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...
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...
Jan 10, 2023 Halt! House of Lords minutes indicate proposed new TDM exception to be shelved By Richard Barker Minutes of a recent meeting of the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee suggest that the UK government is halting its...
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 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...
Sep 23, 2022 Exclusive jurisdiction clauses and software licences – High Court reminds us that they’re not so simple By Richard Barker When you are ‘buying’ (in this case, licensing) software, you want to know the risks associated with the deal. One key risk is where you...