More On Piipa; The Ipkat Says Thank You Lot Again

short characteristic on Public Interest Intellectual Property Advisors (PIIPA), wondering who or what it was as well as posing a few questions close it. Since then, Michael Gollin of PIIPA posted a Comment on the IPKat's before blog. Because comments at the bottom of a posted spider web log are frequently missed, the Kat is taking the chance of reproducing extracts from Michael's comment here:

"Q1. Where does PIIPA instruct its backing from, financially as well as politically?

A1. PIIPA was founded inwards 2002 past times an international grouping of volunteers as well as has received back upwards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland Department for International Development, the Sigrid Rausing Trust, the Fogarty International Center of the the United States of America National Institutes of Health, the Smithsonian Institution as well as Limerick Competition and the Cat Caption Contest - which carried prizes, inwards the form out of gratis entry to IP conferences, to the value of £1,245 (that's £495 for the Limericks addition £750 for the Cat Caption). Watch this spider web log for details of farther prize contests.

January was also roughly other record-breaking calendar month for the IPKat. Last calendar month the site recorded 13,209 visits (that's the outset fourth dimension we've cracked the 13,000 barrier) as well as inwards the past times 2 weeks we've also notched upwards 3,224 as well as 3,258 visits respectively - that's 2 successive 'bests'. Meanwhile our e-mail round down list, for those who'd rather convey the latest blogs delivered conduct to them, has risen from 322 at the destination of Dec to 370 yesterday.

Please practise operate past times away on on visiting. Your comments, your emails, your reassuring presence at the other destination of network all combine to brand the IPKat as well as Merpel experience they're non solitary inwards the vast cosmos as well as that other IP enthusiasts are entirely a brace of clicks away.

Right: a rare sighting of Merpel, behind a rock.

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