Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 6, 2021

3: Dev loses copyright appeal over forensic software after judges rule suite was owned by his employer. Finally today, Garth Corfield at The Register reports that a UK developer has lost his appeal to try and claim ownership of software he created while employed for the company MD5.

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The IPKat

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In THJ , Arnold LJ tackled the perduring relevance of CJEU originality case law to post-Brexit UK copyright law. More recent judgments support however the correct view that the bar to originality has been also raised under UK law: the string of CJEU decisions on this point has been incorporated into UK law.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

Much IP law in the UK is derived from EU law – both implemented EU law and case law decided in view of EU law. Abolition of supremacy The main effect of REULA is, no doubt, the abolition of the supremacy ( section 3 ) and general principles ( section 4 ) of EU law in the UK. REULA could impact all of the above.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Copyright Avid gamers may be aware of the controversy between the developers and their ex-employer surrounding the newly released “Aeon Must Die?”, The findings of this consultation are expected to affect the future of the post-Brexit UK IP exhaustion regime. including the ownership of IP thus created.

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The IPKat

JUNE 17, 2023

Milly also inadvertently 'destroyed' Comedian while on a day out While the decision is of course from the perspective of US law, the test is in essence the same as the one under both EU and UK laws. The UK test remains informed by CJEU case law even following the completion of Brexit. Let’s see more in detail how the judge reasoned.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 31, 2023

As previously reported for the IPKat here , the UK Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee recently conducted an inquiry into the impact of AI on several sectors. Employment: AI will disrupt the jobs that people do and that are available to be done. Policy makers must anticipate and manage the disruption.

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Coles helpfully places this into the IP law teaching context, emphasising employability of future student generations as a key reason for doing so. All of those can enrich how we engage our audiences on their IP journeys. I would add the IP Teaching Kit by the EPO, too.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

If it was possible to recall and then count every anti-piracy campaign targeted at the UK public since the dawn of the VCR, the answer would be of interest to us, because we have absolutely no idea. Threats to the Public For the past several months, an anti-piracy campaign has been running in the UK.

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 13, 2021

Cheap access to Premier League football is one of the primary drivers for pirate IPTV uptake in the UK. Suspected IPTV Suppliers Targeted in the UK. That appears to be the case in respect of a few suppliers this week. There is no deviation following this week’s action.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 15, 2024

Caravan Static, Longbottom On the Move Officers from Greater Manchester Police raided Longbottom’s caravan in January 2017, but the entrepreneur wasn’t home, or even in the UK. The Brit was on holiday in Florida and didn’t return to the UK for another three months.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

However, shortly after publication, another UK journalist, Josh Bavas, noticed that several paragraphs of one of the articles were copied verbatim from his earlier work without any citation. For example, when Buzzfeed fired Benny Johnson in 2014, they reviewed some 500 of his posts and found 41 additional instances of unattributed work.

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Intepat

JANUARY 15, 2024

This unprecedented scenario unfolded when Mr. Thaler, the applicant, approached the UK Patent Office with two patent applications. At the heart of this case lies a critical examination of the UK Patent Act 1977, specifically Section 13(2). Moreover, Lord Hoffmann’s stance on this matter further clarified this legal position.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 7, 2022

Each year the UK Government publishes a new edition of its Online Copyright Infringement Tracker which reveals the results of an annual survey polling the piracy habits of people twelve years old and above. The UK Intellectual Property Office has just published the results of the 11th wave which took place in 2021.

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Intepat

DECEMBER 26, 2023

While there hasn’t been a comparable case in India, the country draws upon copyright principles from the USA and UK, prompting a consideration of similar legal precedents. India, aligning its intellectual property laws with those of the US and UK, similarly does not provide protection for works generated entirely by AI.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2023

When one hears the claims of copyright infringement, confidential information and employment claims one can readily assume that this is an employer/ex-employee dispute. Peripheral issues relating to Mr Aughton's duties under his employment contract overlapped with these three core issues. And here, you would be correct.

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

APRIL 27, 2021

Today, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has launched its five-year One IPO Transformation - a five-year pro gramme that will transform Intellectual Property (IP) services and enhance the value that the IPO adds to the UK economy. The UK already has a world leading IP environment, but a service for innovators must itself innovate.

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Dragons' Den

JANUARY 4, 2024

The team developed their sock business to increase awareness of Down Syndrome and provide employment opportunities and financial independence for individuals with learning disabilities. UK adults with learning disabilities are known to be in paid employment? Did you know, as few as 5.1% It’s an area we don’t understand.

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 8, 2023

We can confirm that the same supplier is a priority target, not only for UK rightsholders, but also for those in Hollywood and beyond. However, they include what is likely to be the world’s largest wholesale supplier of pirate IPTV streams.

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In May 2023, the UK Court of Appeal upheld the invalidity of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Apaxiban patent for lacking “plausibility” But how does this finding interact with the position of relevant laws in India? Full-and-Particular Disclosure Standard – Root of Plausibility?

