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Challenges and opportunities of intellectual property in artificial intelligence
On 3 April 2023 our partner Mario Pozzi will join professor Maria Isabella Leone of the LUISS Business School in speaking about the challenges and opportunities of intellectual property in artificial intelligence during a webinar for the presentation of a study on...
Discussing the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court at the University of Akron
SIB Lex is to contribute to the 25th Annual Symposium on Intellectual Property Law and Policy taking place at the University of Akron on 27 March 2023. Robert Greene Sterne of law firm Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox is to lead a panel discussion titled "The...
Germany finalises ratification, Unified Patent Court to start operations on 1 June 2023
On 17 February 2023 Germany finalised its ratification of the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court, as announced on the court’s web site. Germany’s ratification was the last one needed to trigger the entry into force of the agreement, so it is now certain that both the...
Mario Pozzi to speak about Unified Patent Court at the 18th Advanced Patent Law Institute
Our partner Mario Pozzi is to speak at the 18th Annual Advanced Patent Law Institute taking place on 23 and 24 March 2023 at the United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia, organised by University of Texas School of Law and by the George Mason...
How can a company adapt its IP strategies to the coming Unitary patent and Unified Patent Court?
How should a company adapt its IP strategy to the changes to that are soon to be brought by the Unitary patent and the Unified Patent Court? On 23 January 2023 our partner and attorney-at-law Mario Pozzi will join Marta Manfrin, European Patent Attorney with Società...
Unified Patent Court kick-off postponed to 1 June 2023
The opening date of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) has been postponed to 1 June 2023, and the Sunrise period, during which it will be possible to opt out of the UPC’s jurisdiction, will begin on 1 March 2023.
Unified Patent Court to open on 1 April 2023
1 April 2023 is the date set for the opening of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) as announced by the Preparatory Committee last week. The Committee has also published an “implementation roadmap” indicating the date of 1 January 2023 for the start of the so-called...
Artificial Intelligence inventorship: EPO Board of Appeal rules in case J 8/20, latest development in the DABUS case.
Background On 17 October 2018 and on 7 November 2018 Stephen Thaler filed two European patent applications with the European Patent Office (EPO) - the first one, EP 18 275 163, concerning a Food Container and the second one, EP 18 275 174, relating to Devices and...
SIB LEX recommended by Leaders League Italy Patent Litigation 2022
SIB LEX is included as a recommended firm in the Leaders League Italy Patent Litigation ranking 2022. Our Founding Partner Giovanni Antonio Grippiotti is individually recommended in the same ranking.
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