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Patently insane
Posted 10/11/2006 by legalweekblogs.com SU
There were disconcerting signs last week that intellectual property lawyers and judges across Europe might finally agree on the future of a unified patent court – with the European Patent Lawyers Association playing a key role in thrashing out the draft proposals.
The body lured some of the UK’s biggest legal wigs – including Lord Hoffman and Lord Justice Jacob – to a plush retreat on the Venetian island of San Servolo, which is hidden in a secluded lagoon and can only be reached (and, perhaps tellingly, exited) by hydrofoil.
In a pleasing irony, San Servolo was once a lunatic asylum for disturbed members of the wealthy elite. To this day the phrase “Are you from San Servolo?” remains a common euphemism locally for asking if someone is crazy.
An EPLA member yesterday
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