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Katfriend (and former GuestKat) Bertrand Sautier discussed the USPTO?s report ?Public Views on AI and IP Policy?, which summarises submissions on a variety of IP policy issues raised following its 2019 conference and subsequent call for views. Primarily patent-focused on inventorship, the report also contains considerations on copyright protection and AI 'creators'.

This Kat commented on a judgment of the Court of Appeal (England & Wales) from earlier this year which upheld the decision of the Intellectual Property Enterprise Court to refuse to find the existence of a true fiduciary duty between a solicitor and an opposing party in circumstances where the firm acted for separate successive parties against that same opponent.

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