More Holidays for France
As well as the National Filing Office closures set out here:
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/pubs/oj009/01_09/01_0719.pdf
the French Institute for Industrial Property (INPI) is also closed on Friday, 22 May 2009 and Monday, 13 July 2009.
Brimelow to Go
Current EPO President Alison Brimelow will apparently not be staying on when her contract ends in June 2010:
http://www.iam-magazine.com/Blog/Detail.aspx?g=c54c7e9c-28e0-42cf-9e10-389812ad3e60 .
IP Chimp 