USPTO Issues Artificial Intelligence Strategy & more…Keep up with what has been happening this week in our latest IP news round-up…

OpenAI ‘reviewing’ allegations that its AI models were used to make DeepSeek

ChatGPT creator warns Chinese startups are ‘constantly’ using its technology to develop competing products.

USPTO Issues Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in intellectual property is as big – and as fast-changing – a topic as ever. Early this year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published an Artificial Intelligence Strategy document which discusses how the USPTO “aim[s] to address AI’s promise and challenges across intellectual property (IP) policy, agency operations, and the broader innovation ecosystem.”

Thatchers Triumphs in Trade Mark Trial

The Court of Appeal delivered a significant judgment in the case of Thatchers Cider Company Limited v. Aldi Stores Limited, ruling in favour of Thatchers in its trade mark infringement claim against Aldi. This decision overturned a previous High Court ruling from January 2024, which had dismissed Thatchers’ claims.

Saudi Arabia joins the Hague International Design System

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) has announced that Saudi Arabia will be joining the Hague System for International Designs on 7th April 2025, further increasing the System’s coverage to 99 countries.

EPO intention to grant claims to guide RNAs for CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing

Back in September 2024, there was much publicity of disapproval of the grant texts of two European patents concerning CRISPR-Cas9 – patents claiming priority from the first relevant priority filing of the inventors’ group including the Nobel Prize winners Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier.