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UK IPO still grappling with surge of trademark filings from front companies
Another record year for trademark filings at the UK Intellectual Property Office was driven by applications from China, which contributed more than all other non-UK... (more story)
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In 2026, the clock is ticking for progress on IP legislation
Looming retirements and difficult reelection bids threaten to upend the leadership of intellectual property policymaking in both the House and Senate in 2026, incre... (more story)
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Japan IP Court says sample family-court pleading is copyright-protected
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court held that a template-style family-court sample pleading was copyright-protected, rejecting full-text reposting as lawful qu... (more story)
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A local court in China’s northwest Xinjiang region has that images generated by artificial intelligence software with a single click do not qualify as “works” under the Copyright Law, clarifying the legal stat... (more story)
The US Patent and Trademark Office on Monday announced the formation of a standard-essential patent (SEP) working group. The move follows recent statements of interest from office leadership favoring stronger ... (more story)
Masimo’s attempt to reinstate a limited-exclusion order to bar the import of Apple watches over patent infringement claims was dismissed in District of Columbia district court last week after the US Internatio... (more story)
Japan’s Cabinet Office is seeking public comment on a draft principles code that would press generative AI businesses to disclose model training and web crawling practices and respond to limited training-data ... (more story)
An Osaka court found that Hermes’ Birkin bag shape and its H-shaped sandal upper were protected in Japan but awarded only modest damages for online sales of lookalikes.
In its latest post-hearing listing document filed with the Hong Kong stock exchange, artificial intelligence startup MiniMax Group denied copyright-infringement allegations by major US movie studios related to... (more story)
Sony and Tencent settled their US video-game dispute, ending Sony Interactive Entertainment’s California lawsuit over Tencent’s Light of Motiram game through a stipulated dismissal with prejudice.
The Unified Patent Court issued rulings this week upholding and revoking patents, granting and denying injunctions, tightening rules on added matter and inspections, and clarifying language, confidentiality an... (more story)
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Another record year for trademark filings at the UK Intellectual Property Office was driven by applications from China, which contributed more than all other non-UK filings put together. The trend continues to... (more story)
Major copyright cases at the EU Court of Justice — involving generative AI, press publishers and streaming platforms — will likely come to judgment in 2026, testing how far EU law can adapt to platforms’ power... (more story)
In 2025 the rising prominence of a then-fledgling Unified Patent Court may have taken top billing for practitioners, but in 2026 the spotlight is firmly affixed on the US Patent and Trademark Office. Myriad ch... (more story)
Former Google engineer LInwei Ding will face a federal jury in San Francisco in early January, accused of trade secret theft and economic espionage for allegedly stealing Google's AI secrets for China, in a hi... (more story)
Copyright protects works reflecting human creative choices, the EU Court of Justice recently clarified, but experts say its originality and recognizability tests could complicate enforcement and copyright clai... (more story)
Looming retirements and difficult reelection bids threaten to upend the leadership of intellectual property policymaking in both the House and Senate in 2026, increasing the pressure to pass key legislation swiftly.
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)
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.