Intellectual Property

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)

China plans to adapt patent examination to AI-driven invention and emerging industries while tightening scrutiny of bad-faith filings and abuse of patent invalidation proceedings, according to a new plan from the country’s...(read more)

Novartis’s sale of Indian pharmaceutical trademarks was an outright transfer despite territorial and contractual restrictions, a Mumbai tax tribunal ruled. The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal rejected the royalty treatment o...(read more)

Streaming and broadcasting groups want authorities worldwide to curb alleged abuses in video standard essential patent licensing. In letters sent to government officials in the US, UK, EU, Germany and Brazil, they warn tha...(read more)

A broad range of tech companies are set to face a reform of the EU's consumer-enforcement structure, a senior European Commission official confirmed on Tuesday. The reform would allow the commission to take on certain cons...(read more)

AI chatbots could infringe publishers’ rights when reproducing protected works, but Google may escape liability in a closely watched EU copyright case. The non-binding opinion of Advocate General Maciej Szpunar also offers...(read more)

Netflix has failed to halt enforcement of a Unified Patent Court injunction won by DivX over a streaming-technology patent, despite the European Patent Office revoking the patent. Appeal judges said the revocation was not ...(read more)

A Chinese market regulator in the city of Shenzhen has issued guidelines urging businesses to tighten controls on the use of artificial intelligence tools and preserve evidence when trade secrets leak, as wider workplace a...(read more)