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Africa IP highlights 2023: Reforms in IP policy, legislation and administration

The IPKat

This post is the third and final instalment in the “Africa IP Highlights 2023" series of posts highlighting some of the key developments in IP in Africa in 2023. As previously stated, the Africa IP Highlights 2023 is the result of collaboration between myself and Clarisse Mideva ; Rita Chindah ; and Jessie Mgonga.

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NFTs: promisingly transformational, yet fraught with IP pitfalls – Part I

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Although frequently misconstrued, this technology represents an exceptional advancement that can yield enormous revenue streams for both creators and consumers by altering the digital representation of real-world assets. We address these questions in a two-part post.

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Wednesday whimsies

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In-person event on standard essential patents (SEPs) in Turin The Italian branch of the Licensing Executives Society (LES) is holding a one-day event on SEPs and their upcoming reform. This year’s theme is AI’s impact on creation, innovation, content, IP rights and competition. See here for further details.

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Open Access Book on Negotiating History of the WCT and WPPT by Dr. R.V.V. Ayyar

SpicyIP

And it’s published under a creative commons license, with the text available on his website here. In India, for example, Internet for general users arrived only in August 1995; […] email was a novelty confined to technology buffs and even such buffs knew little about the fledgling digital technologies. Watal and A.

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An Outline on South Africa and India’s WTO IP waiver

IP and Legal Filings

Thus, the COVID 19 pandemic has underlined the importance of waiving patents and other IP-related rights linked to healthcare products, vaccines, and scientific processes to ensure the accessibility of the same on a global level. Image Source:gettyimages]. Highlights of the WTO TRIPS waiver proposed by South Africa and India.

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UKIPO’s public consultation on AI and IP – computer-generated works (Part 1)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Running from 29 October 2021 to 7 January 2022, the “ Artificial Intelligence and IP: copyright and patents ” consultation formed the latest round in an ongoing national conversation between the UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) and interested stakeholders (see here ). A third alternative: the related rights approach.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

The Indonesian government has examined the existence of blockchain technology cautiously, leaning more toward acceptance of the new technology than outright prohibition. The current rules and regulations acknowledge the use of blockchain technology. The approach now used for cryptocurrency and blockchain in general shows this.