Our readers may have already heard that Paul the psychic octopus and arguably strongest brand of this year's football World Cup (see our earlier post here) has died. A brief selection of Paul trade marks on the OHIM register can be seen to the left. This member of Class 46 thanks fellow Class 46 blogger Mark Schweizer for alerting her to these news.

German trade mark blog markenblog.de has already shown that Paul lives on, at least on the German trade mark register as the object of several trade mark applications and registrations (see here for markenblog.de's post).  And, not surprisingly perhaps, there are already some conspiracy theories relating to Paul's demise - for a fascinating summary, please click here to see the Guardian's detailed report.  Thanks go to Max Cowell for providing Class 46 with this information.

Perhaps there was some truth in these earlier rumours after all…. (see here).