Jana Christova

Thanks to the Madrid Agreement concerning the international registration of trade marks, a single application can be filed to obtain international protection for a national or EU trade mark that has already been applied for or registered in the other member states of the Agreement. This now applies to 130 countries around the world, including the United States, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Qatar has now also officially joined the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

The US Copyright Office recently ruled again that artworks created by artificial intelligence are not protected by copyright, upholding its practice of not registering AI-generated art as a copyright work.