EIPR; DRM; LAWYER OF THE WEEK

October EIPR

October’s IP-packed EIPR is now gracing the nation’s finest bookshelves. Owners of its silky silver sheets can treat themselves to the following:

*Simon Davis (D Young & C) on computer-implemented inventions
*Part 2 of Gill Grassie’s (Maclay Murray & Spens) parallel importation and trade marks article
*Amit Jamsandekar (Dr Tlzapurkar’s Chambers) on the Indian Trade Marks Act
*Gwilym Roberts (Kilburn & Strode) on the patent agent’s view of Patent Office opinions
*Weixiao Wei (University of Strathclyde) on ISP liability in relation to copyright and defamation in China and the UK
*Jeremy Reed (Hogarth Chambers) on the ECJ’s Feta case
*Lucy Harrold (Stephenson Harwood) on the AG’s Opinion in the latest round o

f the Boehringer Ingelheim saga
*A Kelly Gill (Gowling) on the Canadian Supreme Court’s recent flock of famous mark decisions
*Book reviews aplenty

(Right) There's more fun between the covers of the EIPR

Day Against DRM

Today was Day Against DRM says the Sydney Morning Herald, the aim of which was to raise awareness about DRM technology. The day was organised by Defective by Design – an offshoot of the Free Software Foundation – who argue that DRM renders many applications, such as iTunes, inherently defective in design.

The IPKat [wearing his conspiracy theory claws] wonders what the true effects of DRM really are. How many people can distinguish whether actions that they attempt to perform are rendered impossible by DRM, rather than their technical incompetence?

Lawyer of the week

Congratulations to Gregor Grant of Marks & Clerk who, fresh from his victory in the Hackney v Nike case, is The Times’ lawyer of the week.

Not just any old IPKat ...

* "Most Popular Intellectual Property Law Blawg" of all time according to Justia rankings, December 2024.

* "Most Popular Copyright Blawg" of all time according to Justia rankings, December 2024.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati has been quoted, and the IPKat has also been hyperlinked on the New York Times, April 2024.

* "Best UK Intellectual Property blog" of all time according to FeedSpot, January 2024.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati and The IPKat are expressly recommended as sources to follow to get an "unstuffy look at IP issues" according to Legal Business, April 2023.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati received the 2022 Adepi Award.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati listed as one of the World Intellectual Property Review's "Influential Women in IP" of 2020.

* PermaKat Eleonora Rosati listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2018.

* IPKat founder and Blogmeister Emeritus Jeremy Phillips listed as one of the Managing Intellectual Property magazine's "Fifty Most Influential People" of 2005, 2011, 2013, and 2014.

* Recommended by the European Patent Office as reading material for candidates for the European Qualifying Examinations, 2013.

* Listed as "Top Legal Blog" in The Times Online, March 2011.

* One of the only two non-US blogs listed in the Blawg 2010 ABA Journal 100.

* Number 1 in the 2010 Top Copyright Blog list compiled by the Copyright Litigation Blog, July 2010.

* Selected by the United States Library of Congress for inclusion in its historic collections of Internet materials related to Legal Blawgs as of 2010.

* Top Patent Blog poll 2009: 3rd out of 50 in the "Favourite Patent Blog" poll and 2nd out of 50 in the "Most-read" poll.

* ComputerWeekly IT Law and Governance Blog of the Year, 20 August 2008.

* Best of the Blogs, Times Online, 21 August 2008.

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