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Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law: Conflicting or Complementing

IIPRD

Introduction If we take a broader look at the Intellectual Property Laws, the primary objective of the legislation in framing these laws is to provide exclusive rights to the IP right holder as against the entire world.

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Innovating the Term ‘Inventor’: AI and Patent Law

IPilogue

Recently, AI technology once again exceeded the legal community’s expectations by filing a patent for its invention of interlocking food containers. Under patent law, it is the general expectation that inventors are humans, not robots. Europe, Australia, and South Africa, only Australia and South Africa granted this patent.

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Australia’s Reversal of its DABUS decision on AI-Generated Inventions: How Does this Impact an Imminent Canadian Discussion on AI Inventorship?

IPilogue

Thaler’s application for his AI, DABUS, to be the patent owner of an invention titled “ Food container and devices and methods for attracting enhanced attention ,” a product solely created by DABUS without any human interference. Based on current trends, Canada could become the first Western nation to grant patent rights to AI.

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Evergreening of Patents

Kashishipr

In 2002, the Federal Trade Commission, after an extensive inquiry, found out that over 75% of applications by generic pharmaceutical manufacturers were in some way or other involved in litigation initiated by the original patent holders. India changed its Patents Laws in 2005 to comply with the TRIPS Agreement.

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Obituary - Professor Margaret Sophia Moy Llewelyn (1962-2021)

The IPKat

Professor Sir Robin Jacob, University College London I first met Margaret Lewellyn at the founding event of the University of Edinburgh’s Shepherd and Wedderburn Centre for Research in Intellectual Property and Technology, which in 2002 morphed into SCRIPT (Scottish Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law).

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[Guest post] Closing the patent loophole across borders

The IPKat

has written about this in an article that was recently published in the UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law. Here's what Mattias writes: Closing the patent loophole across borders by Mattias Rättzén Extra-territorial Kats It is a legal maxim that patents, like any other intellectual property rights, are territorial rights.

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Defining Boundaries: IP Law Addresses Exterritoriality, Lexicography & Human Touch

LexBlog IP

.” But our problem often is that the law, or lawyers, frequently use unfamiliar or exotic terms that others claim have no more understood meaning than a reference to a “ vermicious kind ,” and those or other lawyers may overuse a word that they do not seem to actually comprehend. Eset, LLC, a patent case.

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