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What should employers in Belgium consider when using AI in the workplace?

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 11:18:02 +0100

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Artificial intelligence has enormous potential from recruitment to termination, but the regulatory landscape is evolving fast

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Orders to preserve evidence under the Unified Patent Court: seven trends from the emerging case law

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 10:40:05 +0100

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The UPC has demonstrated a flexible approach – and so far has routinely granted ex parte orders to preserve evidence of suspected infringement

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What qualifies as a legitimate reason to object to parallel trade of medicines in Europe?

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:35:13 +0000

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Trade mark owners are able to object to the parallel trade of medicines provided that there are legitimate reasons

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What are the patentability implications of deregulating gene editing in plants in the EU?

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:26:38 +0000

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The European Parliament has voted to embrace more flexibility in the regulation of gene-edited plants but has proposed a ban on patents

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UK Supreme Court finds sales of trade marked goods from US website targeted UK consumers for infringement purposes

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 14:23:55 +0000

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US website's targeting of UK consumers amounted to infringing trade mark use in the UK and EU, but no decision given on whether non-targeted overseas sales are infringing

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Updated EPO examination guidelines address AI, accelerated oppositions and antibody claims

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:32:48 +0000

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The European Patent Office's new guidelines entered into force on 1 March

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Technology, Media, and Communications Annual Review 2024: key themes

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:16:00 +0000

AI, digital regulation, M&A and emerging 'inclusive' policies are among the areas of focus for this year's review

English court finds trade mark valid for oat-based drinks despite use of the term 'milk'

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:25:00 +0000

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High Court rules that the UKIPO wrongly found mark invalid and did not breach regulation on use of term 'milk'

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UK AI and copyright voluntary code of practice dropped – what next?

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:56:12 +0000

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Balancing IP rightsholders' and AI developers' interests proves difficult as agreement on a code cannot be reached and Lords committee calls for certainty

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Future Foods Update | January 2024

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:44:06 +0000

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This month's edition includes novel food authorisations in Europe, IP in meat terminology, supply of service contracts, venture capital investment tips, and cultivating talent with employment agreements

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Looking back at the press publisher right to fair compensation in 2023 and looking forward to 2024

Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:44:56 +0000

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As implementation of the European Copyright Directive continues, we look at the most recent developments and at what is coming down the track

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The year ahead for intellectual property: an international perspective

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 15:28:49 +0000

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The transformative nature of artificial intelligence means it will continue to be a live issue this year, with attention also on the UPC, SEP licensing and platform liability

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What legal developments can businesses in the UK expect in 2024?

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 10:53:50 +0000

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Our Knowledge Team looks at what lies ahead for business law

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UK Supreme Court confirms inventors must be human

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:11:35 +0000

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Patent applications naming an AI-powered machine as the inventor were rightly rejected by the UKIPO

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UK Court of Appeal confirms Samsung is liable for third-party content on app store

Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:22:39 +0000

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Samsung was not entitled to rely on the eCommerce Directive's hosting safe harbour

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UKIPO updates patent examination guidance after High Court AI patentability decision

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 12:58:47 +0000

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Examiners should not object to inventions involving artificial neural networks under the computer program exclusion

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Generative AI litigation – should this be a concern for users of AI tools?

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 14:17:35 +0000

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With news of a fresh legal claim being brought against developers of AI tools being an almost weekly occurrence, how could these claims affect the users of these tools?

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UK High Court finds AI invention patentable

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:47:31 +0000

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Court gives guidance for the first time on whether AI inventions are excluded from patentability as computer programs

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The EU's draft standard essential patents regulation: what you need to know

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:38:15 +0000

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Reform would radically alter European SEP licensing by focusing on alternative dispute resolution: how would it work?

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European Parliament committees and EPO issue opinions on draft SEP regulations

Wed, 15 Nov 2023 11:32:16 +0000

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Commission's proposals would drastically change the landscape of standard essential patent licensing disputes in the EU

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Business protection in the employment lifecycle: what US businesses with global employees need to know

Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:10:24 +0000

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The employment lifecycle offers various touchpoints for potential risk, from onboarding to exit

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Mitigating the business risks of AI in the UK

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:03:29 +0100

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Osborne Clarke's AI experts have written an article for Sentinel Magazine on how risk managers can take advantage of the opportunities and manage the potential dangers of generative AI

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Polish authority fines company and president for using 'dark patterns'

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0100

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Consumer protection body intensifies its crackdown on dark patterns with a heavy fine on a dietary supplement business

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General Court finds geo-blocking of video games breaches EU competition law

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:40:38 +0100

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Commission's finding upheld that Valve and five PC game publishers had anti-competitive 'geo-blocking' agreements

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Abolition of the so-called "Professor Privilege" in Italy: new guidelines on contracts between research institutions and financing parties

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:17:36 +0100

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Law no. 102 of 24 July 2023, containing Amendments to the Industrial Property Code (pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 30 of 10 February 2005) has overhauled art. 65 governing the ownership of industrial property rights in inventions produced by researchers of "Universities, including legally recognised non-state universities, public research organisations and Institutes for Research, Hospitalisation and Scientific Care (IRCCS)" ("Institutions"), now providing that the ownership of the invention be vested in such Institutions, thus abolishing the so-called "Professor Privilege", according to which any right (not only moral but also property) deriving from the invention belongs to the researchers alone and not to the organisation to which they belong.

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