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Japan IP court rejects coat copying appeal over flawed survey, Instagram evidence February 05, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court rejected a fashion brand’s appeal accusing a rival of copying its coat designs, faulting its consumer surveys and Instagram-based evidence.

UK patent grants drop by 80% as digital upgrade hits processes February 04, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

The short-term impact of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s digital transformation program is becoming clear as new figures illustrate the slowdown in the granting of patents while the new system is put in ... (more story)

Amazon, InterDigital fight over boundaries of looming UK patent ruling February 04, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

Amazon and InterDigital have been urged by a UK judge to settle their disagreements over the scope of a Unified Patent Court ruling. The judge, Richard Meade, is concerned that in the event of a positive decis... (more story)

Munich court tightens SEP willingness bar after UK rate-setting bid February 04, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

In rulings that granted Nokia injunctions against Asus and Acer, judges in Munich said standard-essential patent users must make payments and provide security to show willingness to take a license, and they re... (more story)

Japan IP court dismisses DAP smartphone patent appeals against Sharp, Sony, KDDI and Samsung February 04, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan’s IP High Court handed IT consulting firm DAP Realize four appellate defeats, dismissing patent infringement appeals against Sharp, Sony, KDDI and Samsung Electronics Japan, holding that its smartphone i... (more story)

SEP policies in EU, UK, draw US stakeholder scrutiny in Special 301 comments February 03, 2026 | Nick Robertson

In comments for the Office of the US Trade Representative’s annual Special 301 report, multiple major trade organizations called on the US government to place the European Union and United Kingdom on IP watch lists.

India's top court to finally decide if antitrust watchdog can probe patent rights February 03, 2026 | Freny Patel

India’s top court is set to take a definitive position on whether the country’s competition watchdog can investigate conduct linked to patent rights with reference to Vifor. Previously, the Supreme Court of In... (more story)

China backs precision manufacturing innovator with record trade-secrets ruling February 02, 2026 | MLex Staff

China’s top court has raised the stakes for trade-secret theft, ruling that stolen technology integral to a product can be presumed to account for its full value in calculating damages.

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USPTO tackles personal branding as NIL, AI ramp up February 04, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

The confluence of complex state and federal legal frameworks governing name, image and likeness (NIL) has led to a misperception that such rights exist only for the famous. With AI-powered deepfakes of ordinar... (more story)

Who files now matters as China reshapes its patent invalidation playbook February 04, 2026 | MLex Staff

China’s top intellectual property authority has drawn a procedural line, warning that patent challenges filed under borrowed names — without genuine intent from the named requester — may be halted before reaching the merits.

Snap, Nvidia scraping suits show how AI has transformed US scraping litigation February 04, 2026 | Mike Swift

Generative AI is taking data scraping disputes to a new level as the ravenous hunger to obtain ever larger oceans of data to train large language models has fueled legal combat across the US. While data-scrapi... (more story)

Federal Circuit top judge signals deep unease with US design patent ‘trend’ February 03, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

A dissent on Monday called for a return to the standard for design patent infringement set over 150 years ago by the Supreme Court in a dispute over tablespoons and forks. That wouldn’t only take the US back t... (more story)

Japan pachinko data ruling shows limits of 'data IP' for scraping disputes February 03, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

A dispute over scraped performance data from pachinko machines, a popular arcade-style gambling game in Japan, has produced an early test of how far Japan’s unfair competition “data IP” concept can be used to ... (more story)

Scholars’ US antitrust loss a blow to paid peer review, other IP-adjacent services February 02, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

Dismissal last week of US antitrust claims against several of the world’s leading academic research publishers shows the legal might of contractually standardized industry norms, even in the face of statutory ... (more story)

US jurors convict former Google engineer based on data taken, way it was stolen January 29, 2026 | Amy Miller

The conviction of a former Google engineer who stole trade secrets for artificial intelligence supercomputers to help himself and the Chinese government was based on the kind of information he took and his met... (more story)

US torrenting claims against Anthropic executives show Bartz impact January 29, 2026 | Emma Whitford

Music publishers’ new torrenting claims against Anthropic in the US build on strategy and evidentiary record established by book authors including Andrea Bartz in since-settled copyright litigation, and they d... (more story)