Wednesday Wonderings

1 Oh, the embarrassment (but thanks)!

The mid-summer consequence of Managing Intellectual Property features its 3rd annual listing of the l Most Influential People inward Intellectual Property. This list, for the starting fourth dimension time ever, contains the names of 49 human beings too 1 fictional Kat.

, on behalf of his blogmeisters, would similar to gain got this chance of proverb a big "thanks" to all of his readers too interlocutors: your comments too your insights gain got helped brand this all possible.


2 ... too what else is inward the electrical flow MIP?

This beingness the summer, it's fourth dimension for the combined July-August consequence of Managing Intellectual Property. This consequence leads amongst a potent slice past times MIP's editorial squad of Emma Barraclough, Sam Mamoudi too editor James Nurton on the increasingly complex interaction betwixt the drive to found mutual technological standards inward the high-tech too communications sector too the bespeak for a supply on mortal IP investment.

There's likewise what the IPKat rates equally 1 of the most of import articles published inward whatever mag this year: the slice past times Ben Goodger too Patsy Day (Rouse & Co) on the probable dire touching on of the UNCITRAL Convention on the Assignment of Receivables inward International Trade upon IP royalty-bearing transactions. If e'er y'all depend upon licensees gathering inward royalties from sublicensees too and thence passing them on to you, read this amongst fearfulness too trepidation ...


3 Thirsty thief may gain got drunkard Weapon of Mass Destruction

That's most the most bizarre headline to gain got been given to an IPKat story, simply it fits the tale pretty well. Ananova cites The Scotsman as reporting that a clear plastic two-litre bottle of melted Antarctic H2O ice going past times the holler of "Weapon of Mass Destruction", supposedly a move of fine art past times 1 Wayne Hill, was missing, presumed drunkard to the concluding driblet past times a thirsty thief.

Said Mr Hill:

"It looked similar an ordinary bottle of water, simply it was on a plinth, labelled, described too inward the programme of the whole festival. It was very, really clear what it was - a move of art".

He manifestly added:

"Nobody has whatever catch what has happened to it. It was at that spot too and thence it was gone".

The alleged move of fine art was valued at £42,500. If it were drunk, the IPKat thinks he knows what might have happened to it, simply he's non going to state ... He likewise wonders at the artist's name, "Wayne Hill", since that's likewise the holler of a Water Resources Center in Georgia, USA.

More overpriced, overrated H2O here