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The USPTO and USCO Delivered a Report to Congress on IP Issues with NFTs – Maintains Existing IP Regime

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) and the United States Copyright Office (“USCO”) delivered a report to Congress entitled Non-Fungible Tokens and Intellectual Property on March 12, 2024 (“Report”). While the Report is comprehensive, it does not recommend any new action to address IP issues with NFTs.

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Patent Poetry: Understanding the Idea/Expression Dichotomy in Copyright Law

JD Supra Law

Clients sometimes ask intellectual property (IP) lawyers how they can patent or copyright their ideas and make money off them. Neither patent law nor copyright law protects ideas per se. By: AEON Law The short answer is: you probably can’t.

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UK Government will introduce a new text and data mining copyright exception in response to AI and IP consultation

The IPKat

Back in 2021, the UK IPO undertook a consultation on AI and IP covering: copyright in works made by AI; text and data mining using copyright material; and patents for inventions devised by AI. Copyright protection for computer-generated works (CGWs) without a human author. It focused on three questions: 1.

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Supreme Court Patent Law Outlook 2022

Patently-O

Thus, it is entirely possible that the October 2022 term will come and go without any patent decisions. The only IP centric case that has been granted certiorari is Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Goldsmith , reviewing a Second Circuit copyright decision on the issue of transformative fair use.

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“Inducing” Copyright Infringement in Canada: Is it a Thing?

IPilogue

David Vaver is a member of IP Osgoode’s Advisory Board, an I ntellectual P roperty Law Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and an Emeritus Professor of IP & IT Law at the University of Oxford. Is there such a thing as “inducing” copyright infringement? Thanks to Ronald M. Lieberman, Christopher G.

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IPKat Book of the Year Awards 2023 winners announced!

The IPKat

Here are the nominees and winners: Best Patent Law Book The nominations, in no particular order, were: • Der patentrechtliche Schutz von Daten und seine Grenzen; Landscheidt, by Fabian Landscheidt. Patent Portfolio Management, A Practical Guide, by Ho Frattasi. The Proportionality Test in European Patent Law, by Léon Dijkman. •

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2023 IP Resolutions Start with a Review of IP Assets

The IP Law Blog

Even companies that regularly take steps to protect intellectual property through, for example, registering trademarks or registering copyrights, can benefit from a yearly review. After compiling a list of those IP assets, the next step would be to review what the company is using and compare that to the list of registered or pending IP.

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