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How NFTs help form the Metaverse and the new Web 3.0

CopyrightsWorld

How are NFTs Transforming Digital Ownership Today, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) give a comprehensive history and evidence of ownership for digital assets and any other asset recognised as a non-fungible token. However, this is only the early stages of the capabilities that non-fungible tokens offer to the web 3.0

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Can We Patent An Idea That Made To Public?

Intepat

So, it is a big ‘No’ if you are looking to share your idea in any form of seminars, conferences, or social media platforms. As a result, one will have ample time to device the claims without worrying about the ownership of the invention. There should not be any publication, videos, or articles about the idea.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 3 – March 9)

SpicyIP

WIPO PCT-Madrid Roving Seminars 2025 The Indian Patent Office, along with WIPO, is organising Roving Seminars at six different locations as a part of WIPOs efforts to promote awareness regarding IP protection and innovation globally through the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and the Madrid System. Read the post for more details.

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Book review: Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century

The IPKat

Their key insights can be summarised as: (1) “a diversity of legal and policy approaches persists” despite a “general trend toward institutional ownership”; (2) “the means to implement legislation. Details here and here.

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Data science needs law: reflections on the experiences of data scientists working in Africa

The IPKat

The Data Science for Social Impact , a research lab at the University of Pretoria recently invited me to speak at its seminar series and I used the opportunity to explore, amongst other things, the role that these legal frameworks play in facilitating or restricting data access within the African continent.

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

The IPKat

The case will proceed to trial, with potential implications for copyright ownership. Computer Technology Committee Spring Seminar (15 May 2025) 5. CIPIL Spring Conference (29 March 2025) 2. LSE Law School Discussion (4 March 2025) 3. INTA New York Conference on Trade Secrets (19-20 March 2025) 4.