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Thursday, July 14, 2005

UK Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys Welcome UK-Government’s Decision to Increase Diversity in the Judiciary.

From the

CIPA Website:

"Lord Falconer of Thoroton announced on 13 July that in the future there will be opportunities for members of both the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents (CIPA) and the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (ITMA) to sit in a judicial capacity in appropriate intellectual property courts and cases."

This seems to be a very special British particularity ... in Germany, Patentanwälte (Patent Attorneys) can't sit in a judicial capacity in intellectual property courts and cases.

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