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Wake-up call for breakfast seminar. If you registered some time ago for William Patry's sell-out seminar, "How to Fix Copyright" this coming Tuesday, you don't need to email the IPKat and ask him to remind you where and when it is -- he is kindly telling you now that it's at the London office of law firm Bird & Bird LLP. Doors open 8am for insomniacs and people whose trains are running unaccountably early, but the breakfast proper starts at 8.30am. If you don't believe the IPKat, you can check the details on the 1709 Blog website (since this is a 1709 Blog event) here.
They never called it The Aardvark. The Intellectual Property Law Journal (IPLJ) is a newly established twice a year peer-reviewed journal of the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town. Published by Juta, it will provide a platform for debate on local and international IP issues with relevance to South Africa. The Advisory Board consists of numerous stellar IP dignitaries, together with one I. P. Kat. Anyway, the IPLJ is calling for submissions to its inaugural issue which will be published in November 2012. Areticles (not to exceed 12 000 words), case notes and book reviews (up to 5,000 words) and opinion and practice pieces (up to 3,000 words) are welcome. All submissions should be sent to the IPLJ’s managing editors Lee-Ann Tong and Dr Caroline Ncube by 1 July 2012 via email to editorIPLJ@uct.ac.za.
Now, this Kat didn't think it was a very good idea to call this journal the Intellectual Property Law Journal. He doesn't mind the fact that it's descriptive, but does think that it's going to cause more confusion in a world in which the following titles already exist: World Intellectual Property Review, Journal of World Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Magazine, Intellectual Property Quarterly, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Journal of Business & Intellectual Property Law, to name but a few. This Kat urged the new journal's powers-that-be to call it The Aardvark. The name is highly distinctive, hugely memorable, connected with South Africa, amenable to an allusive logo and therefore quite App-friendly -- as well as coming right at the top of the alphabet in any list of IP periodicals. The sidebar of this weblog carries a poll, which enables you to advise Juta as to whether it should stick with The Intellectual Property Law Journal or opt for Aardvark. Don't waste this opportunity: vote now!