tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post7444863858988216556..comments2024-03-28T13:45:42.289+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Royal Charter for Institute of Trade Mark AttorneysVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-28655594077357621352016-04-16T11:54:09.466+01:002016-04-16T11:54:09.466+01:00Well done ITMA. Congratulations on the attainment ...Well done ITMA. Congratulations on the attainment of "Chartered" status after so long. I think it marks a significant step towards accurately delineating which are the professions and what each of them do.<br /><br />When I was at university in the 1970's, studying metallurgy and the science of materials, there was a whole slew of learned societies, professional bodies, for materials scientists. You joined a different professional body depending on whether you were a polymer scientist, a ceramics expert, a ferrous metallurgist or a non-ferrous metallurgist. Nowadays, all have coalesced into one profession, that of "Chartered Engineer". Good so.<br /><br />Straight after I left university I trained to be a Chartered Patent Attorney. Throughout my career, and latterly from Germany, I have observed the interplay between patent attorneys, trademark agents and "IP lawyers". I like it when practitioners practise only what they are competent to practise. I don't like it when every IP lawyer thinks he is competent to do patents or trademarks. In the patent area, it is inceasingly difficult to hold out that you can handle all technical fields. In trademarks, however, every patent attorney and attorney-at-law can fool themselves that they have all the skills needed to do trademark work, and then mess up the client's valuable assets.<br /><br />Where else in the world, other than the UK, do we see three IP professions, complementary, and all at the same appropriate "Chartered" eye level? MaxDreinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-806003129225856102016-04-15T15:51:31.126+01:002016-04-15T15:51:31.126+01:00@Pseudononymouse
At the very least, "trade&q...@Pseudononymouse<br /><br />At the very least, "trade" and "mark" would be two separate words in all your suggestions, this being the UK and all...SGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14533346450129049222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-14420110306395780552016-04-15T15:09:03.237+01:002016-04-15T15:09:03.237+01:00Royal Charter? It's a little like a Royal Pate...Royal Charter? It's a little like a Royal Patent, I suppose... Michael Factorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04123446401953344964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-32377963716764345122016-04-15T09:44:04.367+01:002016-04-15T09:44:04.367+01:00If CITMA is to be pronounced Kitma, then CIPA shou...If CITMA is to be pronounced Kitma, then CIPA should be pronounced Kipa, a notion already rejected at an informal CIPA meeting but yesterday, resembling the name of a well known fish dish.<br /><br />That being said WELL DONE and FANTASTIC news about the Royal Charter for ITMA.<br /><br />AS to title for our jointly qualified bretheren<br />Is it ...<br /><br />Chartered Patent and Trademark Attorney<br />Chartered Trademark and Patent Attorney<br />Chartered Patent and Chartered Trademark Attorney<br />Chartered Trademark and Chartered Patent Attorney ???<br /><br />Answers please on a postcard .......<br /><br />PseudononymouseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com