
Around the blogs. 19 months after its launch as a niche blog for the interface of IP rights and monetary issues, IP Finance has now notched up its 600th email subscriber. Don't forget, the blog has organised a ground-breaking seminar on UNCITRAL's controversial proposals for dealing with security interests in IP rights: this seminar, which already has an enrolment of over 60 people, is free and carries 2.45 CPD points (details here). European trade mark blog Class 46 has now migrated to its new home on the MARQUES website, but a lot of readers are emailing Jeremy to ask where it is ... Baby blog Class 99, on design law in Europe and occasionally beyond, is now up to its 50th subscriber. A new blog for those poor souls suffering from patentexamitis is EQE Tools, established by J. Terpsma. For those who enjoy the suffering of others as well as their own, this blog offers dramatic openings to posts that go like this: "Question 8 of D1 2009 was one of few questions where I lost about half of the marks available ...".

The ActionAid story is really, really old: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1809581.stm
ReplyDeleteJon: the story might be old, but (i) it was new to me, (ii) it's probably new to many of our readers and (iii) the attitude which generates attacks like this on the patent system remains as prevalent as ever.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Actionaid didn't get very far: GB2384968.
ReplyDeleteShame they haven't updated their website to reflect this.