Jane Cornwell
@JCornwell11
Senior Lecturer IP Law, University of Edinburgh; former IP lawyer and litigator. All views personal.Retweeting/following should not be taken as endorsement.
Check out the first qualitative study of judges’ views on AI in law: users.wpi.edu/~esolovey/pape… Our focus groups featured a cross-section of 12 UK judges, including 5 members of the UK Supreme Court. Co-authored with Erin Solovey and Daniel Chen.
Aldi denied permission to appeal Thatchers trademark by Supreme Court. Some comment from me in The Grocer. thegrocer.co.uk/news/aldi-deni…
New blog post: Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for copyright infringement technollama.co.uk/disney-and-uni…
There's a great article by @ArtificialLawya on this: "A law firm is not just an economic pyramid of legal labour; it is a pyramid of quality control" Until AI is reliably "perfect" the onus will be on law firms to ensure what they use in their work is accurate.
“This High Court judgment lays bare the dangers of using AI in legal work. We need to ensure the risks are properly addressed.” CEO Ian Jeffery speaks to @SolicitorJrnl about the High Court ruling on the importance of accuracy in AI usage. ow.ly/bR0m50W7Itr
Major new decision of the King's Bench Division on lawyers' actual or suspected use of generative AI leading to false information being submitted to court. They call for more steps to be taken to ensure lawyers comply with duties to the court. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/202…
A very English #trademark battle: Salcombe Distilling Company alleges Nyetimber "product of England" trademark is not distinctive. thespiritsbusiness.com/2025/05/salcom…
Next Monday at the International Trademark Association Annual Meeting I will debate attorney Megan Bannigan about trademark dilution law, including whether this law banning nonconfusing uses of famous marks is consistent with the right to freedom of expression. Please join us!
I’m excited to announce that I will debate Megan Bannigan about trademark dilution law at the International Trademark Association’s annual meeting in San Diego at 230 pm on May 19. If you know my scholarship, you can guess that I am against the resolution. I hope you can join us!
#Jobfairy We are currently recruiting for a postdoctoral researcher to work on empirical strand of @PatentsInHumans project- closing 24th April- full details: universityvacancies.com/maynooth-unive…
WE'RE HIRING! We're hiring a postdoc with excellent empirical/participant research skills for the @ERC_Research funded @PatentsInHumans project led by Prof @AislingMMcMahon Closing date is 24 April universityvacancies.com/maynooth-unive…
Again not so zen for Aldi: "Aldi appears to have found itself receiving another unfavourable intellectual property decision. This time, the decision relates to reed diffusers, in which Rituals Cosmetics..." mondaq.com/uk/trademark/1…
On Friday evening, we were delighted to have a lecture from Prof Lisa Ramsey on #trademarks and free speech. All we have to do now is await her new book later this year! @SCRIPTCentre @LPRamsey @UoELawSchool
👇Fascinating snapshot here of the views on recent #TMs cases among the audience at IPKat's 'Retromark 2025' event. I'm not surprised by the huge (90%+) support for the EWCA's decision on 'unfair advantage' in Thatchers, but am more surprised by the support for Iconix....
Retromark 2025: Event Report (Part 2 - an interview with you – the audience) ift.tt/pg9bmyY
👇Looking forward very much to this lecture on Friday! All welcome @LPRamsey @UoELawSchool @SCRIPTCentre
📢 SCRIPT Centre event📢 Balancing Trademark and Free Speech Rights in Trademark Registration and Enforcement Laws Prof Lisa Ramsey, University of San Diego School of Law Fri 11 Apr 2025 17:30 - 19:00 law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/ev…
When the Gov first consulted on an extension for the text and data mining copyright exception to include AI training in 2022, there were 88 written responses. This time around - 3 years later - there were over 11,500 responses to the UK IPO consultation on Copyright and AI! 👏
👇This is a considerably clearer write-up of the issues on this application than much of the coverage so far!
To what extent can the name of a country, like Sweden, actually be a trade mark? 🇸🇪 It's been reported that Sweden is the first country to seek to register its name as a trade mark at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Read more 👇 citma.org.uk/resources/trad…
mschf is back at it, selling a "blurberry" bag: birkin + celine + dior + balenciaga =
👇Design lawyers - the survey response deadline is today but this is no April fools day joke! The UKIPO designs consultation suggests major changes to the subject matter that might be protectable as a design. Make sure to respond if you can!
📢 Design law folks - don't forget the current UKIPO design survey (deadline 1 April). It looks as if it is mostly about procedure/cost, but right at the end it pops in a *major* question about revising the definition of 'design' in very significant ways! gov.uk/government/cal…
This story has captured public interest in the UK - it featured on commercial radio news yesterday. Like @marksandspencer Robinsons is a "classic" well-loved British brand: "Aldi accused of trademark infringement by Robinsons over ‘copycat’ squash drink" retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2025/03/a…
Great spot by @marksandclerk: "Robinsons Soft Drinks Limited have issued a claim against Aldi Stores Limited in the High Court. It is a passing off and trade mark infringement claim." mondaq.com/uk/trademark/1…