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EPO: A legal study on AI inventorship published
Daily NewsFriday, 28 June 2019Daniel van Herck7 viewsRead more...An academic study on artificial intelligence (AI) inventorship is now available for download. The study was prepared by Dr. Noam Shemtov of Queen Mary University of London and analyses the impact of AI technology on the concept of inventorship. To download the study and for more information on patenting AI-related inventions please visit the dedicated webpage.
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Amazon in surveillance drone plan
Daily NewsFriday, 28 June 2019Daniel van Herck8 viewsRead more...Amazon has come up with yet another way to watch us: surveillance drones. The online retail behemoth has received a patent in America for “surveillance as a service”, where a drone would hover over a ...
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Unitary Patent
Daily NewsFriday, 28 June 2019Daniel van Herck10 viewsRead more...Unitary Patents will make it possible to get patent protection in up to 26 EU Member States by submitting a single request to the EPO. They will build on European patents granted by the EPO under the ...
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Huawei warns US patent curbs would hurt global tech
Daily NewsFriday, 28 June 2019Daniel van Herck6 viewsRead more...Huawei's Chief Legal Officer Song Liuping speaks at a press conference at the company's headquarters in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. Chinese tech giant Huawei has warned a U.S. pr ...
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Joint EPO-EUIPO study finds strong link between SME growth and use of IP
Daily NewsTuesday, 04 June 2019Daniel van Herck25 viewsRead more...Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that apply for patents, trade marks or designs have a greater chance of experiencing high growth than those that do not according to a new study released by ...
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Amazon patent filing describes computer vision parcel theft protection system for smart home devices
Daily NewsThursday, 23 May 2019Daniel van Herck114 viewsRead more...Amazon has filed a patent for a system that detects and records package theft and alerts homeowners. This system generates an alert based on smart home devices such as doorbells with audio and visual ...
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Disney Patents a Drone-Based Painting System
Daily NewsThursday, 23 May 2019Daniel van Herck81 viewsRead more...The latest patent of Disney relates to an autonomous painting system for painting a target surface of a structure. This patent states that the system uses drones to perform the painting.
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Honda patents variable riding position
Daily NewsMonday, 20 May 2019Daniel van Herck27 viewsRead more...The latest patent of Honda relates to a bike that supports variable riding position. This patent relates to a bike that can convert from a sports bike with a crouched riding position to a street bike ...
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Apple patent reveals future iPhones may have optical in-display fingerprint sensor
Daily NewsMonday, 20 May 2019Daniel van Herck56 viewsRead more...Just a few days ago, Apple was granted a patent that described a new technology that could allow the company to offer an in-display fingerprint sensor on the iPhones. Now, yet another patent from the ...
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Dyson’s latest patent hints at an electric vehicle
Daily NewsFriday, 17 May 2019Daniel van Herck22 viewsRead more...
The latest patent filed by Dyson relates to an electric vehicle such as an electric car. The patent states that electric car may have a long wheelbase, an interior cabin with reclining seats and an a ...