Benet weaves together the tales from the soft IP story book…Author, actor, QC, raconteur, bon vivant, historian of Venice – there are few things to which Benet Brandreth QC (11 South Square) has not turned his hand. On Wednesday night, while the AmeriKat was attempting to catch mice, AIPPI members and guests (including a “wisdom of judges”) were entertained and educated last night on the law of unintended consequences in the realm of trade marks. Andrea Leonelli (Allen & Overy) was to hand to report on the proceedings. Over to Andrea: "Benet Brandreth QC kicked off by asking how often is it in the law that we set out to solve one problem only to find that in doing so we have created a whole raft of our own making. This happens a lot in IP law and especially in trade mark law which was recently described by Mr Justice Henry Carr as being of Byzantine complexity. Benet commented that trade mark law is an area that rewards…
Read more detail on Recent Copyright posts –
Related news:
- AIPPI Event Report: Are you sitting comfortably….? Patent Roundup 2017 The end of this year's Michaelmas term for the AmeriKat was characterized by the usual unpredictability and busyness that has almost become a holiday tradition over the last few […]
- AIPPI UK Event Report: AI Generated Innovation Will the AmeriKat be replaced by AI?(you can already get your cat robot courtesy of Petoi)A couple of weeks ago, AIPPI UK organized a topical event on the topic of AI Generated Innovation […]
- AIPPI Congress Report 3: Hot topics in IP The final morning of the AIPPI Congress in Cancun was hot, the Caribbean air having whipped up a thick humidity that turned the AmeriKat's mane into lion proportions. So it was […]
- AIPPI UK Upcoming Event: Professor Bently to debate how far the "zone of exclusivity" of registered IP rights goes There has been a lot of discussion and debate on the scope of IP rights lately, especially those subject to registration systems. How do the rightsholders capture the scope of their […]
- AIPPI Congress Report 1: Standard essential patents – maximizing value before enforcement This year's AIPPI Congress is in Cancun, Mexico. Yes, try explaining this location to your colleagues and clients. But although the waters are crystal blue and the sand warm and […]
- AIPPI Congress Report 4: A balancing act – copyright versus other rights The AIPPI Congress started in earnest on Monday morning. Although many were already lamenting the cruelty of those who decided to hold an IP conference on a beach resort, it was not […]
- Public Citizen Report: Trump is soft on corporate crime and wrongdoing By R. Jason Howard, J.D. Public Citizen, a national non-profit organization, has issued a report in partnership with the Corporate Research Project of Good Jobs First, on Corporate […]
- Event Report: Women, Coding & the Future With World IP Day just around the corner on a timely and fantastic theme of "Powering change: Women in innovation and creativity", two weeks ago Bird & Bird hosted the London […]
- Report on Copyright and the Court of Justice of the European Union Event Tossh and Eleonora (centre), together with Max (L) and Kemi (R)Tuesday 26th March was an eventful day for copyright in the European Union because the EU Parliament also adopted the Digital […]
- IALI & GMF Event Report Last Friday, the International Aviation Law Institute and the German Marshall Fund hosted a luncheon seminar entitled "Transatlantic Aviation: Can We Move Beyond Open Skies?" The event […]
