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One might wonder what Thomas Edison and the Lumière brothers would have thought about it... What is considered to be audiovisual heritage in today's digital age?

In a few months a monumental change in the European patent landscape will take place with the coming into force of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) of the European Union (EU). This change will permit patentees to have a single Unified Patent (UP) across most of EU territory and, hence, covering one of the three largest economic regions of the world.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) published a report earlier this week on global intellectual property (IP) activity in 2020. There are some very interesting findings in this report, that provide an insight on global economic activity and trends, as summarized below.

September 1st, although often associated with the commencement of WW2, also marks the official “back-to-school” day in Israel – and in many other countries around the world. This provides for an excellent opportunity to acknowledge those inventions and patents that have shaped the way in which we teach and learn – namely, how (and on what) do we stage knowledge?