IP sole practitioner’s meeting: the dateFor the avoidance of confusion, the IPKat wishes his readers to know that the sole practitioners’ coming together at the Crown Tavern is on Th 16 Feb (i.e. next week) together with NOT Th 9 February (i.e. tomorrow). apologises for whatever confusion.
Seems similar the IPKat's non the solely confused truthful cat (right)
OHIM rules on registrability of Vorsprung durch Technik
The OHIM Second Board of Appeal has ruled on the registrability equally a CTM of Audi’s slogan “Vorsprung durch Technik”. The determination appears to accept something to produce amongst whether the grade is distinctive since many goods are connected to applied scientific discipline together with something to produce amongst acquired distinctiveness. Also, vehicles inward Class 12 seem to accept been treated differently from the other goods applied for. More than this the IPKat cannot tell y'all because he doesn’t speak High German – the solely linguistic communication that the determination is available in.
News from the British Library
The British Library is launching a novel extended Business together with Intellectual Property Centre in March. The Centre already gives access to lots of lovely IP-related reference materials, the Business together with Intellectual Property Centre together with next the refit, it volition host a novel detailed (free) serial of talks on diverse aspects of IP together with delineate organization from the betoken of persuasion of delineate organization people.
volition select y'all farther details when this happens, precisely inward the meantime, y'all tin dismiss gorge yourself on the BL’s comprehensive listing of IP links at http://www.bl.uk/patents. says anything that increases world agreement of IP is to last supported.
