No portion of this article was produced using AI. That statement carries with it a variety of interesting questions, and likely prompts many intriguing answers. Artificial Intelligence is having a very real impact on our lives, good and bad, and is pushing the boundaries of intellectual property; in particular copyrights and trademarks. Currently, there is a dichotomy between protectable elements of copyright versus trademark via AI-generated content. At a high level, copyrights are more […]

Bringing the UPCA into force does not (yet) render obsolete national patent infringement proceedings based on European patents without unitary effect. In its judgment dated February 14, 2024 (docket no. 6 U 232/22), the Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe – apart from making some interesting comments on the question of the extent to which an opposition decision is equivalent to the description of the patent – clarifies that such legal disputes will continue to be fought on secure […]