Dimitris Xenos

'Forum shopping within the UPC is not an aberration, it is a rational adaptation to structural plurality.'
#patent #unifiedpatentcourt
NB:
Read with caution.
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Κυπριακό 2.0: Η επιτακτική ανάγκη επανεκκίνησης Αυτό επιβεβαιώνεται και με την πρόσφατη πενταμερή  συνάντηση της πρωτοβουλίας του Γ.Γ. του ΟΗΕ, κ. Γκουτέρες. Επειδή το Κυπριακό είναι πρωτίστως έγκλημα το

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 Online Safety Act: Platforms must start tackling illegal material from today From today, online platforms must start putting in place measures to protect people in the UK from criminal activity, while Ofcom has launched its latest enforcement programme to assess industry compl...

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

Liverpool University Press selected as new publishing partner The British Academy has chosen Liverpool University Press as the new partner for its prestigious and long-running publishing programme.

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

Επιστροφή στην Αίγυπτο: σχέσεις λαών και όχι μόνο μεγάλων εταιρειών Σύσφιγξη σχέσεων μεταξύ Ελλάδας και Αιγύπτου.

‘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 open access Article by Jeffrey Brainard See also: White House requires immediate public access to all U.S.-funded research papers by 2025 And current open access policies by certain institutes and...

U.S. science funding agencies: New policies on #openaccess

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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 Committee Adopts Resolution Requesting Second Advisory Opinion from ICJ on Occupied Palestinian Territory On 10 November 2022, at the Seventy-seventh session of the UN General Assembly, Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee), the State of Palestine- in a move which skirted la…

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 climate change hearings represent largest ever case before UN world court A record number of oral statements are expected to be presented to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as highly awaited public hearings on States’ legal obligations with respect to climate chang...

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

UK Supreme Court to hear another important AI patent case Commercially important questions concerning the degree to which software, including artificial intelligence (AI) systems, can be patented, are to be considered by the UK’s highest court in what will b...

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 Further discussion of publisher practices selling scholars' work to AI companies

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

UK - Non-Party Access To Court Documents: Court Of Appeal Interprets Leading Supreme Court Authority. - Conventus Law UK - Non-Party Access To Court Documents: Court Of Appeal Interprets Leading Supreme Court Authority. Legal News and Analysis - United Kingdom - Conventus Law

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...

In a constitutional democracy, it does not matter what the government or political parties will say. It is up to the courts to enforce the law.

Germany is probably the best paradigm of a constitutional democracy.
In this respect, it does not matter what the government will say. It is up to the courts to enforce the law.

Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC on the issuance of arrest warrants in the Situation in the State of Palestine On 20 May 2024, my Office submitted applications for warrants of arrest before Pre-Trial Chamber I in relation to the situation in the State of Palestine.   Today, based on the evidence presented by m...

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

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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