Never Too Late: If you missed IPKat last week!

Had your head down last week and want to catch up on the IP news? No problem - as always, the IPKat is here to bring you a quick summary of the latest updates.

Alessandro Cerri evaluated

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 the latest case law on the liability of online marketplaces for trademark infringement by third party retailers. The District Court of the Hague recently found that Fruugo, an online marketplace, was not directly liable under trade mark law for the advertisement and sale, on its platform, of products which infringed the trade marks of Audi and Volswagen, distinguishing the facts from Louboutin v Amazon.

Katfriend Jakub Wyczik provided a contribution about the recent decisions which held there was no copyright protection for artificial intelligence creations. He closes with the provocation that he hopes for the death of copyright and suggests that other areas of law may be more suitable to protect AI creations. 

Professor Kasim Waziri (University of Abuja, Nigeria) provided a book review of Intellectual Property Law in Nigeria: Emerging Trends, Theories and Practice by Desmond Oriakhogba and Ifeoluwa Olubiyi. The book covers the substance and policy of intellectual property, as well as emerging issues, including the protection of traditional knowledge, artificial intelligence, and the gendered nature of IP protection, "with deliberate simplicity and yet deep in scope and analytical preponderance".