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Mark Marfe 🧿Mar 16, 2023

FRAND 🚨 ‼️

This morning the High Court in London has issued its first global #FRAND licensing decision since the landmark Unwired Planet ruling in 2017, confirming the approach taken by Birss J in that case. It’s a chunky 225 page read and my and colleagues’ thoughts on the decision are at the link below 👇🏽

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/uk-frand-royalty-rate

#SEP #patent

UK High Court decision paves the way on setting global FRAND royalty rate

The High Court in London has issued its first global fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing decision since the UK Supreme Court’s landmark Unwired Planet ruling in 2020, confirming the approach taken by the judge in that case.

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Mark Marfe 🧿Mar 2, 2023

This made me laugh

https://www.instagram.com/p/CpSwg6RtJa9/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

I can imagine these icebergs speaking…

Safely Endangered Comics on Instagram: "Thanks iceberg dad. >bonus panel on Patreon"

34K Likes, 65 Comments - Safely Endangered Comics (@safely_endangered) on Instagram: "Thanks iceberg dad. >bonus panel on Patreon"

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Mark Marfe 🧿Mar 1, 2023

The question of whether #AI systems can own and transfer #patent rights returns to the UK courts. Thaler’s appeal will be heard by the UK Supreme Court on Thursday 2 March.

⬇️ article below.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/landmark-thaler-ai-patent-case-heard-uk-supreme-court

Landmark Thaler AI patent case to be heard by UK Supreme Court

The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can own and transfer patent rights in the UK is to be considered by the UK Supreme Court in a hearing on Thursday 2 March.

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Mark Marfe 🧿Dec 31, 2022

Happy 2023.

“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.”

Mark Marfe 🧿Dec 29, 2022

Holway Woods, Dorset, UK.

Mark Marfe 🧿Dec 15, 2022

When back in Gibraltar we like to visit (and donate) to the Alameda Wildlife Conservation Park which houses animals, such as this marmoset, that were found on ships in the harbour and that were being illegally trafficked into Europe.

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Mark Marfe 🧿Dec 13, 2022

@marq strictly speaking I should really use a buoy in the harbour but instead my friend and I swam with high viz swimming caps on.

Mark Marfe 🧿Dec 13, 2022

Went for an #openwater swim in Gibraltar harbour today. Sea calmer and less choppy than I’d expected. Nice to be back swimming in the Med.

Mark Marfe 🧿Dec 3, 2022

Staffing issues require a novel approach to recruitment.

Mark Marfe 🧿Nov 30, 2022

Natalie Sedacca Nov 30, 2022

This is great by @davidallengreen on the spectacle of Owen Paterson, who called for repeal of the Human Rights Act and even 'breaking free from the ECHR,' taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights.

His lawyers say despite the irony 'he has no other choice' - 'And that is the very point of human rights law... They are all there as a last resort, for those with no other choice' - like the migrants Paterson complained about.

#HumanRights

https://davidallengreen.com/2022/11/why-we-should-cheer-owen-paterson-taking-his-case-to-the-european-court-of-human-rights/

Why we should cheer Owen Paterson taking his case to the European Court of Human Rights

29th November 2022 The former member of parliament Owen Paterson is taking a case to the European Court of Human Rights. There is nothing wrong with this. Indeed, there is everything right about hi…

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