tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post3901071857051797476..comments2024-03-28T09:05:22.006+00:00Comments on The IPKat: The UK-IPO will destroy your documentsVerónica RodrÃguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-53273940194089245402008-11-18T12:27:00.000+00:002008-11-18T12:27:00.000+00:00Tufty need not worry: there are at least US patent...Tufty need not worry: there are at least US patents in color. T. will have to use the following procedure:<BR/><BR/>find the multi-colored toy at the bottom of his/her garden, note that it does not change (is stable), that it does not look like any other toy that grows in that garden, file an application for Plant Patent with a colour photograph and suitable fees, apply for small entity (Tufty is a cat, after all) status. If the toys are anything like the plants in "Little Shop of Horrors", they would be granted and registered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-68371134371913116852008-11-18T10:02:00.000+00:002008-11-18T10:02:00.000+00:00Ah, destruction and saving of space. The German Pa...Ah, destruction and saving of space. The German Patent Office did this with all dead cases 20 years ago, but did not microfilm it beforehand. It was simply destruction of knowledge. The country famous for its opposition procedure simply destroyed all arguments in successful opposition cases. Only a small number went to appeal and to courts and were reported - the rest, a goldmine of arguments, were simply lost to the World. Other countries leave dead cases to the national archives - not that it is much safer, really. During the period 1912-18 (personal experience) the Public Records Office in the U.K. destroyed all documents from court cases, except for a few "sample cases for demonstration". So it did not help that you could find the case in the correct quarter in the manual and handwritten ledgers in central London ("Whitsuntide") - Kew was unable to deliver.<BR/><BR/>The present initiative is sound, to the degree that someone wants to continue paying for migration of the files. Scans have a potential for better long-term results than microfilm, which was extremely black-and-white (or merely faintly grey, dependent on the care they took).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com