China widens lead over US in WIPO innovation cluster rankings
September 08, 2026
| Melissa Ritti
The US lost two entries in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s list of the top 100 geographies for innovation while China added one, with a patent-intensive battery hub accounting for the annual ran... (more story)
Flemish far-right party likely misused Ikea’s brand, EU court rules
September 08, 2026
| Inbar Preiss
The EU’s top court has drawn the line between political parody and trademark protection, saying Vlaams Belang’s Ikea-themed immigration campaign was likely unjustified even as it recognized that free speech ca... (more story)
China top IP official outlines protection, commercialization priorities through 2030
September 08, 2026
| MLex Staff
China will strengthen intellectual property protection in emerging fields, speed the commercialization of research results and deepen international cooperation as it begins the 15th Five-Year Plan, which runs ... (more story)
Naver maintains contracts shield it from broadcasters' AI copyright claims
September 08, 2026
| Choonsik Yoo
Naver told a South Korean court on Tuesday that its use of news content from the country’s three largest television broadcasters to train artificial intelligence models complied with content-sharing contracts ... (more story)
Japan court says structural similarities in manga not enough for copyright infringement
September 08, 2026
| Toko Sekiguchi
Japan's IP High Court has ruled that similarities in plot, character settings, props and the way scenes are arranged are not enough to establish manga copyright infringement unless they reproduce the original ... (more story)
Indonesia court restores patent evergreening barrier, aiding generics
September 08, 2026
| Roffie Kurniawan
Indonesia’s pharmaceutical patent landscape has shifted back in favor of generic drugmakers after the Constitutional Court restored restrictions designed to prevent patent “evergreening.”
Flowerbx wins UK trademark claim against Flowers Box London
September 07, 2026
| Douglas Clarke-Williams
Flowerbx, a luxury flower supplier, has won its claim for trademark infringement against competitor Flowers Box London, after a UK judge found that the similarity between the names had caused demonstrable conf... (more story)
China court rejects prior-use defense tied to foreign company registration
September 07, 2026
| MLex Staff
A Chinese paint supplier cannot rely on a foreign company registration to claim prior use of a trademark, a Chinese appellate court has ruled, stressing that the defense requires proof of actual use with marke... (more story)