Around the blogs.
Class 46, the European trade mark weblog founded by MARQUES supporters and now hosted by that organisation, has this weekend secured its
1,100th email subscriber. There's also some news of a team change: Finnish trade mark blogger
Mikael Kohlemainen is taking a break; his place will be filled by fellow Finn
Johanna Kauhanen. Good luck, Johanna!
Watch this space. The Fordham Law School, New York, already much loved-and-hated for its fabled annual
IP Conference, is launching a Fashion Law Institute this autumnn. The new Institute will be headed by the lively
Susan Scafidi and its website is
here. Susan is best known as the power that drives
Counterfeit Chic. IPKat team member Jeremy, whose interests extend to fashion via the UK-based
Fashionista-at-Law weblog, will be watching for some useful tips. Good luck, Susan!
There's still nearly a month to go in the
New WIPO Logo competition. While many readers are appending their thoughts as comments, the only entries that can be considered for the prize -- a free one-year electronic subscription to the
Journal of Intellectual Property and Practice (
JIPLP) -- are those which are emailed to the IPKat. WIPO states, among other things, that the new logo is "based on a graphic representation of the WIPO headquarters’ building", though some may feel that the building illustrated on the right is no less close to the new logo than is the organisation's Geneva Headquarters.
The IPKat says a big "thank you" to fellow blogger Hugo Cox
(The 1709 Blog) for sending him
this link to BD, the Architects' Website. The link tells the story of how
English Heritage has threatened a small independent art gallery with legal action after it exhibited Dave Anderson's light-hearted alternative version of the blue plaque which is a good deal more famous than most of the dead folk whose names appear on the official variety. A limited edition of 250 of Anderson’s plaques, priced at £50 each, has been put into storage before even one was sold, following receipt of a cease and desist letter. Oh dear, says the IPKat, one thing which is definitely not part of English Heritage is a sense of humour. Merpel adds, did I miss something? I looked for the plaque on the IPO website's little box for searching marks by proprietor (
here), keying in 'English Heritage' -- but I didn't get the little blue plaque at all. Did I do it wrong, or English Heritage not the right name?
Around the blogs. Class 46, the European trade mark weblog founded by MARQUES supporters and now hosted by that organisation, has this weekend secured its 1,100th email subscriber. There's also some news of a team change: Finnish trade mark blogger Mikael Kohlemainen is taking a break; his place will be filled by fellow Finn Johanna Kauhanen. Good luck, Johanna!
Watch this space. The Fordham Law School, New York, already much loved-and-hated for its fabled annual IP Conference, is launching a Fashion Law Institute this autumnn. The new Institute will be headed by the lively Susan Scafidi and its website is here. Susan is best known as the power that drives Counterfeit Chic. IPKat team member Jeremy, whose interests extend to fashion via the UK-based Fashionista-at-Law weblog, will be watching for some useful tips. Good luck, Susan!
There's still nearly a month to go in the New WIPO Logo competition. While many readers are appending their thoughts as comments, the only entries that can be considered for the prize -- a free one-year electronic subscription to the Journal of Intellectual Property and Practice (JIPLP) -- are those which are emailed to the IPKat. WIPO states, among other things, that the new logo is "based on a graphic representation of the WIPO headquarters’ building", though some may feel that the building illustrated on the right is no less close to the new logo than is the organisation's Geneva Headquarters.
The IPKat says a big "thank you" to fellow blogger Hugo Cox (The 1709 Blog) for sending him this link to BD, the Architects' Website. The link tells the story of how English Heritage has threatened a small independent art gallery with legal action after it exhibited Dave Anderson's light-hearted alternative version of the blue plaque which is a good deal more famous than most of the dead folk whose names appear on the official variety. A limited edition of 250 of Anderson’s plaques, priced at £50 each, has been put into storage before even one was sold, following receipt of a cease and desist letter. Oh dear, says the IPKat, one thing which is definitely not part of English Heritage is a sense of humour. Merpel adds, did I miss something? I looked for the plaque on the IPO website's little box for searching marks by proprietor (here), keying in 'English Heritage' -- but I didn't get the little blue plaque at all. Did I do it wrong, or English Heritage not the right name?
