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Down the tubes

The attending of the IPKat has been drawn to the plight of geofftech (a.k.a. Geoff Marshall), who has had a location of bother amongst the legal division of London Transport over his charmingly inoffensive together with non-commercial move of the LT roundel (above, left). The Kat wonders whether this assort of thing destroys to a greater extent than goodwill than legitimate move of the roundel tin transportation away always create.

Geoff holds the basis record, ratified by the Guinness World Records, for getting circular the London Underground organization inward the shortest possible time. As a regular victim of the Northern Line, the IPKat commends Geoff's alacrity: he likewise tries to larn off inward the shortest possible time, alas to piddling avail.

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A discussion close BAILII

BAILII, the British together with Irish Gaelic Legal Information Institute, is oft mentioned past times the IPKat equally a origin of complimentary full-text judicial rulings on intellectual holding matters. The service goes much wider than British IP, however, since it links inward amongst the World Legal Information Institute (WLII) inward guild to render "free independent together with non-profit access to worldwide law".

The means things piece of job inward the UK, decided cases are, upon completion, given a descriptive neutral citation that volition stay constant, regardless of the serial of police push clit reports inward which they may afterward live on reported. Then they are (at to the lowest degree inward theory) given to BAILII, which lists them past times courtroom exactly provides a full-site search facility. The organization is non yet exclusively perfect - to a greater extent than or less Patents Court cases are listed nether 'Patents Court' spell others are listed nether 'Chancery Division' (the Patents Court beingness business office of the Chancery Division - exactly it is improving all the time. Figures, illustrations together with artwork are straightaway mostly accessible along amongst the text of decisions that refers to them; this is of non bad together with obvious value for patent, merchandise score together with blueprint litigation.

, who is the world's 4th highest origin of links to BAILII after Google, Her Majesty's Courts Service together with Austlii (the Australian Legal Information Institute), thank you lot Professor Philip Leith (Queen's University, Belfast) for prompting him to post service this blog. Professor Leith is a trustee of BAILII.