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The IPKat has received a copy of Charles R. Macedo's book, The Corporate Insider's Guide to US Patent Practice, which he will soon be reviewing for the PatLit weblog. One thing that amuses the Kat is the discovery that authors with highly-specialised interests (in this case US patent law) sometimes venture out of their specialities into other, quite different fields. This is the same Charles Macedo who has recently written this Current Intelligence note on Janky v Lake County Convention and Visitors Bureau, a 7th Circuit appeal decision on the joint authorship of a doo-wop song. Such versatility ... Merpel asks, in the light of Mr Macedo's face-furniture, can we assume that he also has an interest in barbershop?
The subject of assisted suicide and Dignitas cropped up yesterday and the IPKat, noticing that the organisation has neither Community trade mark nor UK registrations for its name, wondered what Classes under the Nice Classification it might be advised to cover. Merpel was wondering, too, whether the name might be descriptive of the manner in which Dignitas seeks to carry out its functions, and therefore unregistrable. Any thoughts?
If you want to know how the House of Lords debate over the UK's Digital Economy Bill kicked off, Hugo Cox has given it an appropriately reverential treatment on the 1709 Blog here.
The IPKat has received a copy of Charles R. Macedo's book, The Corporate Insider's Guide to US Patent Practice, which he will soon be reviewing for the PatLit weblog. One thing that amuses the Kat is the discovery that authors with highly-specialised interests (in this case US patent law) sometimes venture out of their specialities into other, quite different fields. This is the same Charles Macedo who has recently written this Current Intelligence note on Janky v Lake County Convention and Visitors Bureau, a 7th Circuit appeal decision on the joint authorship of a doo-wop song. Such versatility ... Merpel asks, in the light of Mr Macedo's face-furniture, can we assume that he also has an interest in barbershop?
The subject of assisted suicide and Dignitas cropped up yesterday and the IPKat, noticing that the organisation has neither Community trade mark nor UK registrations for its name, wondered what Classes under the Nice Classification it might be advised to cover. Merpel was wondering, too, whether the name might be descriptive of the manner in which Dignitas seeks to carry out its functions, and therefore unregistrable. Any thoughts?
The Intellectual Property Institute (IPI), London, has recently released "The Economics of Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change: Three New Studies Provide a More Scientific Basis to the Debate", a ten-page pdf file which you can download here. According to the executive summary, "The papers [by Daniel K. N Johnson and Kristina Lybecker of Colorado College] provide a comprehensive review of the current body of economics research and a wealth of information on various aspects of the debate and show that a broad consensus among economists on the role that IPRs play in the low-carbon technology space is forming".
If you want to know how the House of Lords debate over the UK's Digital Economy Bill kicked off, Hugo Cox has given it an appropriately reverential treatment on the 1709 Blog here.
If you want to know how the Administrative Council of the European Patent Office is still foundering over the election of a new President, Axel Horns' IP::JUR blog is a good place to look for news and comment.
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Re Dignitas:
ReplyDeleteServices:
Class 35: Economic Forecasting; Efficiency Experts; Management Assistance; Tax preparation
Class 36: Antique Appraisal; Organisation of Collections; Issue of Tokens of value;
Class 37: Extermination; Knife Sharpening
Class 39: Carting; Distribution of Energy; Travel; Removal Services; Unloading cargo
lass 40: Alteration; Destruction of Waste and Trash.
Goods:
Class 1: Accelerators; Anti-incrustants
Class 2: Removers; Crushing Machines
Class 4: Vapourised Fuel Mixtures; Lighting (for gas)
Surely it must be "medical services" in class 44.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it would be descriptive since it isn't directly descriptive - it alludes at most.
I do think a UK application would be refused if they did not fram it correctly as the provision of the services in question are illegal - possible s. 3(3) objection?
Good heavens!
ReplyDeleteExtermination by sharp knives followed by waste disposal using crushing machines? Looking at that list of classes it looks more like cold blood than dignity.
Is there a classification for pythonesque satire?
ReplyDelete"The tenants arrive in the entrance hall here, and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives. The last twenty feet of the corridor are heavily soundproofed. The blood pours down these chutes and the mangled flesh slurps into these..."