The IPKat's friend Jordan S. Hatcher has recently written a piece for the IP Finance weblog, "Open innovation in the business world". Since it takes a positive and constructive view of the IP lawyer's role in new business models based on open innovation, the Kat thought it would be a good idea to give it a wider airing. You can read it here.

The sixth and final issue of Sweet & Maxwell's European Commercial Cases for 2008 contains, as usual, a smattering of intellectual property decisions, in English, from around Europe. This issue gives full-text reports on P Handelsgesmbh v P GmbH, an Austrian Supreme Court decision on the balance between questions of law and questions of fact in relation to the determination of whether an unregistered mark has obtained a certain degree of recognition in the course of trade, and Re Alcatel trade mark, a German Bundespatentgericht decision on the assessment of the overall impression of composite marks where a producer's name was the dominant element of its trade mark. The ECC's website is here.
The sixth and final issue of Sweet & Maxwell's European Commercial Cases for 2008 contains, as usual, a smattering of intellectual property decisions, in English, from around Europe. This issue gives full-text reports on P Handelsgesmbh v P GmbH, an Austrian Supreme Court decision on the balance between questions of law and questions of fact in relation to the determination of whether an unregistered mark has obtained a certain degree of recognition in the course of trade, and Re Alcatel trade mark, a German Bundespatentgericht decision on the assessment of the overall impression of composite marks where a producer's name was the dominant element of its trade mark. The ECC's website is here.
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