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Wilus Institute keeps up Wi-Fi6 campaign with US suits against Samsung, HP January 24, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

Wilus Institute of Standards and Technology has taken aim at Samsung Electronics and HP, filing its seventh and eighth US lawsuits since September 2024 over Sisvel-licensed patents declared essential to the 80... (more story)

EU lower court's authority in IP appeals clarified by top judges in Neoperl case January 24, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

A decision by the EU General Court in a trademark dispute between the EU Intellectual Property Office and Neoperl has been overturned by the EU Court of Justice and referred back for review. The EU's highest c... (more story)

‘First-mover’ offers, no injunction request, cut against bump in Ravgen royalty January 24, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

Labcorp will continue to pay a running royalty of $100 for every genetic test it sells which infringes a now-expired Ravgen patent, a US court has ruled, rejecting Ravgen’s request for nearly one-third more. ... (more story)

EU innovation ‘falls short,’ draft report says; Commission to boost patent use January 24, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Oscar Pandiello

The EU must address obstacles to innovation for startups and must close gaps with the US and China, according to a draft of the European Commission’s upcoming report on policies to improve local competitivenes... (more story)

EU threshold for AI models with 'systemic risk' needs reviewing, France urges January 24, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi and Jean Comte

France wants the threshold for a general-purpose AI model to qualify as entailing a “systemic risk” to be updated by the time the relevant AI Act’s provisions start to apply on Aug. 2. In a document prepared f... (more story)

Chinese innovators proactively tackling patent disputes abroad, CNIPA report says January 24, 2025 | MLex Staff

Chinese innovators grappling with intellectual property disputes abroad have been actively tackling challenges over the past year, an annual patent report recently published by China’s top IP regulatory author... (more story)

China underlines criteria for assessing trade secrets, patents in CFMoto case January 23, 2025 | MLex Staff

Chinese motorcycle manufacturer Zhejiang CFMoto Power has defended its trade secrets misappropriated by former employees in a remarkable appeal where China’s highest court clarified that the criteria for asses... (more story)

Nokia human rights claim met with skepticism in UK patent row with Amazon January 23, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

Alcatel Lucent SAS, Amazon Digital UK Ltd. and Nokia Corp. continued their debate today over the parameters of UK patent proceedings that will take place later this year. High Court Judge Richard Meade questi... (more story)

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Impact of US Supreme Court's 2006 eBay ruling on patent litigation still in dispute January 24, 2025 | Nick Robertson

Practitioners, academics and members of Congress are still debating the impact of the US Supreme Court’s 2006 ruling in eBay v. MercExchange, and what can — or should — be done to restore the presumptive right... (more story)

Trump executive orders could imperil US progress in patent pendency January 22, 2025 | Nick Robertson and Melissa Ritti

An executive order by President Donald Trump requiring federal employees to return to their offices five days per week could wreak havoc on recent hiring gains at the US Patent and Trademark Office — gains tha... (more story)

Security for brands, barriers to generics expected following EU court ruling January 21, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Brand name drugmakers, or originators, which hold patents on medicinal products, now have a path to longer protection on combination drugs under Supplementary Protection Certificates. In response to questions ... (more story)

Realtek’s fee request floats penalizing the non-disclosure of AASIs January 20, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

Briefing is complete on a request by Realtek for the attorney fees — more than $134,000 — which it spent in successfully fighting removal of its breach-of-contract case against Broadcom and Avago to federal co... (more story)

In quashing Amazon subpoena to Nokia, US court pushes back on Section 1782 January 17, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

A US judge in Delaware yesterday said he wouldn't order Nokia to produce certain “multi-technology” licenses and more than 27,000 pages of licensing communications relating to Nokia's video codec standard esse... (more story)

China to take top trademark billing in 2025, amid commercial-use requirement January 16, 2025 | MLex Staff

Later this year, the US Supreme Court will weigh in on whether damages for trademark infringement can be foisted onto non-infringing subsidiaries in what remains its only intellectual property case this term, ... (more story)

AI debate will dominate copyright landscape in 2025, regardless of locale January 15, 2025 | MLex Staff

Artificial intelligence has the power to transform industries, economies – and copyright law.  As courts and elected officials have coalesced on the need to get it right, the path for getting there varies by g... (more story)

Russian sanctions, China's UCL changes to keep trade secrets at forefront January 14, 2025 | MLex Staff

The demise in the US of a nationwide noncompete ban could lessen the need for employers to police the comings and goings of their ex-employees — but with a steady stream of eye-popping jury awards for trade-se... (more story)