tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631405922607116203.post4637108344643374556..comments2024-03-27T09:23:57.618+00:00Comments on JIPLP: The cite that's rightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631405922607116203.post-53802638562993612532012-07-05T18:05:33.898+01:002012-07-05T18:05:33.898+01:00I'm with Jeremy, a starting point has to be wh...I'm with Jeremy, a starting point has to be what the journal calls itself. Even taking into account the defunctness of journals it would not in any event occur to me, as an English lawyer, to look at the Blue Book as it is American, and there are lots of jurisdictional differences - a different point from Jeremy's plea for respect, I know. If I'm looking for citations for UK/EU I'd start with OSCOLA which (cross-refering to Cardiff Index of Legal Abbreviations) gives the correct citation for both JIPLP and EIPR (and no doubt many others).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631405922607116203.post-44180306729227293402012-07-05T17:28:56.031+01:002012-07-05T17:28:56.031+01:00Jeremy,
Please spare a thought for us librarians!...Jeremy,<br /><br />Please spare a thought for us librarians! Although the vast majority of people following a citation to JIPLP may be specialists in intellectual property, there will be some who are not. I have in the past come to the aid of colleagues who were unfamiliar with the abbreviations FSR and RPC (though I admit that the British Library could help immensely by adding these abbreviations to the relevant records in its catalogue).<br /><br />You should also bear in mind that in future JIPLP might change its name or (perish the thought) cease publication. Within a relatively short time, people will forget the abbreviation.<br /><br />I recall many years ago working a the Patent Office as it was, trying to track down a Designs case from the Victorian era. I only had the publication name as a four-letter abbreviation, doubtless commonplace to intellectual property specialists at the time, but a complete mystery to anybody now. It took a couple of months to track it down.xxxxxxxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15427043839485478806noreply@blogger.com