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Jane Lambert If your business has been forced to close if your staff are furloughed. if you are a furloughed employee or even if you have lost your job one as a result of this ****ing virus, one of the few positive things you can do during this lockdown is to train.  And if you are thinking of launching new products, starting a new business or looking for a new job one of the most useful things you can learn is intellectual property . Starting next Tuesday at 14:00 London time, I shall give an introductory talk on English and Welsh patent law which, in keeping with academic tradition, I shall call Patents 101.  This talk will last about 90 minutes and is aimed primarily at entrepreneurs, business owners and managers but should also be useful for solicitors and barristers who specialize in fields other than intellectual property and perhaps even associates and trainees who are about to work in their firms' IP departments. The talk will cover the following topi...

Author Rbreidbrown   Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Jane Lambert Less than two months after its decisions in the DABUS cases  which I blogged in Artificial Intelligence - The DABUS Decisions   19 Feb 2020 NIPC Law, the Receiving Section of the European Patent Office has published a press release announcing that it has accepted a patent application for an improved method of rodent presentation. The invention was developed at the Institiut National des Ḗtudes Rongeuses at Zimmerbach in Alsace.  The specification states that cats have a predilection for delivering mice and other small mammals to their keepers (possibly as a gesture of affection) but conventional methods of delivery, namely in the feline's jaws present quality control challenges for the recipients.  Sometimes the specimen is still alive which causes recipients of a nervous disposition to scream and climb on furniture as soon as it is released.  Alternatively, the specimen m...