Punctuation patent
am 19.08.2004 von http://transblawg.eupatentoftheweek.com reports (via IPKAT) that a patent application has been filed for two new punctuation marks, the question comma and the exclamation comma. It was filed by the …
The Question Comma
blat.antville: Simons Blawg / Patents on punctuation marks - zugleich ein Beitrag zur internationalen Rechtschreibreform. The European Patent Office.…
Punctuation differences / Interpunktionsunterschiede
Transblawg / I would comment in Language Log’s comments feature if it had one, but it doesn’t, so here goes: Geoffrey K. Pullum writes: There’s a punctuation rule that American publishers follow rather strictly though British publishers do not: …
Punktuationspatent
Aktenvermerk / Was erhält man, wenn man das ordinäre Fragezeichen (signum indicans questionis vulgata) bzw. Rufzeichen (signum indicans exclamationis vulgata) mit einem gewöhnlichen Beistrich (comma comma ordinaria) kreuzt? Das Ergebnis, der Fragebeistrich (com…
Dykes on bikes and judges on dictionaries
Transblawg / (See also earlier entry) IPKAT reports on the evidence relied on when the application to register ‘Dykes on bikes’ was refused. Apparently there were over 400 pages of submissions, but the US Patent and Trademark Office relief on two dict…
USPTO: einmillionste Online-Markenanmeldung
MarkenBlog / Das US Patent & Trademark Office erwartet die einmillionste Markenanmeldung über das Onlinetool TEAS. Washington, D.C . - The Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will mark an important milestone i…
G 1/06 - Zur Problematik der Teilanmeldungen
ipweblog.de / Die große Beschwerdekammer hat sich in G 1/06 nun zur Problematik der Teilanmeldungen geäußert. Leitsatz: “In the case of a sequence of applications consisting of a root (originating) application followed by divisional applications, each div…
Multi-urn patent/Familienbegräbnis
Transblawg / In Berlin Blawg, Dennis Sevriens shows part of a patent application for an urn with four compartments (including the diagram). In this way, the cry ‘Mit ihm ist ein guter Anwalt gestorben’ could be replaced by ‘Mit ihm sind drei gu…
Whats in a name?/Titel und Nachnamen
Transblawg / It was put to me recently that Ernst August Prinz von Hannover - note there is no comma after ‘August’ - might be translated and abbreviated as Mr. Prinz von Hannover (this was in a context where names are always...…
Legal text with punctuation problems/Probleme wegen überflüssigem Komma
Transblawg / Rogers Communications Inc. hatte einen Vertrag mit Aliant Inc, der wegen einem Kommafehler im Vertrag viel früher gekündigt werden konnte, als vorgesehen. globeandmail.com reports that a comma too many in a contract meant it could be termi…
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