Sep 25, 2023 Training Generative AI: Update in Progress By Richard Barker As AI continues to develop, and more and more people become familiar with generative AI and its potential uses, the debate over how to...
Aug 16, 2023 FRAND decisions stack up as High Court rules in Optis v Apple By Richard Barker Following hot on the heels of InterDigital v Lenovo (see here), the High Court has determined FRAND (Fair, Reasonable and...
Jul 24, 2023 Code of Practice on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence – are we in for an endless summer? By Richard Barker As work on the UKIPO’s Code of Practice on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence gets underway, the UKIPO has published its Terms of...
May 25, 2023 Transparency and generative AI – opening the black box? By Richard Barker As generative AI continues to dominate headlines, one aspect that governments and regulators across the world are trying to grapple with...
May 11, 2023 SEPs and FRAND licensing: trending towards transparency? By Charles MacRae For only the second time in its history, the English High Court has determined FRAND (Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) terms for...
Apr 19, 2023 Fixated but no fixation as High Court finds copyright does not subsist in Bitcoin file format By Richard Barker As the world continues to be fixated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the High Court has recently found that copyright does not...
Apr 05, 2023 Another change of tack: can a new code crack the TDM riddle? By Issabella Cardu As part of the continuing debate on how best to balance the rights of AI developers and IP rights holders in the context of text and data...
Mar 21, 2023 A "new era of IP protection in Europe” as the sun (finally) rises on the UPC By Slaughter and May On 17 February, Germany deposited its ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court (the “UPCA”). This was the final step in...
Mar 15, 2023 Oxford University’s IP Policy put under the microscope as High Court considers questions of fairness By Richard Barker As part of a novel defence to a claim for unpaid royalties relating to the use of IP rights in a specialised microscope, the High Court...
Feb 03, 2023 Are the Floodgates Opening? The Future of Large Datasets in AI By Matthew Harman The use of large third-party datasets in the development of AI models has been a contentious issue for some time now. In the latest...
Jan 26, 2023 CJEU says Amazon may be liable for trade mark infringement for sale of counterfeit Louboutins By Richard Barker Richard McDonnell The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) has held that online sales websites like Amazon that operate a “hybrid” business...
Nov 11, 2022 Hold On! There’s no Hold Up or Hold Out By Reinhardt Biermann When can a Standard Essential Patent (SEP) owner obtain an injunction against an infringer? The Court of Appeal clarifies in Optis v...
Oct 24, 2022 UKIPO publishes guidance on examining patent applications for AI inventions By Richard Barker As promised in its response to its Call for Views on AI and IP, the UKIPO has published a set of guidelines clarifying how it will...
Sep 29, 2022 Acquiring start-ups under the improved R&D regime By Kasim Mehmood The UK is, and intends to remain, a leading start-up hub for the tech and other sectors. R&D tax reliefs play a key role in incentivising...
Sep 28, 2022 One tech tip a day keeps the hacker away: NCSC publishes new guidance on how to keep IP safe in cyberspace By Ioanna Antcheva Cyber risks, and the reputational fallout that might ensue, are not a new addition to the woes that keep IP practitioners up at night....
Sep 28, 2022 SEPs and FRAND – English Courts Remain Essential By Reinhardt Biermann Richard Barker SEPs and FRAND have been hot topics for a while and there are no signs of that changing any time soon. In the last couple of months alone...