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Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law!

SpicyIP

We are very happy to announce the results of the 2024 Shamnad Basheer Essay Competition on Intellectual Property Law! Like previous years, we kept the topic selection open to participants asking them to choose any topic they wanted so long as it related to IP. Shamnad Basheer 1976-2019; taken at NUJS, Kolkata circa 2009.

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Virtual Worlds, Real Rules: EU Parliament’s First Take on IP in the Metaverse

IP Watchdog

This is the question the European Parliament addresses for the first time in its Resolution on policy implications of the development of virtual worlds – civil, company commercial and intellectual property law issues, published on October 17, 2024, in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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ChatUSG: What Companies Doing Business with the Government Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Some of these issues are specific to doing business with the government and others are broader issues that all companies face when using AI, and generative AI (GAI) in particular. Broader Issues with Generative AI Some other issues companies face with employee use of AI relate to IP and open source.

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USPTO Officially Withdraws Terminal Disclaimer Proposal

IP Watchdog

The withdrawal was expected, with panelists at IPWatchdog’s Life Sciences Masters Program in October predicting based on USPTO Director Kathi Vidal’s comments at the American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Annual Meeting that the rule was unlikely to be finalized before her departure from the Office.

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The Implications of Intellectual Property Laws in the Tourism Industry

IP and Legal Filings

The laws governing copyright cover a variety of materials used in the tourism sector. IP Branding: Certification marks and GI. The dichotomy between branding and Intellectual Property (IP) Law has been a significant one. are a few examples.

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Protecting Application Programming Interfaces (API) Through Intellectual Property Laws

Kashishipr

There has been a long-standing debate about the different modes of safeguarding an API through the laws on patents, copyright, and trade secrets. Patents do not govern computer programs, per se. We shall now examine each of them separately. Patents and APIs. For more visit: [link].

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IP Scholarship, Citations, and Knowledge Governance: Some Insights from the History of IP Teaching in India

SpicyIP

While the question made sense ever since I read the post, it started making more sense (and bothering me more) after working on the SpicyIP Open IP Syllabus where I witnessed a relative “over-accessibility” of US-European IPR scholarship. I began to wonder – are there actually fewer IP scholars in India (or the Global South in general)?