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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. Therefore, the two legislations clearly have contrasting objectives.

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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

Michelle Mao is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Reversing what seemed like a victory for supporters of AI-owned intellectual property, the full bench of the Federal Court of Australia has confirmed the majority view of the world: only human inventors can own patent rights to their creations.

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

The IPKat

In 1990, Dr Llewelyn was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Central Lancashire, at Preston, which was followed in 1993 by a move to the University of Sheffield, initially as a ‘Common Law Institute for Intellectual Property (CLIP) Lecturer in Intellectual Property.’

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Evergreening of Patents

Kashishipr

On the other hand, international trade law recognizes that where a unique problem arises specifically referable only to a particular field of technology, a solution applying sui generis only to that field of technology cannot be said to be discriminatory according to the ordinary meaning and purpose of the TRIPS Agreement.

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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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