Last Stradivari Pulls Strings Inwards Cremona Court

The Sunday Telegraph reports that Antonia Stradivari, the concluding descendant of the Italian principal violin-maker here and here; brand your ain violin here and here

Holiday Makers To Watch Greek Jails?

The BBC reports that the IFPI is alert vacation makers that they could hold upwards jailed for purchasing pirated CDs inwards Greece, ahead of the Olympic Games inwards August. The grouping has announced its intention to target private buyers in addition to says it has the back upwards of the Greek authorities. In fact, a buyer was sentenced final calendar week to iii months imprisonment afterward he was constitute buying ii illegal CDs. This was the outset fourth dimension an private buyer had been jailed inwards Greece. The IFPI has explained that its previous policy was to larn afterward vendors. However, afterward finding that the Greek government were solely handing them suspended sentences, it decided to pursue private purchasers instead.

While the IPKat realises that buyers should know ameliorate than to purchase copyright-infringing CDs, he thinks imprisonment for private purchases is rather harsh. He’s too disturbed past times the inequality of vendors getting suspended sentences spell private purchasers are targeted for jail sentences.

’s thoughts on the affair here

Watch That French Cuisine, Nurse

Earlier this calendar week inwards Tillery Valley Foods v Channel Four Television [2004] EWHC 1075 (Ch) Mr Justice Isle of Man refused to grant an interim injunction to destination the broadcasting of a boob tube programme which, Tillery alleged, contained confidential data that should non endure publicly aired. Tillery, a subsidiary of French fellowship Sodexho that supplied nutrient to National Health Service hospitals, had been suspected of failing to comply amongst wellness in addition to hygiene standards. Channel Four proposed to broadcast a programme, based on investigative journalism, which contained secretly filmed footage taken past times a journalist who worked undercover equally an employee of Tillery.

Refusing to grant an injunction, the Court took the thought that at that topographic point was no confidential data to protect. Taking the thought that this was a defamation activity inwards disguise, the courtroom considered that the filmed activities did non include anything that could endure characterised equally confidential, for instance merchandise secrets. There was also a human rights issue: nether the Human Rights Act 1998, s.12(3) no injunction would endure granted to foreclose publication where at that topographic point was lilliputian likelihood of Tillery succeeding at the amount trial.

notices that at that topographic point is a fragile residuum of competing populace interests on these facts. There is an obvious populace involvement inwards protecting infirmary patients against beingness poisoned past times bad food; precisely at that topographic point is a countervailing populace involvement inwards patients non beingness discouraged from eating nutrient without which their recovery may endure hampered.

Hospital dinners here and here
Sinister ingredients here

Well Done, Ohim

has been playing to a greater extent than or less amongst the improved version of the search facilities that OHIM (the Office for Harmonisation inwards the Internal Market) runs for decisions of the Boards of Appeal, the Opposition Divisions and the Cancellation Division. You tin search decisions yesteryear all sorts of lovely categories such every bit merchandise rank class, legal footing for the determination in addition to existent text (this concluding facility enables you lot to search cases yesteryear mention of party, mention of illustration or anything else that takes your fancy). Well done, OHIM!

Searching here, here and here

Ambush Marketing

is doing a niggling question on ambush marketing. It seems to him that it's been given a rather bad refer together with that, if it's done properly together with doesn't confuse the consumer, it's truly a useful, pro-competitive together with entertaining tool for bringing products together with services to the attending of the public.

Can whatever of our readers come upward up amongst a bright, cheerful together with morally neutral term past times which "ambush marketing" tin ship away move referred without whatever feel of insult or stigma? Something similar "opportunity marketing", perhaps, solely better. Please post your suggestions below.

More on ambush marketing here, here and here
Ambushes here and here
Hambushes here and here

Epidoc Magazine Gets Appear Upwards Lift

The INPADOC Patent Gazette has been given a face-lift, every mo constituent of the European Patent Office's mandate to increase the character of its services. INPADOC , the patent data arm of the EPO, is immediately providing its newsletter online in the 3 official languages of the EPO: English, High German in addition to French.

likes the novel interior lay-out (the type facial expression upward is build clean in addition to slow to read), simply he's non in addition to thence dandy on the acres of light-green ink that characteristic in addition to thence heavily on the publication's cover: they brand the newsletter experience similar an pamphlet on the joys of ecology.

The hidden pregnant of coloring here
Mwanings of light-green here, here and here
Meaning of greens here

Ipkat Patent Of The Calendar Month May 2004: Fur From The Maddening Crowd

is pleased to welcome dorsum an onetime favourite – patent of the month. Feeling lonely? Do you lot constantly crave the fellowship of someone minor together with furry? Then May’s Patent of the Month is for you. According to the claim:

“An object of the innovation is to supply pet display wearable having ane or more, at to the lowest degree partly transparent, enclosed, pet receiving, passageways or tunnels extending across a surface thereof together with thus that pets traversing the passageways or tunnels tin sack last viewed past times a spectator spell the wearable is worn past times a person”.

This pet display vest allows you lot to accept your best friend everywhere. Don the vest together with Nibbles the hamster volition last able to satisfy his exhibitionist tendencies spell you’ll last condom inwards the cognition that he is a happy niggling rodent.

More exhibitionist hamsters, here, here, here and here