Wednesday Shorties

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Comments on IPKat blogs

is happy to have comments on his musings, which is why he has activated the "Comments" facility at the halt of each posting. He doesn't think, though, that this facility is the correct house for people to advertise their goods together with services. This morn he deleted a comment that consisted of an promotion for a commercial production aimed at individuals who desire to file their ain U.S.A. patent applications. feels that this is an abuse of the Comment facility together with hopes that potential free-riders volition at to the lowest degree bring the courtesy to inquire earlier seeking to distribute commercial content costless of charge.


Fighting IP criminal offence ... it's NIPER!

Here's a U.K. Patent Office press issue announcing the publication last calendar week of the National Intellectual Property Enforcement Report for 2005 (NIPER for short). says it makes depressing reading for IP owners together with legitimate businesses: he feels the psyche argue that word together with enforcement figures bring improved is that there's directly then much infringement that yous tin hardly fille it. Merpel agrees: this is a have out which, without amount back upwardly from government, the courts together with - most importantly - the public, nosotros can't win. But nosotros can't quit either.