What! So few days to go!
There’s not much warning — but the Intellectual Property Institute is bursting into action.  In just over a week, on Tuesday 25 January, there is to be an IPI Symposium.  The topic is ” Enforcement and the SME”, an…

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Forthcoming events? You can check them here on the IPKat’s own dedicated page for them.  If you want to list an event of your own, please let the Kat know, but PLEASE keep the information short, sweet and in the body of your email — nothing that …

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Lacking opposable thumbs, Kitty always
had trouble with her flower-arrangements
Don’t mock plants. They are just as profitable as other intellectual property subject-matter if you can deploy your skills correctly, and they can be exciting to litigat…

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The IPKat has been so busy sorting through entries to his Harry Potter competition that he has only just got round to posting the winning one. To remind readers: author JK Rowling seeks your advice as to the title of the next Harry Potter book (the one…

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In general, since breach of confidence is an equitable tort, disputes involving the protection of trade secrets are heard in England and Wales in the Chancery Division of the High Court — the old “home” of equity and the current home of the Patents Co…

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