24 June 2019
AI as a judge? News from AI Decoding IP - Day 2
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/uk/ai-as-a-judge-news-from-ai-decoding-ip-day-2

Bird & Bird’s David Egan attended the first day of the UKIPO and WIPO joint conference on the interaction between AI technology and intellectual property law and practice.

06 August 2019
Artificial creativity—is the IP system ready for robot inventors?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/uk/artificial-creativity-is-the-ip-system-ready-for-robot-investors

According to current UK patent law, if AI was to invent something, would the creator of the AI be able to patent it? Who would be the inventor and to whom would the invention belong?

05 December 2019
Who Owns an AI-generated Invention?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/who-owns-an-ai-generated-invention

One wet Sunday afternoon I was playing with an interface to OpenAI’s machine learning model, GPT-2, which was trained to predict the next word in a sentence and which can now generate articles of synthetic text based on ...

19 August 2019
Forbidden Fruits: third party rights in AI training data, a European perspective
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/forbidden-fruits-third-party-rights-in-ai-training-data-a-european-perspective

What are the risks of launching an AI system where the training data was tainted with third party rights? Often this question needs an answer fast and on a global basis. But what do US tech lawyers need to know about ...

20 June 2019
Report from AI Decoding IP: Day 1
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2019/global/report-from-ai-decoding-ip-day-1

Bird & Bird’s Toby Bond attended the first day of the UKIPO and WIPO joint conference on the interaction between AI technology and intellectual property law and practice.

28 December 2017
Supersize this: Unwired Planet American style.
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2017/global/supersize-this-unwired-planet-american-style

In the case of TCL v Ericsson, the Honourable James V. Selna, Judge of the District Court of the Central District of California (Los Angeles) handed down a court-ordered FRAND license .

05 April 2017
Unwired Planet v Huawei: English High Court sets FRAND royalty rate
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2017/uk/unwired-planet-v-huawei-english-high-court-sets-frand-royalty-rate

In a long awaited ruling relating to Standards Essential Patents (SEPs) in the mobile telecommunications sector, the English High Court has determined the FRAND royalty rates for a worldwide licence to Unwired Planet's ...

01 December 2017
Report from AI.Tech World
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2017/uk/report-from-ai-tech-world

Bird & Bird’s Toby Bond spoke at the AI.Tech World conference held at Olympia, London on 29 November 2017, together with speakers from Dixons Carphone and RainBird Technologies in a panel session exploring what ...

22 May 2020
Federal Court confirms that schemes are not patentable merely because they are "new and ingenious" and are implemented using a computer
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2020/australia/full-federal-court-confirms-that-schemes-are-not-patentable-merely-because-they-are-new

The Federal Court of Australia has found a patent directed at a digital marketing scheme no more than a list of steps to be implemented by a computer using its well-known functions, and is not a patentable invention: ...

11 March 2021
A review of SDO IPR policies: Do they require component level licensing?
www.twobirds.com/en/news/articles/2021/global/a-review-of-sdo-ipr-policies-do-they-require-component-level-licensing

Must owners of IP rights (IPR) that may be essential to standards offer licenses of their essential IPR to each component maker? Or do they satisfy their commitment to Standards Development Organisations (SDOs) by ...