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Japan IP Court says sample family-court pleading is copyright-protected December 23, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court held that a template-style family-court sample pleading was copyright-protected, rejecting full-text reposting as lawful quotation or reporting and upholding removals, ... (more story)

Louis Vuitton wins China trademark appeal over remade luxury bags December 23, 2025 | MLex Staff

French fashion house Louis Vuitton has won a landmark appeal in China against a Shenzhen-based bag maker accused of misusing its trademarks by recycling second-hand luxury goods into new products.

USPTO removes precedential, informative discretionary denial decisions December 22, 2025 | Nick Robertson

The 14 Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions designated precedential or informative on Dec. 18 were quietly removed from the US Patent and Trademark Office’s website on Dec. 19, without any notice from the o... (more story)

Patent examiner’s union, government propose stay in US 'national security' case December 22, 2025 | Nick Robertson

The Patent Office Professional Association and the US government proposed a stay Friday in the union’s challenge to a Trump executive order which exempted patent examiners from union protection, though the uni... (more story)

Laion AI image scraping row escalates as photographer appeals to top German court December 22, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

AI dataset provider Laion is set to see an appeal by a German photographer against a court ruling that found the company, when scraping an image of his for AI training data, could rely on research exceptions a... (more story)

Myriad wins UPC ruling as GXD-Bio breast cancer patent is revoked December 22, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

The Unified Patent Court revoked GXD-Bio’s breast cancer testing patent, rejecting infringement claims against Myriad’s EndoPredict breat cancer test and clearing the way for continued European marketing after... (more story)

Polidoro wins UPC injunction against Bekaert over gas burner patent December 22, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

The Unfied Patent Court has granted Polidoro an injunction against Bekaert over a gas burner patent, rejecting revocation claims and finding only one challenged design infringing after assessing claim interpre... (more story)

China's top court moves to codify test for abusive patent suits in draft judicial rules December 22, 2025 | MLex Staff

China’s top court has proposed formal criteria for determining when a patent-infringement lawsuit amounts to “malicious” litigation, aiming to curb the abuse of legal proceedings to harass competitors or derail key deals.

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Brexit-linked new-year cliff edge looms for cloned UK trademarks December 22, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

From Jan. 1, 2026, holders of UK trademarks which sit on the register as “clones” of EU-registered marks will have to prove that they've been consistently used in the UK in the five years since Brexit, or leav... (more story)

Indian generics muscle into global weight-loss gold rush as Novo Nordisk's patent crumbles December 19, 2025 | Freny Patel

In the high-stakes world of patents, a "thumping victory" in the Delhi High Court has fundamentally rewritten the playbook for India’s pharmaceutical generics giants.

AI licensing deals mark new legal risk for tech companies left out December 17, 2025 | Nick Robertson, Emma Whitford

As more media giants partner with AI companies to license their content, tech firms left on the outside face mounting legal risk that will only grow with the burgeoning licensing market. After OpenAI and the W... (more story)

Trademark debate over doctrine of foreign equivalents heats up in US December 16, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

At their first conference of the new year the US Supreme Court will consider a Swiss apparel maker's bid to reinstate its application to trademark "vetements" — the French word for clothing. A more recent Trad... (more story)

White House again weighs in with US high court on ‘skinny label’ infringement December 16, 2025 | Nick Robertson

With the US solicitor general urging the Supreme Court this month to grant certiorari in Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ appeal of an induced infringement verdict over a generic drug’s “skinny label,” both US political... (more story)

Combined Access Advance, Via LA codec pools could fend off AV1 threat December 15, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

The video compression patent licensing market will be transformed by Access Advance’s planned acquisition of the Via LA HEVC/VVC program. Time will tell if the consolidation of core technologies by Google, App... (more story)

Ross, Westlaw appeal tackles both longstanding US precedent, novel AI December 12, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Melissa Ritti

There is no shortage of interest in an ongoing clash between Ross Intelligence and Thomson Reuters in what could yield the first US appellate ruling on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an arti... (more story)

OpenAI appeal of German copyright ruling looks to focus on 'memorization' December 12, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Frank Hersey

OpenAI’s decision to appeal a German court ruling in favor of music rights group GEMA may set a new precedent on whether “memorization” inside large language models counts as reproduction. In its early indicat... (more story)