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How can you describe an invention in the ever-evolving area of artificial intelligence to ensure that a patent application includes sufficient details to support claims with scope of interest? How might the answer to this question depend on a field of use, degree of acceptance of a modelling technique, etc? How might empirical or hypothetical examples strengthen the disclosure of a patent application? 12 April 2022
Patents
Patent pool operator Sisvel has signed a deal with Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo to license a portfolio of more than 1,800 patents deemed essential to the 2G, 3G, and 4G standard. 12 April 2022
Trademarks
Grubhub’s new logo is too similar to a trademark for US supermarket chain Kroger’s “Home Chef” brand and should not be used, a Chicago judge has suggested. 12 April 2022
Patents
In a deluge of intangible assets, how do we know that our patent is novel? John Collins of Innovation Foundry and Digital Catapault explores a growing problem. 12 April 2022
Copyright
A British filmmaker has asked a New York court to impose sanctions on the record labels accusing him of infringing copyrights related to compositions by The Rolling Stones. 11 April 2022
Trademarks
The precedent sets out rules around confusingly similar marks and bad faith filings, explains Miguel Bibe at Inventa. 11 April 2022
Trademarks
A computer scientist’s estate has appealed an award handed to self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright, who won a lawsuit to secure IP rights to the technology. 11 April 2022
Trademarks
The Boy Scouts of America can use its gender-neutral marketing to advertise programmes without causing consumer confusion with trademarks held by the Girl Scouts, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled. 8 April 2022
Influential Women in IP
In a landmark development, Ketanji Brown Jackson will become the first African-American woman to serve on the US Supreme Court in its 233-year history. 8 April 2022
Copyright
The musician’s notable win in the ‘Shape of You’ case underscores that legal disputes over pop songs can’t derive from coincidental similarities, say Mark Kramer, Mark Nichols, Georgia Carr of Potter Clarkson. 8 April 2022
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