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UPC affirms urgent evidence orders, sets standard for unannounced inspections
Applicants to the Unified Patent Court don't need to prove patent validity or disclose prior art unless it is clearly material to the decision to proceed without no... (more story)
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UK essential patent processes set for overhaul in name of innovation, growth
UK businesses are to see a growth-focused shakeup in the country's standard essential patents ecosystem. The Intellectual Property Office has launched a consultatio... (more story)
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Dolby-Lava verdict in India to reshape SEP suits involving 'patent holdout'
In a landmark ruling, an Indian court has dramatically reshaped litigation over standard essential patents by enabling swifter payments against "patent holdout" ta... (more story)
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The UK Intellectual Property Office defended the UK’s current system of examining prospective patents before the Supreme Court today. Judges queried whether the UK can move closer to the European Patent Office... (more story)
WTO arbitrators have partially overturned an earlier ruling, siding with the EU in its challenge to China’s use of anti-suit injunctions. They found the policy breaches global IP rules by undermining patent en... (more story)
Nokia has sued Chinese carmaker Geely in the Unified Patent Court and the Munich Regional Court, accusing it of using 4G and 5G technologies covered by Standard Essential Patents without a license. The lawsuit... (more story)
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court upheld Toray Industries' patent extension for its anti-itch drug Remitch, rejecting Sawai Pharmaceutical’s claim that the extension exceeded legal limits. The court fou... (more story)
A pharmaceutical patent held by Hangzhou Zhongmei Huadong Pharmaceutical — upheld multiple times over the past year by China’s intellectual property authority despite repeated invalidation attempts — is now fa... (more story)
Jurisdictional discovery didn't move the needle with a US judge who earlier today said patent pool administrator Access Advance’s conduct during license negotiations with Roku can't be imparted to its High Eff... (more story)
The US Patent and Trademark Office asked Congress to approve its plan to add more than 1,000 patent and trademark examiners for fiscal year 2026, after it received an exemption from the federal hiring freeze. ... (more story)
Emotional Perception AI argued its case against the UK Intellectual Property Office at the country's highest court today over the patentability of its music recommendation algorithm. The Supreme Court’s ruling... (more story)
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A US judge has swatted down for the second time an effort to undo exemptions to a statutory bar on circumventing technological protection measures on defibrillators, ultrasound systems and other medical equipm... (more story)
An SAP America bid for mandamus could require a US appellate court to reconcile the presumption against retroactivity articulated by the US Supreme Court in 1996 with a holding more than two decades later that... (more story)
Winning an intellectual property ruling is no guarantee of true victory when the enforcement battle extends across borders. A critical lack of international agreements for recognizing IP judgments has created ... (more story)
UK government proposals to streamline the rate-setting process for standard essential patents could hand smaller licensee businesses a valuable weapon against larger licensors: having the traditionally veiled ... (more story)
Reliance on artificial intelligence to carry out increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks is on the rise. Findings by a US judge that voice cloning is nonactionable under current federal trademark and copyright... (more story)
China’s “dual-track” patent regulatory framework — where patent validity is assessed by the administrative authority while infringement disputes are handled by the courts — has come under increasing scrutiny. ... (more story)
Intellectual property owners hoping to put a quick end to online counterfeits continue to seek relief in the Northern District of Illinois in overwhelming numbers. It’s a practice one judge there has halted — ... (more story)
With the proliferation of deepfakes online, governments are racing to address the misuse of personal likeness through a mix of AI laws, court rulings and regulatory reforms. Denmark has proposed new copyright ... (more story)