NEW JUDGE FOR ECJ

Fidelma Macken, Ireland's judge in the European Court of Justice and a former practitioner in intellectual property law, will be replaced later this year in the ECJ by Mr Justice Aindrias O'Caoimh of the Irish High Court. Mr Justice O'Caoimh is a vice-president of the Irish Society for European Law.

The IPKat wishes Fidelma, who has been actively and enthusiastically involved in the ECJ's trade mark cases (she was rapporteur in the recent Procter & Gamble detergent tablet cases, here and here), every success on her return to the Irish High Court.