Patent Litigation: Maybe we shall get a European Patents Court after all
A harmless tradition of intellectual property bloggers at this time of the year is the April Fools Spoof. On 1 April 2006 Jeremy and Illanah announced " The WIPO Space Probe" . The same day I announced the removal of the Patents Court to an industrial estate in Newport which apparently landed Miles Rees into terrible trouble with the Comptroller. Having recently appeared as counsel at the Syddfa Batent which is palatial compared to Bouverie Street and much more convenient to reach from the North and generated a photo ID security pass for me which was really flattering I am not sure that such a move would be altogether a bad idea. My favourite all time spoof is Stephen Albainy-Jenei's "Google Inc to Acquire Patent Baristas for $1.3 Billion" on 1 April 2006 which sounded nothing life as far fetched then as it does now. My April Fool's post for 2007 was the adoption of the Community Patent Regulation which no doubt sounded at the time only sligh...