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How I would use AI to steal your design… and what you can do about it
To protect our designs, ideas, and innovations, we must think like an infringer. May AI allow bad actors to knock off your design… and get away with it? First, we need to understand AI-assisted design. Like all new tech, AI will follow Amara’s law. We overestimate the...
Calcutta High Court issues IP Division Rules
The Calcutta High Court recently adopted the much-awaited Intellectual Property Rights Division Rules, 2023 (Calcutta IPD Rules), making it the third High Court in India, after Delhi and Madras, to implement specialized regulations for IP matters. While the Calcutta...
USPTO issues final rule on Director Review of PTAB decisions
On October 1, 2024, the USPTO published a new final rule, Rules Governing Director Review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions. 89 Fed. Reg. 79,744 (October 1, 2024). The final rule codifies many aspects of the PTAB’s revised interim Director Review...
AstraZeneca challenges Axelpharm’s cancer drug patent
AstraZeneca is a world-renowned pharmaceutical company. It owns many patents in Russia and takes steps to protect them against encroachers. Its medicines are exempt from sanctions because they are mainly used for the life-preserving treatment of cancer. Axelpharm, a...
The dark side of fake goods: consumers put health, safety, and the economy at risk while fuelling organized crime
Organized crime groups take advantage of worldwide demand for low-priced goods, misleading consumers into purchasing fake goods Approximately 86 million fake items were seized in the EU in 2022, with an estimated value exceeding €2 billion Counterfeit goods represent...
Semiconductor patents rise by 59% in five years to reach to record high
69,000 patents related to semiconductors were filed in the 2021/22 55% of global patents in 2021/22 were Chinese in origin UK lags behind other nations with just 0.26% of patents filed in the last year There have been a record 69,190 global patents for semiconductors...
Is ChatGPT for Patent Lawyers?
When I was young, Steve Jobs famously called computers “bicycles for the mind,” and the metaphor helped explain why computers are so useful to human beings. Bicycles help humans conserve energy from one step to the next, which is why they are the best walkers in the...
Updated guidelines for examination in the European Patent Office
As a European Patent Attorney, one of my go-to texts is the Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office (EPO), known to many as simply the “Guidelines”. The Guidelines are prepared by the EPO to direct the work of their employees, but they also provide...
Who owns the IP in ChatGPT?
Ever since the printing press was invented, tools have empowered the innovation and creativity of humans to earn a pecuniary right from the things that they create. ChatGPT is no less than the most advanced typewriter made freely available to us. It should be used...
Wait for it: New UP system will bring opportunities for SME innovators
After much inter-jurisdictional wrangling and several administrative false starts, we now have legal certainty that the new Unitary Patent (UP) and Unified Patent Court (UPC) regime will take effect on 1 June 2023. This has been caused by ratification by the German...
Supreme Court to Consider Reviewing World Champion Rope Jumper’s Patent Case
Jump Rope Sys., LLC v. Coulter Ventures, LLC is being closely watched by legal experts and inventors with similar patent infringement cases LOUISVILLE, CO – Feb. 7, 2023 – The U.S. Supreme Court will consider this month whether to hear a case brought by five-time...
Novartis v Nacto : a testament to evolution of Indian Patent Law
Patents are advanced intellectual property that establish the abilities and prospective future of a nation. The evolution of the Patent Law regime in India has been driven by a number of factors, including changes in technology, economic developments, and the global...
HGF continues to grow across Europe with office relocation and expansion in the Island of Ireland
HGF are pleased to announce its office relocation in Dublin and the opening of a new office in Belfast. Both offices opened their doors on Wednesday 1st February to accommodate new growth within the business. The move is part of a strategic business plan, as HGF...
The countries, companies and industries leading the way in cybersecurity innovation
The US leads all other countries with almost half (45%) of all cybersecurity patent applications since 2000 Asia is home to four of the ten countries with the most cybersecurity patent application submissions; China, India, Republic of Korea and Japan Patents...
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