tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post1109711364035985200..comments2024-03-28T16:45:51.051+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Time to tackle the money mountain: what's YOUR opinion?Verónica Rodríguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-86970712932174106502010-07-02T09:27:38.454+01:002010-07-02T09:27:38.454+01:00Wanna get rid of the €400 million? Easy: buy Wubbo...Wanna get rid of the €400 million? Easy: buy Wubbo and Peter for what they think they're worth, then sell them for what they are worth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-24455231786287711292010-06-28T13:02:07.637+01:002010-06-28T13:02:07.637+01:00Tranferring money back to the applicants would onl...Tranferring money back to the applicants would only lead to massive administration work and costs. <br /><br />Looking at the bigger picture - the money belongs to the EU - and thus to the memberstates of the EU. <br /><br />A surplus in an EU-institution should be used to limit EU/EU- memberstate costs. In this situation this can be done by simply spending the money on paying the salaries of the OHIM employees for X years. I have no idea how many years it would take to bring the surplus to zero, but during that period OHIM should receive no further budget and the official fees should be regulated at least twice a year to make sure no surplus this size is ever build up again.<br /><br />And could we then please have some decent assurance that the new OHIM leadership will not build up a similar surplus yet again!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13733971534281971591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-34315672433101469952010-06-25T22:04:07.557+01:002010-06-25T22:04:07.557+01:00Is our friend Rousse inheriting the Marx Bros mant...Is our friend Rousse inheriting the Marx Bros mantle and challelling Rufus T Firefly? Anyway, anti-counterfeiting campaigns may be 'useless' but they keep lots of us in work, relatively harmlessly, so don't knock it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-70678476896197045332010-06-24T12:26:03.824+01:002010-06-24T12:26:03.824+01:00... to set up the Cooperation Fund to give away €5...<i>... to set up the Cooperation Fund to give away €50 million and to dedicate 50% of the renewal fees for Community trade marks to the EU's national trade mark offices - something that user organisations have found hard to swallow since they don't see why, by opting for a Community trade mark, they should have to subsidise national systems.</i><br /><br><br />Well, they would only be importing tried and true technology from the EPO... The same gangs run both organisation, and already consider the EPO as a cash cow for subsidising their money-losing national patent operations. This situation is explicitly exposed in many NP(T)O's annual reports, for example the UKPTO's, and commented in the Gower Review. The solution? Plunder the EPO in any possible way, for instance under the guise of "cooperation" and adopting maladapted accounting rules to make its accounts in the worst possible light.Roufousse T. Fairflynoreply@blogger.com