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IP weekly highlights—10 July 2025

Welcome to this week’s edition of the IP weekly highlights: a hand-picked summary of news analysis, updates and new content from the world of IP. These highlights focus on the key rights of copyright and associated rights, database rights, trade marks and passing off, designs, and patents as well as covering issues relating to confidential information, know-how R&D and IP disputes all mainly from a UK and European perspective.

AI and Copyright–where are we now?

TMT analysis: ‘At present, the application of UK copyright law to the training of AI models is disputed’. This sentence, in the introduction to the government's December 2024 consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, gives little indication of the strength of feeling on this topic and the tensions between the tech and creative industries that have emerged. Proposals to resolve the matter in the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025) did not make it into the final version of the legislation, which continues to leave wide open the question of how the UK will satisfy the conflicting interests of two powerful lobbies currently at loggerheads. Written by Aaron Cole and Patricia Wade, Ashurst LLP.

Commission proposes codified EU Designs Regulation with modernised provisions

The European Commission has published a proposal (COM(2025) 353 final) for a new Regulation on European Union designs, which would repeal and replace Regulation (EC) No 6/2002. The proposal codifies existing EU design protection rules while introducing new provisions for digital and virtual designs, 3D printing protections, and a permanent repair clause for spare parts. It establishes a design notice symbol, mandates electronic communications, and updates procedural requirements. The proposal aims to modernise the EU design system while making it more accessible. If approved, the new Regulation would take effect from 1 July 2026.

EUIPO adds AI tool to simplify trademark e-filing

Law360, London: The EU Intellectual Property Office has said it is now using AI to help to assess the trademark applications it receives through its simplified e-filing tool.

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