Clt Competition

CLT is running its Tenth Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference at the Cafe Royal (right), almost Piccadilly Circus inwards London's West End on Tuesday 24 January. This conference, which has a potent panel of speakers, is supported yesteryear the IPKat. Speakers at this effect include

* Gwilym Harbottle (Hogarth Chambers, left) on copyright too digital rights management inwards the historic menses of the iPod;

* Nick Reeve (Reddie & Grose), who explains the UK's novel patent exam guidelines too asks whether they are going to brand whatever difference;

* Professor Alison Firth (University of Newcastle, right) on the fun too games that become on amongst reckon to detaining suspected or actual counterfeits too fakes at the EU's ever-growing borders.

Although the normal admission cost for the 24-hour interval is £495 addition VAT, the IPKat is pleased to inform his readers at 1 of them volition hold out able to attend gratis of charge. That lucky individual volition hold out the winner of the IPKat Limerick Competition. The rules of the contest are simple. Just compose a limerick on 1 of the next iii subjects:

(i) the battle betwixt the USA too Czech breweries for command of the BUDWEISER mark,

(ii) the business office of WIPO or

(iii) the granting of patents for draw of piece of occupation organization methods.

Then ship it here. The author of whichever limerick is adjudged to hold out the best volition arrive free. When you lot ship your entry in, tin you lot confirm that you lot don't heed your entry appearing on this blog? (We don't desire to infringe our friends' copyrights). Closing appointment for entries is Thursday xix January, mid-day (Greenwich Mean Time).

Full conference programme here
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