“CANNABIS” in the spotlight as a European trademark (TM) – brands for cannabis and derived products: Valuable TM protection possible?
The different branches of cannabis industries are still relatively new and the formerly widely illegal trade with cannabis becomes more and more legalized at least for medicinal use especially across the Western nations and Latin America. As with any new and...
IP protection for AI in life science
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LIFE SCIENCE Artificial intelligence (AI) is an umbrella word used to describe machines and computer programs that exhibit, to a certain extent, cognitive thinking and decision-making. Notable examples are neural networks which may be...
A short history of sailing seen through patents: From sinking ships to “flying insects”
Sailing has widely been associated with a romantic view of the sea and of seamanship and is commonly considered a very traditional industry, in which old enrooted technologies persist and in which innovation is often frowned upon. There is an apparent truth in it: The...
Universal approximation theorem for artificial neural networks
“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different” [J. W. Goethe] From my professional and personal experience, I cannot agree more with Goethe and I would...