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Recent Developments in Patent Law 2023

Recent Developments in Patent Law 2023

Copyright in AI-generated works: Lessons from recent developments in patent law

By Rita Matulionyte and Jyh-An Lee. In <em>Thaler v The Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (DABUS)</em>, Smith J. held that an AI owner can possibly claim patent ownership over an AI-generated invention based on their ownership and control of the AI system. This AI-owner approach reveals a new option to allocate property rights over AI-generated output. While this judgment was primarily about inventorship and ownership of AI-generated invention in patent law, it has important implications for copyright law. After analysing the weaknesses of applying existing judicial approaches to copyright ownership of AI-generated works, this paper examines whether the AI-owner approach is a better option for determining copyright ownership of AI-generated works. The paper argues that while contracts can be used to work around the AI-owner approach in scenarios where users want to commercially exploit the outputs, this approach still provides more certainty and less transaction costs for relevant parties than other approaches proposed so far.

Recent Developments in Patent Law 2022

Recent Developments in Patent Law 2022

Recent Developments in Patent Law 2021

Recent Developments in Patent Law 2021

Recent Developments in Patent Law 2020

A summary of the most significant developments in patent law for the year ending April 19, 2020.

Recent Developments in Patent Law 2019

Recent Developments in Patent Law 2019

Recent Developments in Patent Law 2018

A summary of the most important cases in patent law decided between June 2017 and May 2018.

Recent Developments in Patent Law (Spring 2017)

This paper summarizes the significant developments in patent law in the twelve months ending in April 2017.

Recent Developments in Patent Law (Spring 2016)

This paper summarizes the most important patent cases in the past 12 months, from May 2015 through April 2016.

Recent Developments in Patent Law - 2015

Patent law has experienced extraordinary upheaval over the past few years, a disruption that touches virtually every aspect of policy and practice. In this essay, I’ll talk about some of the most recent developments in patent law, from broad themes to specific doctrinal moves. Given the limits of this form, and the sheer amount of change, I can only touch on the highlights. But those highlights reveal an area of law that is dynamic — and yet in many respects fundamentally the same.

A Review of Recent Developments in Patent Law in the People's Republic of China

A Review of Recent Developments in Patent Law in the People's Republic of China

Recent Developments in Patent Law

Recent Developments in Patent Law