In Response Clothing Ltd v The Edinburgh Woollen Mill Ltd [2020] EWHC 148 (IPEC), the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (“IPEC”) has issued the first UK decision made since the Court of Justice of the European Union’s...more
The right to intellectual property protection in “Artificial Intelligence” generated work gives rise to numerous legal, economic and moral issues....more
Two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court clarified the test for determining when a three dimensional design for a “useful article” is copyrightable, resolving an issue that had divided the federal circuit courts for years....more
Prior to a recent change in the law, copyright protection in an artistic work expired after 25 years if articles embodying the work had been applied industrially (defined as making more than fifty articles). This kept the...more
28 July 2016 shall see the repeal of section 52 of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 ("CDPA"), which currently limits the term of copyright protection for industrially exploited artistic works (for example, works...more