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Chavrolet driven off the road

The IPKat is endebted to his friend Lawrence Ryz for a link to this delicious item on the BBC website. It recounts the sad tale of a tuk-tuk, or motorised rickshaw, that has been forced off the streets of Brighton and Hove. This tuk-tuk, nicknamed the Chavrolet, was one of 12 designer tuk-tuks launched by TucTuc Limited in July as a new taxi service. Fashion house Burburry was not amused:

"The pattern wasn't exactly the same as Burberry's, but the company felt that it was too close to its own design, and considered it an infringement of copyright"

a spokeswoman said.

The Burberry check has been worn as a badge of identity British chavs - a species of humanity which typically dresses in tracksuit trousers, hooded tops and checked baseball caps, garnished with with gold jewellery and body piercings.


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The September 2006 issue of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, published monthly by Oxford University Press, is full of exciting features. Martin Schlötelburg (OHIM) looks at the way Community design protection can spread to cover what are apparently technical products; Ben Allgrove (Baker & McKenzie) pinpoints the damage that regulation of a product can inflict upon the value of the branding attached to it, while Margaret A. Esquenet (Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner) tackles transformative use of the Grateful Dead's thumbnails - or something like that!

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