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Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms

The 2023 ranking of the region’s top intellectual property law firms. Plus: AI’s rapid progress to upend patent laws; lawyers pay close to attention to regulatory changes; how machine learning can help or hinder innovation

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Call for entries: Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2024
We invite clients and peers to recommend firms and rate them for specialist expertise, by March 17
Europe’s Leading Patent Law Firms 2023
Listings based on recommendations made by clients and peers to FT research partner Statista
Rapid advances in AI set to upend intellectual property
Can machines be classed as inventors on patents? And what happens when copyrighted works are used for machine learning?
Lawyers keep an eye on copyright risk with generative AI
Regulation is being considered across the world and strictest rules are expected to set a global standard
AI and patents: How machine learning can help or hinder innovation
Tech can be used to target inventions en masse — but also to protect creators
EU’s patent reforms gain speed
Package is intended as a continuation of harmonisation efforts in intellectual property

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