Intellectual Property

An EU court adviser will deliver an opinion on Nov. 3 in a closely watched Google Gemini copyright case, after an earlier date was dropped. The ruling to follow could clarify AI training and publishers’ rights... (more story)

China’s Guangzhou intellectual property authority has ordered three businesses to stop selling earphones that infringe a Huawei industrial-design patent and keep remaining inventory off the market, highlightin... (more story)

A Dutch court has barred Merck’s under-the-skin version of cancer drug Keytruda in eight European countries, upholding Halozyme’s drug-delivery patent and applying EU top court guidance allowing courts to issu... (more story)

Japan’s Supreme Court for the first time found the “special circumstances” test satisfied for tort liability when a business copies material outside copyright protection, upholding damages over a free, adverti... (more story)

US internet services provider Cloudflare has appealed Italian court rulings that upheld a regulatory order for it to help prevent users in Italy from reaching sites reported as carrying pirated live streams an... (more story)

China has proposed more detailed standards for identifying bad-faith trademark filings and protecting prior rights, while setting out examination rules for dynamic marks ahead of the implementation of its newl... (more story)

The US International Trade Commission is weighing whether to continue a trade-secret investigation despite a contract directing disputes to Germany. Neither Zync nor BMW argues that the agreement strips the ag... (more story)

Patent deals linked US and Chinese technology portfolios, renewed smartphone licenses and expanded automotive coverage, while a memory-patent dispute ended in a $600 million settlement. Pharmaceutical partners... (more story)