Japan’s IP High Court has barred a publisher from continuing to reproduce and distribute 14 medical books after finding that an informal publishing arrangement could be terminated by the author at any time.

China has overhauled its patent priority-examination regime for the first time in nine years, shifting accelerated review toward emerging and future industries while imposing tighter procedural and integrity requirements.

A provision in Netlist's settlement with Samsung offers a glimpse at how patent owners might structure disputes in the emerging AI-memory licensing market, by pairing a commercial alliance with a cooperation a... (more story)

Meta has appealed two interim injunctions from the French competition authority ordering the tech company to negotiate "in good faith" with press publishers over remuneration for using their members' content. ... (more story)

Google is accused by French press publishers of violating its own commitments on related rights when deploying its AI Overviews feature in the country in late July. Publishers are considering filing a complain... (more story)

China has for the first time rejected a patent-invalidation request after finding that it was filed in bad faith and was not genuinely intended to challenge the patent’s validity, clarifying the limits on the ... (more story)

The New York Times and a group of regional newspapers cannot allege deeper involvement by Microsoft in OpenAI’s artificial intelligence model training, US District Judge Sidney Stein ruled. The plaintiffs fail... (more story)

This week at the UPC, three different disputes were settled out-of-court, with a fourth one being published two weeks after being withdrawn as well. Kodak managed to reverse an injunction and got its €1.72 mil... (more story)