Nearly Forgot ...

This happened on one April, though the IPKat forgot all nearly blogging it till today. The Trade Mark Attorneys Order 2005, which came into resultant on one April, gives suitably qualified members of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (ITMA) the correct to bear litigation inwards the Chancery Division of the High Court together with the County Court (including the Patents County Court) inwards relation to merchandise mark, blueprint together with passing off cases. According to Stephen James, President of ITMA:

“These rights are exclusively available to corporate members of the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys who guide keep been granted Trade Mark together with Design Litigator Certificates yesteryear ITMA. Some members, who yesteryear virtue of beingness a solicitor, may obtain their certificates upon application to the Institute. Others, who yesteryear virtue of their existing sense inwards merchandise grade litigation together with contentious matters, may obtain certification yesteryear completing an intensive shape run yesteryear Nottingham Trent University over iii weekends. Already xi members of the Institute guide keep followed that road together with should soon live on receiving their litigation certificates. For other merchandise grade attorneys, alongside iii years condition every bit corporate members of ITMA, simply alongside piffling sense of litigation, Nottingham Trent University runs a ii yr shape which tin likewise Pb to certification. It is to live on hoped that ITMA members volition undertake to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than of these merchandise grade litigation courses thence increasing the publish of merchandise grade litigators from inside the profession. ...”

wishes ITMA together with its members well. Says Merpel, "We'll come across y'all inwards court".