Ipkat Competition; April Eipr

Just 1 calendar week to go…

There’s merely 1 calendar week inwards which to transportation inwards your entries to the IPKat’s latest competition. The prize is complimentary entrance to CLT’s Sharing Names conference (details here) on twenty June 2006. The conference has an all-star listing of speakers drawn from practice, academia, OHIM in addition to the Patent Office in addition to investigates the problems that tin laissez passer on when the same squall or merchandise score is used past times multiple parties in addition to how these issues tin live on resolved or avoided.

All you lot accept to create is come upward up amongst an anagram of 1 of the next terms:

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

Email your answers to the IPKat at this address by 1pm side past times side Wednesday.

April EIPR

The Apr trial of the European Intellectual Property Review has been unleashed! Treats awaiting readers are:

* Ysolde Gendreau (Universite de Montreal) on the icon of copyright;
* Richard Garnett (University of Melbourne/Freehills) on cross-border network merchandise score litigation;
* Pavel Tuma (Queen Mary) on the European Union Directive on the collective management of copyright;
* Sara L Moritz (KPMG) in addition to Andrew F Christie (University of Melbourne) on the Australian sense of minute tier patent systems;
* Zeqing Yuan (Guizhou University) on Chinese copyright protection;
* The green instance comments in addition to majority reviews.