Intellectual Property

A Shanghai court ruling involving German engineering company Bosch shows how companies can recover costs from abusive intellectual property litigation through counterclaims, outlining criteria for identifying malicious law...(read more)

BMW has defeated a battery-monitor maker’s bid to register “BMV” as an EU trademark. Judges found the name could benefit unfairly from the carmaker’s reputation, showing how famous brands can secure protection beyond their...(read more)

US biopharma major Incyte secured an Indian injunction against Melody Healthcare just 11 weeks before its ruxolitinib patent’s expiration. The Delhi High Court ruling highlights the availability of interim protection again...(read more)

South Korea’s three largest broadcasters are seeking 15 billion won ($11.16 million) in compensation from Naver and its affiliate Naver Cloud for allegedly using their news content without authorization to develop artifici...(read more)

FamilyMart, one of Japan’s largest convenience store chains, has defeated a trademark challenge to its “Tsukimi” food promotion after a Japanese court found that highlighting the familiar seasonal term across product names...(read more)

The Delhi High Court has referred Singapore-based Utracon Corporation’s trademark lawsuit to arbitration, finding the dispute with its former Indian subsidiary concerned contractual brand-use rights.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei won a preliminary victory Tuesday when a federal judge dismissed music publishers' direct copyright infringement claim against him. But US District Judge Eumi K. Lee gave them another chance to a...(read more)

A Japanese patent owner proved a competitor infringed its roof heat-shielding patent, but was ordered to pay damages to that same competitor after telling its franchisees that the infringement extended to other work and th...(read more)