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Book Review: The Artificial Inventor - A Challenge for the Patent System

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Image: Thomson Reuters In ‘The Artificial Inventor’ ( Thomson Reuters ), Luz Sánchez García (University of Murcia) characterises humanity as standing at the cusp of an ‘Artificial Invention Age’ in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer used as a tool but rather a creative partner or independent innovator.

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The Legal Conundrum of AI as a Patent Holder: Affecting the Policy Decisions

IP and Legal Filings

The owner gets an exclusive right to use or sell for a specific time period as a legal right under the document which we refer throughout this paper as ‘patent’ The patent system is designed to encourage innovation by protecting the rights of inventors to their inventions. 3] In the case of V.B.

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Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations – Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Velocity of Content

As a person involved in copyright on a daily basis, I’ve observed a number of events and requests for comment over the last few years on the issue of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can be “authors” in the copyright sense (or inventors of patents). This will be hard to defend. Will a lawsuit in an EU jurisdiction be next?

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A Brief Thematic Review of Non-Fungible Tokens and their Copyright

IP and Legal Filings

Due to the recurrent copyright difficulties, which have a significant impact on an individual’s business interest, it is imperative to preserve the ownership rights of digital works. NFTs are governed by smart contracts, which divide ownership and limit transferability. iii] NFTs are limited to having a single owner.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

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The fictitious German inventors want to commercialise their invention, yet do not have sufficient funds to seek patent registration. Ochoa authors Chapter 9, which is devoted to the overlaps between copyright and the rights of publicity or personality rights.

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[Guest post] Dua Lipa and Warner Music sued for copyright infringement

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Dua Lipa and Warner Music are being sued by talk box inventor and singer, Bosko Kante, for breach of contract and copyright infringement in hit song 'Levitating'. Background The present case is being brought by Bosko Kante who is the inventor of and performer on the ElectroSpit, a digital tubeless talk box.