tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post2376151556779418917..comments2023-10-24T14:45:41.342+02:00Comments on K’s Law: Changes Aheadorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07992102028406713066noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-88245462526842420322014-02-01T11:19:45.790+01:002014-02-01T11:19:45.790+01:00bonjour Oliver
Félicitations pour ton nouveau pos...bonjour Oliver<br /><br />Félicitations pour ton nouveau poste à l'OEB !<br /><br />Ton blog va manquer à beaucoup de dans la profession, sois-en sûr !<br /><br />A bientôt donc à l'OEB sans doute !<br /><br />Bien à toi,<br /><br />Thierry SenningerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-11352472521378629252014-01-05T23:15:28.913+01:002014-01-05T23:15:28.913+01:00Best of luck and thanks for everything. Splendid w...Best of luck and thanks for everything. Splendid work it was, really useful stuff. Luis Ferreirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278513816919844743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-69407560866093408902013-12-19T16:37:18.116+01:002013-12-19T16:37:18.116+01:00Thank you for our daily dose of EPC case law. I am...Thank you for our daily dose of EPC case law. I am addicted to it and ithas helped me showing off to my colleagues on several times. Further, I have been hevily promoting your site to my CEIPI students.<br /><br />I wish you all success and wisdom as a TBoA member.<br /><br />Bart van WezenbeekAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-35927882416072505822013-12-19T11:39:21.269+01:002013-12-19T11:39:21.269+01:00Congratulations and all the best. Thanks for the h...Congratulations and all the best. Thanks for the hard work on the blog.Jeremynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-78568847080040360132013-12-18T14:46:08.489+01:002013-12-18T14:46:08.489+01:00K's Law is always the first site I check on th...K's Law is always the first site I check on the internet each morning. Fantastic work over the years! Thank you! Good luck working for the other side.<br />GAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-8773452284522121072013-12-18T14:20:40.269+01:002013-12-18T14:20:40.269+01:00Thank you for the daily dose of case law, it was v...Thank you for the daily dose of case law, it was very useful and (even) enjoyable to keep up with your well-crafted blog.<br />Good luck in the Boards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-53025145632352738472013-12-18T07:08:44.516+01:002013-12-18T07:08:44.516+01:00Mazal Tov !!
i hope you will manage to keep the ma...Mazal Tov !!<br />i hope you will manage to keep the material available on the internet, i became used to search on this very precious database<br /><br />GSAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-79606482396849567572013-12-17T23:30:48.854+01:002013-12-17T23:30:48.854+01:00Again, thank you all for your kind words. Now let ...Again, thank you all for your kind words. Now let us stop the eulogies: I am not dead yet. ^^<br /><br />@George: thanks for the quote, I like it.oliverhttp://k-slaw.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-75884925411531888332013-12-17T19:35:48.933+01:002013-12-17T19:35:48.933+01:00Oliver,
as one who did not know that you had been...Oliver,<br /><br />as one who did not know that you had been appointed (but as a contributing factor to your ability to let the blog readers know), I think that the appointment could not have happened to a nicer man. Although readers have benefited from your blogging to a huge degree (mainly because unless you are in a large practice or patent department there are not many opportunities to discuss case law), you seem to have taken on this task for the fun of it. And it will have sharpened your wits as well as your ability to condense dense language.<br /><br />The other commenters (the 13 before me) have all written good wishes, and I permit myself to join them. As a memento, I would like to bring this gem of prose that I am sure in reality guides all of us, although few are able to follow:<br /><br />"Der Verfasser sieht sich einleitend dazu gezwungen, explizit an den beinahe verpflichtenden Charakter einer Lektüre allfälliger Fußnoten zu gemahnen, welche in mehr als einem Falle die unerlässliche Prämisse zu einer korrekten, respektive den Intentionen des Schreibenden adäquaten Exegese des eigentlichen Textes darstellen und mit essentiellen Informationen equipiert sind, welche das Kolorit dieses Essays in entscheidenster Weise prägen."<br /><br />Happy colouring!<br /><br />Best wishes,<br /><br /><br />George Brock-Nannestad<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-33194453588949803372013-12-17T17:13:58.710+01:002013-12-17T17:13:58.710+01:00Congratulations! Thank you for your hard work and ...Congratulations! Thank you for your hard work and diligence. Providing a forum for EPO decisions to be commented on from different perspectives was a very valuable service. And the altruistic nature of this was exemplary.Sulemannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-69748865566731611142013-12-17T16:40:52.921+01:002013-12-17T16:40:52.921+01:00Congratulations ! Maybe you can keep on publishing...Congratulations ! Maybe you can keep on publishing articles of a general nature, such as any changes whatsoever to the EPC or EPO procedures on 1/4/2013.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-22327482783759468692013-12-17T13:53:58.127+01:002013-12-17T13:53:58.127+01:00Congratulations! We will miss all your hard work o...Congratulations! We will miss all your hard work on this blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-89631068464837635802013-12-17T12:39:48.351+01:002013-12-17T12:39:48.351+01:00Oliver: That's not a nice Christmas present fo...Oliver: That's not a nice Christmas present for addicted readers like me. But I am very happy for you. Many thanks for all the work you have done.