Shorts International seeks to take Google trademark case to UK Supreme Court
July 22, 2026
| Douglas Clarke-Williams
Short film distributor Shorts International has applied to have its trademark claim against Google’s YouTube Shorts heard by the UK Supreme Court, after it lost its case against the tech giant at the Court of Appeal.
UK intellectual property policy outlook uncertain after departmental overhaul
July 22, 2026
| Douglas Clarke-Williams
The outlook for UK intellectual property policy remains uncertain after the country's new prime minister Andy Burnham took office this week and scrapped the ministry which had overseen the UK Intellectual Prop... (more story)
Japan IP Court settles Alibaba-BWB customs patent battle with split rulings
July 22, 2026
| Toko Sekiguchi
Japan's Intellectual Property High Court has upheld the validity of a Japanese patent covering cross-border e-commerce customs-clearance technology while separately confirming that Alibaba's accused software d... (more story)
Samsung, SK Hynix lead race as DRAM SEP market emerges
July 22, 2026
| Steve Scherer
Artificial intelligence is fueling the emergence of a new market for licensing standard-essential patents covering memory technology, with Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology holding the strong... (more story)
China court reopens Morphy Richards trademark dispute over new evidence of hoarding
July 21, 2026
| MLex Staff
China's highest court has reopened a trademark-invalidation proceeding after ruling that later-emerging evidence of large-scale trademark hoarding constituted new facts that fell outside the scope of the "no r... (more story)
Indian court sides with ZARA in trademark dispute with ZORA
July 21, 2026
| Freny Patel
ZARA won an Indian trademark appeal after the Delhi High Court ordered cancellation of the "ZORA" mark, reaffirming the anti-dissection principle and extending protection for well-known trademarks across dissimilar goods.
Anthropic's $1.5 billion US copyright settlement wins final approval
July 20, 2026
| Amy Miller
Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with book authors whose works were downloaded from “shadow” libraries to train its chatbot Claude was granted final approval Monday after US Judge Araceli Martí... (more story)
AI labels won’t decide copyright protection or infringement, EU says
July 20, 2026
| Inbar Preiss
EU guidance says AI labels will not determine whether content is protected by copyright or infringes creators’ rights. It gives creative works flexibility over deepfake disclosures while requiring providers to... (more story)