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Community Trade Mark Filing Service - warning
Date: 26/05/2009
Here's what looks like yet another rip-off aimed at IP owners.

If you’ve applied for a UK trade mark, you may well get an invoice, typically for aro ...
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A Labour government that doesn’t give a damn about inventors
Date: 12/05/2009
A venting of measured spleen about the Labour government's dismal record on helping inventors. Written at night but still seems to stand up in daylight.
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New IPR scam - and some old ones
Date: 12/02/2009
Scams aimed at unwary inventors never go away. A newcomer we’re aware of is a Brussels-based outfit calling itself the 'European Institute for Economy and Commerce ...
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Time to blow the final whistle on NESTA? Share your thoughts with us
Date: 20/06/2008
NESTA was set up by the government to help inventors. Now they're the last people it wants to help. What went wrong, and what's the point in keeping NESTA going?
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Inventor associations: why bother?
Date: 06/01/2008
We’ve just been invited to join yet another new inventor-led organisation for UK inventors. Let’s play devil’s advocate and ask, bluntly: what’s the point?< ...
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