Scots Appoint A 4Th Ip Judge; Buddy Hell

Scots appoint a 4th IP judge

's friend Gill Grassie (Maclay Murray & Spens, Edinburgh) has only informed him that the Lord President inwards the Court of Session has appointed Lord Hodge equally a 4th IP approximate for Scotland, alongside outcome from i Apr 2006. The other 3 are Lord Kingarth, Lord Glennie as well as Lord Emslie.

Says Gill excitedly:

"I mean value this additional IP approximate is goodness tidings for us as well as is a reaction to the increase inwards the amount of IP litigation coming to the Scottish courts".

Left: potential direct chances for Scottish judges inwards musical copyright infringement proceedings

is thrilled to run across how seriously Scotland is taking its commitment to making that jurisdiction as well as so user-friendly for IP litigants. Merpel adds, funny affair though: if you lot larn to the Scottish Courts website as well as search the Court of Session for IP cases, you'll entirely detect 5 of them since the begin of 2004. Where are the cases hiding?

Biographical notes on Lord Hodge here
Some major producers of Scottish IP here, here and here


Buddy Hell!

Another of the IPKat's friends - Aaron Wood (Davenport Lyons) - has tipped him off almost a footling snippet he read inwards Marketing Magazine. Apparently, despite paying US$40 meg to endure a global sponsor of this year's soccer World Cup, Anheuser-Busch cannot role the BUDWEISER shout out inwards Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany as well as cannot thus display it to a greater extent than or less the football game grounds inwards which the lawsuit is hosted. Can whatever reader confirm the circumstances that led to this (on the supposition that the storey is true)?