The JIPLP readers and writers LinkedIn Group

The JIPLP readers and writers LinkedIn Discussion Group is a facility that assists JIPLP in finding authors, identifying subjects and exchanging information both with its contributors and its readers -- whether they are subscribers in their own right or belong to subscribing institutions.

The Group, which is carefully monitored so as to exclude advertisements, circulars, recruitment posts and other inappropriate content, welcomes participation and encourages prospective contributors and subscribers to sign up.  The sort of issues that appear and are open for discussion can be seen from the list of recent topics that appears below:

• Publishing reviews of IP on the electronic media as well as traditional books (here) 
• Animated gifs: IP problems (here) 
• Convoyed damages: articles needed (here) 
• Patent term extensions outside the EU and US (here) 
• Impact of the Lisbon System for geographical indications and appellations of origin (here) 
• Deep Web, Dark Web and intellectual property: a call for articles -- and ideas (here) 
• Latin and foreign-language quotes, and translations (here) 
• Falsely marking goods as being protected by IP rights (here) 
• Employees, intellectual property and LinkedIn (here) 

This Discussion Group, which currently has 368 members, complements JIPLP's Twitter account at @JIPLP, which now has 821 followers, and this weblog -- which has almost reached the one thousand mark for email subscribers and has received more than three quarters of a million page views. This all reflects JIPLP's determination to reach out beyond the bookshelves and library stacks and to touch the hearts and minds of intellectual property owners and practitioners as being a journal that is relevant, current and caring.

Parody and damages for wrongful oppositions: two calls for articles

JIPLP's Readers and Writers Linked-In group is a forum for the exchange of ideas by contributors, readers and subscribers to the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. Right now it has 272 members and it has already been the source from which a number of articles have been inspired, commissioned and ultimately published.

In the past few days, suggestions for two articles have been posted on this group. One relates to parody as a defence: both copyright and trade mark law may be prima facie infringed unless a defence of parody is raised, yet the parameters of that defence in respect of those two bodies of law are not usually coterminous. So what happens when a figurative trade mark or logo is parodied, and how does one advise a client in such a case?

The other relates to the possibility of securing damages for losses caused by a bad-faith trade mark opposition. This has been recognised by the Civil Division of the Supreme Court of Panama -- but might it be available elsewhere, for bad faith oppositions to patents as well?

If you are interested in writing on either of these subjects, do let JIPLP Commissioning Editor Sarah Harris know, by email to sarah.harris@oup.com.

You can check out the JIPLP Readers and Writers Group here.

The JIPLP Readers and Writers Group

JIPLP's LinkedIn Readers and Writers Group is an increasingly useful resource for opening discussions, exchanging views and even identifying authors and peer reviewers for the journal's articles. The group now has 246 members and continues to grow. The LinkedIn Group can be visited via this link.

During the past few weeks, an increasing number of attempts have been made to post to the Group, the aims of which are clearly stated as follows

This group is a forum for the exchange of ideas by contributors, readers and subscribers to the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (JIPLP), published by Oxford University Press

The Group is not a news service; nor is it a convenient dumping ground for law firm newsletters, commercial advertisements or solicitations of business. Any post to the Group that is not related to JIPLP, in terms of its range and quality of content, ease of access, functionality of website and so on will be deleted.

Please respect the integrity of this Group. There are plenty of other avenues for spreading news and for commercial marketing.  Thanks!

JIPLP readers and writers: now we are 200!

This evening the JIPLP readers and writers LinkedIn Group, which you can check out here, has just welcomed its 200th member. The group is a carefully monitored and moderated forum for sharing thoughts and ideas about what sort of content the journal should have, as well as ethical and practical issues. We're thrilled that this group has grown so quickly and we're delighted to be able to take note of its activities.

Current live discussion topics include the following:

• * The pros and cons of making draft articles available in full when they have an acute degree of topical interest;
• * Whether the book review section should also review IP on the social media, such as weblogs and Twitter accounts;
• * The pricing of IP journals;
• * The degree of factual detail that articles and case notes should contain;
• * Articles on comparative law -- how useful are they?
• * Breadth of coverage and the problem of articles on issues that are tangential to mainstream IP;
• * Publication ethics;
• * Whether IP practitioners should be encouraged to write about cases in which they were involved -- or barred from doing so;
• * How interactive should a modern IP journal be?

If you'd like to apply to join this group, or are already a member and would to like to comment on one or more of these issues, please feel confident to do so. JIPLP is only as good as you can make it!

Reminder: JIPLP also has a Twitter account, @JIPLP, which has getting on for 500 followers. This is another way of keeping in touch with the journal's continuing dialogue with the IP community.

Gaining momentum: JIPLP on LinkedIn

The JIPLP readers and writers group on LinkedIn was launched just a couple of weeks ago but has already risen to 115 members.  We have several discussions on the go, together with a couple of posts relating to articles for which we hope to find authors. These have already borne fruit, in the form of helpful and encouraging offers from a three prospective authors.

We believe that, even in its early stages, the group has the potential to make JIPLP a truly interactive community in which authors of articles and notes on recent developments can share their thoughts and listen to the ideas and wishes of their readers.

If you would like to join this group, you can find it by clicking here.

JIPLP's LinkedIn Group: a progress report

The JIPLP community: lawyers, clients, academics, judges and administrators

JIPLP's LinkedIn Group, JIPLP readers and writers, has got off to a flying start. Less than a week from its launch, the group now has 93 members and has commenced three discussions:

• How interactive should an IP journal be?
  
• IP on the electronic media: fit to review?
  
• Several articles on the same subject: a question of balance?
  
• "Lawyers writing about their own cases: practical and ethical considerations"

In addition, Deputy Editor Eleonora Rosati has posted an item, "Copyright articles in search of an author", which has already attracted some positive responses.

We are working hard to metamorphose JIPLP into a true community of shared interests. Through the journal's official website, weblog, Twitter account and LinkedIn Group, as well as its events and cooperation with GRUR Int., we aim to ensure that communication is a two-way phenomenon and that everyone who takes an interest in IP should feel that he or she has a place in this community.

JIPLP starts a LinkedIn Group

With the hope of bringing our readers and contributors closer together, JIPLP has just opened a LinkedIn Group. The idea behind it is that, if JIPLP is to be more than just another IP law journal, it must embrace the opportunities which the social media offer in order to establish an interactive community in which readers can discuss and suggest prospective topics for publication in the journal and authors can test out some of their thoughts and ideas before submitting their ideas.

This LinkedIn Group is admittedly a bit experimental, in that the publisher and the editorial team are keeping an open mind as to how readers' suggestions and comments might shape contributors' ideas as to what short of articles and current intelligence notes they should be writing. If you'd like to participate in this process, do join us: you can access this Group here.