A Run Through Intellectual Property Law

If only there were more hours in the day. I have finally launched the lecture series I have been talking about for years, under the general title A Run Through Intellectual Property Law. This link will take you to the page from where the recordings can be downloaded. I envisage nine lectures to cover the basics, of which I have recorded three so far: they are each about an hour in length.

Feel free to listen, and download the files to listen to on your choice of device if you wish. Just don't share them with your friends, as I would prefer you to send them to this site to download their own copies. If you have any requests for subjects I might cover in the future, please let me know - leave a comment or email me at peter@ipsojure.co.uk. If you have comments on the content, including corrections, please let me know too, but bear in mind that these lectures reflect the law on a specific date and won't be updated very frequently.

Back on the road again

You might have noticed, gentle reader, that I haven't been podcasting lately. There are several reasons. My sponsorship from Olcott International ran out, too many subscribers did not renew, the SRA needed another pound of flesh, and I had taken on a part-time job at the RIBA in addition to continuing to practise law and running a legal publishing company. Something had to give, at least temporarily. At least I could draw encouragement from the fact that the non-renewals liked the product, just didn't get a chance to listen. As one of them wrote:

It's not like listening to a lecture at all, more like sitting having a conversation with a very knowledgeable (and funny) friend ... You have a very clear way of putting things and a very reassuring voice, and I like the way you maintain your enthusiasm throughout.

Now I am ready to get started again. Having a publishing company to assume responsibility for it is a big help (although it makes no difference to who is doing the work - it's still me, with help from the same group of assistants, depending on their other commitments, plus a new one I hope). On the other hand, I have also taken on some tutorial work, at the Russian Academy of Justice in Moscow. In Cheryomushki, to be precise, though it's far removed now from what Shostakovich depicted in his opera set there.

So, the hiatus is over, and I will even try to work back to where I left off - last July. Five missing programmes, if I can manage to reverse-engineer them, but I'll concentrate on getting the new ones recorded and published. I will get January done when I get back from Moscow ...

July podcast

The July edition of the IPso Jure podcast, sponsored by Fellows & Associates, is now available for subscribers to download. Contents include:

• Supreme Court gives judgment in its first intellectual property case, in the Star Wars case 
• The Court of Appeal upholds the Meltwater judgment on news aggregators 
• The Court of Justice holds that online marketplaces owe more of a duty to trade mark owners than they thought, in L’Oréal v eBay 
• The High Court orders ISPs to block websites, in Nezbin, and 
• We report the latest round in Schütz v RoW 

Full details of how to subscribe are on the Podcasts page of this site. Get your CPD delivered right into your ears ...

June Podcast

The June podcast is now online, covering (inter alia):

• The Court of Justice explains how to deal with levies on recording media in distance selling transactions 
• The High Court considers unregistered design right 
• The Court of Appeal upholds the Omega co-existence agreement, and 
• Champagne producers can’t get champagne.co.

If you'd like to subscribe, and get one hour a month CPD (for solicitors: different rules apply to IPReg and barristers) drop me an email!

How to cite a podcast

Obviously a matter of interest to me - and other legal podcasters. Rex Gradeless (Social Media Law Student) reports that the Blue Book would be addressing this in its 19th edition - which was due out in a week after he wrote the post, so by the time I have caught up with it has probably been out for a month.

19th? I am still going by the second-hand copy of the 14th that I picked up at that legendary institution, Shorey's bookstore in Seattle (once renowned as both the oldest bookstore west of the Mississippi River and "the world's largest antiquarian bookstore", probably my favourite shop in the world, which sadly closed in about 2000: see here for more from the superbly-named Post-Intelligencer - but seems to have reopened a few miles to the north) for $6 - copyright date 1986, formerly the property of Christensen O'Connor Johnson & Kindness. Out of date it might be, but it has served me well and will continue to do so - a pity more English lawyers don't use it - or more to the point the Oxford Standard for Citation Of Legal Authorities which surely ought to be more widely known about and which I am going to add to the links on this site immediately.

May 2011 IP podcast

Earlier this morning I recorded and uploaded the May podcast for subscribers. It includes:

• A look at the Hargreaves Review and Euro-Hargreaves
• The Advocate General's opinion that pog designs are invalid
• The Court of Appeal on groundless threats, in Best Buy
• Peter Smith J on Formula One motor racing, in Lotus v Lotus

Of course there's lots more too - well over an hour ... If you'd like to get your CPD economically and conveniently, drop me a line or leave a comment. If you'd like to hear a sample, go to the podcasts page (follow the link in the heading).

Thanks to Olcott International & Co LLC for sponsoring the IPso Jure podcasts.

April IP podcast uploaded

I have uploaded the April edition of the IPso Jure podcast, including:

• The Commission publishes its new proposals on EU patents
• Silence from the Hargreaves Review although it was supposed to present its report this month 
• The Court of Justice upholds a cross-border injunction in a CTM case, in DHL 
• Advocate General considers Belgian orders requiring filtering and blocking of infringing files contrary to Charter on Fundamental Rights

And much more beside that. Subscribe? See the Podcasts section of this site or drop me a line, and get your CPD with the least effort possible - Ich mache das besondere einfach, as the General Court nearly said ...

February podcast now available

The February edition of the IPso Jure podcast is now available in the usual way - along with the notes. It includes:

• Various Advocates General’s opinions in the FA Premier League case (about territorial licensing), Nokia (about the counterfeit goods regulation) and Budweiser (about acquiescence) 
• The Court of Appeal reversing the summary judgment in Virgin v Delta – the airline seats patent case 
• The High Court on PLAY DOH and (in another case) on misleading advertising and (in yet another case) on post-sale confusion 
• The Patents County Court refusing to allow the claims in the Media CAT litigation to be withdrawn, on the grounds that it would be an abuse of process 

Can anyone confirm how to construct the possessive form of the plural of Advocate General?

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December podcast up now

Featuring the Advocate General's opinion in L'Oréal v eBay, questions for the Court of Justice in Football Dataco, the Court of Appeal's judgment in the Pink Floyd case and the Court of Justice giving Bavaria to the Dutch.

Plus lots of General Court trade mark cases and all the usual stuff. I'll get January done by the end of the week, I hope.

August monthly IP update podcast

I've now completed the August programme and uploaded to audio file and the notes to the server. Among the topics covered are teh Specsavers case, the Honda spares exhaustion case, the opinion of the Advocates General on the European and European Union Patent Court, the idea of appointing an IP Tsar, a patent office hearing in Manchester, and much more. I have included a little Russian but have not tried to pronounce it. Subscribers can now download them and get another hour CPD - I hope you like it.

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.