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Week 3 Fall 2024 – Slides & video
Copyright over facts – could this be how the Slipknot legal dispute was resolved?

Copyright over facts – could this be how the Slipknot legal dispute was resolved?

For context for those who don’t know Slipknot, they’re an extremely famous heavy metal band with an incredible legacy. However, in this post, I’ll be talking about their very early years. In their first album, titled Slipknot, they ran into a very interesting IP dispute. There were two songs on the album, titled “Purity” and […]

Patents on Plant Breeding: A Growing Threat to Innovation and Diversity

Patents on Plant Breeding: A Growing Threat to Innovation and Diversity

I wanted to share a quick summary of an interesting article I came across in NZZ (Swiss newspaper) about intellectual property issues related to plant breeding and patents in Europe. The article, written by Simon Degelo, highlights how patents on genetically engineered plants are becoming a growing problem, particularly for smaller breeding companies. Although patents on plant […]