Nov 28, 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...
Oct 27, 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...
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...
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...
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...