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'Forum shopping within the UPC is not an aberration, it is a rational adaptation to structural plurality.'
#patent #unifiedpatentcourt
NB:
Read with caution.
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https://legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/patent-blog/the-coded-procedural-landscape-forum-shopping-inside-the-upc-matrix/
t.co
July 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Women wear white scarves made iconic by the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights group, during a march to commemorate the anniversary of Argentina’s 1976 coup

Credit: Rodrigo Abd
March 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Meta to stop targeting UK citizen with personalised ads after settling privacy case, [with ICO’s support]
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It can set a precedent for millions of UK users of online platforms
#dataprotection #ICO #Facebook #Instagram
ICO's argument:
ico.org.uk/media2/l1bjz...
March 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Enforcing the #OnlineSafetyAct: Platforms must start tackling illegal material from today
www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
A number of online services to provide an illegal harms risk assessment
Enforcement:
Fines of up to 10 percent of global turnover;
Shutting down the platform;
Jailed sentences
Enforcing the Online Safety Act: Platforms must start tackling illegal material from today
From today, online platforms must start putting in place measures to protect people in the UK from criminal activity, while Ofcom has launched its latest enforcement programme to assess industry compl...
www.ofcom.org.uk
March 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Academic publishing:
Liverpool University Press has been selected as the new (long-running) publishing partner of British Academy
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/liverpo...
Liverpool University Press selected as new publishing partner
The British Academy has chosen Liverpool University Press as the new partner for its prestigious and long-running publishing programme.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
February 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM

‘The return [of Greece and Europe] to Egypt: Relationships of peoples and not just of large companies’ by DX and Rafik F. Omar
www.efsyn.gr/stiles/apops...
#Egypt #GreeceEgypt #EuropeEgypt
Επιστροφή στην Αίγυπτο: σχέσεις λαών και όχι μόνο μεγάλων εταιρειών
Σύσφιγξη σχέσεων μεταξύ Ελλάδας και Αιγύπτου.
www.efsyn.gr
January 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Data protection obligations in recruitment involving artificial intelligence.
In their recent report, ICO have set out findings and recommendations.
ico.org.uk/media/about-...
ico.org.uk
December 23, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Re: artificial intelligence
Are rights sufficiently human in the age of the machine?
www.judiciary.uk/speech-by-th...
Speech by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales
Speech by the Master of the Rolls: Are rights sufficiently human in the age of the machine? - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Sir Geoffrey Vos was delivering the Blackstone Lecture at Pembroke College in Oxford
www.judiciary.uk
December 23, 2024 at 7:28 PM
UN General Assembly voted to ask the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to facilitate aid to Palestinians by international partners, incl. UN.
#Gazaaid #ICJ
The resolution was drafted by Norway.

www.ejiltalk.org/un-general-a...
UN General Assembly Committee Adopts Resolution Requesting Second Advisory Opinion from ICJ on Occupied Palestinian Territory
On 10 November 2022, at the Seventy-seventh session of the UN General Assembly, Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee), the State of Palestine- in a move which skirted la…
www.ejiltalk.org
December 21, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Landmark #climatechange hearings represent largest ever case before UN world court (International Court of Justice) #ICJclimatechange
under the presidency of Judge Nawaf Salam
news.un.org/en/story/202...
#ICJ_evidence
icj-cij.org/case/187
Landmark climate change hearings represent largest ever case before UN world court
A record number of oral statements are expected to be presented to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as highly awaited public hearings on States’ legal obligations with respect to climate chang...
news.un.org
December 7, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Re: artificial neural networks #ANNs
UK Supreme Court will hear an appeal from the Court of Appeal judgment ([2024] EWCA Civ 825) regarding patentability in the Emotional Perception case.
#patent
www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news...
UK Supreme Court to hear another important AI patent case
Commercially important questions concerning the degree to which software, including artificial intelligence (AI) systems, can be patented, are to be considered by the UK’s highest court in what will b...
www.pinsentmasons.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:59 AM
'Academic Fracking: When Publishers Sell Scholars Work to AI' by Lance Eaton open.substack.com/pub/aiedusim...
#AIeducation #copyright #highereducation
Academic Fracking: When Publishers Sell Scholars Work to AI
Further discussion of publisher practices selling scholars' work to AI companies
open.substack.com
December 3, 2024 at 7:15 PM
Non-Party Access To Court Documents: Court Of Appeal Interprets Leading Supreme Court 's case law
conventuslaw.com/report/uk-no...
#access2justice #transparency Freedom of Information Act #FOIA2000
Derek Moss v The Upper Tribunal
[2024] EWCA Civ 1414
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/202...
UK - Non-Party Access To Court Documents: Court Of Appeal Interprets Leading Supreme Court Authority. - Conventus Law
UK - Non-Party Access To Court Documents: Court Of Appeal Interprets Leading Supreme Court Authority. Legal News and Analysis - United Kingdom - Conventus Law
conventuslaw.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:50 AM
OFCOM's Open letter to online service providers:
Any AI-generated text, audio, images or videos is regulated in exactly the same way as human-generated content
www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet... #OnlineSafetyAct #OSA2023 #onlineharms
November 28, 2024 at 3:18 PM
EU Ombudsman criticises EU Commission for failure to identify documents related to high-level meetings between its President and President of Tunisia
+ failure to respond within 30 days (12-month delay).
#EUtransparency #access2documents #maladminstration
www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/news-docu...
European Ombudsman
www.ombudsman.europa.eu
November 25, 2024 at 6:38 PM
The International Criminal Court has issued warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant #Israel, and Mohammed D. I. Al-Masri #Hamas
www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme... #Palestine #Gaza #ICC
Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC on the issuance of arrest warrants in the Situation in the State of Palestine
On 20 May 2024, my Office submitted applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I in relation to the situation in the State of Palestine.   Today, based on the evidence presented by m...
www.icc-cpi.int
November 22, 2024 at 10:47 AM
#unifiedpatentcourt
European Patent System: Failures in Constitutional Design Crippling Essential Safeguards against Adverse Economic Effects papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #patent #unitarypatent #europeanpatentoffice
European Patent System: Failures in Constitutional Design Crippling Essential Safeguards against Adverse Economic Effects
The key constitutional issue surrounding the unitary patent system is the complete loss of national and the EU’s sovereignty in the context of industrial proper
papers.ssrn.com
November 16, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Productivity vs Quality at the EPO: A rare glimpse behind the curtain that’s worrying
patentlitigation.ch/productivity... #patent #EuropeanPatentOffice #patentquality
November 16, 2024 at 10:11 AM