IPKat
IPKat is a blog in English. It deals with current developments in patent, copyright and trademark law, which are commented on by two cats ( IPKat and their partner Merpel ). The blog often has an ironic style, the individual articles are usually provided with commenting symbol images, which often contain cats. The blog has existed since 2003 and was founded by British lawyers Jeremy Philips and Ilanah Simon. According to the Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law of 2011 is at IPKat the doyenne of blogs on intellectual property. In terms of number of readers and subscribers, it is the most popular English specialty blog on intellectual property in Europe.
content
The blog covers all areas of intellectual property and copyright law, with a focus on legal developments in the UK and the European Union. Amerikat will write guest posts on US law . The articles are usually in a style in which the IPKat reports current events and legal developments, while Merpel comments on these moody comments. By August 2012, over 7,000 articles had been created.
Authors and Audiences
IPKat is read by lawyers, students, professors and judges. In May 2007 it had 25,000 visitors and 1,000 subscribers to the e-mail newsletter per month. By August 2012 this had risen to 7,000 subscribers to the newsletter. The blog is one of a handful of European blogs that have made it into the American Bar Association's top 100 blog list several times . In May 2012, David Brophy, Merpel, Jeremy Phillips, Eleonora Rosati, Darren Smyth, Annsley Merelle Ward, and Neil J. Wilkof wrote for the blog. The permanent team consists of six regular authors, who are each supplemented by three guest authors for half a year.
history
Both founders were working as university lecturers in intellectual property at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute at Queen Mary, University of London , and were annoyed that their students had to study with outdated texts. They started the blog to have a resource for the latest developments in intellectual property law. In the course of time, Johanna Gibson, researcher and lawyer David Pearce also joined the team.
Although the blog was only founded to impart knowledge to students, its scope has now increased. The operators have significantly increased their awareness in the legal system, and they have also been able to generate income by sublicensing content and holding seminars on intellectual property law.
According to its own information, the blog had never been sued for copyright infringement until 2012, but it automatically removes protected content from the network if the owner so requests. Two threats of lawsuit for damage to reputation and one for disregard of the court were withdrawn.
Web links
Remarks
- ^ Peter Groves: A Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-84980-778-4 , p. 172.
- ↑ Barry Sookman: Most popular intellectual property and technology law blogs
- ^ A b c d Alex Newson: Blogging and Other Social Media: Exploiting the Technology and Protecting the Enterprise. Pp. 6-7.
- ↑ a b c Christopher L. Holt: Patent and IP Blogger Interview - Jeremy Phillips ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PatentCore August 21, 2012.
- ↑ IPKat , accessed on May 9, 2012.
- ^ A bit more about the IPKAt , IPKat
