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AI and IP – to legislate or not? UKIPO’s public consultation seeks evidence

Kluwer Copyright Blog

That call concerned patents, copyright and related rights, designs, trade marks and trade secrets. The law in the UK, as well as in many other major jurisdictions, requires that an inventor is named in the application and that the inventor must be a natural person. Option 1: expanding the definition of “inventor”.

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AI and copyright in 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

And, of course, the debate on computer-generated inventions rumbled on across the world.) 21, Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 ), New Zealand ( section 5(2)(a), Copyright Act 1994 ), South Africa (section 2(h), Copyright Act 1978 ) and the UK ( Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, section 9(3) ).

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AI and IP – A real conversation starter

IP Whiteboard

A key question is whether patent law should allow AI to be identified as the sole or joint inventor, and if not, whether this will discourage future inventions being protected by patent (and instead, being kept confidential). Copyright and related rights. copyright protection for AI software.

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[Guest post] Litigation commenced against the developers of AI image generation software

The IPKat

While the Irish Copyright and Related Rights Act includes a similar provision concerning the authorship of computer-generated works, Irish academics have noted this provision may be inconsistent with the EU acquis.