19 Jan, 2024 UK Supreme Court confirms that AI cannot be an inventor for UK patent purposes By Richard Barker Shortly before Christmas, in one of the most highly anticipated decisions of 2023, the UK Supreme Court confirmed that AI cannot be an...
08 Dec, 2023 US Data & Trust Alliance announce first cross-industry standards for data provenance By Richard Barker As AI continues to dominate the headlines, one word that is consistently cropping up is “transparency” - particularly in relation to the...
28 Nov, 2023 NFTs: CMS Committee highlights scale of potential copyright infringement By Richard Barker Last year, NFTs were everywhere and IP lawyers across the country were grappling to understand their potential impact on IP rights. This...
27 Oct, 2023 High Court places impact of Brexit on trade mark infringement on “advance track” By Richard Barker The High Court has recently considered trade mark infringement through the use of a competitor’s mark as a Google keyword and in related...
25 Sep, 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...
16 Aug, 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...
24 Jul, 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...
25 May, 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...