The European Patent Office, or EPO, has ruled that descriptions should be updated to accord with claims which are amended during hearings or appeals. The judgment addresses issues of inconsistency which can ar... (more story)

Avanci is in talks with additional automakers in China and elsewhere about joining its connected-car patent licensing programs, Laurie Fitzgerald, president of Avanci Vehicle, told MLex. The licensing administ... (more story)

Japan’s largest online platforms do not necessarily have to go back to copyright complainants for more evidence before rejecting a takedown request, an Osaka court has ruled, in a decision backing X Corp.’s us... (more story)

A Chinese court has protected a well-known real-estate brokerage mark against use for laundry services, finding that different trademark classifications don’t rule out a real-world connection based on where se... (more story)

A care home transmitting broadcasts into residents’ private rooms isn’t breaching copyright law, Germany’s highest court has said. The care home does not need to negotiate a new license because there was no ne... (more story)

The Unified Patent Court this week granted injunctions to Aesculap and InterDigital, with InterDigital securing its third order against Disney. Judges also clarified the court’s reach into the UK and Poland, p... (more story)

Germany’s highest court has clarified the conditions under which reuse of a copyrighted work can be justified on the grounds of pastiche, in a ruling on a sampling of Kraftwerk’s song “Metall auf Metall” by Ge... (more story)

Short social media posts may be protected by copyright law and subject to exceptions for media outlets that report on current events, the EU’s top court said on Thursday. Romania’s additional restrictions, whi... (more story)