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Jane Lambert   In 2016 I launched NIPC Branding  for entrepreneurs, business owners, angel investors and others who needed to know about trade marks , passing off , domain names  and other aspects of branding law  in everyday language. One of my most popular articles was introductions to English and EU trade mark law called "Auntie Jane's Trade Mark Tips". These were intended for non-lawyers but several lawyers told me that they had read and enjoyed them. The original series covered the following topics some of which I updated yesterday: "The Very Basics" - 8 June 2017 "EU and British Trade Marks" 9 June 2017 (updated 23 May 2022) "Where to find the Law " 10 June 2017 (updated 23 May 2022) " What is a Trade Mark" 12 June 2017 (Updated 23 May 2022) "How do I register a Trade Mark"  13 June 2017 " Some of the Things that can go wrong " 15 June 2017 " Some more Things that can go wrong " 27 July 2017 &q

Standard YouTube Licence Jane Lambert On 26 April 2022, the world celebrated World Intellectual Property Day .  That is a worldwide festival to celebrate the entry into force of the World Intellectual Property Organization Convention , the international agreement that established the World Intellectual Property Organization *"WIPO").   I took part in two of the celebrations: i presented a webinar for the Liverpool Law Society entitled  "Intellectual Property Law after Brexit and onwards”; and  I chaired the Menai Science Park's celebration of the Creativity, Enterprise and innovation of the Young People of Wales. Both events had unexpected last-minute hitches which the organizers took in their stride.  It is fair to say that both events went well, I had originally intended to cover the topics that I had discussed in my presentation  How Brexit has changed IP Law   and handout IP after Brexit .  On the morning of the talk, I learned that there had been a block booking

Jane Lambert On 28 April 2022, the European Patent Office and the European Investment Office published a joint report entitled  Deep tech innovation in smart connected technologies A comparative analysis of SMEs in Europe and the United States April 2022 .  Although the report contained a lot of positive findings, the headline of the EPO's news item was decidedly gloomy: "Despite impressive patent activity, Europe’s small deep tech businesses lag behind their US counterparts." Part of the reason for the gloom is that report focused on the EU rather than Europe as a whole. Consequently, it missed the fact that the UK has almost 1,000 small and medium-sized enterprises developing 4IR technologies (nearly twice as many as Germany with 570 and nearly two and a half times as many as France with 400) and that London hosts one of the top clusters of such businesses (see page 30 and the map on page 29 of the main report). It would have been interesting to know the reasons for t