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IP Management

The Metaverse is Coming: How can Asia’s Developing Jurisdictions Cope with its IP Issues?
31 March 2022Imagine a parallel three-dimensional (3D) virtual world touted as the next-level-internet. Here, people move around as avatars. And here, they can interact, shop, play, watch a concert, take a thrilling ride at a theme park, attend a meeting, even bu...

Fashion world more ready now for metaverse IP issues, says expert
19 May 2022Prof. Dr. Irene Calboli, professor of law at Texas A&M University School of Law in Fort Worth believes the fashion industry is more ready now to face intellectual property issues arising from the metaverse than it was in pre-pandemic times.

AI cannot be named as inventor – Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia
12 May 2022In April 2022, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has ruled that an “inventor” must be a natural person for the purposes of the Patents Act 1990 and the Patent Regulations 1991. And therefore, AI cannot be identified as an inventor in a...