tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post2493892481147538574..comments2024-03-28T11:16:43.146+00:00Comments on The IPKat: BREAKING: Santa's General Counsel in shock resignation Verónica Rodríguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-26918900512229335302015-12-28T08:33:10.853+00:002015-12-28T08:33:10.853+00:00Is there any update on the meetings of the Interna...Is there any update on the meetings of the International Chimney Sizing Standards Committeee preparatory talks committee selection board? And is there an internationally agreed minimum Santa tummy dimension? Obviously climate talks affect the chimney issue but I do think Santa should have a seat at the table (even if it has to be a distance away from it...). Of course the chimney size will have a great influence on the future direction of Santa nationality selection. <br /><br />Yours, the great overeatingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-75195062070717440792015-12-27T05:09:54.518+00:002015-12-27T05:09:54.518+00:00Dear AmeriKat:
I have heard that Santa’s former G...Dear AmeriKat:<br /><br />I have heard that Santa’s former GC is also rather exhausted, as it were, from trying to deal with the law on parallel imports. Because he flies from East to West, he stocks up on low cost but legitimate products made in low wage countries in the East looking forward to spreading his limited budget, after dealing with all the other litigious matters you mentioned, as far as possible in the needy and greedy Western countries. But customs enforcement in places like Amsterdam still haven’t learned the difference between grey and counterfeit – and haven’t gotten their mind around, much less beyond, the Fortress Europe mentality. I guess they figure that just because European law in this respect is a mess and European prices are high, that they should just seize as much as possible and let suffer everyone else at subsequent destinations. Too bad about sick folks, including children, in other countries who can’t get their perfectly legal chocolate bars or medicine if it has the bad luck to be on Santa’s sleigh when Santa lands in in Amsterdam, for example. And I’ve heard that the EU is now considering a yearlong quarantine period for all reindeer borne outside of the EU. Tell that to two or three billion kids!<br /><br />Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if Santa’s GC had to retain local counsel in nearly two hundred countries and an in house staff bigger than Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Apple to figure out whether or how silver haired Santa can distribute his grey goods. <br /><br />Maybe with such increased resources, he could work out various assignments of patent, trademark and copyright rights so as to ensure that profits for all Santa’s suppliers are maximized in all countries to where Santa makes TRIPs every year and all of Santa’s kind hearted multinational providers are kept whole, wholesome and happy. <br /><br />So, your next Santa GC is going to need a very large in house legal department and a humongous budget for outside counsel and lobbyists. Indeed, the lobbyists could work on something along the lines of a new Trans Polar Christmas Treaty (“TPCT”) jointly administered by WIPO and WTO. Naturally, adequate investor state provisions will be necessary. Otherwise, Philip Morris may seek damages because it may not be able to advertise its glorious and wholesome tobacco products as far and wide as it may legitimately expect to the largest possible grateful audiences before and during the festive holiday season. <br /><br />Actually, since WIPO and WTO have large and very expert staffs of highly educated policy elves with little to do these days other than watch the paint dry on the TPP, CETA and TTIP, maybe this project is just what they need to reinvigorate the multilateral process.<br /><br />You see, every Santa, even the unlicensed ones, has a silver beard and cloud has a silver lining.<br /><br />But, then, there is the awkward question of who has the best sovereignty claim to the North Pole. So, we shouldn’t get our hopes up to high too soon.<br /><br />Your increasingly weary, <br /><br />Uncle WiggilyUncle Wiggilynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-31204047274968870302015-12-25T14:05:31.481+00:002015-12-25T14:05:31.481+00:00the reindeer are treated like kings but that doesn...<i> the reindeer are treated like kings but that doesn't stop at least 1200 letters landing on my desk<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Stop telling me that there is a "Santa exception" to the FAA's rules</i><br /><br />Interesting... Mr. S. Claus' outfit is international in scope and enjoys some kind of disputed immunity?<br /><br />His underlings only "work" once a year?<br /><br />Hurray! I think we just found BB's next assignment. Move over Santa, I'm in charge now!<br /><br />[I claim: A method of diverting any thread into an EPO story characterised in that...]<br /><br />[Oooooooooooh... What was really in that wine bottle anyway?]<br />Roufousse T. Fairflynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-81642280862041896862015-12-24T17:00:19.704+00:002015-12-24T17:00:19.704+00:00Dear Holly
Stop worrying! As I tell you every yea...Dear Holly<br /><br />Stop worrying! As I tell you every year, my friend the Sandman will solve these problems, and cause you to forget them, at least until they start again in January.<br /><br />You are the best lawyer a Santa could have.<br /><br />With best wishes<br /><br />S. ClausPère Fouettardnoreply@blogger.com