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In 2026, the clock is ticking for progress on IP legislation
Looming retirements and difficult reelection bids threaten to upend the leadership of intellectual property policymaking in both the House and Senate in 2026, incre... (more story)
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Japan IP Court says sample family-court pleading is copyright-protected
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court held that a template-style family-court sample pleading was copyright-protected, rejecting full-text reposting as lawful qu... (more story)
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Louis Vuitton wins China trademark appeal over remade luxury bags
French fashion house Louis Vuitton has won a landmark appeal in China against a Shenzhen-based bag maker accused of misusing its trademarks by recycling second-hand... (more story)
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In its latest post-hearing listing document filed with the Hong Kong stock exchange, artificial intelligence startup MiniMax Group denied copyright-infringement allegations by major US movie studios related to... (more story)
Sony and Tencent settled their US video-game dispute, ending Sony Interactive Entertainment’s California lawsuit over Tencent’s Light of Motiram game through a stipulated dismissal with prejudice.
The Unified Patent Court issued rulings this week upholding and revoking patents, granting and denying injunctions, tightening rules on added matter and inspections, and clarifying language, confidentiality an... (more story)
Japan’s IP High Court rejected infringement claims over a massage chair patent built around downloadable, encrypted control programs, agreeing with the patent office that core software-driven features could no... (more story)
Former Patent Trial and Appeal Board Chief Judge Scott Boalick is leaving the US Patent and Trademark Office after 18 years of service, he announced Tuesday in an email to coworkers. His departure will be foll... (more story)
US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires took the rare step Monday to initiate director review sua sponte in an already instituted inter partes review, citing a previous determination by the US Int... (more story)
The US Patent and Trademark Office proposed rules Tuesday that would require foreign applicants and patent owners be represented by a registered patent practitioner for actions before the office, effectively e... (more story)
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court held that a template-style family-court sample pleading was copyright-protected, rejecting full-text reposting as lawful quotation or reporting and upholding removals, ... (more story)
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In 2025 the rising prominence of a then-fledgling Unified Patent Court may have taken top billing for practitioners, but in 2026 the spotlight is firmly affixed on the US Patent and Trademark Office. Myriad ch... (more story)
Copyright protects works reflecting human creative choices, the EU Court of Justice recently clarified, but experts say its originality and recognizability tests could complicate enforcement and copyright clai... (more story)
Looming retirements and difficult reelection bids threaten to upend the leadership of intellectual property policymaking in both the House and Senate in 2026, increasing the pressure to pass key legislation swiftly.
From Jan. 1, 2026, holders of UK trademarks which sit on the register as “clones” of EU-registered marks will have to prove that they've been consistently used in the UK in the five years since Brexit, or leav... (more story)
In the high-stakes world of patents, a "thumping victory" in the Delhi High Court has fundamentally rewritten the playbook for India’s pharmaceutical generics giants.
As more media giants partner with AI companies to license their content, tech firms left on the outside face mounting legal risk that will only grow with the burgeoning licensing market. After OpenAI and the W... (more story)
At their first conference of the new year the US Supreme Court will consider a Swiss apparel maker's bid to reinstate its application to trademark "vetements" — the French word for clothing. A more recent Trad... (more story)
With the US solicitor general urging the Supreme Court this month to grant certiorari in Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ appeal of an induced infringement verdict over a generic drug’s “skinny label,” both US political... (more story)