In a recent judgment, the 3rd Panel of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) unanimously ruled that being the holder of a duly granted utility model (UM) patent does not, in itself, authorize the use of the product that implements it, especially when...
read +At the end of November 2023, the Beijing Internet Court, a judicial body that deals with cases related to virtual activity, recognized copyright protection for images generated by an artificial intelligence (AI), the first ruling handed down in the country on the subject.
read +On December 2023, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published the first edition of its Map of Priority Themes (MTP) for the 2024-2025 biennium. The document sets out...
read +At the end of 2023, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published its first revision of the Regulatory Agenda for the 2023-2024 biennium, changing the priority of two actions. The document, published in November 2022, brought with it the 20 regulatory actions considered to...
read +Last Tuesday (8), the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) published its Monthly Industrial Property Bulletin, a statistical document that evaluates industrial property (IP) applications and grants. This edition covers both the month of December and...
read +On December 29th, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) released its 2024 Action Plan, made up of 34 goals and 48 strategic initiatives that should guide the BPTO's activities throughout the new year. The Plan defines...
read +In the last week of December (27), the US newspaper The New York Times sued OpenAI and other technology companies involved in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems for...
read +Recently, the UK High Court of Justice handed down a significant decision in the case of Emotional Perception AI Ltd v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks. The ruling establishes that an...
read +In a decision handed down in December (20), the UK Supreme Court ruled that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot legally be named as an inventor in order to secure patent rights. In the ruling, the UK's highest court concluded, based on the 1977 Patents Act, that...
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