New UK Supreme Court ruling discusses patentability of AI inventions

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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Retrospective of IDS events in 2023

In 2023, the Dannemann Siemsen Institute (IDS) stepped up its efforts to disseminate the Intellectual Property culture.

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Brazil’s Supreme Court rules that the Federal Court has jurisdiction to judge the crime of transnational copyright infringement

In a decision handed down last week (18), the Federal Supreme Court (STF) upheld, by a majority, Extraordinary Appeal No. 702362, which involved transnational copyright infringement.

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ANPD releases its second Monitoring Cycle Report

On December 8, the National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published its second Monitoring Cycle Report (RCM) of the General Supervision Coordination (CGF), referring to...

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Brazilian PTO celebrates 53 years with project to recover the history of patents in Brazil

Last week, the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) celebrated its 53rd anniversary. In celebration of the date, the institute launched the "Memória da Propriedade Industrial - Patentes Históricas" (Memory of Industrial Property - Historical Patents) project, to ...

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European Union reaches agreement to regulate artificial intelligence

Last Friday (8), the member states of the European Union (EU) and their legislators reached an agreement on the general rules for drafting a regulation for artificial intelligence (AI) models.

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TJ/SP denies the right to exclusive use of the name of a historical personality in the denomination of a Masonic lodge

The State Court of Justice of São Paulo (TJ/SP) upheld a decision that did not recognize the exclusive use of the name of a historical figure by a Masonic lodge. In Freemasonry, specifically, the word lodge...

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Spotify to leave Uruguay after changes to the country’s Copyright Law

In a recent statement, Spotify, one of the world's largest audio platforms, announced through a spokesperson that it will stop offering its services to users in Uruguay by February 2024. The decision, according to the company, was due to the updating of Uruguay's Copyright Law (Law 9.739/37 amended by Law 17616/2003), approved in November.

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ICANN launches global service that simplifies requests for non-public domain name registration data

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization that coordinates the naming and numbering systems on the Internet, launched a new service in November, called the Registry Data Request Service (RDRS).

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