Shock Horror, Ohim Appeals; Patent Baristas; Hungarian Aippi Proceedings

comments on independence of the OHIM Boards of Appeal (" reminds readers that the Boards of Appeal are non an independent judicial forum. They are usage of OHIM in addition to serve every bit an administrative filter likewise every bit an arbiter of the rectitude of registration/oppositions on the facts of private cases"), the Kat has received a rocket from an outraged reader who writes:

"I am distressed to catch this fault perpetrated on your website. The Boards of Appeal are indeed an independent judicial forum: inwards this context may I straight your attending to Article 131 of the Community Trade Mark Regulation. The Boards are non inwards fact are non an admistrative filter; they are a really independent filter, lodged inside the adminstrational framework of the Office".

wonders whether at that topographic point is a distinction to live on drawn betwixt de jure independence (recognised yesteryear Article 131) in addition to de facto independence. Comments from readers are exceptionally welcome, either through Comments posted below or yesteryear email.


Wake upward in addition to aroma the baristas

doesn't usually spending his fourth dimension in addition to endeavor eulogising other blogs, but he would sure as shooting recommend the series of posts (four to date) that stimulate got appeared on Patent Baristas, demystifying HR2795 (the U.S.A. Patents Bill 2005). Well done, Stephen, Karlyn in addition to Co.


Hungary for IP

has merely received a re-create of book 32 of the Proceedings of the Hungarian Group of AIPPI (2005). This publication has improved from twelvemonth to year, both inwards price of topicality of its coverage in addition to inwards price of its scholarship, every bit Hungary's AIPPI members stimulate got increasingly choke usage of the mainstream IP community.

One particular that caught the oculus was the obituary for Professor Endre Lontai, for whom he had reserved a soft spot inwards his heart. IPKat co-blogmeister Jeremy writes:

"I laid about met Endre when I was a postgraduate educatee at the University of Kent, which Endre briefly visited inwards the Bad Old Communist Days of the early on 1970s. I was directly taken yesteryear his passion for Shakespeare, whom he would quote to peachy resultant inwards back upward of any declaration he happened to live on pressing at the time. We met in i trial again at the first coming together of ATRIP, when Endre impressed me fifty-fifty to a greater extent than amongst his vast international repertoire of expletives. As a human who was e'er closer to philosophy than to law, Endre entertained my positivist assertions in addition to market-leaning interests amongst polite tolerance in addition to entertainment - in addition to sometimes, I suspect, amongst non a picayune sympathy. I shall immature lady him".

Details of AIPIP (that's the acronym for the Hungarian grouping of AIPPI are available from its President, Dr Istvan Godolle (contact yesteryear e-mail here).