AI is nothing new - what is new is the pace of change. In an article first published by Sentinel magazine, we look at: how generative AI systems work the laws around artificial intelligence and the current international direction of travel input and output risks (including data protection, bias and...

In January 2023 our Osborne Clarke Knowledge Lawyers made their business law predictions for 2023. Here, we see how those predictions are faring. General We thought that " businesses and their advisers are likely to sharpen their focus on the Opposition's emerging plans for the economy " – perhaps not...

The UK government has published new guidance on the National Security and Investment Act (NSIA) focused on early-stage ventures, spin-outs and international investors, but has postponed a wider consultation on the regime. The government had previously planned on launching a wider-ranging consultation on the NSIA regime this summer; however, it...

The Court of Appeal has recently held that an AI invention was a computer program " as such" and therefore was not patentable, overturning a High Court decision. The decision concerned a system for providing media-file recommendations to end users based on an artificial neural network (ANN) that had been...

In this issue: Data protection and IP update: Adoption of EU data protection regulation likely in 2015 Amendment of the Belgian Data Protection Act Book XI of the Belgian code of economic law Employment law update: Termination of part-time employees Look forward: Michel I Social elections in May 2016 Commercial...

On 5 May 2015, the CJEU dismissed two actions brought by Spain against the legality of the creation of the Unitary Patent (UP) and the Unitary Patent Court (UPC). This was the main legal challenge to the creation of the UPC and these decisions now lead the way to the...