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[Webinar] Cross-border IP strategies for IP owners and litigators - September 18th, 2:00 pm PDT

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Explore skinny labelling & obviousness in Canada and Australia - If you are an intellectual property (IP) owner, a litigator or an in-house legal professional managing IP litigation in multiple jurisdictions, don’t miss...more

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[Webinar] Cross-border IP strategies for IP owners and litigators - September 12th, 12:00 pm GMT

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Explore skinny labelling & obviousness in Canada and Australia - If you are an intellectual property (IP) owner, a litigator or an in-house legal professional managing IP litigation in multiple jurisdictions, don’t miss...more

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Patent Protection for AI Creations - Landmark decision by the German Federal Court of Justice

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These days, patent courts across the world have to address the question of how to deal with AI-generated inventions. The German Federal Court of Justice ("FCJ") has recently issued a landmark decision (decision of June...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2023 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis & Trends: Global Design Law and Policy: Gains and Setbacks in Protecting Digital and...

The outlines of global design protection change regularly, with every year bringing significant updates in at least some major jurisdictions. In general the changes bend toward greater alignment and the emergence of...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends: International Design Law: Global Law and Policy

Design protection continues to be a priority for governments around the world. Global design protection is gradually becoming more modern and harmonized. Building on earlier developments, China made progress to implement...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2022 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

Last year, in our inaugural issue of “The Year in Review,” we reported that since the landmark jury verdict in the IP litigation between Apple and Samsung in 2012, which awarded more than $1B to Apple for infringement of...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Australian Court Overturns AI Inventorship Ruling

In 2021, the Australian Federal Court ruled in a landmark case that a device characterized as an artificial intelligence (AI) machine could for the first time be listed as an inventor on a patent application for the purposes...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Australia Appeal Decision Reverses Direction on AI Inventorship

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Over the past few years technology evangelist and inventor Stephen Thaler, together with the Artificial Inventor Project, has campaigned for patent law changes across jurisdictions to recognize artificial intelligence (AI) as...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2021 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends: International Design Law Continues to Evolve

Like 2020 before it, 2021 has been a year of change for global design protection. Countries like Korea continue to update their rules to deal with the realities of modern, virtual design. China enacted a big modernization to...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2021 Design Patents Year in Review: Analysis and Trends

This year, we will mark the 10-year anniversary of the first jury verdict in the landmark IP litigation between Apple and Samsung, which resulted in the jury awarding more than $1B to Apple. More than $500M of that award was...more

Hogan Lovells

Provisional Application Phase means Unified Patent Court is set to go live.

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On 18 January 2022, the ratification of the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on provisional application (PPA) by the Austrian Parliament was notified to the Council of the European Union. This means that...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Benefits and Considerations for Patent Prosecution Under Patent Prosecution Highway in Australia, Canada, South Korea, and Japan

This is the second article of the multi-part series discussing benefits of prosecuting patents under Patent Prosecution Highway or PPH. The first article can be accessed here. To recap, PPH is a set of initiatives promulgated...more

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Australian Judge Rules Inventions Developed By Artificial Intelligence Can Qualify For Patent Protection

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In Thaler v. Commissioner of Patents, case number VID 108 of 2021, in the Federal Court of Australia, an Australian Federal Judge became the first known jurist to rule that inventions developed by artificial intelligence can...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Global Patent Portfolios of the Top 25 Well-Funded AV Companies

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Obtaining patent protection on a global scale can be costly. As each country is a sovereign jurisdiction, they have their own Patent Office, requiring a patent application to be filed and examined in the respective Patent...more

International Lawyers Network

Intellectual Property Extensions Resulting from Coronavirus

Currently, the USPTO is not offering extensions to patent and trademark application deadlines. The USPTO is, however, offering fee waivers to those affected by the coronavirus in the following situations....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Global Artificial Intelligence Patent Survey

Research and development conducted worldwide is currently driving the so-called “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (referred to herein as “4IR”). 4IR encompasses three major fields: (1) physical technologies, including autonomous...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

News from Abroad -- Australia Remains a Gene-Patent Friendly Jurisdiction

When the Australian High Court ruled against the patentability of isolated naturally occurring genes in the Myriad decision, a number of commentators believed that the decision would ultimately invalidate claims directed to...more

McAfee & Taft

Saving grace

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One of the benefits of a patent under the U.S. system is, for a limited time, the patent owner gets the exclusive right to manufacture, use and sell the invention. The public policy behind this is to create an incentive for...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

News from Abroad: Not One But Two Decisions Fine Tune the Australian Patent Office's Approach to Life Science Technologies

Two recent Australian Patent Office decisions have provided clarity as to the patentability of isolated nucleic acid sequences following the High Court's decision in D'Arcy v Myriad Genetics ('Myriad'). The first decision is...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

News from Abroad: IP Australia Releases Myriad Examination Guidelines

Following the recent public consultation in view of the Australian High Court's decision in D'Arcy v Myriad Genetics ("Myriad"), IP Australia has released new Examination Guidelines for applications which may be affected by...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

Comparing U.S. and Australian Provisional Patent Applications

The United States and Australia each offer the option of filing a provisional patent application before filing a national or PCT non-provisional patent application. The U.S. provisional patent system and the Australian...more

K&L Gates LLP

Major Changes to Australian Patent Law – Act Now to Benefit From Current Law

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On 15 April 2013, the bulk of 'Raising the Bar' amendments to the Australian Patents Act come into effect. These amendments will change Australian patent law significantly by raising patentability and specification...more

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