Bits As Well As Pieces

Whoops!

tell everyone about the forthcoming European Court of Justice ruling inwards Case C-04/03 Gat, the IPKat forgot to yell that some other Brussels Convention reference, Case C-539/03 Roche Nederland as well as Others, is also coming out. The questions referred inwards that instance are:

"A. Is at that spot a connection, every bit required for the application of indicate 1 of Article vi of the Brussels Convention, betwixt a patent infringement activeness brought past times a holder of a European patent against a accused having its registered constituent inwards the State of the courtroom inwards which the proceedings are brought, on the 1 hand, as well as against diverse defendants having their registered offices inwards Contracting U.S.A. other than that of the State of the courtroom inwards which the proceedings are brought, on the other hand, who, according to the patent holder, are infringing that patent inwards 1 or to a greater extent than other Contracting States?

B. If the response to Question H5N1 is non or non unreservedly inwards the affirmative, inwards what circumstances is such a connexion deemed to exist, as well as is it relevant inwards this context whether, for example,

* the defendants degree constituent of 1 as well as the same grouping of companies?

* the defendants are acting together on the reason of a mutual policy, as well as if as well as thence is the house from which that policy originates relevant?

* the alleged infringing acts of the diverse defendants are the same or virtually the same?".

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Whoppers!

Phew, what a Whopper! (picture hotlinked from BBC website)

Another admirable atomic number 82 from Abel & Imray's BBC reports on Burger King's threats against Wholebake, a Welsh vegetarian snack companionship which has been forced to alter the yell of its Whopper! flapjack because it is the same yell every bit BK's flagship burger.

can't sympathise why whatever respectable veggie would desire to yell a vegetarian production later a burger, fifty-fifty if the motive was to depict its size. Merpel adds, "Whopper!" tin endure misconstrued, too, inwards less than polite company; it's non actually suitable for a household unit of measurement product.

Make your ain flapjacks here and here
Fruity flapjacks here
Healthy seaweed burgers here


Can it actually endure ...

... that "Pirates of the Caribbean" is itself the production of piracy? Yes, if a accommodate brought past times Hollywood screenwriter Royce Mathew is anything to become by. thank y'all Miri Frankel (recently featured every bit celebrity of the calendar month inwards the Journal of Intellectual Property Law as well as Practice, run across here) for this tasty morsel, which y'all tin sample here for yourself.