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Pied off: UKIPO gives guidance for food-related trade mark applications
The applicant, Rashid Ray, applied to register the mark PIZZOLOGY in the UK in relation to various food services. This application was opposed, based on a UK trade mark for PIEOLOGY (covering food products and related services), owned by US-based entity, The Little Brown Box Pizza LLC. -
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Robert Kneschke v LAION eV: photographer must accept use of his image in AI database
While the Getty Images v Stability AI case, which is currently pending before the High Court, is hotly debated in the UK, the Hamburg District Court (judgment of 27 September 2024, case number 310 O 227/23) had to address whether artificial intelligence (AI) training data sets infringe German copyright law. -
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Lessons from Carrier v Bitzer: parallel proceedings at the EPO and UPC
Since the Unified Patent Court (UPC) opened its doors a little over a year ago, the European patent system has been adjusting to the presence of a new pillar alongside the European Patent Office (EPO). -
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Withdrawn marketing authorisations and SPCs: CJEU provides clarification
In a recent decision, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) determined that Article 3(d) of the SPC (supplementary protection certificate) Regulation is to be interpreted as meaning that the first marketing authorisation (MA) for a medicinal product refers to the MA which was granted on the earliest… -
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Meril v Edwards: inventive step at the UPC
The Paris Central Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) found that the claims of Edwards Lifesciences Corporation’s patent EP3646825 as amended were inventive, despite the assertions to the contrary by Meril Italy Srl, Meril GmbH and Meril Life Sciences Pvt Ltd. -
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AI in the energy sector: innovation and patenting trends
As we transition to a more sustainable energy system, grid management is becoming increasingly complex. Renewable energy sources such as solar installations are often distributed, creating a need to manage electricity flows to supply electricity to end consumers as well as feed it back into the grid. Renewables also create… -
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Approach to AI-assisted inventions in the USA & UK: when is the human inventive contribution considered to be enough?
In August 2022 the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided in Thaler v Vidal that “only a natural person can be an inventor, so AI cannot be”. This confirmed the position recently taken by courts in other territories in analogous cases: that an application with an AI… -
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A visit to the UPC: Paris Central Division Courtroom insights and observations
September is typically the time of the year when oral proceedings at the European Patent Office (EPO) start to ramp back up again, and it would seem that things are no different at the Unified Patent Court (UPC). -
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Patent support for micro-entities: EPO reduces official fees by 30%
On 01 April 2024 the European Patent Office (EPO) introduced a welcome reduction in many official fees in the European patent grant procedure for applicants which qualify as “micro-entities”. -
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Technological innovation meets endangered wildlife: can AI patent analysis help protect threatened species?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming established as a useful tool for the searching of patents and analysis of patent data. The enormous variety of technologies covered by patents offers access to information about almost any area of innovation one can imagine. A particularly unusual sector has been investigated by a…
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