Wednesday 8 October 2014

Biogen v Medeva: down the tube ...

PatLit has just received the following news flash from his friends at Rouse about a very special event, scheduled for Thursday 16 October:
"As you may have heard, the RMT union has called a tube strike for 48 hours next week. Unfortunately this coincides with the Biogen v Medeva seminar [on which see the earlier PatLit post here] which was due to take place next Thursday. We’re concerned that this will cause significant difficulties for some getting to and from the venue and have reluctantly taken the decision to postpone the event, to avoid any further uncertainty. We’ll be in touch with a new date shortly".
This blogger is greatly saddened by public sector industrial action of this nature, since the people who suffer are not the employers but, rather, the public at large who are inconvenienced by it.  Having suffered the inconveniences of disruption to travel on the London Underground system for most of his life, he takes comfort in the fact that, from time to time, union officers need the services of a lawyer ...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Union activity happens so rarely now that we should treasure it. A strike happening is an event that is more significant than people remembering some patent case that happened eons ago. Our youngsters need to know how to strike. However we'll survive if Biogen gets forgotten.