Intellectual Property

The US Patent and Trademark Office exceeded its major trademark performance goals in fiscal year 2026, the office's trademark leaders said Wednesday. Pendency for a first office action fell to about four month... (more story)

In a Wednesday judgment memorializing his mid-October bench ruling, UK High Court Judge James Mellor rejected Dolby and Access Advance’s proposal to resolve preliminary patent licensing questions before addres... (more story)

An Oslo court temporarily barred Meta from introducing commercial terms that Norwegian media companies say would allow it to scrape their content for AI training. The order blocks the changes pending a final r... (more story)

A UK law on non-compete clauses in employment contracts is a possible step closer, with the government promising to set out "a detailed position" on the surrounding issues early next year to inform legislation... (more story)

A Shanghai court has found copyright infringement and unfair competition in a case involving an artificial intelligence service that imitated character voices and used imagery from Genshin Impact without permission.

GO Inc., one of Japan’s leading taxi app operators, has suffered a setback in a patent dispute with rival S.RIDE after Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court found that claims covering taxi-payment technolog... (more story)

China is proposing trade and investment restrictions against foreign entities that misappropriate Chinese trade secrets and threaten national interests, adding new economic measures to its intellectual propert... (more story)

The Unified Patent Court on Tuesday granted Versuni a preliminary injunction against sales of Dreame’s electric “Mira Mop” in Germany, France and the Netherlands, with the Hague local division finding a risk o... (more story)