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Jane Lambert In Resources for Inventors and other Startups in Northwest Wales   5 Feb 2019 NIPC Inventors Club I mentioned the Menai Science Park ("M-SParc") at Gaerwen in Anglesey and funding from the Development Bank of Wales . I did not, however, discuss other funding opportunities. Coinciding with the science park's first anniversary, M-SParc's Enterprise Hub will hold a pitching event known as "Pitch Perfect" in conjunction with Be the Spark  on St David's day between 17:00 and 19:30.  The organizers describe this event as "an evening of opportunities to pitch, chances to wow secret investors, the tools to vote on other pitches, and get feedback on your idea. It's not just for those who want to pitch; this will be an event you don't want to miss." According to the Eventbrite card, there will be three pitching opportunities: "FLASH PITCH - Two pots of funding up to £1,000 are available ON THE NIGHT for you...

Jane Lambert Yesterday I spoke at a workshop on sustainable packaging and waste.  It took place at  Tŷ Menai conference centre in Parc Menai  just outside Bangor, There were many eminent speakers including Rob Elias , Director of the Biocomposites Centre of Bangor University, Selwyn Owen  of Beacon Biorefining Hugh Jones of WRAP Cymru , David Walker of Business Wales , Dewi Rowlands of Bangor University and Wyn Griffiths of the Pontio Centre FabLab which I discussed in The Pontio Centre: A Resource for Inventors, Designers and Makers in North Wales   14 Dec 2018 NIPC Inventors Club, I talked about intellectual property .  As I was called to the lectern 10 minutes before lunch was due to be served, I had to condense a 30-minute presentation into 10.  That was probably a good thing as I focused on essentials,  I explained what was meant by intellectual property, set out the IP toolkit and gave the audience two of my best tips: How t...

US Copyright Office Author Matt Wade Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Source Wikipedia US Copyright Office Jane Lambert Yesterday I received a phone call from an American lawyer who wanted to learn about the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court's Small Claims Track.  The reason she called is that she advises members of the US Congress who have introduced a bill "to establish an alternative dispute resolution program for copyright small claims, and for other purposes."  I answered her questions as well as I could and referred her to the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court's website , the IPEC and Small Claims Track guides  as well as my own writings on the subject.  I also directed her to Judge Hacon's clerk for further information. The ADR programme for copyright small claims proposed by the members of Congress is very different from IPEC's Small Claims Track.  It does not appear to be a co...

Alfa Tomei Spyder Author Brian Snelson Licence Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic Source Wikipedia Mille Miglia    Jane Lambert Case No. DRO2018-0012 Automobile Club di Brescia v. Zhao Ke It is well known that the WIPO's  Arbitration and Mediation Centre resolves generic top-level domain name disputes . It also resolves top-level domain name disputes for a number of countries . One of those countries is Romania . Over the Christmas holidays, I was asked to consider a complaint by the Automobile Club of Brescia against one Zhao Ke in China.  I decided the case on 4 Jan 2019.  Those who are interested in the case will find my decision  here.   There was nothing unusual about this case either on the facts or in law but it was my first country code dispute and it concerned the famous Mille Miglia road race between Brescia and Rome and back. "Mille Miglia" means "1,000 miles" in Italian which was the approx...

WIPO Head Office in Geneva Author Merarton Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 International Source Wikipedia WIPO Jane Lambert On 7 Jan 2019, the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO") published a list of The World’s Top 10 Science and Technology Hotspots .  A "hotspot" is essentially a city or region with a leading university and cluster of high tech businesses,  The WIPO ranks these hotspots by the number of scientific papers and international patent applications that originate from the city or region.  For example, from the Tokyo-Yokohama region, which is the world's leading hotspot, there were 141,584 publications and 104,746 patent filings. The University of Tokyo was the leading scientific organization and Mitsubishi Electric the top applicant in that region. The list is as follows: #10 San Diego #9 Paris #8 New York #7 Boston-Cambridge, Massachusetts #6 Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto #5 Beiji...

Jane Lambert For the second year running, I have been invited to address C5's annual conference on Pharma & Biotech Litigation .  That conference will take place at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Amsterdam between 26 and 27 Feb 2019.  Last year I discussed the Supreme Court's decision in  Eli Lilly v Actavis UK Ltd and others   [2017] Bus LR 1731, [2017] UKSC 48, [2017] RPC 21 with partners from the Dutch and German offices of DLA.  This year I shall be sharing a platform with  Anna P. López Lozano  who is head of IP at Esteve in Barcelona on the topic of Maximizing IP Regulatory Rights.  I shall be talking about supplementary protection certificates, a topic that I have recently addressed in the context of Brexit in Patents of there is no Deal   3 Oct 2018 NIPC Brexit. Brexit is one of the key themes of the 2019 conference and there be a pre-conference workshop on the topic on 25 Feb 2019 entitled READY, STEADY, BREXIT...

Jane Lambert speaking in London Jane Lambert I have been invited to speak at a half-day workshop on sustainable packaging and waste  which will take place at  Ty Menai, Parc Menai, near Bangor on Tuesday, 29 Jan 2019 between 09:00 and 13:00.  The event is organized by  Cywain  and Beacon Biorefining Centre of Excellence .  More information about the event, including a flyer,  can be obtained from Beacon's website  and places may be reserved using Cywain's online booking form . The keynote speaker will be Dr Rob Elias, Director of the Biocomposites Centre of Bangor University, He will be followed by speakers from WRAP Wales, Business Wales, the Pontio Centre's FabLab  and me.  I will be talking about intellectual property in relation to sustainable management and waste. Food packaging and waste disposal are increasingly important technologies but they concern other intellectual assets  such a...