OpenAI, Adobe clash with KeeeX over digital provenance patent
By Inbar Preiss ( October 7, 2026, 14:35 GMT | Insight) -- OpenAI, Adobe and other tech groups have urged the Unified Patent Court to revoke a digital-file patent held by French startup KeeeX. Meanwhile, KeeeX has accused its opponents of infringement through content-provenance technology used to track the origin and authenticity of digital content.French startup KeeeX argued that OpenAI, Adobe and other technology organizations infringed its patent covering the authentication of digital files, in a Unified Patent Court hearing in Paris on Tuesday....
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