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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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Decoding The Scepticism Of Overlap Between Patents Law And Competition Law

IP and Legal Filings

The goal of competition law is to ensure fair functioning of the market. [1] 1] At a glance both the laws may seem to be conflicting but Intellectual property ensures fair amount of competition in the market which is also the goal of competition law. [2] STATUTORY TUSSLE OF JURISDICTION BETWEEN PATENTS ACT AND COMPETITON ACT.

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Supreme Court on Patent Law: November 2023

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court is set to consider several significant patent law petitions addressing a range of issues from the application of obviousness standards, challenges to PTAB procedures, interpretation of joinder time limits IPR, to the proper scope patent eligibility doctrine. Orlando Ventura , 537 U.S.

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Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on IPR: Tipping the Scales of Patent Law? Part I

SpicyIP

Reviewing this provision to include patenting discovery of non-living substances tips the fine balance that currently exists in the patent regime and over-extends monopoly rights. Section 3(j) was introduced through the 2002 amendment to the Patents Act to meet India’s TRIPS obligation under Article 27 [Patentable Subject Matter].

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Can AI Technology Create a Patent in Canada? A Look at Global Precedence

IPilogue

However, this 2002 decision did not define whether AI technology can be an inventor. Justice Marcus Smith explained his reasoning by saying that the meaning of the word “inventor” is limited to people under UK patent law. Canada: Apotex Inc v Wellcome Foundation Ltd [2002] 4 SCR 153.

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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. For example, Patent Law aims to prevent copying or imitating patented goods by anyone other than the patentee.

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A table and a table coaster that shaped EU design law

The IPKat

Under EU design law, the ‘informed user’ is the standard on the basis of which it examines both the validity and the infringement of a design. 10 of Design Regulation 6/2002, the scope of the protection conferred by a Community design shall extend to ‘any design which does not produce on the informed user a different overall impression’.

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