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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

The book consists of 21 chapters, each of which addresses a distinct pair of IP rights, where IP is given a broad swathe of meaning. Chapter 2, authored by David Musker, considers the overlaps between patents and designs. The case serves as the springboard for a discussion on whether owning both rights may put the rightsholder at risk.

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EU copyright law round up – second trimester of 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

9(3) of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 , in view of the early stages of the current developents on AI-generated creative output, the government has decided to make no changes to this provision. With respect to the UK computer-generated provision under s.9(3) The copyright in these two titles expired at the beginning of 2021.