Goodbye Epidos; A Petty Fleck Quiet

Epidos News rebranded

The European Patent Office tidings alphabetic quality Epidos News (right) has metamorphosed into the somewhat descriptive Patent Information News. This slender publication must direct maintain taken the EPO past times surprise: the IPKat keyed the novel championship into the lilliputian search box on the EPO's website and got a zilch response.

Below, left: Measuring European Patent Office employees upwards for a chair they'll never forget

Incidentally, the EPO is trading inwards swivel chairs. It's buying 400 novel swivel chairs for its Infrastructure Department inwards Rijswijk, the Netherlands, addition unopen to other 250 directors' leather chairs for its Munich HQ. Asks the IPKat, does the EPO direct maintain too then many directors? And Merpel enquires, why swivel chairs - produce they own whatever functional efficiency?


A lilliputian fleck quiet

Keeping i midpoint opened upwards for the activities of his swain bloggers, the IPKat notes that unopen to of the sites he likes to take in direct maintain gone a fleck tranquillity inwards recent weeks. In item

* The Shape Blog has non posted since 1 March 2006;

* LASP (Lawyers Against Software Patents) - final recorded postal service half dozen March 2006;

* Strange Brands has been still since 10 Dec 2005;

* bIPlog, the Berkeley Intellectual Property weblog, final posted on 30January 2006.

Can anyone say the IPKat if these weblogs direct maintain relocated or ceased to component subdivision - or are their writers simply pausing for idea earlier launching into activeness again?