Intellectual Property

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 Szpuna... (more story)

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 revoca... (more story)

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 wide... (more story)

Brave, a privacy-focused browser and AI search company headquartered in San Francisco, is facing a copyright lawsuit from The New York Times and other publishers for allegedly scraping content to fuel its sear... (more story)

Google and Anthropic have joined Japan’s voluntary AI intellectual property transparency code, but said they cannot answer individual inquiries about training material, limiting a route intended to help copyri... (more story)

A Chinese court has upheld a ruling that an advertising company registered a trademark in bad faith, citing filings that exceeded its business needs and insufficient evidence of commercial use.

 US company Tetra Technologies has won the revival of its Indian patent application after the Delhi High Court ruled that email dispatch alone did not establish receipt of an examination report or justify abandonment.

InterDigital, the US company that licenses wireless and video patents, is being investigated by South Korea’s competition regulator at the request of TCL, the Chinese television maker it has been suing in mult... (more story)