tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post1654956272798411229..comments2024-03-28T16:45:51.051+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Wednesday whimsiesVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-36622977548333231372012-12-14T10:52:12.492+00:002012-12-14T10:52:12.492+00:00Does Nicola (or anyone else)assume that working fo...Does Nicola (or anyone else)assume that working for the IPO and writing for IPKAT are mutually exclusive ?<br /><br />BTW such a shame about being an 'economist' - could she turn her hand to examining patents or trade marks ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-48664484228686108342012-12-13T11:46:02.719+00:002012-12-13T11:46:02.719+00:00Talking of public holidays - what is going on at t...Talking of public holidays - what is going on at the EPO, closing almost for unprecedented two full weeks this year? 2013 is already planned the same way...<br /><br />http://www.epo.org/about-us/office/holidays.html<br /><br />http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/official-journal/president-notices/archive/20121127.html<br /><br />A no, it's not a Boxing Day thing:<br /><br />http://www.ipo.gov.uk/contact-hols<br /><br />Surely, these will be some busy days over the new year holidays for all patent practitioners (with all the 'accumulated' priorities rolling over). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-44795862911289062622012-12-12T19:49:42.967+00:002012-12-12T19:49:42.967+00:00The process of appointing even a new guest Kat can...<i>The process of appointing even a new guest Kat can be quite difficult: some candidates have plenty to say but can't quite say it, while others have little to say at all but can do it in real style. </i><br /><br />Names? ;-)<br /><br />"Re Ditto" - quite fitting for a cat copy. Or is it a copycat?<br /><br /><i>The alleged patentable invention was a domestic cat breed produced by mating a Bobcat, Lynx, or Bobcat Lynx species with a domestic cat.</i><br /><br />Meh! Obvious to try - if you're a cat. But then, who's the inventor?<br /><br /><i>"Armenian Ministry of Economy to Use Only Licensed Software"</i><br /><br />When you install OpenOffice or LibreOffice (or LaTeX) you are also subject to the terms of a licence. <br /><br />Or did they really mean: "Armenia will now exclusively use Microsoft software, and pay 500$ per copy of Microsoft Office"?Roufousse T. Fairflynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-33980206028302426422012-12-12T14:41:28.866+00:002012-12-12T14:41:28.866+00:00In my experience an astonishingly low proportion o...In my experience an astonishingly low proportion of UK patent attorneys read or subscribe to your blog, as they simply don't seem to have sufficient interest in IP related matters. It's just what they do during the day to earn a living. Nor do they read the CIPA journal, and they reluctantly keep up with case law as they have to. Passionate people are rare in the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-4255527555416481412012-12-12T14:20:55.161+00:002012-12-12T14:20:55.161+00:00Anonymous at 14:00
I'd guess that the vast ma...Anonymous at 14:00<br /><br />I'd guess that the vast majority of the email subs are live. The figure fluctuates the whole time as people cancel and new people sign up. Every so often Google (or someone) has a cull and the figure suddenly drops dramatically by 50 or 60, and the email list can take a week or more to regain the loss.<br /><br />Given the number of people working in IP worldwide, and given that online translation services now make the blog available to non-English readers, the size of the email list is actually very small. <br /><br />One thing I can't tell you is how many people actually read the emails they receive. Nor can I tell you how many people receive emails at two different addresses -- though I know several people who do that.Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01123244020588707776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-6173816776212322252012-12-12T14:00:47.088+00:002012-12-12T14:00:47.088+00:00I wonder how many of the e-mail subscriptions are ...I wonder how many of the e-mail subscriptions are alive. I would expect the number of subscriptions to increase even if the audience stayed the same, all the more as the turnover is considerable in the IP world. But I guess it is difficult to know how many dead ends there are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com