Intellectual Property Law Blog

MARCH 13, 2024

copyright law does not expressly provide for such renumeration, these opportunities depend on the code underlying the NFTs and the rules of the platforms on which they’re sold rather than any statutory entitlement. Patent applicants and practitioners could benefit from guidance regarding obtaining patents in the context of NFTs.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The other two chapters turn to the conceptualisation of nature in patent law. In 'Denaturing Bacteria', Daniel Schneider discusses the controversy over the patenting of biological sewage treatment and questions of the public interest.

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The IPKat

MARCH 16, 2024

It will equip participants with a thorough understanding of foundational principles of intellectual property law. 2024 IViR Summer Course on International Copyright Law & Policy The Institute for Information Law organizes an annual intensive post-graduate course on international copyright law and policy.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 22, 2023

Here are the nominees and winners: Best Patent Law Book The nominations were: Intellectual Property Protection for Plant Related Innovation: Fit for Future? Thank you to readers who voted for the IPKat book of the year awards 2022!

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2022

On February 14, 2022, the Copyright Review Board issued a decision affirming the Office’s refusal of registration. The Board held that “copyright law only protects ‘the fruits of intellectual labor’ that ‘are founded in the creative powers of the human mind’,” citing the Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices , §602.4(c)

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Katfriend Léon Dijkman discussed the role of the proportionality test under European patent law in deciding whether to grant an injunction. Trade Marks Chijioke Okorie provided an overview of the key developments in trade mark law across the African continent as part of the “Africa IP Highlights” series for 2023.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 25, 2023

Extending to copyright law, where Thaler is fighting a similar battle, isn’t there a “modicum of creativity” leading to the AI-created work? Copyright law does this well with the protection of derivative works. an expired copyright). CLS Bank Int’l , 573 U.S.

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The IPKat

JUNE 29, 2022

Under the planned new exception, rightholders will still have safeguards to protect their content, including a requirement of lawful access. For AI-devised inventions no change to UK patent law are being currently considered. Most respondents felt that AI is not yet advanced enough to invent without human intervention.

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While copyright law is at the center of a few recent disputes over intellectual property protection for typefaces and fonts, design patents are an often-overlooked mechanism for protecting these designs. Copyrights. Design Patents. over the past 20 years.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 3, 2023

copyright and patent laws are currently written in a way that require human creation to be eligible for protection. copyright law. This question is of critical importance because the U.S.

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Chicago IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Award honors those who have made a significant creative contribution in one or more of the following substantive areas of intellectual property law: Patent Law: An invention or group of inventions having technological significance and an important social and economic impact, resulting in one or more U.S.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

In other words, there is no specific aspect of patent law, unlike copyright law involving the requirement for a human author or the existence of moral rights, that would drive a construction of the Act as excluding non-human inventors.

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The IP Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. As we look back, we want to share The Briefing’s most popular episodes in 2023. 3: What Now for Fair Use After Warhol v. Goldsmith The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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The IPKat

MARCH 13, 2022

The Institute for Intellectual Property and Market Law (IFIM) at Stockholm University will host an online conference on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, from 14:00-16:00 CET to discuss the current state and future of patent law and regulatory rights in the field of personalised medicine.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 29, 2021

Copyright The Kluwer Copyright Blog gave an update on EU copyright law developments for the second trimester of 2021, including insights into the cases and referrals coming up soon. This Kat is just hanging out While the summer winds down, why not while away the hours with news and views from around the IP blogs?

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The Award honors those who have made a significant creative contribution in one or more of the following substantive areas of intellectual property law: Patent Law: An invention or group of inventions having technological significance and an important social and economic impact, resulting in one or more U.S.

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Fish & Richardson Trademark & Copyright Thoughts

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Litigation – Patent. Patent Law. Technology Law. Trademark Law. Copyright Law. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” are recognized for professional excellence with consistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Appellate Practice. Firms included in the 2021 Edition of U.S.

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Chicago IP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Judge Robinson has presided over more than 100 patent trials, more than 1,500 cases and has issued thousands of patent opinions. Judge Robinson now practices patent law as a mediator, arbitrator and trial consultant at Farnan LP with her colleague on the district court of many years, Judge Joseph J. Farnan, Jr.

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Patent: Blockchain-related inventions can be protected as patents. Article 143 of the Patent Law provides patent holders recourse to file claims in the Commercial Court if the rights under their patent are infringed by another party. Trademark: NFTs may also be protected as a trademark.

