Wilkof's Inwards Town; Brilliant Lilliputian Mass On Tms

Come for java ...!

is pleased to denote that legal scholar Neil J. Wilkof (right, of Herzog Fox & Neeman) is passing through London on Tuesday, 24 Jan 2006. Neil is the main writer of Wilkof & Burkitt, Trade Mark Licensing (2nd edition, 2004) - the veritable bible of merchandise score transactions. An inspiring lecturer, he also cultivates a broad attain of IP interests exterior merchandise score law.


If you'd similar to bring together Neil for coffee, he'll endure at the Patisserie Concerto (a.k.a. Caffe Concerto, left), 79-81 Regent Street, London W1 (opposite the Cafe Royal, nigh Piccadilly) from around 5.15pm till 6.45pm. Just popular inwards in addition to nation hello, inquire a few cheery questions almost merchandise score transactions or merely by in addition to large endure social -- this is your opportunity! IPKat co-blogmeister Jeremy volition endure in that place too.

There's no postulate to RSVP - it's totally informal - but if y'all let Jeremy know you're coming he tin construct arrangements accordingly (like shoving a few tables together in addition to shooing off alien non-IP persons ...)

Harmonised Trade Mark Law inwards Europe

Turning over the pages of Ulrich Hildebrandt's little book, Harmonised Trade Mark Law inwards Europe (just forthwith published inwards English linguistic communication past times Carl Heymanns Verlag), the IPKat was delighted to come across how useful it is. It's a brusque (156 pages), succinct guide to the illustration police line of the European Court of Justice on Council Directive 89/104 (the so-called harmonisation directive) in addition to Council Regulation 40/94 on the Community merchandise mark, broken downwards on an Article-by-Article basis.

Although it is non a run of scholarship per se, it is unmistakably the run of a scholar inwards its tidy, highly-organised presentation of telephone commutation data (its author, a practitioner, also lectures at the Heinrich-Heine-University inwards Düsseldorf). If you're planning to create whatever inquiry into ECJ rulings on harmonised issues, in addition to thus this is an ideal initial inquiry tool.

hopes this slender publication volition endure kept up-to-date in addition to a fresh edition issued annually because of its high utility value. Right forthwith in that place are nearly lxxx cases featured; equally fourth dimension progresses, the number of cases grows in addition to the human retentiveness becomes saturated, this run volition drib dead all the to a greater extent than useful.

An odd wages of this mass is pointed out past times the publishers: it has an identical twin inwards the flat of a German-language edition. This volition assistance whatever English-speaker who needs to file an opposition to a Community merchandise score application where the linguistic communication of the proceedings is German, since he tin easily position the equivalent vocabulary. At 48 euro (that's around £33) it won't pause the banking concern either!

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