NIPC Law

A new year and new beginnings for this blog and these chambers. So far as the blog is concerned I have adopted a new template. I have weeded out a lot of broken links and added some relevant links like the WTO, UPOV and the Korea IP Office. I have removed some of the old gadgets which nobody use and some folk found annoying. In their place, I have added a twitter feed and blog roll. As for chambers the big news is that we have a new clerk. Jill Hayfield joined us last month. She has a track record of running successful businesses so we have high hopes for her. This year we are recruiting and developing new services. Jill and I would like to wish all our clients and connections a very happy and prosperous New Year.

I am grateful to Stephen Nipper for drawing my attention to a new blog published by ip.com Inc called " Securing Innovation". He actually calls it an IP blog of note . The blog focuses on IP management and it has some interesting articles on the company's services. Ip.com is actually a company I know a little since its UK arm is or at least was managed by my very good friend Dr. Ron Jones of Horizon Ceramics . It offers a number of services in this country including conferences and seminars on IP. I had the pleasure of speaking at one at Lancaster University last year. Its other services include searches, a secure document repository and a service called " defensive publication " which is probably more relevant to a first-to-invent regime like the USA than a first-to-file system like our own. Ron's wife, Wei Huang , runs a very interesting consultancy called VTZ International which assists UK and other foreign businesses to sell to or invest in China....