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The United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland Patent Office carries a tidy footling summary  MONDAY'S PICK OF THE DAY 1 Software patents: obituary

The United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland Patent Office carries a tidy footling summary here of the locomote of the legislative procedure relating to the proposed directive on computer-implemented inventions. What the IPKat likes most it is the fact that, since the Patent Office has no item axe to grind when it comes to software patents, this annotation is relatively neutral.


The United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland Patent Office carries a tidy footling summary  MONDAY'S PICK OF THE DAY2 How are the mighty fallen ...I

Does anyone hollo upward Napster together with the confident belief, cherished past times a generation of college students, that its then-revolutionary P2P music delivery would alter the human face upward of the globe nosotros alive in? Well, it did -- merely the company has non fared thence good since its metamorphorsis into a legitimate outlet for paid-for recorded music.

According to this slice inwards The Register, a recent survey reports that non a unmarried University of Rochester educatee admitted to buying a vocal via Napster during the Fall 2004 semester, spell 8 per cent of students turned to the likes of iTunes together with Musicmatch to purchase songs they enjoy.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland Patent Office carries a tidy footling summary  MONDAY'S PICK OF THE DAY

3 How are the mighty fallen ...II

Who is it that goes unopen to capturing princesses? has the respond here, via the MARQUES News Channel website. Disney has straightaway enslaved no fewer than 8 princesses together with is putting them to operate inwards its ruthlessly efficient profit-making machine.

Bereft of the dignity of truthful royalty, Ariel, Belle, Snow White, Pocohontas, Cinderella, Jasmine, Mulan together with Sleeping Beauty are straightaway difficult at operate selling US$3 billion inwards lifestyle bras to flat-chested baby females. has non forgotten that Pocohontas was formerly a existent human beingness together with wonders how she would experience if she knew what was beingness done inwards her name.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland Patent Office carries a tidy footling summary  MONDAY'S PICK OF THE DAY


The existent Pocohontas (right) together with her Disneyfied make0ver (left)


4 Getting equally good untidy

The United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland of Britain together with Northern Republic of Ireland Patent Office carries a tidy footling summary  MONDAY'S PICK OF THE DAYOHIM's list of cases involving Community merchandise marks brought earlier national Community merchandise grade courts straightaway stands at 74, drawn from vii jurisdictions (eight, if y'all count Scotland separately -- which OHIM should, if it treats Kingdom of Belgium together with the Netherlands equally beingness separate).

has commented inwards the past times on how pleased he is that OHIM is keeping this list, merely how poorly organised it is. Please, please, delight volition OHIM supply to a greater extent than information. Meanwhile, if y'all desire to know which cases bargain amongst infringement, cancellation, revocation or opposition, y'all bring to read them all ...

Says Merpel, tidying upward this valuable data together with making its access usdr-friendly is clearly a undertaking for tidy-minded bureaucrats, which should arrive perfect for OHIM's staff to handle.

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