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Much needs to be done if Hong Kong is to become a regional intellectual property trading centre, and stakeholders should make their voices heard to ensure proposed legislation gets the balance right.
- The lawsuit is the latest against OpenAI and Microsoft to land at Manhattan’s federal court, where the firms are already battling a series of other lawsuits
- Tech companies have argued that taking troves of publicly accessible internet content to train their AI systems is protected by the ‘fair use’ doctrine
Artificial intelligence companies should standardise payments to treat content creators fairly, Salesforce CEO and Time owner Marc Benioff says.
Apple said it would put its latest smartwatch models back on sale in its US retail stores on Wednesday after it won a court ruling in a patent fight, providing a quick reprieve for its US$17 billion business.
The US International Trade Commission decided in October to ban Apple Watch models over a patented technology for detecting blood-oxygen levels.
An AI system cannot be registered as the inventor of a patent, Britain’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, in a decision that denies machines the same status as humans.
Arm Holdings on Wednesday gave a third-quarter sales outlook below Wall Street estimates, with the firm attributing the forecast to a large deal that is likely to land later than expected.
Haitao Xiang was ordered to serve 29 months in prison and fined US$150,000 for attempting to bring proprietary farming software back to China on a memory card.
UN agency chief says designers will be able to safeguard their work inside and outside the country.
US prosecutors say Haitao Xiang had Monsanto’s proprietary farming software on his device the day after he left the company and was about to fly to China.
Professor Dennis Lo says plans to boost R&D in Hong Kong are ‘encouraging’, but new research infrastructure will not be enough without also enhancing the city’s ability to protect intellectual property.
Push to change existing copyright law comes after government failed twice before.
The organiser of the sculpture’s display, Hong Kong creative agency AllRightsReserved Limited, is accused by The Ryan Foundation in Singapore of breaching confidentiality and intellectual property rights.
Big Tech companies are expected to perform a delicate balancing act in advancing AI development, while ensuring the technology’s ethical application.
The China National Intellectual Property Administration in December acknowledged that the rival trademark could generate confusion among consumers, and declared it ‘null and void’.
As part of its drive to achieve technological self-sufficiency, Beijing is overhauling its system of reward for patent filing.
Legal experts are alarmed by China’s exertion of extraterritorial jurisdiction, as Chinese courts increasingly heed calls by Beijing to protect the international interests of domestic companies.