The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the review of Publishers’ Rights and Copyright Law by Michalina Kowala. This book review has been prepared by Simone Driusso, who did his dissertation on press publishers' rights while studying for his Master of Laws at University of Trento

Op-ed: AI copyright policy could be a matter of life and death — “Here’s the critical point: Protecting intellectual property won’t make us lose the AI race. It is a compelling strategic advantage. The next leap in AI capability, especially in specialized fields like healthcare, requires access to p

Originally posted 2012-11-29 12:42:31. Republished by Blog Post PromoterWho was the first legal blogger? The post Blawg lang syne appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

For as long as there's been an internet, there's been a tug-of-war between sites and users. Agentic browsers could escalate that fight to new levels. Source

"Free political debate is an essential element of any democratic society," said Advocate General Szpunar in the opening of his Opinion in Inter IKEA Systems v Algemeen Vlaams Belang (Case C‑298/23), delivered today. Since EU trade mark law contains no sp

SCOTUS declines to hear Eleanor case, YouTuber arrested in India over pirated clips, and Amazon Fire TV now blocks pirate apps. Source

Don’t worry, IPKat has your back with the latest in the IP world. Missed last week? Here’s the gist:Copyright, AI, and Personality RightsOliver Fairhurst covered the long-awaited High Court of England and Wales judgment in Getty Images v Stability AI, in which the majority of Getty’s claims were rej

Originally posted 2014-08-18 11:21:21. Republished by Blog Post PromoterJohn Welch discusses a District Court decision (which he and his [then-]firm, Foley Hoag, helped secure) dismissing a declaratory judgment action brought by one side in a trademark dispute, seeking a ruling of “non-infringement.

Two papers were recently retracted for using the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale without a license. However, the history of the MMAS is complicated. Source

German court rules OpenAI violating songwriters' copyrights, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame when photography case and Cox files new briefs with the Supreme Court. Source

The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025 (PERA 2025) is a proposed amendment to 35 U.S.C. § 101 that establishes clearly defined statutory exceptions to patent eligibility and eliminates all judicial exceptions. Support for PERA 2025 has been somewhat mixed: companies facing infringement lawsu

This OzKat recently attended a series of international IP conferences and was alarmed to hear (more than once) advice to leave certain proprietary information relating to the performance of the invention out of a patent specification. While most jurisdictions have relaxed or dispensed with

Originally posted 2014-12-03 12:54:58. Republished by Blog Post PromoterThe Sports Law Blog reports on a story I first saw in the hard copy edition of IP Law and Business. A version of it (that magazine, like almost everything else, is owned by AmLaw Media) can be found here. Bottom line: Major Leag

Re:Sound Annual Report 2024 This recent November 6, 2025 decision of the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) is a big smackdown of Re:Sound  - the big music collective that represents “artists and record companies”. This is an interesting decision for more than one reason. Re:Sound – which has long been r

The latest issue of Music & Copyright has now been published. Here are some of this issue’s highlights. HEADLINE FEATURE: CISAC reports another record year for global creators’ rights but warns of the dangers of unregulated AI The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers

T 1849/23 is the first decision from the Boards of Appeal to apply G 1/24 to the use of information from the description to broaden otherwise clear claim language (many thanks to eagle-eyed Katfriend Alessandro Cossu for spotting this!). The approach of the Board

Originally posted 2014-05-29 01:48:46. Republished by Blog Post PromoterMichael Hall considers the PTO’s “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose” policy, by which it uses trademark registrations as evidence to refuse new applications on the basis of “descriptiveness”: [T]he Office routinely relies upon them in

For more than three decades, Ferrari has not sold a single new Testarossa, yet, the trade mark ‘Testarossa’ is keeping the courts quite busy. The Court of Justice of the EU (‘CJEU’) issued a ground-breaking decision on genuine use by selling used cars and spare parts (Ferrari, IPKat here and me here

UK man avoids prison for selling pirate subscriptions, South Korea music association says Google is unfair and CyberGhost DMCA's critical article. Source

Mobile Motherboard Inc. v. AIOEXPC, et al., No. 24 C 8703 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 4, 2025) (Shah, J.).Judge Shah granted defendants’ Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(c) motion for judgment on the pleadings in this patent infringement case involving a two-piece computer system patent. The Court found that plaintiff Mobil