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lawyer morphed to academic; teaching and researching IP law and other things; astronomy enthusiast. Assistant Professor @Warwick Law School
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What do fake inventors and UK design registrations have to do with academic misconduct? Check out this new preprint: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... News coverage here: www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

A dog toy meant to resemble Jack Daniel's whiskey bottles unlawfully associated the liquor maker's brand with "canine excrement," a federal judge in Arizona said @blakebrittain.bsky.social reut.rs/3PQGaXw

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Here's the thing: international credibility doesn't count for much At the end of the day what matters is who has (1) the guns, who has (2) the money & who (3) controls access to information. The US Government has 1 and 2. Big Tech brings 2 and 3. The geopolitical consequences write themselves.

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

So, guys, what will Google do? Does not having a social network get them a free pass from joining Caligula’s orgies?

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

The Romanian Constitutional Court decision in the first of its kind annulment of the presidential elections of 2024 has now been motivated 🧵 s.iw.ro/gateway/g/Zmls…

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

What happened in Romania 🇷🇴? First report from the EDMO BROD hub. Insightful observations about the online campaign space. And the specific role of TikTok #commsky #advertising #disinformation 🗳️ brodhub.eu/en/news/prel...

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments

The Romanian presidential elections i.a. the fake account networks of the most popular candidate (independent & coming out of nowhere) will be a test of defining systemic risks under art 34(1)(c) of the Digital Services Act (negative effects on elections) www.politico.eu/article/elec...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

In the silver linings [?] category, I recently posted an op-ed on @law360.bsky.social asking whether Elon Musk's patent-skepticism will impact the new administration's patent policies. www.law360.com/articles/226...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

My heart is breaking to see the preliminary results of the first round of the Romanian presidential elections.The pro-Russia guy who is currently leading was on nobody’s radar; he had an aggressive campaign on TikTok. We need stricter rules against misinformation! www.politico.eu/article/roma...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Rejected by the GC for g&s in Classes 9, 14, 16, 25, 28 and 41 for lack of distinctiveness. Per the GC, the relevant public would perceive the sign as a “political message promoting support for Ukraine’s fight against the military aggression of the Russian Federation” curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

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In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...

submitted 106 days ago • 47 comments

The UKSC decision in SkyKick v Sky was just handed down. The highlight for me is that the Supreme Court reversed EWCA’s assessment of bad faith, holding that Arnold J (as he then was) was entitled to find that the SKY marks were applied for in bad faith👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/u...

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The International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property is pleased to share its Call for Paper for its 16th Annual Workshop in Madrid, 25-26 June 2025. The 2025 theme is INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CAPITALISM. Please see ishtip.org for more detail

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

Best example of self-tarnishment in a while. Would be curious to know if consumers’ behaviour changed as a consequence of the misfortunate association 😜

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‘We must acknowledge that sexual and gender-based violence was a part of the October 7 attacks. We must present all currently-known information to encourage further documentation and reporting and to urge the investigation of the incidents as crimes against humanity’ www.phr.org.il/en/gender-ba...

submitted 460 days ago • 0 comments