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• Friday fantasies
  Have you checked the IPKat's list of Forthcoming Events? There's plenty coming up, as you can see from the side-bar on the IPKat's front page. It gets a bit quiet over Christmas, but January's only…

• Internet-hosted prior art and proof of publication: UK not bound by EPO level of proof

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• IP rights "not the driver" for vegetable varieties innovation

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• The Digital Economy Bill - will it come in time?

  Nick McDonald of Browne Jacobson has written to the IPKat with the following:"Her Majesty in yesterday's Queen's Speech said the following: "My Government will introduce a Bill to ensure communications infrastructure that is fit for…

• "Would you care for a glass of CANNABIS, Sir?"

  Drink and drugs were the main preoccupation of some of Europe's finest legal brains this morning, when the Court of First Instance rendered its decision in Case T‑234/06, Giampietro Torresan v Office for Harmonisation in…

• R'n'D: the biggest spenders

  The 2009 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard gives some interesting facts and figures on the biggest spenders on research & development - R&D that will, hopefully, also lead to some IP.From the press release:Worldwide corporate…

• Have you ever seen two less likely allegedly similar marks?

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• Leo v Sandoz - follow the instructions or lose the case

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• Wednesday whimsies

  Official Proclamation: for the sake of consistency and the avoidance of confusion, the IPKat and Merpel do hereby decree that the round-up features that appear on this weblog on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays…

• Taking umbrage with Umbro, or a strange way to license a sports brand

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