An AI is not an inventor after all (or yet) – IPwars.com

A strong Full Bench of the Federal Court of Australia has ruled that DABUS, an artificial intelligence, is not an inventor for the purposes of patent law. So, Dr. Thaler’s application for DABUS’ patent has been rejected. No doubt the robot will be back again and we can expect that an application for special leave will be pending soon.

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Dr Thaler had applied for a patent, No. 2019363177 entitled “Food container and devices and methods for attracting enhanced attention”, naming DABUS – an acronym for ‘device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified

The Klein Law Firm Announces a Lead Plaintiff Deadline of March 22, 2023 in the Class Action Filed on Behalf of Fate Therapeutics, Inc. Shareholders

NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Klein Law Firm announced that a class action complaint has been filed on behalf of shareholders of Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: FATE) alleging that the Company violated federal securities laws.

Class Period: April 2, 2020 to January 5, 2023
Lead Plaintiff Deadline: March 22, 2023
No obligation or cost to you.

Learn more about your recoverable losses in FATE:
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Fate Therapeutics, Inc. NEWS – FATE NEWS

CLASS ACTION CASE DETAILS: The filed complaint alleges that Fate Therapeutics, Inc. made materially false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that: (i)

Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v Vermilion Holdings Limited – UKSCBlog

In this post, Jack Prytherch, Of Counsel in the Tax team at CMS, previews the decision awaited from the Supreme Court in Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs v Vermilion Holdings Limited. The appeal was heard by the Supreme Court on 7 February 2023.

The Supreme Court was asked to consider whether the grant of an option to acquire share capital in the appellant (“VHL”) to one of its directors should be treated as an employment-related securities option for the purposes of section 471 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (“ITEPA”),

Aviva Investors Ground Rent GP Ltd and another v Williams and others [2023] UKSC 6 – UKSC Blog

On appeal from [2021] EWCA Civ 21

This appeal is concerned with the validity of a provision in a lease which allows the landlord to revise the proportion of the overall costs of maintaining the wider estate that a leaseholder should pay by way of a service charge.

The dispute related to long leases of residential flats in a block in Southsea, Hampshire. The leaseholders were required to pay service charges towards the overall costs incurred by the landlord in maintaining the building and wider estate. Each lease provided that the leaseholder was to pay a specific percentage of the

DHS Released a Notice on the Addition of Entities to the UFLPA Entity List

On August 4, 2022, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as the Chair of the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF), formally published the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List. The Entity list is a consolidated register of the four lists required to be developed and maintained pursuant to Section 2(d)(2)(B) of the UFLPA. DHS also released details on seeking changes to the UFLPA Entity List, including requests for removal from the list.

For our previous blog entries on the UFLPA and its implementation, see posts here, here, here, here, here and here.

UFLPA requires the Commissioner

Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27 – UKSC Blog

In this post, Tobias Seger, an Associate at CMS, comments on the Supreme Court’s decision in Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27, handed down by the Supreme Court on 19 October 2022. This case concerns the proper approach to granting relief under the doctrine of proprietary estoppel.

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““One day my son, all this will be yours” Spoken by a farmer to his son when in his teens and repeated for many years thereafter.” This is Lord Briggs introduction to his judgment in Guest v Guest and this also summarizes the facts at issue. As a result of

Privacy laws in Australia: Why aren’t victims of domestic violence being protected by police? (and why it matters)

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Privacy laws in Australia: Why are victims of domestic violence not being protected by the police?

A current news story revealed the alarming fact that victims of domestic violence are having their details made public. How on earth can this be occurring? Why aren’t privacy laws in Australia better protecting victims of heinous acts?!

The Queensland police department has been publicly criticized for jeopardizing the safety of women in abusive relationships. A recent domestic violence victim was “forced into hiding after her details were accessed by a senior constable and leaked to her abusive former partner”. To say this is

Brazil Is Having Its Own Jan. 6 Right Now

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BRAZIL-POLITICS-BOLSONARO-SUPPORTERS-DEMONSTRATION – Credit: AFP via Getty Images

Images are eerily evocative of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol came out of Brazil as thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings in the capital of Brasilia on Sunday. According to The New York Timesprotesters breached Brazil’s Congress, presidential offices, and Supreme Court believing Bolsonaro’s baseless claims that the recent presidential election was stolen from him.

Hours later, authorities reported that the military police had regained control of Brasilia’s Three Powers Square, where the Presidential Palace, Congress, and the Supreme Court were located. Police