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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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Easier said than done: lessons for brands from the latest easyGroup loss
There are lessons for brands and trade mark owners from the recent easyGroup loss in easyGroup Limited v easyfundraising Limited and others. -
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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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Wazdan Holding v Novomatic: a sizzling appeal to the appointed person
At first instance, the opponent, Novomatic AG, successfully opposed Wazdan Holding Limited’s applications for SIZZLING KINGDOM, SIZZLING MOON, SIZZZLING BELLS and SIZZLING REELS, based on likelihood of confusion with its earlier marks for SIZZLING HOT, SIZZLING FORTUNES and SIZZLING COIN, covering identical and similar casino-related goods and services in classes… -
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No EUIPO green light for colour combination mark(s): MARQUES and INTA see red
Trade mark associations (MARQUES and the International Trade Mark Association) have intervened in a General Court case on the registrability of a colour combination mark. -
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Virtual v real: EUIPO draws the line
In a recent decision, the opposition division of the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) has ruled that virtual and real-world goods cannot automatically be considered similar.
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