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[Guest post] Ownership of IP rights by DAOs – the future is nigh?

The IPKat

Here's what Marianna writes: Ownership of IP rights by DAOs – the future is nigh? The idea of DAO is not that new with the most well-known DAO (uninventively called “ The DAO ” ) dating back to 2016. Such ownership sometimes arises “automatically” when a work has been created in the course of employment.

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[Opinion] Can an AI system be an inventor ?

The IPKat

The headlines are the result of the Project’s filing of parallel applications to patent offices in several jurisdictions over a number of inventions generated by an AI system named DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Boot-strapping of Unified Sentience), invented by Dr Stephen Thaler.

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Moderna sues Pfizer for mRNA Patent Infringement: when optics and profits reveal real issues in modern IP law usage

IPilogue

Moderna and Pfizer battle’s over the inventive process of their respective mRNA COVID-19 vaccines revisit the negative associations of profit, monopolies, and optics in patent litigation. Moderna claimed that they had registered foundational mRNA patents between 2010 and 2016.

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When is an IP agreement between a university and a student inventor unfair?

The IPKat

In 2016, ONI licensed the Nanoimager from the University, whereby the University received royalties on ONI’s sales of the Nanoimager based on the terms of the IP Provisions. Jing was hired as a research intern “at least in part because of his attributes”, which “made it particularly likely that he would make inventions”.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

NFT creation, investment, sale, and ownership interest exists in Indonesia and elsewhere in the world. 11 of 2008, dated April 21, 2008, regarding Electronic Information and Transactions, as amended by Law No 19 of 2016, dated November 25, 2016.• Patent: Blockchain-related inventions can be protected as patents.

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“Right to Access a Public Record” vs “Right to not Communicate the Work”: Where is Public Interest?”

SpicyIP

Degrees), Regulations, 2016 and the UGC Act, 1956 which have mandatory application on the Universities. The RTI application was filed in 2019 in response to which the CPIO made the assertion that the scholar has a patent in the USA, on the invention discussed in his thesis. Intent to exclude versus Duty to disclose?

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Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on Traditional Knowledge: Idealistic Expectations or Unworkable Ideas?

SpicyIP

The Committee Report’s observations on TK start off with a lament on how TK and indigenous inventions by grassroot level innovators often do not meet the criteria of patentability and how the lack of a proper statute renders such inventions without protection. Highlights from the Report. An Uncritical Approach.

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