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EU to curb foreign influence over strategic tech standards in upcoming overhaul

Laion case could steer EU AI copyright reform

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China widens lead over US in WIPO innovation cluster rankings (correct*)

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BRICS puts AI training, rights-holder remuneration on IP agenda September 14, 2026 | Freny Patel

BRICS countries at the their recent meeting have put IP rights in artificial-intelligence training and fair remuneration for rights holders on their cooperation agenda, while seeking a greater role in global AI governance.

China's top court sets damages benchmark for trade-secret theft used to secure projects September 14, 2026 | MLex Staff

China’s top court has treated fees earned from an engineering project obtained through misused confidential technology as infringement profits, setting a damages benchmark where trade-secret theft secures comm... (more story)

Japanese court rejects attempt to use product labels to clarify patent September 14, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court upheld the cancellation of claims in a magnetic-shielding patent after rejecting the owner’s attempt to use product packaging and QR-code information to explain what th... (more story)

EU to curb foreign influence over strategic tech standards in upcoming overhaul September 11, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

The EU seeks greater control over who shapes standards for strategic technologies, in a leaked proposal that would let it restrict foreign-controlled participants and diverge from global standards. The overhau... (more story)

Japan weighs limits of current law on AI voice clones September 11, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan is examining how its legal framework should address unauthorized artificial intelligence imitation of voices and likenesses.

China names Chen Fuli new CNIPA party chief as Shen Changyu prepares for WIPO role September 11, 2026 | MLex Staff

China has tapped Chen Fuli, a former senior trade-law official with experience in international intellectual property matters, as party chief of the country’s top IP regulator, bringing an official familiar wi... (more story)

IP licensing and business: Aug. 28-Sept. 10 September 10, 2026 | Steve Scherer and Melissa Ritti

Tulip Licensing launched an imaging-technology licensing program with Canon, Sony, Huawei and OPPO. SB Energy revised its trademark royalty arrangement with SoftBank ahead of its IPO. Roche licensed worldwide ... (more story)

This week at the UPC: Sept. 4-10 September 10, 2026 | Giorgi Dvalishvili

This week, the Unified Patent Court granted Abbott Diabetes Care a preliminary injunction, blocking SiBionics’ GS3-R glucose monitor across all 18 UPC states. Other rulings sharpened UPC rules on evidence pres... (more story)

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Uncrustables fame ruling sets up functionality fight over crimped edge September 11, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

J.M. Smucker Co.'s trademark dilution claim against Trader Joe’s remains live after a US judge found the Uncrustables maker adequately pleaded the fame of four asserted design marks. Discovery will likely test... (more story)

X’s ‘Twitter’ injunction shows cracks in retired trademark portfolio September 10, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

A parenthetical is keeping X Corp.’s “Twitter” trademarks enforceable — for now — but a trail of digital relics wasn’t enough for a Delaware federal judge to include “Tweet” or the famed bird logo in a prelimi... (more story)

US copyright owners seek fresh take on transformative fair use in AI training wars September 09, 2026 | Emma Whitford

Copyright owners aren’t denying the myriad novel uses of ChatGPT, summary judgment briefs in closely watched US lawsuits show. Instead, they say that an innovative technology can still be a substitute for the ... (more story)

Laion case could steer EU AI copyright reform September 09, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

Germany’s top civil court is poised to send a copyright dispute between a photographer and AI dataset provider Laion to the EU's top court, raising questions over text and data mining, machine-readable opt-out... (more story)

India's DABUS copyright test may not work for everyday AI users September 08, 2026 | Freny Patel

India’s Copyright Office identified the human author for artwork generated by Stephen Thaler's DABUS-artificial intelligence system, but doing so for outputs produced through commercial generative-AI tools may... (more story)

OpenAI agent breach strains IP rules built around human conduct September 04, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

A recent unauthorized download of private code and data hosted on Hugging Face — and public staging of some of the same material — is surfacing new questions about liability under US intellectual property law,... (more story)

Trump DOJ sets unmatched pace for statements of interest in IP cases September 04, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has waded into private intellectual property litigation at nearly three times the rate of his first administration and more frequently than any recent predecessor. B... (more story)

USPTO advisory committee lapse erodes accountability, former members say September 04, 2026 | Nick Robertson

The US Patent and Trademark Office’s public advisory committees haven’t met for nearly two years, missing statutory deadlines and remaining largely vacant. Their partial reconstitution has yet to restore an im... (more story)