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Book Review: The Future of Intellectual Property

The IPKat

The individual rights-based regime neglects the collective identity and duties arising from ownership. Li proposes redefining the nature of IP ownership through the lens of collective duties with a view to optimising the use of IP rights. And now she has our full attention.

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The USPTO and USCO Delivered a Report to Congress on IP Issues with NFTs – Maintains Existing IP Regime

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Unsophisticated consumers may conflate the purchase of an NFT associated with a digital good with ownership of IP rights in that good. The Offices found: To the extent that an NFT is associated with a copyrightable work, the creation, storage, marketing, or transfer of that NFT may implicate copyright owners’ exclusive rights.

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“Right to Access a Public Record” vs “Right to not Communicate the Work”: Where is Public Interest?”

SpicyIP

If the scholar had a patent in the USA, (for the invention based on his thesis), it is already a disclosure for the purposes of filing another patent application in India, US ( 35 U.S.C. 12 ) or anywhere else, because granting of patents necessarily includes publication of invention.

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Impact of AI on Global IP Systems

IIPRD

But it’s now evident that AI is capable of producing inventions on its own, and there have been multiple documented instances of patent applications where the person applying for a patent has recognized AI as the inventor. However, the grant of design protection will depend on the case.

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Parliamentary Standing Committee’s Recommendations Concerning AI and IP: A Little Late or Way too Early?

SpicyIP

In this post, I will be analysing the recommendations pertaining to the amendment of patent laws in order to facilitate inventorship and ownership by AI. I will be restricting the discussion to the evaluation of the Indian patent regime, as the implications of AI on Indian copyright law has been previously dealt with here.

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Australian court says that AI can be an inventor: what does it mean for authors?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Thaler [2021] APO 5 , which allowed listing AI system DABUS as an inventor in a patent application. It is interesting to explore what implications this decision could have in the field of copyright. The DABUS case refers to an international patent application where AI DABUS was listed as an inventor.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (August 16 – 22)

SpicyIP

Zee Entertainment Enterprises refused to grant an interim injunction in a case involving the telecasting of certain films by Zee Entertainment on their satellite channels and OTT platform in which the plaintiff claimed ownership of copyright. This move has been reported to bring down the application fee from Rs. News from India.