Intellectual Property

Meta Platforms faces scrutiny in India after the Delhi High Court questioned whether Instagram’s Remix feature facilitates copyright infringement, raising broader concerns over platform responsibility for tool... (more story)

China has issued detailed implementation rules for its revamped integrated circuit layout-design regime, clarifying how applicants must define original features and how those claims will shape subsequent cance... (more story)

Japanese cosmetics company Kao faces a smaller rival’s planned trademark action to halt a new skincare line it has promoted with a celebrity campaign and advertising across four Japanese cities to broaden its customer base.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft told Australian lawmakers that copyright restrictions or legal uncertainty pose barriers to training AI models locally. The government is working on copyright legislatio... (more story)

OpenAI, Adobe and other tech groups have urged the Unified Patent Court to revoke a digital-file patent held by French startup KeeeX. Meanwhile, KeeeX has accused its opponents of infringement through content-... (more story)

Universal Music argued at the EU’s top court that Cloudflare should be held liable for copyright infringement because its content delivery services helped a piracy website make unauthorized music downloads ava... (more story)

Sanrio, the Japanese company behind Hello Kitty, has defeated an animation studio’s bid to stop sales of merchandise featuring Kuromi, one of its most popular characters, after a Tokyo court found that the stu... (more story)

Japan Tobacco failed to cancel a rival CAMEL COLLECTION copyright after the Delhi High Court ruled that trademark registrations alone don't establish first ownership of the underlying artistic work.