With AI systems already being used to generate content capable of attracting IP protection, working out exactly who owns the IP rights in this content will become increasingly important, especially when it comes to licensing or enforcing those rights. Ownership of copyright Ownership of copyright is determined with reference to the “author” of a [...]
In August, 2016 Whatsapp announced it was changing its privacy policy to allow sharing of its data with its parent company Facebook. In 2014 Facebook had purchased Whatsapp for $19 billion dollars and it was only a matter of time before Whatsapp shared its data with Facebook. The ostensible reason for the changed privacy [...]
Many Conference attendees have been on opposite sides over the years, but the experts gathered that day were in concerted agreement that the patent landscape has been carpet-bombed with confusion caused by the Courts, the Congress and the PTO. Despite their collective confusion regarding the roiled patent landscape, as Steve Brachmann and Gene Quinn [...]
In the view of substantial global protection, enterprise should pursue protection only when and where a value proposition can be rationally articulated. Thus, seven hallmarks of rational global patent strategy: 1. Decisions are informed by innovation roadmaps and market at large: decision makers’ should have a holistic picture of the enterprise’s short and long-term commercial [...]
By reading through a part of the 8000 patents registered by the company, the researchers were able to shed some light into the process of how the “Empire” turns the raw data they treat their users as into those valuable big data golden profiles that then can be marketed. Patents like “Systems and Methods for [...]
If piracy is still very much a concern of the music industry, the growing shadow of free online streaming platforms, in particular YouTube has now become bigger stinger, according to speakers from the industry at an event at world intellectual property organization. Hiding behind safe harbor legislation originally designed to protect internet services providers [...]
