Darren Smyth

How about Strictly Come Dancing?

There isn’t an official state religion in Northern Ireland.

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My cancellable core belief is that the correct additions to a scone are, in order, butter then jam then cream.

I regret to inform you that these insulting incidents only become more frequent (and no less insulting)

Do you ever take Argo to conferences?

I will see you there! Going on Sunday.

That would be Columbia.

Columbus is a flower of the genus Aquilegia.

Also where there are apparently no white people, even though I am right here.

👋 from Whitechapel in East London which is same (also lacking marathon today) despite apparently being basically run by the Taliban, from what I read.

I wash each pair in a separate laundry bag so they are never separated. And I call the other one “twin”.

Girl Scout Cookies

The names of 104 and 105?

The crossed front paws are perfect.

Are you sure you don’t mean Chemisry or Chemisty, which my doctorate has at various times been in?

Fantastic news! Many congratulations.

oh that sounds interesting. i am also good and still mostly pootling with patents. off to Milan next week for a UPC hearing. oh and teaching at QM as well (they made me an honorary professor)

@mattfatmarrow.bsky.social Hi Matt - lovely to find you here. How are you doing?

"convincingly pretend" !

I look forward to teaching the "no backsies" rule to the students at Queen Mary!

Did you confuse England with Poland? Easy mistake to make, could happen to anyone.

An English judge declined to recuse himself in a case where his undergraduate thesis supervisor was one of the expert witnesses. He wrote that during the research year "My recollection is that I saw Prof Baldwin about once every four weeks for about half an hour." www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...

Ooh nice. I did an iodolactonisation in my DPhil work and got a very pretty crystal structure of the iodine-containing product. (Although it did not do what I wanted pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...)

The Zoo is also very good - originally founded by the author Gerald Durrell.

it’s Mont Orgueil castle in Jersey.

Double shot if it is not preceded by “No”

Bring back grape scissors An American at Oxford stumbles across the best unitasker ever invented

I believe they are still in use in Oxford colleges - this article is from a fan of their use

www.ft.com/content/1e13...

Transparency over the use of dotted lines? Abstract. A registered Community design (RCD) infringement action before the Patents County Court, England and Wales, fails because of the interpretation o

I don't have a free to read version, but my friend David Stone wrote this on one of the cases. academic.oup.com/jiplp/articl...

I may have said this before, but English courts have misconstrued dotted lines in several cases, including the most famous Samsung v Apple tablet case. Either ignoring the patent office guidance altogether, or saying "oh in this case we think it means something else".

Of your many interesting design patent litigation posts, this is one of the most interesting designs I have seen. It also seems to have one of the more credible infringement arguments on the facts (even if wrongly stated). I wonder if these two things may be related?