A Long Fourth Dimension To Await ...

Once again, apologies to those of yous who received a half-baked spider web log amongst your emails yesterday. This is what it should guide maintain looked similar ...


1 We ever knew ...

institute this on fcw.com; it's on a written report concerning the exodus of patent examiners from the United States Patent in addition to Trademark Office (USPTO).

This written report informs us that the Office has been beset yesteryear recruitment problems, a civilization of pitiful employee/manager relations, the lack of an effective management strategy for communicating in addition to collaborating amongst examiners, outdated assumptions close production quotas that managers job to vantage examiners in addition to a lack of mandatory continued technical grooming for patent examiners, non to cry skillful erstwhile fashioned stress.

Strained employee/manager relations at USPTO reportedly stalk from managers who "don't honor the input in addition to advice they larn from their employees." Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 related crusade is patent examiners' discontent amongst what they state are unreasonable production quotas that examiners must locomote overtime to meet. Says ane concerned party: "This is a legal sweatshop here. The truth is nosotros could produce a ameliorate task amongst to a greater extent than time".

Jason Schultz, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who specialises inwards intellectual holding issues, said:

"The incredible surge of patent applications, peculiarly inwards the software in addition to network line of piece of work organization method arena, is simply crushing them, in addition to the management problems are ascension to the surface amongst greater visibility for those reasons. Where anything nether the Sun is patentable, it puts an unbelievable amount of describe per unit of measurement area on the patent office".

has total sympathy for USPTO employees. Just intend how piffling they larn paid -- peculiarly compared to patent in addition to merchandise grade practitioners who are paid to run rings unopen to them.


2 Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 big mistake?

The State of Kerala, India, is trying to larn international patents for herbal formulations in addition to other medicines currently inwards job yesteryear traditional tribal practitioners, for the aged, Scheduled castes in addition to tribes, Backward Classes Welfare Minister Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 P Anilkular told the State Assembly before this week. He said systematic studies were beingness conducted yesteryear diverse query organisations for the purpose. Mr Anilkular added that the Government was likewise implementing a project, nether the Tropical Botanic Garden, Palode, close here, to create a database of tribal cognition yesteryear digitalising it. Besides this, guide house collecting in addition to protecting traditional handling methods wasbeing taken upwards yesteryear the 'patent cell' nether the Ayurveda Medical Education Department.

wonders how much coin is probable to hold upwards wasted inwards applying for patents that cannot hold upwards valid since the traditional medicine covered yesteryear them volition hold upwards institute to hold upwards component subdivision of the prior art. He likewise observes that, ane time the subject-matter of these formulations is published inwards patent applications, it volition simply hold upwards a thing of fourth dimension before everyone tin freely in addition to easily re-create them. Is that what the Minister wants?


3 Latest Trademark Worlds

's provide of Trademark World has been rather interrupted of late. This powerfulness hold upwards because the June issue, fronted yesteryear the dazzling if improbably named Paris Hilton (below, left), never reached him in addition to is presumed kidnapped yesteryear the local postmen. The July/August issue, fronted yesteryear the to a greater extent than wrinkled but no less dazzling Jackie Chan (right), is inwards the Kat's paws correct now. So, what produce the 2 most recent issues guide maintain to offer?

The June number features Albert Tramposch (INTA) on criminal counterfeiting in addition to veteran commentator Michael Cover (Charles Russell) on the CTM appeal procedures to the Court of First Instance.

The July/August number carries an article yesteryear Justin Watts in addition to Ivan Waide (Freshfields) on dealing amongst parallel imports from territories exterior the European Economic Area, a really interesting slice yesteryear Alasdair Bleakley (Addleshaw Goddard) on MG Rover in addition to the illustration for IP audits, summation a survey of Australian passing off, merchandise grade infringement cases involving jurisdiction over the network yesteryear Blake Dawson Waldron's Lisa Ritson in addition to Brian Elkington.