June IP update

The lawcast, and the notes, are now up on the Lawcasts page of this blog. Click on any of the links I have scattered around the place ...

This month's programme features the Bilski case, the Advocate General's opinion in Flos (an Italian case on the interface between copyright and designs law), the Edwards case on priorities in patent applications and a "reverse-Edwards" dilemma, and a malicious falsehood case in the Court of Appeal - a very rare thing. Plus all the usual stuff about the latest law from the Court of Justice (which has received an astonishing number of referrals this month), the General Court, the English courts, the EPO, the IPO, OHIIM, you name it.

May 2010 IP Lawcast available (now with added CPD)

You can download the audio file, as usual, here. Right click to download: left click starts it running, which might not be quite what you want. It's  now worth an hour's CPD for solicitors: barristers, patent attorneys and trade mark attorneys can also gain CPD and there is some guidance on this on the Lawcasts page of this site (click the tab above). The notes are here.

To obtain your CPD you have to register with me and pay the appropriate fee (details under teh Lawcasts tab, above). Once I have received payment I will send you the multi-choice questionnaire that will prove that you have listened to the programme.

April 2010 Lawcast

You can download the latest edition of the IPso Jure Lawcast, sponsored by Olcott & Co LLC, from here - the notes are here although not in a final form: I will be replacing that file with a better one later, but the link will still work.
I hope that CPD accreditation is only a short time away, and that the May edition will bring with it the possibility of satisfying your training requirements, or rather a small part of them. Please email me to register your interest in subscribing. I propose to make the audio file available for free download, as now, and the notes too, but to charge for the multichoice questions that are the key to a proper CPD distance learning course. I anticipate a charge of £25 for one programme, but will offer annual subscriptions (12 monthly episodes) for £240 and a special founder subscribers' rate for the first year, for early adopters. Payment will be strictly in advance, by PayPal or cheque. Cash will also be acceptable!
For more details or to to register your interest please email peter@petergroves.co.uk. If you have any comments on this product, please tell me by the same means, or by commenting on this blog.

New IPso Jure monthly podcast

OK, "monthly" is a bit of an exaggeration, but they will be from now on. The March edition can be downloaded from here - if you left-click it will start playing in your chosen media player, but if you right click you should get the choice of downloading it. The notes are available here.

I am branding the podcasts with the IPso Jure name, a bright idea that came to me this morning: there will also shortly be an IPso Jure Newswire, the March edition of which is in preparation. Depending on feedback, I might be doing that weekly. As ever, I value constructive comments.

I also plan in the fairly near future to offer CPD points with the podcast - for which a modest fee will be payable, unless some kind sponsor finances the whole exercise. More news in due course.

November 2009 IP update

Just in time before the end of the year - the November 2009 IP update podcast is now available from here, now complete with notes. Don't forget that if you would like an hour CDP for listening to the recording you can do if you obtain it from www.cpdchannel.com, though it isn't uploaded to there yet.

IP Lawcast for June 2009

I have posted the latest available IP Lawcast, covering developments in June, on the web. You can download a copy of the audio file here, the notes (a transcript of the audio, in fact, with links to further material) here, and multichoice questions here. I will be seeking accreditation for CPD using this as the example, so you should soon be able to get your training requirements dealt with here, for a small consideration ... in the meantime, I will continue to make the monthly Lawcasts available free of charge as long as I have the stamina to keep producing them.

That serial IP book ...

I should post updates on progress with my updating of my IP book. I polished up chapter 7 today, international aspects of patents. A short chapter, but there's a lot going on there especially at the European level so it consists in large part of links to more information. So that concludes patents, though I keep going back to insert more stuff in earlier chapters - this will be a never-ending job - and I have already dealt with confidential information. On to designs tomorrow, which I will enjoy, and I'll post a message when the next chapter is done.

I am also working on an IP podcast - "Lawcast", I prefer, but people might not understand so readily what it's about. It covers June, leaving a five-month gap that I might or might not fill since the initial one for December. The aim with this latest one is to get accreditation so listeners can get CPD points, which will make it a marketable commodity. I hope.

The Monthly IP Lawcast

The pilot edition of my monthly IP Lawcast covering December 2008 is available from this link: December 08.mp3. I have also prepared some notes, with a view to the Lawcast qualifying as an hour CPD, which are available at this link: December 2008 links.pdf and there are also some multichoice questions at Dec 08 MCQs.pdf.

I will be offering subscriptions to the monthly production at £200 plus VAT per year, starting with the January edition. That will get most of the CPD you need, and painlessly I hope. Please register your interest if you'd like to subscribe - leave a comment or send me an email - or just watch this blog.