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UK Supreme Court Holds Post-Sale Confusion is Relevant for Establishing Trade Mark Infringement

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The Court ruled that the post-sale context can be relevant when establishing similarity between trade marks....more

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SkyKick v Sky: UK Supreme Court Confronts Bad Faith in Trade Mark Applications

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The UK Supreme Court has issued a landmark judgment dealing with specific bad faith considerations for trade marks....more

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No more pie in the sky: UK Supreme Court rules over-broad trade marks invalid for bad faith – Sky v SkyKick

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On 13 November 2024, the Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited judgment in SkyKick UK Ltd and another v Sky Ltd and others [2024] UKSC 36. It held that the Court of Appeal was wrong to overturn the High Court's findings...more

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UK Supreme Court Rejects Amazon's Trademark Infringement Appeal

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In a stark alert to providers of global e-commerce services, the UK's most senior court has upheld an earlier decision that Amazon "targeted" UK customers for sales of U.S. goods on its U.S. website, amounting to trademark...more

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Ghost in the machine: AI and patent protection

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On December 20, 2023, the UK Supreme Court dismissed Dr. Stephen Thaler’s appeal from the Court of Appeal (England and Wales), finding that AI cannot be an inventor because an inventor must be a natural person1. This issue...more

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Artificial Intelligence Is Not a “Person” in the United Kingdom

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The United Kingdom Supreme Court has held that AI is not a person. In 2018, Stephen Thaler filed two patent applications with the U.K. Intellectual Property Office (“UKIPO”). The UKIPO rejected the patent applications on the...more

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AI cannot be an inventor of a UK Patent

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The United Kingdom Supreme Court (the ultimate appeal level in the UK legal system) has ruled in a decision of 20 December 2023 that an artificial intelligence (“AI”) system cannot be identified in a patent application as the...more

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UK Supreme Court Rules Against AI Inventorship of Patents

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On December 20, 2023, the UK Supreme Court ("Court") dismissed Dr. Stephen Thaler's appeal, unanimously affirming the decision of the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trademarks ("Comptroller") that a machine which...more

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U.K. Supreme Court Rules No Patent for AI Inventor

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The U.K. Supreme Court has followed the lead of U.S. courts and denied patent rights to an artificial intelligence (AI) system. The case demonstrates a global trend in the current patent law regime to deny inventorship to AI...more

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THE SEP WORLD IN BALANCE: UK Harmonizes with Germany’s Rejection of Implementer Hold Out

Implementer Hold Out - Another major development in global standard essential patent litigation was handed down today, as the UK Supreme Court upheld lower court rulings that forced an efficient infringer of essential...more

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UK Supreme Court holds rights-holders should bear the costs of web-blocking injunctions

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The Supreme Court handed down its much anticipated judgment in Cartier International AG v British Telecommunications Plc yesterday. ...more

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UK Supreme Court Decision In Actavis V. Eli Lilly – Doctrine Of Equivalents Recognized

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In its decision of July 12, 2017 in Actavis v. Eli Lilly, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom for the first time formally adopted the concept of a doctrine of equivalents when considering what constituted an infringement...more

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UK Supreme Court hands down landmark ruling in favour of Eli Lilly

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Following last Friday’s (7 July 2017) unusual move of advance publication of the outcome of the case, the UK Supreme Court now published the reasons for its decision in the long-running Actavis v Eli Lilly case. The reasons...more

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