In this blog post, leading Design Law Professor Sarah Burstein argues that the negotiating draft of the WIPO Design Law Treaty contains a little noticed provision, buried in its r ...

A White Paper on Proposed Revisions by the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA), S. 2140, published by Joshua D. Sarnoff and Charles Duan, critiques the 2023 legislation which seeks to revise the ...

A recent Datysoc article (Spanish language) discusses an ongoing dispute in Uruguay over whether a copyright exception for computational analysis should be included in a copyright modernization bill.

Denise Nicholson, a Copyright consultant at Scholarly Horizons, contends that criticism of a Copyright Amendment Bill in South Africa is misguided and harms authors and creators. She believes that the ...

“There has been progressive encroachment of IP upon the ‘pre-competitive’ phase. At the earlier stages of research and development, there’s already a company looking at that and trying to make it not ...

The World Intellectual Property Organization adopted a landmark treaty mandating that members require disclosure of genetic resources (GR) and associated traditional knowledge (TK) in patent ...

In July 2024, the African Union Executive Council endorsed “The Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy,” which emphasizes the importance of AI in reshaping economies, societies, and geopolitics, ...