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SpicyIP Weekly Review (July 26 – August 1)

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Parliamentary Standing Committee Report on IPR: Tipping the Scales of Patent Law? Continuing our posts on the Parliamentary Standing Committee Report, I wrote a II-part post on the Report’s recommendations on patent law reform. Part I and II. Fonts and Typefaces: Are they Copyrightable?

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 4-March 10)

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The plaintiff has registered its “Social” trademark and states to have invested considerably in its advertisement from 2001-2023. The Court also took note of the defendant’s applications for identical trademark and artistic work, despite the plaintiff’s prior registrations for lack of bona fides.

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Artificial intelligence and intellectual property rights: the USPTO DABUS decision

Barry Sookman

This is a question that is being studied including by the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) which launched an investigation into issues associated with patenting artificial intelligence inventions. patent law, 35 USC §§ 1 et seq. an inventor must be a natural person. In addition, the U.S. Unigate Enter.,