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18351224741514630971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-20477687344799901112013-12-17T12:01:20.764+01:002013-12-17T12:01:20.764+01:00Oliver if you have time, before you start judging,...Oliver if you have time, before you start judging, please read:<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-righteous-mind-by-jonathan-haidt.html?_r=0<br /><br />a book that I'm reading and one which will scare the shit out of any cogitative European patent attorney because it reveals alarmingly how in the real world the First Member of an OD (or even the Rapporteur of a TBA) will reach their Decision.<br /><br />As the NYT reports of the book:<br /><br />David Hume, the Scottish philosopher who notoriously said reason was fit only to be “the slave of the passions,” was largely correct. E. O. Wilson, the ecologist who was branded a fascist for stressing the biological origins of human behavior, has been vindicated by the study of moral emotions. Even Glaucon, the cynic in Plato’s “Republic” who told Socrates that people would behave ethically only if they thought they were being watched, was “the guy who got it right.”<br /><br />Haidt's marvellous metaphor is that of the elephant (emotion) and its rider (reason). Once the elephant is under way, there is precious little the rider can do to change ist course. His role is that of the consigliere, to supply irrefutible reasons why the elephant's course was the correct one. And the reasoning parts of the brains of judges are very often those of brilliant lawyers. <br /><br />Read and quake, brothers and sisters in the patent attorney profession. Put your faith in the discourse between i)the case manager and ii) the other two members of the OD or the TBA. Cross your fingers, that those other two members are brave enough to interrogate the elephant. Oliver, if you get into an discussion with a DG3 colleague, and the colleague seems to be less than completely rational about the issue, the book explains why that is. After all, we are all only human. MaxDreinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-70202562420936722322013-12-17T10:18:48.975+01:002013-12-17T10:18:48.975+01:00Many congratulations on your appointment. I do hop...Many congratulations on your appointment. I do hope this blog continues as it is a very valuable resourceDrZnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-12189526784765592442013-12-17T09:48:01.312+01:002013-12-17T09:48:01.312+01:00This actually affects my workflow, as a n00b. Good...This actually affects my workflow, as a n00b. Good luck and let's see what will happen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-83734610504125972202013-12-17T09:09:14.290+01:002013-12-17T09:09:14.290+01:00I think it was Alec Clelland who recently appealed...I think it was Alec Clelland who recently appealed for more professional representatives to consider becoming members of Boards of Appeal. So, congratulations Oliver! A well needed balance to offset the promoted examiners who seem to go out of their way to refuse applications or revoke patents on the flimsiest arguements imaginable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-2797793498385167092013-12-17T08:58:06.053+01:002013-12-17T08:58:06.053+01:00@Rimbaud: Great to see you are still around the bl...@Rimbaud: Great to see you are still around the blog! We could have used more of your poetic input.<br /><br />@Max Drei: You have been a great commentator. Whenever there are long threads of comments, you can be sure there is some Max Drei in it. Thanks. oliverhttp://k-slaw.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-50152708186737977462013-12-17T08:27:42.610+01:002013-12-17T08:27:42.610+01:00Very pleased for you, when I read that being a Tec...Very pleased for you, when I read that being a Technical Member will be giving you such pleasure. Congratulations.<br /><br />I was struck that you see this blog as a service to its readership. That's how I see it too, a very valuable and useful service. Your DG3 decision-writing will also be a service to your readership but, from now on, you will be getting paid good money for that service. I think that we shall be getting good value for that money. Best wishes in your new role as judge.MaxDreinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-71076564833767454412013-12-17T00:10:04.139+01:002013-12-17T00:10:04.139+01:00Félicitations, Oliver !
Of course, I feel both hap...Félicitations, Oliver !<br />Of course, I feel both happy and sad. We will definitely (and indefinitely) miss your blog and your (risky) wit.<br />Keep on latinizing after moving to this new position.Rimbaudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-80711060676036033182013-12-16T21:04:21.570+01:002013-12-16T21:04:21.570+01:00Thanks, Myshkin. That is quite a compliment.Thanks, Myshkin. That is quite a compliment.oliverhttp://k-slaw.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2352189175211648260.post-25719449030060777182013-12-16T20:34:54.184+01:002013-12-16T20:34:54.184+01:00Many congratulations!!
So you have not become a p...Many congratulations!!<br /><br />So you have not become a <a href="http://k-slaw.blogspot.nl/2013/04/publish-or-perish-ctd.html" rel="nofollow">persona non grata</a> after all ;-)<br /><br />I will miss this blog.Myshkinnoreply@blogger.com