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Saturday Sundries

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related rights, performers rights), trade marks (incl., geographical indications), designs, best foreign language/non-English IP book and IP in general (books covering diverse IP rights). EUIPO-EPOs report Intellectual property rights and firm performance in the European Union. More information here.

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Never too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

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Copyright Kateryna Militsyna and Liubov Maidanyk unpacked the major legislative changes brought by the new Ukrainian Law on Copyright and Related Rights , adopted in December 2022. Other Chijioke Okorie focused on identifying the principles that should guide African governments in realising the right to research in Africa.

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Understanding Compulsory Licensing and Access to Essentials

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Where it is known as compulsory licensing in reference to patents, it is known as statutory licenses in reference to copyright and related rights. Non-Working of Patent and Inadequate Supply : It may be understood as a failure to make industrial use of the said invention.

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

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Rose Hughes outlined the recent EPO Board of Appeal decision ( T 1356/21 ), which discussed the criterion of novelty for pharmaceutical dosage regimes and selection inventions, as well as the reliance on an unexpected technical effect for inventive step.

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Protection of Nonfungible Tokens in Indonesia

IP and Legal Filings

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. Certain types of intellectual property rights must be considered in relation to the NFTs: 1.

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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. Consequently, patents do not protect inventions if the inventor is an AI system – a point recently confirmed also by the UK Court of Appeal. Option 3: protecting AI devised inventions though a new type of protection.

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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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