The IPKat

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The perennial topic of anguish, anger, anxiety, annoyance, etc amongst patent attorneys and litigators, alike. In the absence of such information, a party to the parallel opposition proceedings may request accelerated processing at any time. Accelerated EPO oppositions. With the Unified Patent Court (UPC), a new dimension arrives.

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Nelligan Law

JUNE 6, 2023

The key topics covered in this informative session are: Rights on Termination in Ontario Generally Understanding your rights as an employee in Ontario is crucial when facing termination. Other Issues, Including Bad Faith and Human Rights Issues Terminations can involve complex legal issues beyond basic severance entitlements.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Rob Merges on the topic. If you recall though, in Bilski the Supreme Court offered no decision making framework beyond suggesting a case by case approach. At the time, there were only a sparse few prior cases to guide future decisions.

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Velocity of Content

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

on the impact of consistent data quality strategy on the people, processes, and technology in your organization. With CCC’s recent acquisition of Ringgold and launch of OA Agreement Intelligence, discussions focused on how CCC’s solutions can help publishers make data-driven decisions in the continued shift to open scholarly publishing.?Learn

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The FTC has previously issued guidance and reports on these topics and brought enforcement actions against companies that misused or misrepresented their AI capabilities. The draft rules aim to implement and clarify some of the CPRA provisions related to automated decision-making technology.

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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 11, 2024

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in agriculture is a topic that evokes sharp reactions across the globe. Antibiotic Resistance : Some GMOs are developed using antibiotic-resistant genes as markers during the process of genetic modification. India is no exception.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

It does seem like the topic of AI and copyright was everywhere in the copyright world last year. While some digital topics have been known to cause a great commotion in copyright circles only to later sink practically without a trace, unless I am mistaken, the issue of the copyright implications of AI is different.

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Corsearch

APRIL 5, 2024

These sessions, led by esteemed panelists from organizations such as Warner Music Group, Estée Lauder, PwC, and more, explored a diverse range of topics crucial to the modern trademark landscape, which are covered in more detail below. Portfolio management: Regularly audit trademarks and watches to ensure alignment with business objectives.

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Corsearch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Powered by the state-of-the-art ChatGPT technology, Name Generator streamlines the naming and trademark clearance process, making it faster, more efficient, and cost-effective. ChatGPT’s powerful language model has been trained on a wide variety of topics, making it incredibly versatile and adaptive.

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IP and Legal Filings

APRIL 17, 2024

The research paper contains the quotes and sayings of various contemporary thinkers to provide a clear understanding of the text and the topic under discussion. The research paper strives to elucidate and cover all major points by analyzing the crucial role that power plays within the realms of politics.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The UKIPO’s first bold attempt to deal with the input issues was its decision to reform its current text and data mining exception by opening it up to all commercial uses while maintaining its mandatory nature, namely leaving rightholders no possibility to contract out. Copyright law has always been an emotional topic.

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The IPKat

APRIL 26, 2022

The sun may not be shining in every place, but there are certainly lots of IP events that will make your day and week brighter! The event shall tackle the use of gender-neutral language in decisions, potential priority for the selection process and other relevant topics. Check them out below.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The regulation of artificial intelligence is the topic of national and international public consultations and a growing area of literature. On the other hand, autonomous means a vehicle that is capable of taking decisions without input from a driver, or where there is no human driver at all. Part two focuses on the tools.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

JULY 11, 2023

Across the globe, population statistics are used to pursue equitable growth, sustainable development and informed decision-making. Our International Programs Center performs analytical work and helps assist national statistical offices around the world collect, process, analyze, disseminate and use statistics.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 2, 2023

Bringing law enforcement takes a lot of time – many, many months of investigation, analysis, negotiations and process must occur before an agency brings a law enforcement action. Step one for the FTC is to lay the groundwork and emphasize that the same rules apply whether we are talking about AI or mere human decision-making.

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Velocity of Content

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Over the past two years, librarians, knowledge managers and information professionals have had to make drastic changes to their processes and services in response to the COVID pandemic. We are all operating in an environment in which we must make decisions without having all the information we wish we had.

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Velocity of Content

AUGUST 19, 2021

The basic idea of the alternative-to-court process that CASE provides is very similar to that of an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) procedure, although it is more often compared to a “small claims court” specifically dedicated to resolving copyright matters. This will make it easier for parties to represent themselves.

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Herbert Smith Freehills

APRIL 12, 2022

In summary, one side of the debate argued that the ‘best interests’ obligation of a trustee was to be tested by way of an ‘outcomes’ test (ie having regard to the adjective ‘best’) and the other side argued that it was a test to be viewed by the process undertaken by a trustee in making a decision.

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Patently-O

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Over the past few years, the Federal Circuit has issued a series of enablement decisions, including Amgen v. Whether enablement is governed by the statutory requirement that the specification teach those skilled in the art to “make and use” the claimed invention, 35 U.S.C. § 14a (emphasis added). For example, as applied in Consol.

