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  Jane Lambert Chancery Division (Sir Anthony Mann) Stitch Editing Ltd v TikTok Information Technologies UK Ltd [2023] EWHC 1167 (Ch) (17 May 2023) This was an appeal against the decision of Ms June Ralph in which she upheld an opposition by Tik Tok Information Technologies UK Ltd. ("TikTok") to an application by Stitch Editing Ltd. ("Stitch") to register STITCH as a trade mark for various services in class 41 (see Re STITCH, Tik Tok Information Technologies UK Ltd. v Stitch Editing Ltd . BL O/716/22 24 Aug 2022). The appeal came on before Sir Anthony Mann on 29 March 2023 who handed down judgment on 17 May 2023.  By para [47] of his judgment, Sir Anthony allowed the appeal.  He remitted the case to Ms Ralph for a fresh decision in the light of his findings (see Stitch Editing Ltd v TikTok Information Technologies UK Ltd [2023] EWHC 1167 (Ch) (17 May 2023)). The Application Stitch applied to register STITCH as a trade mark for the following services in class 41: ...

Author   Alisneaky   Licence  CC BY-SA 4.0    Source  Wikipedia Artificial Neural Network Jane Lambert According to The Artificial Inventor Project website's FAQ page, "DABUS" stands for "Device for Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience".  The "About the Team"  page of the same website states that DABUS was created by Dr Stephen L Thaler .  Dr Thaler has applied for European patents for two inventions that were invented by DABUS, namely a food container (application number 18275163)  on 17 Oct 2018 and devices and enhanced devices and methods for attracting enhanced attention (application number 18275174)  on 7 Nov 2018. In  Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property   27 Dec 2019 I mentioned a press release dated 20 Dec 2019 stating that the EPO had refused those patent applications (see  EPO refuses DABUS patent applications designating a machine inventor   20 D...