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

UK-based programmer James Stanley, who previously operated Hardbin.com, temporarily took the entire service offline when he received requests to take down thousands of links. EFF Steps Up Faced with this legal conundrum, Mr. Thus far, the responses from IPFS operators have been mixed.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2024

5) Europe’s anti-Internet initiatives (DSA and UK Online Safety Act). The UK Online Safety Act represents an even more holistic and comprehensive regulatory control over publication decisions. I expect many regulated entities will exit the UK UGC industry because it’s too costly/risky to play by those rules.

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The IPKat

MAY 13, 2022

Events A Kat prepared for the weekend 24 May: The IPKat and Simmons & Simmons: Retromark: the Conference, London, UK. 27 May: European Copyright Society Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK. Friday is finally here - is there a better way to celebrate than by updating your schedule with the best IP events?

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 8, 2022

When the copyright in the play was about to expire (1987), a special act of the UK Parliament extended it to. . . I confess that this is not an entirely accurate statement, especially in the UK. employer for hire.” (As essentially, forever. Hart & Rick Castle.” As I mentioned, this stuff can get complicated.).

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IPilogue

APRIL 5, 2022

I had the opportunity to analyze statutes I haven’t previously encountered, including the Employer Health Tax Act, that I otherwise may not have had the chance to explore. For instance, I verified procedures and timelines required for the retention of corporate records and financial statements.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 8, 2021

As trainee patent attorneys across the country begin their final days of preparation for the UK qualifying examinations, CIPA today released the long-awaited Mercer Review. There have been reports into the UK patent exams before, for example the Middlesex Review on FD4/P6 exam (provided as an Annex to the Mercer Review).

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 30, 2022

Working closely with UK-based anti-piracy company Friend MTS, the Premier League uses a number of interesting techniques to detect where pirate streams are coming from and then passes this data to internet service providers so they can implement blocking. From a practical standpoint, it’s impossible to shut them all down.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Unlike in the UK, the sufficiency requirement remains a low bar for a product claim ( IPKat ). March 2023) UK divergence from the EPO on plausibility (Sandoz v BMS), Part 1: Is the "plausibility" test the same for both sufficiency and inventive step?

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

It is estimated that 3% of goods imported into the UK are counterfeit. The overall value of the counterfeit market in the UK is believed to be worth over £13 billion. Figures from the UK government show that the annual loss to the economy through counterfeiting and piracy is £9 billion, plus 80,500 job losses each year.

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SpicyIP

MAY 3, 2023

Union of India (“ Amarnath Sehgal Case ”) by approving Sehgal’s claim of reputational harm. However, in my opinion, Indian courts appear to have consistently employed a combination of subjective and objective standards in their assessments.

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The IPKat

AUGUST 17, 2023

Indeed most IP litigators practicing in the UK have never had the pleasure of navigating what is now the King's Bench Division (KBD), spending most of their life in the comparatively modern Chancery Division. There was no written contract of employment. 1872) The cat - Felis domesticus.,

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IP and Legal Filings

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In a 2022 UK High Court ruling [1] , involving Cadbury’s trade mark for the colour purple, the court has set a guide line regarding the registrability of colours as trade marks in the UK. Any jeweller using that particular shade to package its boxes would be liable of violating said trademark. Yves Saint Laurent Am.,

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Herbert Smith Freehills

MARCH 10, 2023

The wider team included specialist partners Susan Black and Daniel Vowden (Antitrust), Kristen Roberts, Amy Geddes and Jake Jackaman (Finance), Mark Ife (Incentives), Julian Pollock (Real Estate), Christine Young (Employment), Howard Murray, Josh Lom and Will Arrenberg (Tax) and Rudolph du Plessis and Huneiza Goolam (South Africa law).

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Patently-O

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

1965), and Indivior UK Ltd. Given the predictable nature of the electro-mechanical smoking device and the specification’s teaching of the claimed end points (75% and 85%), the court found no reasonable factfinder could conclude that the narrower claimed range of heating element lengths fell outside the inventor’s possession. 2d 974 (C.C.P.A.

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SpicyIP

AUGUST 9, 2021

In India, the inventor is the first owner of an invention and generally, it is through an assignment agreement that the employer becomes entitled to register the patent in his name. These efforts for granting inventorship to AI were led by Prof Abbott from University of Surrey, UK.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

More from our authors: Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, Eighth Edition by Sally Shorthose € 265 Infringement of complex digital products constitutes of multiple infringing acts, which may be overlapping and mutually exclusive in their application.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 22, 2023

More from our authors: Guide to EU and UK Pharmaceutical Regulatory Law, Eighth Edition by Sally Shorthose € 265 The draft rules hold that providers are considered content producers and are thus responsible for all content generated (Article 5), and IP rights must not be violated in the provision of generative AI services (Article 4).

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

In this case, despite being able to demonstrate that 90% of UK customers were able to link the four-fingered wafer shape with Nestlé, Nestlé lost its fight to register their well-known four-fingered wafer chocolate bar (KitKat). Patents Utility patents are one class of patents that are relevant to the food sector.

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