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Patently-O

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The most anticipated case last year was the 101 eligibility petition regarding automobile drive shaft manufacturing process. Topics: Enablement / Written Description (All three are biotech / pharma): 3 Cases; Infringement (FDA Labeling): 1 Case; Anticipation (On Sale Bar): 1 Case; Double Patenting (Still the law?)

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Is the goal here to have consumers talk about the topic of the day – e-cigarette marketing and youth uptake? And if that is the case, wouldn’t it make sense to provide consumers with access to information about the report in advance of the meeting?

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Trading Secrets

MARCH 24, 2022

In its recent unpublished decision of Rouses Enterprises, L.L.C. 8, 2022), the Fifth Circuit upheld the Eastern District of Louisiana’s decision that a non-compete was unenforceable against Rouses’ former Vice President of Center Store Merchandising, James B. Clapp , 2022 WL 686332 (5th Cir.

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Over the course of the late 1980s and early 1990s, unethical business activities and dubious corporate policies plagued the global corporate sector, giving rise to the topic of corporate governance.

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SpicyIP

MARCH 4, 2024

Read Tejaswini’s post to know more about the decision and how it fares with the MHC order on Section 3(i) in the Chinese University of Hong Kong case. Here is another round of SpicyIP flashbacks by Lokesh, where he looks into a variety of topics ranging from IP and Gaming to Biodiversity and Benefit Sharing!

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SpicyIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We have already traversed through Junes , Julys , Augusts , Septembers , Octobers , Novembers , Decembers , and shared some stories like Rahul Cherian’s Legacy, 2010’s International Efforts on Pandemics, Corruption in IP Offices, Law Making via Leaked Documents, etc. Then, Arundathi Venkataraman discussed the topic using the case of Garcia v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Unfortunately, the recent decision in WaterRower v Liking [2022] EWHC 2084 (IPEC) was not that case, despite many reporting in the aftermath of the decision that UK copyright has been extended to protect a rowing machine as a ‘work of artistic craftsmanship’. . The Decision. The WaterRower.

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LexBlog IP

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

The 11 th Circuit upheld a decision to unseal “embarrassing internal communications” between members of the United Network for Organ Sharing (“UNOS”) relating to its new policy directing liver transplants to go to the sickest patients within a certain radius of the donor.

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The IPKat

APRIL 25, 2024

Since we last wrote for the IPKat on the topic , additional posts have discussed the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee’s inquiry into the impact of AI on the creative industries and the UK House of Lords Inquiry into Large Language Models. There has been relatively limited UK case law directly considering section 9(3).

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 28, 2023

This process, sometimes also referred to as a “knockout search”, helps trademark applicants get a sense of the field before they apply. In this post, I will discuss the topic of preliminary screens and their benefits—a topic I discuss with trademark clients often.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

A large service like YouTube with an exceptionally high content moderation accuracy rate will make many millions of moderation errors–not because of discrimination but because of the inevitable limitations and possible arbitrariness of content moderation. What was YouTube thinking???

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LexBlog IP

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Finally, Part 4 will explore other key legal topics to be considered when using synthetic data to train an AI model. This decision is currently on appeal, and no U.S. This decision is currently on appeal, and no U.S. You can read part 1, here. [1] Court, Dist. of Columbia 2023 – Google Scholar.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

This creates powerful new precedent that will make it easier for web scrapers to prevail in litigation and will make it much harder for websites to prevent scraping. — If the Northern District of California’s recent rulings with Bright Data were a bit of a surprise, its recent decision in the X Corp. hiQ Labs, Inc.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

MAY 2, 2023

In October 2022, the White House published a document titled, “ Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, Making Automated Systems Work for the American People.” This Guidance covers some important topics. It is important to consider this in your patent process and AI use policies. Open Source AI-based code generators (e.g.,

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Policy debates in the US and the EU by Anna Pokrovskaya "Reviewing" the prior art The question of whether AI can be considered a person having ordinary skill in the art (PHOSITA) in a given field is a topic of significant debate in the policy realms of both the US and the EU.

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The IPKat

JULY 30, 2021

As readers may know, the German parliament recently adopted amendments of the German Patent Act (GPA) as the final step of a reform process that spanned nearly two years [final version (German) here , earlier Katpost here , news coverage here ]. here and here ].

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The IPKat

MAY 8, 2022

Following a hearing, the Hearing Officer issued decisions upholding the objections. This approach goes against the grain of the policy decision, which abolished the practice under the 1938 Act of requiring letters of consent. • These decisions were not based on any evidence or specified sources that proved the existence of such rights.

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The IPKat

MAY 12, 2024

Over to the team : "Introduction: the UPC shapes its confidentiality regime Confidentiality can be a sensitive topic for parties involved in legal proceedings. This post dives into how confidentiality is dealt with in the UPC by discussing the relevant provisions first (Part A) and then some recent guidance from the case law (Parts B and C).

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