Office Closure; Ijlit Again

1 Intellectual holding closes IP Office

learns from the Antigua Sun that the Antigua & Barbuda Intellectual Property Rights as well as Commerce Office volition last closed on Monday, Tuesday as well as Midweek of this calendar week to enable staff to attend an of import workshop as well as seminar on “The enforcement of intellectual property; copyright as well as related rights”. During this menses all “time sensitive” as well as of import documents should last deposited at the Registry of the High Court at the Government Office Complex, Factory Road. The Registrar as well as Staff of the Antigua & Barbuda Intellectual Property Rights as well as Commerce Office, (ABPCO) apologise for whatever inconvenience this temporary closure may cause.

is ever glad to larn of the devotion of IP Office staff to learning to a greater extent than most his favourite subject, but this is the commencement fourth dimension he's heard of an entire component existence unopen downwards because of it. Merpel asks, why does the IP Office demand to larn most enforcement of rights? Isn't their trouble organisation to grant them, non enforce them?


2 IJLIT again

Issue three of Oxford University Press's International Journal of Law as well as Information Technology has at 1 time been published. It is unusually IP-rich inward its content, which includes

* "Crown Copyright inward the UK of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland - Is the Debate Still Alive?", past times Stephen Saxby (Reader inward information technology Law, University of Southampton). for the create goodness of non-UK readers, crown copyright is an anomalous provision, which has no justification inward the Berne Convention, that vests copyright inward a large issue of public-commissioned plant inward the Government for a term that bears no reference to the life of the author(s);

* Jinseok Park (Korean Intellectual Property Office) asks "Has Patentable Subject Matter Been Expanded: a Comparative Study on Software Patent Practices inward the European Patent Office, the U.S. of America Patent as well as Trademark Office as well as the Japanese Patent Office". If yous intend the title's long, the article weighs inward at 42 pages.
* Assafa Endeshaw (Reader inward Information Studies, University of Wolverhampton, left) writes "Intellectual Property Enforcement inward Asia: a Reality Check";

* "Does P2P bring a Future? Perspectives from Singapore" past times Cheng Lim Saw as well as Winston T. H. Koh (both of the Singapore Management University";

* Aashish Srivastava analyses China's Electronic Signatures Law inward the charmingly as well as ambiguously entitled "No Rice, No Wife to Cook".