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Saturday Sundries

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/saturday-sundries.html Here are the latest opportunities and events to find out about. A Kat waiting for new IP events Events 22 February 2024: SMEs and patent holdouts: how European SMEs fight back 4iPcouncil will hold a webinar titled “SMEs and patent holdouts: how European SMEs fight back on 22 February... Continue reading
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Guest Book Review: Teaching Intellectual Property Law

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/guest-book-review-teaching-intellectual.html This is a book review of Teaching Intellectual Property Law: Strategy and Management edited by Sabine Jacques, Associate Professor in Information Technology, Media and Intellectual Property Law, University of East Anglia Law School and Ruth Soetendorp, Visiting Academic, City University of London and Professor Emerita, Bournemouth University. This review... Continue reading
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[Guest post] Can AI be considered a PHOSITA? Policy debates in the US and the EU

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/guest-post-can-ai-be-considered-phosita.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Anna Pokrovskaya (RUDN University, Intellectual Property Center “Skolkovo”) reviewing current debates in the US and the EU on the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may play in patentability considerations. Here’s what Anna writes: Can... Continue reading
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Board of Appeal proposes a substantially broader definition of “substance or composition” in second medical use claiming (T 1252/20)

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/board-of-appeal-proposes-substantially.html The recent Board of Appeal decision in T 1252/20 proposed a substantially broader category of products permissible for second medical use claiming. The Board of Appeal disagreed with the previous approach in the case law of restricting second medical use claiming to products having a chemical mode of action. For the Board of... Continue reading
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Inventorship guidance for AI-assisted inventions published by the USPTO

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/inventorship-guidance-for-ai-assisted.html On 12 February 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced with a press release the publication of its Inventorship Guidance for AI-Assisted Inventions (Guidance). The Guidance has been published and will be effective from 13 February 2024. The Guidance “provides instructions to examiners and stakeholders on... Continue reading
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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/never-too-late-if-you-missed-ipkat-last_14.html If you’ve been too busy organising a grand romantic gesture for your loved one, not to worry, the IPKat has lovingly prepared this summary of the IP news from last week. Patents Happy Valentine’s Day from the IPKat!Photo by Jasmine Pang, via Pexels. This Kat highlighted the potential changes to... Continue reading
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Highlights from the new EPO Guidelines for Examination 2024

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/highlights-from-new-epo-guidelines-for.html The updated EPO Guidelines for Examination will enter into force on 1 March 2024. A draft version of the Guidelines can be previewed here. The main updates this year reflect the recent decisions from the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) in G2/21 (Evidence standard for inventive step/plausibility) and G 1/22 (Entitlement to priority).... Continue reading
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[Guest Post] Copyright as movable property: Constitutional issues with Nigeria’s Copyright Act 2022

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/guest-post-copyright-as-movable.html The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the following guest contribution by Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams, PhD researcher in the fields of copyright and dispute system design at the University of Antwerp, regarding Nigeria’s Copyright Act 2022 (which came into effect in 2023) and its constitutional reference to... Continue reading
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Cloudflare liable for copyright infringement by providing CDN services but not for DNS resolver services

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/cloudflare-liable-for-copyright.html After the German Supreme Court set a high bar for obtaining a website blocking order against Internet service providers in DNS-Sperre (IPKat here), the Higher Regional Court of Cologne dealt with the question whether the provider of DNS resolver and CDN services can be liable for copyright infringement if... Continue reading
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Book Review: Research Handbook on IP and Moral Rights

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/02/this-is-book-review-of-research.html This is a book review of the Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Moral Rights, curated by Ysolde Gendreau (Université de Montréal, Canada), provided by Francesca Mazzi, Lecturer in AI, Innovation and Law at Brunel University London. Here’s what she has to say: They say don’t judge a book by... Continue reading