10 Jul, 2024 Games and interactive entertainment legal trends 2024: Mid-year update By Alex Roberts Verity Egerton-Doyle Jennifer Calver At the mid-year point we take stock and refresh our top five trends shaping the legal outlook for games and interactive entertainment....
09 Jul, 2024 Tech Legal Outlook 2024 Mid-Year Update: Driving value from AI By Jennifer Calver Clare Murray Elaine Choo AI is accelerating digital change and it continues to shape the outlook for 2024, bringing disruption and opportunity. But it remains a...
03 Apr, 2024 China: First AI output copyright infringement case By Sher Hann Chua Tiantian Ke Alex Roberts The Guangzhou Internet Court found a GenAI service provider liable for copyright infringement on 8 February 2024. While contentious AI...
05 Mar, 2024 EU Parliament adds uncertainty around SEPs regulation proposal By Pauline Debré Bolko Ehlgen Katie Coltart Tom De Coster Federico Dante De Falco +2 more... Show less Last week, the European Parliament (EP) suggested amendments to the contentious European Commission (EC) Proposal for a regulatory...
21 Feb, 2024 UK fails to agree AI/copyright code of practice By Paul Joseph Kathy Berry The UKIPO has failed to broker a deal between creative industry stakeholders and AI companies relating to use of copyright content to...
18 Dec, 2023 A step forward for the UK AI industry: Courts confirm that Artificial Neural Networks are patentable By Olivia Williams Kathy Berry Katie Coltart Yohan Liyanage +1 more... Show less The UK High Court has ruled that an AI invention comprising an artificial neural network (ANN) for providing media recommendations was...
05 Jul, 2023 Gaming Series #6: Navigating the legal maze - Decoding the intricacies of Intellectual Property in video games By Laetitia Nicolazzi Pauline Debré Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) are the main assets of video game companies and form the backbone of the video game sector. It is...
19 May, 2023 EU Data Act: A trade secret exception? By Ceyhun Pehlivan Elena Valín Trade secrets have been one of the most controversial topics of the EU’s Data Act. While trilogue negotiations among the EU’s...
28 Apr, 2023 EU Commission proposes extensive framework for standard-essential patents By Pauline Debré Bolko Ehlgen Julia Schönbohm Pieter Van Den Broecke Mirjam Erb +2 more... Show less Yesterday, the EU Commission adopted its long-awaited proposal for a regulation on standard-essential patents (SEPs), which – according...
19 Apr, 2023 Metaverse series #11: The metaverse in Asia – a topic to watch By Jasmine Yung Jennifer Calver In this blog series we have been considering a variety of legal issues that are arising with the development of the metaverse. Given that...
03 Apr, 2023 UK Spring budget: IP vs generative AI – back to the drawing board By Kathy Berry Xie Shern Kong The UK Government has endorsed recommendations to announce a clear policy position on the relationship between IP law and AI. However, a...
24 Feb, 2023 IP rights in the digital (assets) world: Hermes prevails in “MetaBirkin” NFT case By Laetitia Nicolazzi Joshua Klayman In a first-of-its-kind decision that comes as a relief for many brand owners, a New York jury found that the popular “MetaBirkin” NFT...
12 Jan, 2023 A new year and three new reports for the Tech Sector: Tech Legal Outlook 2023, Fintech Legal Outlook 2023 and Crypto & DeFi By Jennifer Calver Clare Murray As the tech sector faces up to big challenges in 2023, our global cross disciplinary tech and fintech teams have produced three new...
10 Aug, 2022 Opportunities for IP in a digital asset world - the UK proposes designating a new asset class for personal property By Paul Joseph In a new Consultation Paper the UK's Law Commission has suggested that English law should be developed to include a specific legal...
28 Jul, 2022 Metaverse Series #4: IP in the Metaverse - Expanding the reach of intangible rights By Paul Joseph Tom De Coster Bolko Ehlgen Pieter Van Den Broecke Pauline Debré Yohan Liyanage Ian Karet Julia Schönbohm Atif Bhatti Laetitia Nicolazzi Max Walter Kinninger +8 more... Show less As new products and services are introduced into the rapidly expanding metaverse, we look at how IP protection and enforcement strategies...
09 Jul, 2021 Breakthrough in German challenge against UPC By Bolko Ehlgen Remember the Unified Patent Court? The project that would introduce a cross-border court system to allow enforcing patents across Europe?...