It’s enough to make|
a Kat cry …
WIPO trade mark “neither necessary nor useful”.  It is now ten days since the Kat alerted his friends at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to the scurrilous activities of an imitator which, it…

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Paris Convention:
effective protection
in its day, but is it
adequate for 2011?
In need of protection: WIPO and the patenting public.  Following the IPKat’s post on Friday (here) on what appears to be a scam in which patent applicants are invite…

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Paul the Octopus: great
at predicting, but not much use
as a lobbyist for big business
Can you predict the future? SOLO IP arch-blogger Filemot has posted her IP Predictions for 2011 here; she challenges readers to add their own. Th…

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The IPKat has been a little disheartened in recent times by the constant stereotyping of the inventor as some sort of impractical, bumbling fool, redeemed from being an imbecile only by the kindness of the occasional author or the empathy of the reade…

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There’s still time to vote in the IPKat’s poll to choose a name for the proposed patent that will cover only part of the Community. You can find the poll at the top of the side bar on the IPKat’s home page; voting continues till Wednesday morning. Mea…

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English- and Slovak-speaking kittens
are no longer in suspense over the
outcome of Case C-449/09
The IPKat is grateful to his Bulgarian friend Emil Marcov for drawing his attention to the fact that one of the Court of Justice’s “mystery cases” has b…

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