'What makes a trade mark inherently distinctive?' - Julius Stobbs: CIPIL Seminar

Julius Stobbs, Founder, Stobbs, gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "What makes a trade mark inherently distinctive?" on Thursday 30 January 2014 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CIPIL (the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law). Prior to founding Stobbs, Julius was Head of Trade Marks at Ipulse. He was also a Partner at a major European firm for seven years. He has extensive experience in contentious trade mark proceedings. In the UK his experience includes many appearances before the Appointed Person, and he is the most often heard trade mark attorney in inter partes proceedings at the UK Intellectual Property Office. He also has experience of proceedings before the UK High Court and the Patents County Court. Julius also has vast experience of dealing with oppositions, cancellations and appeals before OHIM and of further appeals to the General Court and the European Court of Justice. For more information see the CIPIL website at http://www.cipil.law.cam.ac.uk