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Intellectual Property Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating Challenges and Seizing Opportunities

IIPRD

Analyzing the convergence of AI and IPR laws, it elucidates the challenges and ambiguities in recognizing AI as inventors or creators. Ai doesn’t understand what it’s doing in the way that a person does but functionally what it is doing is the same thing that an author or an inventor may be doing.

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Trademark: What’s In it for You?

Velocity of Content

Patents are granted for inventions which (among other things) must be useful (regardless of their creativity), and the Constitution speaks of them under the rubrics of ‘Inventors’ and their ‘discoveries’. Copyright Office, after what amounts to a much lighter review process.

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Book Review: Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights (Second Edition)

The IPKat

The fictitious German inventors want to commercialise their invention, yet do not have sufficient funds to seek patent registration. As Partridge aptly reminds at the end of the chapter, the same word may be registered by several trade mark owners for different products, yet only one domain name with this word would be available.