Strange Request

IPKat co-owner Jeremy is preparing a chapter for a Festschrift inwards retentiveness of the piece of cake Professor Herchel Smith, a successful patent possessor who endowed the Intellectual Property Chairs at Queen Mary too the University of Cambridge, with other acts of cracking generosity. Apropos of this, too noting that Smith is a really mutual surname, he wonders if whatever weblog readers know of whatever cases or incidents involving confusion betwixt dissimilar Smiths. All useful data sent here will hold upwards acknowledged inwards his chapter.