Please spare a thought for the family and friends of Johan Nortje, a senior South African customs investigator who, having enjoyed considerable success in the fight against the tidal wave of counterfeits, has been murdered amid fears that the gangs who…

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Today’s your last chance to vote in the Starbucks New Logo poll: if you’re an email reader and don’t often visit the site but would like to vote, just click here and you should find the poll at the top left hand corner of your screen.  The bone of…

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The IPKat team just wants to say “thanks” to those kindly souls who felt that this weblog was worthy of inclusion in the ABA Journal’s 4th Annual Blawg 100 Awards, among all those lovely American law blogs.  Not everybody likes or approves of thes…

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Loz Kaye and the IPKat may not share
the same political and legal outlook,
but they are united in their affection
for little woolly hats
The Pirate Party UK has declared its hand with regard to the forthcoming Oldham East and Saddleworth by-elec…

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Left to right: Lavinia Carey (British Video Association),
IPKat team member Jeremy and ex-IP Minister David Lammy MP
The photo above was taken at the recent All Party Parliamentary IP Group reception at the Dining Room of the House of Commons in…

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More fun with functionality. The IPKat has received a prod from one of his regular comment-posters, who emailed him to praise the high quality of the readers’ comments on this weblog [Merpel notes sourly: the readers’ comments are the one bit we don’t …

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