Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

 Kliment Markov Thursday, May 07, 2026 - #NeverTooLate, AI, Fordham 2026, Kliment Markov, patents, trade marks

Kat on the way home

As the INTA Annual Meeting wraps up, the IPKat knows you’ve probably been far too busy to keep up with everything happening on your beloved blog. If that’s the case, don’t worry – last week’s round-up is ready for you:

Trade Marks

Marcel Pemsel reported on the recent reference for a preliminary ruling from the Budapest High Court to the CJEU (Dr. Czirják-Nagy Ügyvédi Iroda, C-3/26) concerning the ongoing debate on whether a photorealistic portrait of a person can be registered as a trade mark and how distinctiveness should be assessed.

Patents

Rose Hughes analysed the issue of broadening a disclosed biological classification to a wider scientific grouping, in light of EPO case T 630/24.

Artificial Intelligence

Georgia Jenkins commented on the recent Anthropic Claude Code leak and the subsequent emergence of the rewritten open‑source “Claw-Code”, making an argument about the limits of existing copyright tools when applied to AI-generated and AI-rewritten code.

Fordham IP Conference

Katfriend Robert Moke shared insights from the final-day UPC panel at Fordham’s 33rd Annual IP Conference, where practitioners and judges discussed the court’s growing role, its fast procedures, jurisdictional challenges, and the future of European patent enforcement.

Katfriend Tara Amine summarised a panel on AI and frontier technologies, covering debates on global copyright regimes, EU territoriality issues, and the future of AI regulation.

Tara also outlined a panel on sports, media, and entertainment, examining the uncertainty AI brings to rights holders, global policy gaps, and evolving enforcement approaches.

Katfriend Ryan Ricketson covered a panel on IP in Washington, focusing on the political dynamics shaping U.S. IP policy.

News, Events and Opportunities

Georgia Jenkins provided this week’s Sunday Surprises, featuring key IP events, opportunities and recent updates from WIPO and the USTR.

Eleonora Rosati informed us about ERA’s Summer Course on European IP Law in Trier, its programme highlights, and the 20% IPKat readers’ discount.

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