tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post255981730553544733..comments2024-03-19T05:22:15.632+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Goodwill, badwill -- read all about it!Verónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-51543334595651771652011-07-08T16:05:52.573+01:002011-07-08T16:05:52.573+01:00Is this not a rare example of the goodwill in a bu...Is this not a rare example of the goodwill in a business denoted by a mark being abandoned/ destroyed by its owners. Will this mean their rights under the law of passing off are gone? Where does it leave their registered trade marks (particularly where in relation to revocation and under prima facie infringement outside s10(1))Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-68141612717362670632011-07-08T09:46:37.666+01:002011-07-08T09:46:37.666+01:00@Anonymous 8:57am
I stand by what I wrote. "...@Anonymous 8:57am<br /><br />I stand by what I wrote. "Decimate", in the meaning you mention, is the second meaning listed in my Collins Dictionary, and it is mentioned as being used in this way in the context of the ancient Roman army. The first meaning which the dictionary ascribes to "decimate" is ""to destroy or kill a large proportion of".<br /><br />I rest my case.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01123244020588707776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-33574464394114085402011-07-08T09:19:29.055+01:002011-07-08T09:19:29.055+01:00Rudolph Murdoch has a finely-honed business sense ...Rudolph Murdoch has a finely-honed business sense for making money, and if anything jeopardises that, on (this one anyway) gets the feeling that it would be ditched toute de suite. I understand that Murdoch is bidding for UK television channels, which will require Government permission (and of course there's the attempt to take over Formula 1). Given the ease of rebadging NOTW, I can understand Rupert's mea culpa act.<br /><br />It0s a sad comment on the huiman race that, for years, the only publication that outsold NOTW was the equally badly-named "Pravda".teemacshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01517308334503330636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-75115607637119873382011-07-08T08:57:17.826+01:002011-07-08T08:57:17.826+01:00"decimated" = "reduced by a tenth&q..."decimated" = "reduced by a tenth", not "reduced to a tenth".<br /><br />Really what you meant to say?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-2183274486018234912011-07-08T07:52:04.741+01:002011-07-08T07:52:04.741+01:00One other unresolved issue is the success or other...One other unresolved issue is the success or otherwise of the paywall on the NOTW website. Clearly the brief time it has been in existence is too short to evaluate whether this was a good business model for a 'popular' (aka gutter press) newspaper.AndyJnoreply@blogger.com