Today's the day the Patents County Court (PCC) in England and Wales is officially renamed the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC). The change, ostensibly, is taking place in order to reflect the court’s jurisdiction more accurately, since it is there as a facility for litigating all IP rights, not just patents. So far, it has not been possible to confirm the rumour that, in keeping with the ethos of this new name, judges presiding over the rebranded tribunal are to be designated by a special new title or that they are to be addressed as "Your Efficiency" in place of the somewhat stuffy "Your Honour". Nor has it been possible to ascertain whether the European Union is considering a similar move, to bring the title of the EU's top legislative chamber more in line with its activities by deleting any reference in its title to the misleading word "Justice" ...
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The newly-renamed court's facilities are said
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The IPKat is delighted that the name of the Patents County Court is being changed, especially since the court didn't have a great deal to do with counties, but he can't help thinking that "Intellectual Property Enterprise Court" is a bit of a mouthful and he wonders whether something more succinct and a little less pompous couldn't have been thought up. The word "Enterprise" seems a little odd too, since that word has for most of his life been associated with a
Starship on which the intrepid travellers never seem to be wearing safety belts when various calamities strike, as well as with the
most painful split infinitive known to the sensitive English ear.
Merpel is all in favour of enterprise, so she's going to be a little bit enterprising herself. Having
purr-loined stolen discreetly extracted from Jeremy a copy of the latest edition of the
Butterworths Intellectual Property Law Handbook which he edits, she is offering it as a prize for whoever comes up with the best and, ideally, most IP-relevant
anagram of the words "Intellectual Property Enterprise Court". Entries to the IPKat at
theipkat@gmail.com with the subject line "IPEC" by not later than 31 October 2013, please.
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