Ip Review; Ip&T

Latest IP Review

The Winter 2005/6 number of CPA's freebie customer periodical IP Review has arrived. It has pose on a practiced bargain of weight over the winter, since it's directly risen to 44 pages (if yous count the covers).

Talking of the cover, it's got a actually scary motion-picture present of patent agent Dr Caroline Sincock, Chief Intellectual Assets Officer of Glasgow's Intellectual Assets Centre (seen here, above right, smiling). Dr Sincock's brief is to heighten awareness of IP equally assets in addition to to accustom Scottish businesses to thinking inward price of them. The website's really impressive. Scotland, 1 time a leading pith of technological advance, is directly to a greater extent than probable to summon upward associations of deep-fried Mars bars (left), Trainspotting and a dreadful international football game team. sincerely wants this inaugural to succeed in addition to wishes the Centre every practiced fortune.

Other features worth noting inward this number are

* Daniel Greenberg's review of the IP set-up inward South Africa and

* Balsamically fruity cult litigant Ralf Sieckmann (right: recollect his ECJ litigation over the registration of olfactory signs equally merchandise marks?) asks whether holograms volition render the adjacent generation of merchandise marks.

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IP&T

The kickoff number of Butterworths' Intellectual Property & Technology Cases for 2006, edited past times Michael Silverleaf QC (right), contains 5 illustration reports, this fourth dimension all from the UK. Two are House of Lords decisions (Naomi Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers No.2 , on whether unsuccessful defendants bring to pay the total whack when claimants bring made conditional fee arrangements in addition to Synthon BV v SmithKline Beecham, the latest inward a serial of "last words" on disclosure in addition to enablement inward patent law).

There's equally good PPL v Reader, a colourful niggling determination of Mr Justice Pumfrey on whether the toll of getting a naughty accused committed for contempt of courtroom tin live compensated through an respect of additional damages, plus 2 Court of Appeal decisions: Nokia v InterDigital (stay of proceedings inward a patent dispute) in addition to Fraser-Woodward v BBC (fair purpose of celebrity snaps of the Beckhams inward TV programme close tabloid newspapers).