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Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: What Does Justice Have to Do With IP?  Some organisations work to change the law. Some work to make the law easier to find, understand or use. And some make us pause and ask a more fundamental question:

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: When You Don’t Know the Name of the Trademark  Every now and then, I come across a tool that makes me wonder how we managed without it.  The WIPO Global Brand Database is one of those tools. You can

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Who Speaks for the Public Domain?  Every now and then, I come across an organisation that makes me pause not because of the number of people it represents or the size of its operations, but because of the

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: The Man Who Helped Build India’s Trademark Law Before every brand had a registration number, a trademark database, or a legal team ready to protect it, India had to first build a system for recognising and protecting trademarks. 

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: 30 Years of the WIPO Internet Treaties What did copyright law look like when the Internet arrived?  This week’s Bell takes us back to 20 December 1996, when the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT) and the WIPO Performances and

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: When Copyright Meets AI – ANI v. OpenAI Some bells mark the beginning of a new chapter. This one may just be the beginning of India’s AI copyright jurisprudence.  This week’s bell goes to ANI Media v. OpenAI, one

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: oriGIn Some bells are about protecting a product. Others are about giving the communities behind that product a voice. This week’s bell goes to oriGIn (Organization for an International Geographical Indications Network), a global alliance bringing together around 600

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) Some bells don’t just ring in libraries, they resonate in legislatures.  When we think about copyright reform, we often think of governments, courts and international treaties. Rarely do we think of the organisations

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: The Nexavar Compulsory Licence Some bells remind us that intellectual property is not just about protecting innovation, it is also about ensuring that innovation reaches the people who need it most.  This week’s bell revisits the Nexavar compulsory licence,

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: PRS Legislative Research Some bells don’t just help us understand the law, they help us understand how the law comes to be.  This week’s bell goes to PRS Legislative Research (PRS), an independent, non-partisan organisation that has transformed the way