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| Issue No. 38, December 2023 |
| APAA e-Newsletter |
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| Visit of WIPO’s Director General to India – October 10 to 13, 2023 |
| S Majumdar, S Majumdar & Co (India) |
| Director General of WIPO, Mr. Daren Tang visited India from October 10 to 13, 2023, to attend the National Intellectual Property Conference, 2023 entitled “Nurturing Growth of IP for Knowledge Economy” where he met with Ministers, Judges of High Court, … |
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| Plausible Patentability: A Tale of Legal Lore From Europe to the Lion City |
| Gerald Koh – Viering Jentschura & Partner LLP (Singapore) |
| The requirement for plausibility has become an important consideration in patent applications in many jurisdictions outside of Singapore. This article examines the origins and rationale behind plausibility, its relevance to the Singapore context, and … |
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| Can Artificial Intelligence Be Recognized as an Inventor in Korea? |
| Hyekyung (Esther) Hwang (CENTRAL Intellectual Property & Law) |
| Patent Offices and Courts of major nations traditionally recognize only natural persons as inventors, excluding artificial intelligence (AI) from this category through Patent Acts and judicial precedents. Nonetheless, an intriguing patent application … |
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| AI and Thai IP Law |
| Praewpan Hinchiranan (Am) – Thaniya Anuchitolarn (Lexel) |
| Although Thailand does not have a specific law/regulation regulating AI at the moment, and the provisions of the current Thai IP law do not specifically address IP issues where AI is concerned, certain provisions might be applicable to AI as provided … |
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| Cracking Down on Counterfeiting: Taiwan Customs Anti-counterfeiting Platform Officially Launched |
| Lydia Wong, Top Team International Patent & Trademark Office (Taiwan) |
| To reduce the maintenance costs for trademark rights holders and enhance the efficiency of the Customs, Taiwan Ministry of Finance established an online platform in August 2021, which allows customs officers, trademark rights holders, and importers/exporters … |
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| Opposition and Third-party Observation in Vietnam |
| Tran Dieu Linh, Vision & Associates (Vietnam) |
| After a long-awaited period, Circular No. 23/2023/TT-BKHCN (“Circular 23”) detailing some articles of the Amended IP Law (took effect on 1 January 2023) and Decree No. 65/2023/ND-CP dated 23 August 2023 (“Decree 65”), finally, was ratified on … |
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| Court Decisions on the Copyrightability of Architectural Works and Gardens and the Infringement of Moral Rights (Tokyo District Court Decision on November 25, 2022, Case No. (Y) 22075) |
| Yuriko Sagara, Nakamura & Partners (Japan) |
| The case is about X, the designer of a public art museum in the town of Y (which has received various awards as an exemplary building that has been preserved over a long period of time in the museum – hereinafter “the Museum”) and the … |
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