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Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert Today is World IP Day , an international festival of innovation and creativity to celebrate the entry into force of the Convention establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization  on 26 April 1970. The World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO")  is the UN specialist agency for intellectual property with responsibility for administering most of the world's intellectual property treaties , formulating future policy for the protection of intellectual assets  and resolving intellectual property disputes .  The WIPO has 193 member states  each of which is encouraged to celebrate World IP Day.  Particulars of those celebrations are posted to the World Intellectual Property Day Events Calendar . The United Kingdom is contributing 6 events this year: IP With Guy Fox on 18 April 2021 The Scottish Bar's 13th World IP Conference  organized by the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh on 23 April 2021 Leeds Cent...

Author Illustratedjc   Licence CC BY-SA 3.0   Source Wikimedia Commons   Jane Lambert Marks & Spencer's claim against Aldi over its Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake has attracted the interest of the general public (see  M&S begins legal action against Aldi over Colin the Caterpillar cake   16 April 2021 BBC website).  Within a few hours, I had received emails about the claim from a colleague in chambers, my senior clerk and the winner of a TV cooking contest.  Checking Linkedin the next morning, I saw that the leading Welsh IP solicitor Jonty Gordon had posted: "Well i chdi wylio newyddion Cymraeg bore ma felly" ("Gotta watch the Welsh language news this morning"). And the Director of the Menai Science Park Pryderi ap Rhisiart  wrote: " Colin vs Cuthbert Edrych mlaen i drafod yr achos yma gyda Jane Lambert a Jonty Gordon - solicitor y tro nesa welai nhw! Look forward to discussing this case with Jane and Jonty the next time I see them!" H...

Author Karl Bodmer  Welsh coracles in America   Jane Lambert Nearly 800 years before the Mimosa set sail for Chubut, Madoc, one of the sons of King Owain ap Gruffudd and a small band of retainers landed near New Bern in North Carolina.  Researchers of the Pre-Columban Civilization Department of Boondock State University have discovered that stone fragments in a hitherto undeciphered script that were discovered on the banks of the Missouri river at the end of the 19th century are in a language closely related to modern Welsh.    Dated about 1500 the fragments trace the history of Madoc's landing in Craven county, their welcome by, and assimilation with, indigenous Americans, their expeditions across the Appalachian mountains and the creation of a brilliant Celtic-Indigenous American civilization known as "the Mandans" that subsisted until the arrival of European settlers in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The reason I mention these discoveries is t...