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The European Union's new Directive (EU) 2024/1799, published on July 10, 2024, seeks to make repairs of household and electronic goods more accessible and sustainable by empowering consumers to choose independent repairers and use refurbished parts. However, the directive's interaction with existing industrial propert…
Churchill Downs Incorporated said Tuesday it has entered into an agreement to acquire the intellectual property for the Preakness Stakes and Black-Eyed Susan-Stakes from 1/ST Racing’s Maryland department for $85 million, subject to customary closing conditions. Churchill Downs, the home of the Kentucky Derby, plans to…
Vietnam will introduce significant updates to its intellectual property (IP) regime effective April 1, 2026, under the Law on Intellectual Property revised by Law No. 131/2025/QH15. The changes clarify how IP rights are established, streamline registration procedures, and shorten examination timelines – marking a nota…
Nicole Mantini (00:05): Hi, and welcome to Ask an IP Litigator. Today we're going to run through some of the unique issues that arise when IP intersects with competition law. So Andy, to start us off, IP is all about giving some level of exclusivity to a market participant to permit it to exclude its competitors. Whil…
Who owns the intellectual property in a world run by AI? Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The distinction between computation and consciousness is central to understanding why legal debates over AI ownership remain unsettled.
By Frederick Mostert, Professor of Practice at the School of Law, King’s College, London and Research Fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre, University of Oxford*, United Kingdom Digital technology is arguably humankind’s greatest achievement since speech. Thanks to Big Tech and the advent of plat…