Japan is reviving standard-essential patent enforcement through a centuries-old court mediation tradition, offering patent owners and implementers a low-cost route to global licensing while testing how far jud... (more story)

The US House and Senate versions of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act each endorse a right to repair for the military, which would expand US government access to technical data, an outcome that defen... (more story)

The US Department of Justice’s decision to abandon its economic espionage prosecution of China’s Pangang Group may ultimately be remembered less for its abrupt ending than for the precedent it produced: narrow... (more story)

Employee mobility and growing collaboration have already elevated the strategic importance of trade secrets and process patents across the life sciences industry. A new US Food and Drug Administration proposal... (more story)

The Ghostbusters movie helped dismantle a procedural barrier in Indian trademark law after the Delhi High Court ruled that procedural rules cannot be used to narrow statutory trademark rights, reducing the imp... (more story)

A federal appeals court is poised to consider xAI's novel challenge to California's Generative AI Training Data Transparency Act, which requires high-level disclosures about model-training datasets. xAI argues... (more story)

Patent pools could face legal challenges over their rates for licensing standard-essential patents in the wake of a significant ruling by the UK's highest court this week. The Supreme Court ruled for the first... (more story)

A new complaint by the licensing arm of the University of Tennessee accuses Anthropic of infringing two widely cited, yet never previously asserted, neural-network patents. The case could nudge other technolog... (more story)