Darren Smyth

I have been tempted many times myself...

There is always the option of change your name and live out the rest of your life as a hermit.

I am appalled that (despite being a former President of the Oxford University Gilbert & Sullivan Society) I did not get the reference without having to look it up.

Our recently-published article in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology is here: yjolt.org/patenting-ta...

Sumo, kind of, allegedly.

You are very welcome!

Of course. I thought Andrew had shared with you the draft I sent him but I can let you have the latest draft now.

Oh yes! My study was inspired by hearing Prof Gilden speak on the subject.

My next project is a review of the work of some people who were registered as Japanese patent agents 1899-1940 without passing the agent examination, and who were not Japanese. Mainly William Silver Hall, Karl Vogt and Walter de Havilland.

So I just submitted last week the final draft of my book chapter on UK and European patent applications for sex toys.

I remember how "smart contracts" were going to replace lawyers. Explained by people who seemed to understand neither what a contract is nor what lawyers actually do.

Never mind hundreds of years ago - up until two decades ago the Lord Chancellor presided over one house of the legislature, sat in Government cabinet, and was in charge of the judiciary (while also sitting as a judge). Where then your separation of powers?

When I was a child, our Irish wolfhound pet was named Joxer for this quotation. (No, it does not really make sense)

How would you know it was an English judgment if the judges did not have weird names and titles?

I have just completed a 16 hour turnaround returning from a week in Berlin and heading to Peak District for new year, so I feel you. The top I am wearing is still slightly damp.

My undergraduate thesis supervisor basically prohibited column chromatography in his lab. If things didn’t crystallise, you didn’t purify them. And moved onto something else instead.

The link quoted in the letter appears to be to the Belgian Amazon site. Which is surely weird?

that’s the tax on last minute gift shopping

But I guess since not a lot of people know that the trademark assistance from this fact is minimal

Where I am from (and I suspect also in the Chicago and New York embodiments) the variant spelling is distinctive of being (descended from) Northern Irish protestants.

Whose surname are you calling common?

Can confirm this is accurate as far as it goes, but the EU IPO indicates it has been appealed to the General Court. It's hard to link but hopefully this will work:

euipo.europa.eu/eSearchCLW/#...

It seems that way.

I don’t think the legal situation underlying BSH is quite the same as that invoked in SEP cases and importantly conventionally (recent UPC decision disagrees) the former jurisdiction only applies to defendants located in the court’s territory.

Ah, someone(s) do(es)!

I think courts should refrain from doing this except in exceptional circumstances, and it’s a bad idea to ask them to, but I have never considered under EU or international law that they don’t have jurisdiction to.

While a European court (UPC or national) can adjudicate for a European patent in any country without too much difficulty it seems crazy to ask it to do so for a patent in a country like the USA where the law (which must be evidenced as foreign law) is completely different and far from simple.

The weird thing is that what BSH stated is what most people thought the law already was - there are prior UPC decisions saying essentially the same thing. But it has unleashed a torrent of cases seeking extra-territorial jurisdiction (which the UPC was keen on anyway).

I want to know the blog!

I also liked (not!) the attorney's defense that the error was a "result of “re-cycling” a prior complaint he had drafted" (which I am guessing is usually the reason - use of an inappropriate or improperly adapted template) and am pleased that it did not find favour with the judge.