Ipkat Competition

On twenty June 2006, CLT is running a conference entitled Sharing Names (full programme available here). The conference, which takes house at the Cafe Royal, London, investigates the problems that tin transportation away occur when the same hollo or merchandise grade is used past times multiple parties together with how these issues tin transportation away last resolved or avoided.

Issues to last considered include:

• Honest concurrent use
• The upshot of prior co-existence
• Collective marks together with articulation ownership of marks
• Infringement through utilization of the same hollo on (i) unlike goods together with (ii) the internet
• Defences inwards shared hollo situations
• Shared hollo transactions, including (i) co-branding; (ii) splitting merchandise marks - contest concerns together with (iii) sublicensing

Speakers are:

• David Landau (UK TM Registry)
• Arnaud Folliard-Monguiral (OHIM)
• Dev Gangjee (LSE)
• Belinda Isaac
• Simon Chapman (FFW)
• Patricia McGovern (P McGovern & Co)
• Lindsay Lane (8 New Square)
• Michael Bloch QC (Wilberforce Chambers)
• Isabel Davies (Howrey)
• Neil Wilkof (Herzog Fox & Neeman)

The normal toll for admission is £495+VAT, inwards furnish for which attendees volition have 6 lovely CPD points, simply the IPKat has a free place to break to the individual who roughly effectively completes his gruelling task.

The gratis house volition last given to the individual who comes upward amongst the best anagram of whatever one of the next damage (multiple attempts are allowed though):

• Elizabeth Emanuel
• Coca Cola
• Shared name
• Essential function
• Office for Harmonisation inwards the Internal Market (Trade Marks together with Designs)
• Directive 97/55/EC of European Parliament together with of the Council of half-dozen Oct 1997 amending Directive 84/450/EEC concerning misleading advertising then every bit to include comparative advertising

Send your anagrams here. Answers must last inwards past times 1pm on Midweek 12 April.