An Osaka District Court ruling has narrowed the ability of copyright holders to impose self-declared penalty fees for unauthorized online image use, rejecting a fishing website’s attempt to claim damages based... (more story)

Sisvel is seeking companies to join an Ultra Ethernet patent pool and expanding its POS licensing program, while Nokia highlighted broad licensing deals in China. Longhorn IP continued to add to its digital pa... (more story)

This week, the Unified Patent Court revoked a Covid-19 treatment patent owned by China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and upheld Ericsson's patent in its dispute against AsusTek. The court also rejecte... (more story)

ZTE could enjoy a $640 million lump sum payment from Samsung for use of the Chinese company’s standard essential patents, a German court has said. The decision from the Munich Regional Court 1 demonstrates the... (more story)

The UK's intellectual property authority appears still to be hoping for lawmakers to be able to consider a proposal for it to gain new powers to seize goods and monitor financial accounts before lawmakers brea... (more story)

Vietnam’s government is launching a nationwide campaign to crack down on intellectual property infringements, just days after the Office of the US Trade Representative placed the country in the most severe cla... (more story)

Sisvel is quickly growing its licensing program for point-of-sale, or POS, payment devices, adding four more companies this week. The patent licensing and pool management firm expects the pool to become the “d... (more story)

The growth of IP-backed financing is a key priority for the UK government, the minister responsible for intellectual property has said. Kanishka Narayan also emphasized the acceleration of the innovation cycle... (more story)