Yorkshire wants Sean Dennehey to be the next Comptroller and Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office. He is already interim comptroller and we want him to keep the job.
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences (or unconferences) - open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. The format has also been used for a variety of other topics, including public transit, health care, and political organizing.
With 5 presentations at any one time campers had to be selective. Of the published presentations I attended John Leach's talk on Free Software and Ian Smith's on presentations. But there were so many more announced only on the day such as Alex Wolf's talk on 101 tasks in 1,001 days which revealed a really useful time management tool and a fascinating introduction to Second Life by a speaker from Lancashire whose name I wish I had caught. All the discussions were excellent.
I spoke on the law: "The Legal Challenges to Web 2.0" which I presented from SlideShare itself as there was a shortage of screens in the museum, That no doubt explains the rather flattering email that I received from SlideShare just before my presentation:
"Legal Issues of Web 2.0" is being tweeted more than any other document on SlideShare right now. So we've put it on the homepage of SlideShare.net (in the "Hot on Twitter" section).
Well done, you!
- SlideShare Team
I suspect that says rather more about the number of people on twitter who tweet about SlideShare presentations at any one time than the quality of my slides but it was sweet of them to send it.
Best of all were the people I met yesterday from all walks of life such as well as the chance to renew catch up with plenty of old acquaintances. I do hope this event is repeated.
"Where a person having sold goods continues or is in possession of the goods, or of the documents of title to the goods, the delivery or transfer by that person, or by a mercantile agent acting for him, of the goods or documents of title under any sale, pledge, or other disposition thereof, to any person receiving the same in good faith and without notice of the previous sale, has the same effect as if the person making the delivery or transfer were expressly authorised by the owner of the goods to make the same"
On 16 June 2009 Mrs Ann Corbett dismissed Bettys & Taylor Group Ltd's application for the invalidation of UK registered trade mark FAT BETTY with costs (BL Number 0/163/09). The mark had been registered by Mr. Jonathan Kidd who carries on business in the name or style of "Cheese & Co." from an industrial estate near Tockwith. In her judgment, the hearing officer referred to Mr. Kidd as "Cheese","32. Cheese’s mark consists of an ordinary English word, the adjective Fat, and the common name Betty. I consider the word Fat and its meaning, and the fact that Betty is a name, to be well known by the public at large. The word Fat has somewhat negative connotations in relation to foodstuffs, as B&T submitted at the hearing, and is therefore somewhat unusual but the words hang together to create a distinctive whole. B&T’s marks are single words which are suggestive of the possessive form of the name Betty (and perhaps more so in relation to the marks in cursive form). I say “suggestive” because of the absence of the necessary apostrophe. (I note that B&T say they originally used their marks in the possessive form but have since dropped the use of the apostrophe).33. To the extent that the name BETTY is common to both marks, albeit in its (quasi) possessive form in the case of B&T’s marks, there is a degree of visual and aural similarity. In my view, the singular and the possessive forms are close in appearance and potentially more so in sound, given that when goods are referred to by their brand it is sometimes in the possessive form, as in “Fat Betty’s biscuits”. But there are other, quite clear differences. Cheese’s mark is not just the word Betty; it also contains the word Fat as the first element. Given its relative position in the mark, it is unlikely that the word Fat will be overlooked, either when the mark is referred to, or in its impact on the eye. Balancing the similarity of Betty and BETTYS with the differences in the marks as wholes, namely, that Cheese’s mark is composed of two words, the additional word Fat as the first part of the mark (which is generallyconsidered as being of most significance) and, to a lesser extent, the addition of the letter “S” to B&T’s marks, I am of the view that the respective marks are visually and aurally distinct.34. As I indicated above, Cheese have provided evidence that Fat Betty is a landmark on the North Yorkshire Moors. Whilst I am prepared to accept that some people, on hearing the mark, may bring the landmark to mind, for others not familiar with the area, the mark will simply bring to mind a female called Betty who is overweight. B&T’s marks bring to mind a business run by or having a connection with a woman called Betty. There is some degree of conceptual similarity between the respective marks but the inclusion of the word Fat in Cheese’s mark creates a specific impression of size which is absent from the earlier marks."
