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Formula 1's next engine formula: power, politics, and patents

Formula 1 is on the cusp of a significant transformation, with the sport considering drastic changes for its next set of engine regulations. Ethan Silverstone, patent attorney and former F1 engineer, considers the strategic IP decisions going on behind the scenes.

AI & IP

Should AI developers be free to train their models on existing copyright works? The UK government is no longer so sure.

The “training” of AI models generally requires the ingestion of large quantities of data in the form of existing musical, literary, graphic or other works.  If these works are protected by copyright, then their reproduction as a result of this process will, if unlicensed by the copyright owners, be an infringement of that copyright, at least in the UK.

UP & UPC

UPC rules that Gucci does not infringe leather printing patent

In the first substantive decision of the UPC concerning luxury fashion, the Hamburg Local Division has found Gucci not liable for infringement of patent EP 3 388 490, relating to a method for embellishing natural leather with decorative images.