#KnowledgeShare The latest on the #DABUS Thaler litigation. The question of whether an #AI machine can be named as an inventor of a #patent has reached the end of the road in Australia 🇦🇺 . Over to the 🇬🇧 UK Supreme Court who will hear the appeal in March 2022.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/australian-high-court-pulls-plug-on-landmark-dabus-ai-patent-application

#KnowledgeShare My partners Chen and Frederic have prepared a handy guide on what we common #law lawyers called #LiquidateDamages and our civil law continental cousins call ‘penalties’

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guides/managing-liquidated-damages

#KnowledgeShare #Patent enthusiasts will be aware that the Unified Patent Court is due to commence operations in April 2023.

The #UPC is a single patent court for EU Member States and is pretty big news in the patent community. In another step towards its opening the UPC website went live this week and includes interactive map, FAQs, court structure and underlying documents as well as a news feed.

https://www.unified-patent-court.org/en

#KnowledgeShare I don’t need to tell this community that digital assets are increasingly important in modern society. In its recent consultation paper, the UK's Law Commission considers the law in relation to #DigitalAssets such as #cryptotokens #NFTs and #CarbonCredits. A new category of personal property the "data object" is proposed. We wrote about it and you can find the article below

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/property-rights-relevant-data-objects?

#KnowledgeShare I recently took part in an interesting webinar aimed at in-house counsel, on the topic of Freedom to Operate (#FTO) aka a #patent risk assessment exercise. We combined our notes and prepared overview of the key points which is here. https://www.kilburnstrode.com/knowledge/european-ip/fto-and-beyond