30 Sep, 2021 Court of Appeal decides on whether DABUS is a patent inventor: in the end does it even matter? By Slaughter and May In what is the most talked about and most anticipated patent decision this year, recently the Court of Appeal weighed in on the ongoing...
23 Sep, 2021 New AI Strategy to make UK a “global AI superpower” By Natalie Donovan What would your superpower be? For the UK, it’s AI. Yesterday the Government published a National AI Strategy which contains a ten-year...
20 Sep, 2021 Rage against the machines?: (another) DABUS patent and AI update By Slaughter and May It was looking like a good summer for Dr Stephen Thaler, his AI machine DABUS and the international crusade to have DABUS considered as...
20 Sep, 2021 New AI rules: simplified data laws to help AI By Natalie Donovan We have known for some time now that new AI regulation is on the horizon. To-date the focus has been on the EU’s plans, but this month...
20 Sep, 2021 UK GDPR 2.0: DCMS launches public consultation on data protection reform By Bryony Bacon On 10 September, Oliver Dowden (then Digital Secretary) announced a public consultation on reforms to the UK’s data protection regime....
14 Sep, 2021 Baby, one more time?: UK and the EU Copyright Directive By Slaughter and May The EU Copyright Directive has been one of the most controversial legal issues in recent times. Will its provisions become law in the UK?...
14 Sep, 2021 An Epic judgment? The battle of Apple v Fortnite continues By Slaughter and May On 10 September, a US federal judge issued a ruling in the case of Epic Games v Apple. The case has been a high-profile challenge by Epic...
09 Sep, 2021 Has the cookie banner crumbled? By Natalie Donovan Tolerate them or hate them (I’m not sure many people love them), cookie banners have been a part of online life for a few years now. But...
08 Sep, 2021 The tables have turned: Lords committee inquiry into digital regulation By Madalina Secareanu On 7 September 2021 the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee launched an inquiry into the work of digital regulators in...