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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AdWords, trade marks and adjacent European Union Member States linked by a common language — are these not the ingredients of a first-rate piece of litigation? Of course they are, which is why the IPKat posted two items on a trade mark dispute th…

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I don’t mind the skiing, said Fritz,
but I don’t see why I have a do it
while dressed in a tea-cosy
The IPKat posted a note last week on Case C-523/10 Wintersteiger, which posed some interesting-looking questions concerning choice of jurisdiction in …

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“Here comes that
Landeshauptmann :
now where shall
I hide my title?”
In “A tale for our time: Princess Ilonka and the Landeshauptmann” (here), the IPKat reviewed in fairly critical terms the litigation in which the Court of Justice o…

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Until very recently the IPKat had never heard of Ilonka Sayn-Wittgenstein.  Now he thinks she’s heading to be a household name, either as described above or, as she would prefer it, as Ilonka Fürstin von Sayn-Wittgenstein.  The lon…

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Without the facts, the IPKat isn’t even sure
if this is the right Wintersteiger
Now here’s a good IP question or two for the Court of Justice of the European Union — it’s coming up in Case C-523/10 Wintersteiger [courtesy of the UK Intellectua…

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On 22 May 2009 Mr Justice Arnold told us that he was referring a number of questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary reference in one of the most exciting and potentially important trade mark law disputes to be heard in …

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