IP News

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has recently released its 2020 Global Innovation Index (GII) jointly with Cornell University, INSEAD and the 2020 GII Knowledge...
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The Federal Court of Canada recently ruled in Choueifaty v. Canada (Attorney General) that the Canadian Intellectual Property Office’s (CIPO’s) practice of using a...
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The World Intellectual Property Office (the “WIPO”) has now launched its Madrid Application Assistant to assist users with filing Madrid applications (i.e. international trademark...
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DABUS, i.e. the Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience, is an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system that has the ability to generate inventions....
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Typically, registration of copyright in the United States requires a single application (and application fee) for each work in which copyright registration is applied...
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DABUS (Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience), created by Dr. Stephen L. Thaler, uses AI to create and generate novel ideas and...
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On 13 July 2020, the US Supreme Court released its October schedule, which includes hearing oral arguments in the longstanding copyright dispute between Google...
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The CIPO has recently announced a seventh COVID-19 extension for any deadlines fixed under the Patent Act, the Trademarks Act and Industrial Design Act in the period...
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In a surprising decision, the US Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 that adding “.com” to an otherwise generic word can make the combination eligible...
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In previous Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal proceedings concerning alleged infringement of four Bombardier patents, the courts ruled that three of the...
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