AbstractIn Meril v Edwards Lifesciences, the Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) establishes its foundational approach to inventive step. Central to the framework,

the objective technical problem is first determined by what the claimed invention adds over the prior art, before the question turns to whether the skilled person [...]

AbstractThe concept of pastiche covers uses of subject matter protected by copyright and related rights provided that the user reproduces a characteristic part of the original

and establishes an artistic or creative dialogue between the source and the new creation. [...]

AbstractTwo years into the operation of the Unified Patent Court, Amgen v Sanofi/Regeneron is, alongside Edwards Lifesciences v Meril, the first decision on the merits from

the Court of Appeal that tackles the inventive step and sufficiency requirements. [...]

Human Rights and Intellectual Property Before the European Courts, A Case Commentary on the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights, Elena

Izyumenko and Christophe Geiger, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025. ISBN: 978 103536 887 7. [...]

AbstractThe international copyright system remains resolutely territorial: each nation state grants copyrights which are subject to its own laws and which only have effect

within the territory of that state. Since the advent of the internet, and the globalized trading patterns that it has fostered, territoriality has increasingly come [...]

In both EU design law and US design patent law, protection is formally tied to a product or article of manufacture, respectively. Yet the same visual design may sometimes be

used on a different product without infringement. The two systems reach this result through different doctrinal routes, but both increasingly confront the same underlying [...]

EU Copyright Harmonisation: An Empirical Analysis of National Courts Case Law, Estelle Derclaye and Gilles Stupfler, Bloomsbury, 2025. ISBN: 9781509974849. Hardback, pp. 432.

Price: £130.00. Also available as e-book. [...]

As part this special issue titled “Law's Rule and the Rule of Law: Critical Dialogues with Gerald J. Postema,” this article addresses the argument Postema makes in chapter 14

of Law's Rule: The Nature, Value, and Viability of the Rule of Law, with its warning of the risks attendant on replacing legal judgment with artificial intelligence. [...]