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AI in the patent industry: The sneaky practice of prompt injection (and what to do about it)
Daily NewsTuesday, 13 October 2026Daniel van Herck21 viewsRead more...As patent attorneys, we are by now all hopefully well versed in the confidentiality and hallucination risks of using AI. However, as AI tools are increasingly used to read, summarise and come to conclusions about third-party documents, there is another risk we need to think about: prompt injection. This is the sneaky practice of hiding instructions in documents given to an AI system in order to ma ...
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Post from Jasper Sturtewagen. 4 food related patent applications.
Daily NewsTuesday, 13 October 2026Daniel van Herck19 viewsRead more...Linkedin post about food innovation related patents
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New approach to software inventions put to the test at the UKIPO
Daily NewsTuesday, 06 October 2026Daniel van Herck60 viewsRead more...The Supreme Court’s decision in Emotional Perception AI (EPAI) brought much-awaited clarity on how software inventions should be examined at the UKIPO. The decision brought the UK approach into alignm ...
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Huawei and Qualcomm Announce Broad Patent License Agreement
Daily NewsTuesday, 06 October 2026Daniel van Herck87 viewsRead more...Press release from Huawei -Monday 05 October 2026. Huawei and Qualcomm today announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement that includes cross licenses to the companies’ patent portfolios acr ...
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From prompts to autonomy: what agentic AI means for trade secret protection.
Daily NewsTuesday, 06 October 2026Daniel van Herck58 viewsRead more...I explored this in a piece I was invited to write as a guest author for IAM. We have mostly made our peace with generative AI, ChatGPT, Claude, and the like. The risk there is fairly well understood: ...
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Stellantis Patents System for EVs to Eject Batteries in Emergencies
Daily NewsTuesday, 06 October 2026Daniel van Herck61 viewsRead more...Stellantis has secured a US patent for a quick-release high-voltage battery system that could let electric vehicles jettison their battery packs in dangerous situations and drive away using a secondar ...
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WIPO GREEN Database of Innovative Technologies and Needs
Daily NewsTuesday, 06 October 2026Daniel van Herck58 viewsRead more...The WIPO GREEN database is a free, solutions oriented, global innovation catalogue that connects needs for solving environmental or climate change problems with tangible solutions. The database consis ...
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The 13 Most Interesting New Big Tech Patents This Week
Daily NewsTuesday, 06 October 2026Daniel van Herck96 viewsRead more...Sony's clip-on robot presses your controller buttons for you, Tesla opens the car door when you lean in, and Verily wants to find tumors in your breath.
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The UPC opens the door to pre-grant actions
Daily NewsMonday, 28 September 2026Daniel van Herck78 viewsRead more..."By order of 21 September 2026, the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) addressed a question that UPC case law had not yet settled: whether an action seeking a declaration of non-infring ...
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Apple ordered to pay over $5.7 billion in record US patent infringement verdict
Daily NewsMonday, 28 September 2026Daniel van Herck80 viewsRead more...A US jury ruled that Apple owes Taction over $5.7 billion for infringing haptic technology patents in iPhones and Apple Watches.
