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Is the Unified Patent Court on track for a 2022/2023 start date?

It is now looking increasingly likely that, after many years of delay and doubt, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) will be operational within the next 12 months or so. The Unitary Patent will also at that point become available to provide protection in all relevant participating EU Member States.

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Mishcon Regulatory Presents: Too big to regulate?

In our first Regulatory Thought Leadership episode, Mark Deem and Anne Rose, in conversation with Damian Tambini discuss the steps we may need to take to achieve the balance between regulating Big Tech as 'gate keepers' to the digital world and protecting the rights of individuals, whilst ensuring that innovation is allowed to thrive for societal good.

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Consultation opens on AI and the UK's copyright and patents framework

Following a Call for Views earlier this year, the Government has now published its consultation on potential changes to the UK IP protection framework, seeking to ensure that the right balance is struck between encouraging the development and use of AI across the economy, whilst not undermining IP's wider role in promoting human creativity and innovation.

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Website blocking orders: No Time To Stream

A number of production studios, including Disney, Netflix and Warner Bros, have been granted a website blocking order by the High Court, targeting five websites based outside of the UK, but which were found to be targeting UK users and enabling them to stream unlawful content.

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The beauty of NFTs

NFTs – non-fungible tokens – have become a buzzword of 2021, with newspaper headlines frequently featuring the latest NFT release. However the narrative has been somewhat dominated by the sky-high prices that some NFT collectibles, such as NBA Top Shot, have achieved at auction, leading some sceptics to question their wider relevance and potential longevity.

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Good news for resellers, bad news for developers: CJEU rules software to be a "good"

The Court of Justice of the European Union (the "CJEU") in The Software Incubator Ltd v Computer Associates UK Ltd has decided that computer software supplied under a perpetual licence by electronic download is a 'sale of goods' under the EU Directive relating to commercial agents, implemented in the UK by the Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993 ("CAR")

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