Top 5 potential implications of AI-generated prior art on patent law & more…Keep up with what has been happening this week in our latest IP news round-up…

Marks & Clerk agrees settlement over alleged secret commissions for client referrals

Class action claim was brought by Commission Recovery, with Marks & Clerk denying any wrongdoing.

Top 5 potential implications of AI-generated prior art on patent law

The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence over the past few years has profound implications for innovation, particularly with respect to intellectual property law.

Vietnam, RoK cooperate to combat counterfeits, protect consumers

The Vietnam Directorate of Market Surveillance has collaborated with the Korean Intellectual Property Office and Korean Intellectual Property Protection Agency to host a workshop discussing counterfeits of those from the Republic of Korea’s brands in Vietnam.

Dehns on Defending an infringement accusation and achieving revocation of patents in question

Q-Free, a global innovator in intelligent transportation systems, recently faced an infringement threat from a 3rd party. Dehns Managing Partner, Adrian Samuels, and Dehns Trainee Patent Attorney, Martha Stevens, revoked the 3rd party’s patents.

Mewburn Ellis looks into Large Language Models in Robotics

Progress in training large language models in the last few years for natural language processing, reasoning and language generation has been paradigm shifting. Discussions have arisen on whether and how the technology can be introduced into almost every sector. However, until now the use of large language models in practice has stayed in a virtual sphere.