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Welcome to August! Whether you are sunning yourself on a beach or stuck in a sweltering office, it can be hard to keep up with the steady stream of intellectual property developments. Fear not, as this Kat is here to round up everything published on the blog last week.Managing global IP law from the garden patio.PatentsJocelyn Bosse reviewed “Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemi...

The IPKat has received and is pleased to host the review of “Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play” written by Amy Thomas. This book review has been prepared by Katfriend Sarath Ninan Mathew (University of Oxford). Here is what Sarath writes:Amy Thomas’s Copyright, Contract, and Video Games: Terms of Play analyses the licensing agreements used by thirty popular video

Can a domain name infringe a national trade mark where nobody in the protected territory can and is supposed to see website connected to the domain name? In the new reference Fassbinderei (case C-584/26) from Austria, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) is asked to determine whether a geo-blocked website operating under a .at domain name and expressly excluding Austrian cust...

Over a year ago, this Kat reported on Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment that cited fair use (IPKat here). In August 2024, Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson alleged that Anthropic’s unauthorised use of ‘pirated’ copies and purchased print books (later digitised) infringed copyright in their works. While (the now retired) Judge Alsup found that the latte...

As patent attorneys, we should all know by now not to put client confidential information to a non-enterprise version of an LLM. However, as the capabilities of AI tools become more complex, so too does the necessity of understanding what exactly they are doing and where our data goes, beyond the simple prompt. One such requirement is understanding the process by which AI tools ...