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Impact of AI on Global IP Systems

IIPRD

The Swiss Intellectual Property Institute and Zurich University’s Centre for Intellectual Property and Competition Law are working together on a research and policy initiative about the future of IP law in the context of artificial intelligence. A human inventor serves as the central figure in the design of the patent system.

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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. Patents The Report discussed in section IV: (i) the use of NFTs to manage registration, ownership, and licensing of patents; and (ii) how current patent laws apply to NFT-related inventions.

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Decoding Patent Ownership beginning with Core Principles

Patently-O

Whether a present assignment of future inventions automatically conveys legal title to those inventions when the inventions come into being, or instead merely conveys equitable title and requires a separate written instrument to transfer legal ownership. Here, this California based contract is governed by California law of contracts.

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Delaware Judge Seeks to Expose Patent-Litigation Funders

The IP Law Blog

The first standing order requires non-governmental companies and corporations to disclose the name of every person all the way up the chain of ownership who has “a direct or indirect interest in the party.” . The Federal Circuit stayed the document production pending a review of the petition. .

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Traditional Knowledge and Trade Secrets

IP and Legal Filings

Patent laws fail to protect traditional knowledge as it does not recognise generation innovation. Even a WIPO guide on recording traditional knowledge talks about empowering communities to write their own traditional knowledge, and provide limited access to the recorded documents in order to preserve secret traditional knowledge.

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Russia Suspends Compulsory License Payments for Some Non-Russians

IP Tech Blog

As a result, owners of Russian patents from the affected countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, and the European Union, should not expect to be able to enforce their patent rights in Russia in the near term.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

NFT creation, investment, sale, and ownership interest exists in Indonesia and elsewhere in the world. Additionally, pursuant to Article 25 of the ITE Law, electronic information and electronic documents formed into an intellectual work, internet site or intellectual work contained therein are protected by intellectual property rights.