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Proposed deletion of Competitiveness Council

The article Competitiveness Council has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Supposed disambiguation page. Its contents cannot be reasonably confused (all the names differ substantially from each other) - hatnotes on respective articles should be more than sufficient. Deletion proposed to make way for a move of Competitiveness Council (COMPET).

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. kashmiri ^TALK 16:20, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Local knowledge listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Local knowledge. Since you had some involvement with the Local knowledge redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. Si Trew (talk) 08:37, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

Borgesian

Hi! I never read Borges, so I'm curious, why is Wikipedia a Borgesian project? Pikolas (talk) 01:14, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Wow, that's a fascinating userpage! I also love this idea behind Wikipedia, but I would dispute that it would ever reach a limit, because new encyclopedic-worthy things are constantly happening around the world, and also our notability requirements could change over time. Pikolas (talk) 21:22, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Exhaustion doctrine

Could you go to the end of the international exhaustion section of this article and burnish the UK and EU material? — Preceding unsigned comment added by PraeceptorIP (talk • contribs) PraeceptorIP (talk) 01:52, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Help to resolve an issue

Hi,

I had approached you via email as well regarding this matter. Request you to please help me resolve the issue, or guide me to someone who can help.

My talk page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:NupurPathak will explain in detail the whole situation.

I really need someone's help in resolving this issue.

regards,

NupurPathak (talk) 10:32, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

US Patent Law

Good edits on United States patent law. Thank you. That page still needs LOTS of work, in my opinion. Teachingaway (talk) 14:51, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Yes, there is still room for improvement. I agree... --Edcolins (talk) 19:15, 27 April 2015 (UTC)

Please stop undoing my revisions to the Joshua Hoffman page

I have added references to support the information in the Personal Life section. Look and see. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.35.99.44 (talk) 20:13, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Still, it cannot be verified that he "is married to Ruth Hoffman" and "has two grown sons". The links are missing, I am afraid. --Edcolins (talk) 21:07, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Patent Attorney

Hi Ed, thank you for reviewing. I'm a registered patent agent. There have been no changes to the exam format. Finding a reference in this case defeats the purpose of co-creation or user generated content (UGC), or collaborative crowdsourcing, which is the whole point of Wikipedia. If you still like some verification, I can try to dig up a page from the US Patent Office. let me know.

Best, Hemant — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.179.137.228 (talk) 12:07, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Hemant, thanks for your message. Yes, it would be great to find a source for that statement: "An unofficial score of 70% indicates a passing grade on the exam." See WP:UNSOURCED. --Edcolins (talk) 16:36, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Added a source to verify unofficial score

Hi Ed, thank you for your suggestion. I've now added a link to a US Patent Office page to verify the "unofficial" score.

Best, Hemant — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hemantphd (talk • contribs) 17:29, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Many thanks! I was confused by the term "unofficial"... But now I see what you mean. It is unofficial in the sense that only 90 % of the 100 questions are taken into account. I have added a note to clarify this. --Edcolins (talk) 20:08, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Notes, refs

What's the difference between a note and a ref? How do you code for a note? PraeceptorIP (talk) 22:02, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

UK, EU, Neth., Fr. - Exhaustion doctrine

There is a tag at the top of Exhaustion doctrine that says not enough non-US law. I supplied some Canadian and German. Do you think you could enlist a UK Wikipedian to provide a subhead on UK law? How about French, EU, Neth., etc.? -- PraeceptorIP (talk) 00:27, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

I have renamed the article on which you worked "Exhaustion doctrine under U.S. law", so that the (ugly) tag on the top could be removed. I have also started "Exhaustion of intellectual property rights" to present a general overview of the concept, from a global point of view. This appeared to be the most practical way to proceed, considering the detailed information about U.S. law in Exhaustion doctrine under U.S. law. --Edcolins (talk) 21:16, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Caroline Connan

Why did you send me a prod notification for Caroline Connan? I did not create the article. Wgolf (talk) 20:34, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Misuse

Could you please take a look at the Talk page of patent misuse. PraeceptorIP (talk) 18:50, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Marie-Ange Faugerolas

Hi Edcolins,

Why did you try to delete the Marie-Ange Faugerolas page? can we fix this?

(Geothebg (talk) 20:07, 24 June 2015 (UTC))

Your proposed deletion of the Article "Hong Kong Chinese Patent Attorney Association" due to the reason "non-notable org."

I realize that you have proposed the deletion of the Article "Hong Kong Chinese Patent Attorney Association" due to the reason "non-notable org." Please note that this association is NOT non-notable. I don't know if you read Chinese, if you do please read: "http://www.ipd.gov.hk/chi/promotion_edu/20150818/FHKI_Flyer.pdf"

This site enlists the Association (aka ACPAA HKMA/Hong Kong Members Association) as a supporting org for patent training courses organized by HKFI and HKAR government (HKIPD).

This association is of course new because there were not many Chinese patent attorneys in Hong Kong. But now there are many. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patentbot (talk • contribs) 10:05, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Please note that the page is on a Hong Kong org, and HK is bilingual. The sites in HK may be in English or Chinese. I respectfully request you not to wantonly propose a deletion without knowing what the Chinese sources read. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patentbot (talk • contribs) 10:12, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Besides, the site of HK Government (HKIPD) "http://www.ipd.gov.hk/chi/promotion_edu/20150818/FHKI_Flyer.pdf" shows that ACPAA HKMA is the supporting org for patent training programme. ACPAA HKMA is a short form of "ACPAA Hong Kong Members Association", and ACPAA refers to All-China Patent Attorneys Association. In Chinese the org name is "香港中国专利代理人协会"； literally—— Hong Kong Chinese Patent Attorney Association. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Patentbot (talk • contribs)

Please see my reply here. --Edcolins (talk) 19:49, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Spanish Patent and Trademark Office

Hello Edcolins, thanks for acceptance my edit at above at my User-site. Best regards -- Sweepy (talk) 23:18, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

proposed deletion of "christophe geiger"

i proposed this deletion as i understand wikipedia is a genuine encyclopedia, not a confidential who's who so i believe you're wrong in terms of notability in as much as many lecturers are in the same position in france and europe (teaching, writing, attending conferences, running research units), this would be crazy if all were put in wikipedia without being deemed as major shapers of IP a head of a key opeative body, for instance head of EPO (european patent office) : it's different, guy plays major role here we talk about a research unit that is not highly regarded in europe and world, despite advantageous location in strasbourg that eases its access to conferences to illustrate my thoughts : eg of high caliber young acaedmia profile that would maybe fit notability guideline : https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/profile/dev.gangjee cheers (90.29.27.185 (talk) 09:55, 2 September 2015 (UTC))

If you wish, you may go ahead and nominate the article for deletion. See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. The Proposed deletion (PROD) process is a way to suggest an article for uncontroversial deletion, and I personally don't think that deleting the article about Christophe Geiger would be uncontroversial, considering that he is head of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI). --Edcolins (talk) 20:32, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Re-NewsIt! Speedy Delete

FYI Re-NewsIt! has been tagged for speedy delete. I have contested.--Nowa (talk) 21:34, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Constitution of Costa Rica

Per request, I started Constitution of Costa Rica. Apart from the first several sentences, most of it was by auto-translation, so it is still very rough. Please edit if you know more. Teply (talk) 22:30, 19 September 2015 (UTC)