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Copyright and AIKatfriends Jakob Plesner Mathiasen, Johannes Stilhoff, and Astrid Christine Bay
offered an opinion on the draft bill currently under consultation to amend the Danish Copyright Act and protect individuals whose likeness is reproduced in deepfakes.
Georgia Jenkins
explored Piet Baete t. Dingie BV before the Ghent Enterprise Court, in which a Flemish author commenced copyright infringement proceedings against a film and television production company, alleging that its teen drama TV series drew upon the storyline, setting, and characters of his crime novel without authorisation.
Söğüt Atilla-Aydın
provided a critical review of
Cinematic Algorithms: The Rise of Generative AI in Video Art and Visual Culture (CRC Press, 2025) by James Hutson and Andrew Allen Smith.
Patents
Rose Hughes
commented on Seagen v. Daiichi Sankyo, in which the US court found a patent for an ADC linker platform invalid for lack of written description and enablement, and drew a comparison with the European approach to broadly claimed biotech inventions.
Rose Hughes
analysed EPO Boards of Appeal decisions showing ViCo increasingly replacing the “Gold Standard” of in‑person proceedings.
Trade Marks
Katfriend Timothy Spiteri
reported on a recent Maltese court decision, which raises questions about the intertemporal application of EU Trade Mark Directives in invalidity proceedings in Malta.
Events and News
Oliver Fairhurst
shared updates on upcoming IP events, including a WIPO webinar on filing and managing PCT applications, the Patent Litigation Europe Summit in Amsterdam, and the CITMA Spring Conference in London. He also reported news from recent highlights, such as the CITMA Christmas Lunch, the EUIPO–Europol cyber‑patrol, and the UK Supreme Court hearing on the registrability of POST MILK GENERATION.
