'Forum shopping within the UPC is not an aberration, it is a rational adaptation to structural plurality.' #patent #unifiedpatentcourt NB: Read with caution. t.co/agWILtNXdc

Κυπριακό 2.0: Η επιτακτική ανάγκη επανεκκίνησης www.naftemporiki.gr/opinion/1958... #NorthCyprusOccupation #Cyprus

Women wear white scarves made iconic by the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights group, during a march to commemorate the anniversary of Argentina’s 1976 coup Credit: Rodrigo Abd

Meta to stop targeting UK citizen with personalised ads after settling privacy case, [with ICO’s support] www.theguardian.com/technology/2... It can set a precedent for millions of UK users of online platforms #dataprotection #ICO #Facebook #Instagram ICO's argument: ico.org.uk/media2/l1bjz...

Enforcing the #OnlineSafetyAct: Platforms must start tackling illegal material from today www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet... A number of online services to provide an illegal harms risk assessment Enforcement: Fines of up to 10 percent of global turnover; Shutting down the platform; Jailed sentences

Academic publishing: Liverpool University Press has been selected as the new (long-running) publishing partner of British Academy www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/liverpo...

‘The return [of Greece and Europe] to Egypt: Relationships of peoples and not just of large companies’ by DX and Rafik F. Omar www.efsyn.gr/stiles/apops... #Egypt #GreeceEgypt #EuropeEgypt

U.S. science funding agencies: New policies on #openaccess dimitrisxenos.tumblr.com/post/7716531...

Data protection obligations in recruitment involving artificial intelligence. In their recent report, ICO have set out findings and recommendations. ico.org.uk/media/about-...

Re: artificial intelligence Are rights sufficiently human in the age of the machine? www.judiciary.uk/speech-by-th... Speech by Sir Geoffrey Vos, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice in England and Wales

UN General Assembly voted to ask the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on Israel's obligations to facilitate aid to Palestinians by international partners, incl. UN. #Gazaaid #ICJ The resolution was drafted by Norway. www.ejiltalk.org/un-general-a...

Landmark #climatechange hearings represent largest ever case before UN world court (International Court of Justice) #ICJclimatechange under the presidency of Judge Nawaf Salam news.un.org/en/story/202... #ICJ_evidence icj-cij.org/case/187

Re: artificial neural networks #ANNs UK Supreme Court will hear an appeal from the Court of Appeal judgment ([2024] EWCA Civ 825) regarding patentability in the Emotional Perception case. #patent www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news...

'Academic Fracking: When Publishers Sell Scholars Work to AI' by Lance Eaton open.substack.com/pub/aiedusim... #AIeducation #copyright #highereducation

Non-Party Access To Court Documents: Court Of Appeal Interprets Leading Supreme Court 's case law conventuslaw.com/report/uk-no... #access2justice #transparency Freedom of Information Act #FOIA2000 Derek Moss v The Upper Tribunal [2024] EWCA Civ 1414 caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/202...

OFCOM's Open letter to online service providers: Any AI-generated text, audio, images or videos is regulated in exactly the same way as human-generated content www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet... #OnlineSafetyAct #OSA2023 #onlineharms

EU Ombudsman criticises EU Commission for failure to identify documents related to high-level meetings between its President and President of Tunisia + failure to respond within 30 days (12-month delay). #EUtransparency #access2documents #maladminstration www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/news-docu...

The International Criminal Court has issued warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant #Israel, and Mohammed D. I. Al-Masri #Hamas www.icc-cpi.int/news/stateme... #Palestine #Gaza #ICC

#unifiedpatentcourt European Patent System: Failures in Constitutional Design Crippling Essential Safeguards against Adverse Economic Effects papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #patent #unitarypatent #europeanpatentoffice

Productivity vs Quality at the EPO: A rare glimpse behind the curtain that’s worrying patentlitigation.ch/productivity... #patent #EuropeanPatentOffice #patentquality