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With Samsung deal, Netlist positions itself for next wave of USITC litigation August 07, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

A provision in Netlist's settlement with Samsung offers a glimpse at how patent owners might structure disputes in the emerging AI-memory licensing market, by pairing a commercial alliance with a cooperation a... (more story)

Meta appeals French antitrust orders to negotiate neighboring rights August 07, 2026 | Jean Comte

Meta has appealed two interim injunctions from the French competition authority ordering the tech company to negotiate "in good faith" with press publishers over remuneration for using their members' content. ... (more story)

Google's AI overview on course to trigger French antitrust action August 07, 2026 | Jean Comte

Google is accused by French press publishers of violating its own commitments on related rights when deploying its AI overview feature in the country in late July. Publishers are considering filing a complaint... (more story)

China rejects bad-faith challenge to Xiaomi patent in first-of-its-kind case August 07, 2026 | MLex Staff

China has for the first time rejected a patent-invalidation request after finding that it was filed in bad faith and was not genuinely intended to challenge the patent’s validity, clarifying the limits on the ... (more story)

US judge spares Microsoft expanded AI infringement claims by newspapers August 06, 2026 | Emma Whitford

The New York Times and a group of regional newspapers cannot allege deeper involvement by Microsoft in OpenAI’s artificial intelligence model training, US District Judge Sidney Stein ruled. The plaintiffs fail... (more story)

This week at the UPC: July 31-Aug. 6 August 06, 2026 | Anna Lauwereys and Inbar Preiss

This week at the UPC, three different disputes were settled out-of-court, with a fourth one being published two weeks after being withdrawn as well. Kodak managed to reverse an injunction and got its €1.72 mil... (more story)

China revamps IC layout-design IP regime to support next-generation chips August 06, 2026 | MLex Staff

China has overhauled its integrated circuit layout-design regulations for the first time in more than two decades, expanding protection to emerging chip technologies while tightening registration and enforcement rules.

Nintendo ruling expands India's protection for well-known trademarks August 06, 2026 | Freny Patel

Nintendo's Delhi High Court victory reinforces India's expanding protection for well-known trademarks, preventing their use in unrelated sectors where corporate names could imply a false commercial association.

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Stewart exits USPTO as Squires pivots to AI, patent eligibility August 07, 2026 | Nick Robertson

Former US Patent and Trademark Office Deputy Director Coke Morgan Stewart told MLex that she left the agency last week after concluding that Director John Squires wanted to focus the office's policy agenda on ... (more story)

Suno’s German court defeat tests Europe’s reach over US AI training August 07, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

German music rights group GEMA’s win against Suno tests whether European right holders can use local courts to challenge AI training carried out abroad, and whether collecting societies can become copyright en... (more story)

Japan bets old personality rights can handle the AI clone era August 07, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan is betting that court-developed personality rights can govern AI voice and likeness cloning, avoiding a dedicated synthetic identity law while leaving difficult questions of commercial control and liability unresolved.

In search of future blockbusters, Big Pharma turns to psychedelics August 06, 2026 | Steve Scherer

Eli Lilly's acquisition of AtaiBeckley last month signals that major drugmakers increasingly view psychedelics as a promising source of future psychiatric medicines and new patent-protected drug franchises.

Meta’s French injunction spotlights risks around negotiating power August 06, 2026 | Jean Comte

Meta Platforms’ entanglement with French investigators last month shows the antitrust pitfalls for dominant companies in supplying data to partners on the other side of the negotiating table. Meta’s tactic of ... (more story)

US trademark owners turn to Schedule A as blocking bills bypass counterfeiting August 05, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

Trademark owners are leveraging what's known as "Schedule A" litigation to reach successor accounts and online intermediaries as they seek remedies that increasingly resemble the dynamic blocking regimes available abroad.

US trade court judge's BMW ruling could raise stakes for forum-selection clauses (update*) August 05, 2026 | Steve Scherer

A US International Trade Commission judge may have handed companies facing Section 337 investigations a powerful new tool, ruling for what practitioners said was the first time that a forum-selection clause wa... (more story)

Squires' impact may explain drop in patent eligibility affirmance rate August 05, 2026 | Nick Robertson

A small decline in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board affirmance rate of patent examiners' § 101 rejections could be explained by US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires' focus on broadening eligib... (more story)