Tuesday Miscellany

1 None to a greater extent than fleet than Fleet Street

's re-create of Sweet & Maxwell's Fleet Street Reports for August 2005 has reached him amongst remarkable speed, given that July's non yet a calendar week old. This resultant contains reports on Schering Corp v Cipla Ltd (Laddie J on whether a asking to resolve a patent dispute amicably constituted an infringement to which a threat of litigation could justifiably hold upward made), Jagger v Decca Music Group Ltd (Pumfrey J on the important of the words "in connector with" inward the arbitration clause inward a copyright royalty agreement) too Cambridge Antibody Technology Ltd v Abbott Biotechnology Ltd (Laddie J on rectification of a patent licence for mistake).

Sir Hugh Laddie: oftentimes bored, it seems, but never boring

2 Angst-ridden LLM student: a Doctor Writes

Joint IPKat Blogmeister Jeremy received an electronic mail from an anxious LLM student, who complained that he was struggling to give short, concise answers to exam questions rather than developing the themes inward an analytical manner. The pupil felt, inward short, psychologically unfulfilled. Dr Jeremy has replied that, if the pupil seeks fulfilment, he is best advised obtain it yesteryear writing example notes or articles, rather than through the inherently unsatisfying medium of the police line exam. He likewise notes that, inward the existent world, legal advice is by too large given to satisfy the needs of a customer rather than to gratify the intellectual needs of the lawyer. Such gratification should non hold upward procured at the client's expense.

3 Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 process for Thursday, from the ECJ

Merpel says, don't forget what's coming upward from the European Court of Justice this Thursday. Judgment is expected in

* Case C-418/02 Praktiker Bau- und Heimwerkermärkte (on the registrability of merchandise marks for the retail sales services) and

* Case C-353/03 Nestlé, on ascertaining the distinctiveness of a slogan such equally HAVE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 BREAK, where the applied-for mark's distinctiveness is allegedly derived from its purpose inward a slogan (HAVE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 BREAK ... HAVE Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 KIT-KAT) inward which the words KIT-KAT are themselves a well-known mark.

4 Amazon sued for copyright infringement

Not the Perfect defendant

chortled at the imagery conjured upward yesteryear this headline, which he institute on Findlaw. Sadly, the accused inward this example is no woman individual warrior but the online mass sales fellowship which has been giving visitors to its site a costless peep at naughty images that Beverly Hills-based Perfect 10 Inc. charges its subscribers $25 a calendar month for. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 similar adjust is pending against Google. Both actions are nevertheless at the regain stage, it seems.