“AI increases the risk of misuse of personal information, both in terms of the information that businesses are feeding into, and receiving from, AI platforms.” — Thomas Huthwaite By Julius Melnitzer | March 5, 2026 With the advent of artificially-generated images and viral content, the growing ubiquity of deepfakes and dupes has become a growing concern, […]

“New Zealand’s current regime is more closely allied with other countries, including Australia, than it was before.” – Sam Ting By Julius Melnitzer | February 3, 2026 New Zealand and Australia both allow divisional applications. Although both prohibit double patenting, their laws and rules are not the same, and recent developments in New Zealand have narrowed […]

In China, there is no doctrine preventing an applicant from obtaining multiple patents for obvious variants, patentably indistinct subject matter, or incremental improvements, so long as the claims are not identical in scope – Michael Huang Double patenting doctrine worldwide builds on the principle that an inventor is entitled to only one patent for each invention. […]