Darren Smyth

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?

YouTube video by Fascinating Aïda - Topic Lerwick Town

In view of climate change, Lerwick is highly recommended www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hlu...

Some of us dedicate our lives to being excited by it. Admittedly we are but few.

UPC grants provisional injunction and clarifies intermediary liability Aesculap AG v Shanghai International Holding Corporation GmbH (Europe) (UPC_CFI_213/2025 relating to EP2892442B1) Order of 10 July 2025 (ORD_32728/2025 [1]) This Decision from the Düsseldorf ...

A provisional injunction ordered by the UPC where the defendant declined to attend the hearing.
The defendant was responsible for the CE marking of the product, and this was sufficient for intermediary liability under EU law (even if they were not committing infringing acts)

eip.com/uk/latest/ar...

That is a very fine rose.

A mediaeval castle set against a green hillside and very blue sky with just a few clouds. (It’s on the island of Jersey).

Er, OK!

You don’t get a CJEU decision on PVRs very often!

You snooze, you lose: CJEU upholds cancellation of plant variety rights for failure to pay fees on time The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

What's the worst that can happen if you ignore notifications for a while?

After the 'Melrose' potato PVR was cancelled, the CJEU yesterday explored how plant variety rights owners can prove "force majeure," and the lawfulness of electronic communications:
ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/08/you-...

OK then yes, I remember that cheat bypass as well. Also, curiously, I have never played a computer game system since that Atari. Almost as though once the systems got good I lost interest.

Is that the one that allowed you to shoot double bullets?

OK, I am finally succumbing.

I am a priest (Church of England or Roman Catholic) celebrating Mass in a Church. I am wearing the stole on top of the chasuble.

When not celebrating Mass, I am mostly moving hymnbooks around.

Have you seen or even tried the Marks & Spencer strawberries and cream sandwich? They were heavily promoted but the Chancery Lane branch constantly had an entire fridge section full of unsold and discounted ones.