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Kashishipr

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Therefore, most of the APIs are not patentable since they comprise the declaring code and the SSO, which is essentially a source code in a written format having no functionality as such unless implemented through the implementing code. Copyright and APIs. It has no shape or structure as such. In the landmark case of Oracle v.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Judge Robinson has presided over more than 100 patent trials, more than 1,500 cases and has issued thousands of patent opinions. Judge Robinson now practices patent law as a mediator, arbitrator and trial consultant at Farnan LP with her colleague on the district court of many years, Judge Joseph J. Farnan, Jr.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Judge Robinson has presided over more than 100 patent trials, more than 1,500 cases and has issued thousands of patent opinions. Judge Robinson now practices patent law as a mediator, arbitrator and trial consultant at Farnan LP with her colleague on the district court of many years, Judge Joseph J. Farnan, Jr.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Judge Connolly disagreed with that opinion, however, and distinguished copyright law as it applies to songs or paintings versus computer programs, citing favorably the Supreme Court that “applying copyright law to computer programs is like assembling a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces do not quite fit” ( Google LLC v.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 13, 2024

copyright law does not expressly provide for such renumeration, these opportunities depend on the code underlying the NFTs and the rules of the platforms on which they’re sold rather than any statutory entitlement. NFTs may offer opportunities for U.S. artists to obtain remuneration from downstream resales of their works (a.k.a.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 10, 2022

On February 14, 2022, the Copyright Review Board issued a decision affirming the Office’s refusal of registration. The Board held that “copyright law only protects ‘the fruits of intellectual labor’ that ‘are founded in the creative powers of the human mind’,” citing the Compendium of U.S.

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The IPKat

JUNE 9, 2023

Lord Justice Arnold, opening the first panel (photo: Neil Graveney) Lord Justice Arnold opened the panel, suggesting Infopaq ( C-5/08 ) as both the best and the worst copyright case (and certainly the most influential). Infopaq anchored EU copyright law in the Berne Convention.

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IIPRD

JULY 4, 2021

However, the word emoji itself is not subject to protection awarded to intellectual property in general, but unlike the Indian Law, the US Law awards protection to emoji in certain cases. This may be explained by taking into consideration copyright, trademark as well as other intellectual property regimes. Copyright Law.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As the editors explain, “I hope the readers will find multiple reasons to continue to think about the role of moral rights in copyright law, of course, but also in patent law, design law, and trademark law.”

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 9, 2021

In this post, I will be analysing the recommendations pertaining to the amendment of patent laws in order to facilitate inventorship and ownership by AI. I will be restricting the discussion to the evaluation of the Indian patent regime, as the implications of AI on Indian copyright law has been previously dealt with here.

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 12, 2023

When looking into company assets protectable under federal copyright laws, one should check the company’s website, marketing materials, manuals, YouTube videos, podcasts, posted content on Instagram, TikTok, and the like, photos, software, blog posts, articles, white papers, etc.

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 18, 2023

As such, creators of such “disembodied” designs may need to continue to rely only on copyright law to protect such designs as artistic works unless and until Congress intervenes to expand subject matter eligibility under Section 171.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In his application, he identified the author as the Creativity Machine, and explained the work had been “ autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine ”, but Thaler sought to claim the copyright of the “ computer-generated work ” himself “ as a work-for-hire to the owner of the Creativity Machine. ” 102(a) ; U.S.

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SpicyIP

JULY 25, 2021

Instead of such an approach, the committee could have asked the specific question of whether the current patent law or copyright law requires any amendments in the light of developments in AI and machine learning and to answer it, it could have asked a set of specific sub-questions. The discussions on Sec. When to study?

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Unlike copyright law, patent law has an unambiguous six-year statute of limitations on damages in infringement cases. See 38 U.S. Under 35 U.S.C. § 286, “no recovery shall be had for any infringement committed more than six years prior to the filing of the complaint or counterclaim for infringement.”

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Burk, considers the patent context, titled AI Patents and the Self-Assembling Machine ; the second (chapter 8), titled Challenges of Artificial Intelligence to Patent Law and Copyright Law and Countermeasures , by Xiang Yu, Runzhe Zhang, Ben Zhang and Hua Wang, considers both patent and copyright.

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LexBlog IP

AUGUST 30, 2022

patent law requires a “human” inventor. patent law requires that an “inventor” be a natural person (i.e., ” The Thaler court looked to Section 100 of Title 35, which provides “Definitions” for patent-related law. patent law. Vida held that U.S.

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The IPKat

JANUARY 2, 2022

Alina Trapova (The University of Nottingham) and João Pedro Quintais (Institute for Information Law (IViR)) have published the fourth and final trimester of the 2021 round-up of EU Copyright Law (you can read the first, second and third trimester editions here , here and here ).

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