Julian Cockbain

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AI and IPR - compatible?

Please will you send me links to anything you have come across that relates to the questions of : (i) can/should AI-derived work be IPR protected? and (ii) can/should an AI be seen as creative to...

07 November 2022 6,341 1 View

What are the rules on patenting in Europe?

I'm facing two different questions. (1) Are plants produced by conventional breeders' breeding processes (i.e. cross, select, etc), patentable? This is now before the EBA at the European Patent...

11 September 2014 929 5 View

Can a machine be an inventor (patent law) or a creator (copyright law)? If it can, then are any IP rights generated, and who do they belong to?

Copyright is author's life plus 70-odd years. What if the author is a machine? US patent applications have to be filed by the inventors. What if the inventor is a machine? If something has the...

01 January 1970 2,614 7 View