage through taking industrial action, they’ve had to opt for something a little more downmarket and they’ve ended up at The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London. To sweeten the blow a little, those attending will be mollified with Champagne and canapés. If you want to hear a Kat Reflect, there are still some spaces. Details are available
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Anshika's appointment:
a blow for Wallace and Gromit |
Attaché now on the case. A
press release informs the IPKat that the UK's second Intellectual Property attaché has been appointed and will start work in India as part to the UK Government’s plans “to bolster trade relations and support IP and innovation-led businesses abroad”. The lucky person, Anshika Jha, will be based in the British High Commission in New Delhi and will be working with to help British businesses operating in India make the most of the business opportunities there
[says Merpel, it will be good to know how much of this is related to enforcement of IP rights held byBritish businesses and how much will address the licensing of UK technology into India – and vice versa].  |
Tea at 3pm? You must
be joking!* |
IP TRANSLATOR delayed — but not by much. Thanks to the IPKat’s excellent friend Michael Edenborough QC the news can be broken to a disappointed world that the long-awaited ruling of the Court of Justice in
Case C-307/10 Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (the IP TRANSLATOR case, concerning which some people have still not yet read Richard Ashmead’s masterly three-part analysis of the issues
here,
here and
here) will not be handed down at 9.30am on Tuesday 19 June 2012. The new time is 3pm, just too early for tea.
* Illustration: Tea Time with Angel, by Monica Van de weer, available for purchase here
