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Law firm's recruitment of authors to opt out of Anthropic deal blasted by US judge
In an extraordinary four-hour evidentiary hearing in San Francisco, a federal judge blasted ClaimsHero, an Arizona law firm recruiting authors to opt out of Anthrop... (more story)
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InterDigital warns of 'flood' of UK anti-anti-suit injunctions in Amazon dispute
InterDigital said on Tuesday that the anti-anti-suit injunction awarded to Amazon by a UK court could invite a “flood” of similar actions, as the standard essential... (more story)
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Japanese tire maker Sumitomo secures India's first 'smell mark,' sparks IP debate
Japan's Sumitomo Rubber Industries has succeeded in a landmark order, securing India's first-ever olfactory trademark for a distinctive "floral fragrance/smell remi... (more story)
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Cox Communications and Sony Music Entertainment will face off before the US Supreme Court on Monday over whether internet service providers can be held liable for contributory and vicarious copyright infringem... (more story)
The UPC clarified its test for inventive step this week, as the Court of Appeal restored Amgen’s cholesterol-related patent and upheld Edwards’ heart valve patent. The court also issued rulings on preliminary ... (more story)
The UK Intellectual Property Office, or IPO, may be forced to delay the publishing of some patents by up to three months as it implements new systems. The authority has been forced to apologize to an industry ... (more story)
Edwards won its UPC appeal as judges upheld its heart-valve patent, confirmed infringement by Meril and confirmed the court's inventive-step test, leaving only a narrow exception for extra-large valve sizes.
A Japanese court has ruled that a self-initiated Excel-based accounting system developed by an employee belonged entirely to the employer, noting that Japan’s Copyright Act offers no statutory compensation for... (more story)
US Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter will stay in her role amidst a legal battle to remove her, after the US Supreme Court on Wednesday deferred a motion to stay a preliminary injunction which prevented ... (more story)
The US Patent and Trademark Office will no longer apply the Pannu factors of inventorship to inventions conceived by a single person with the assistance of AI, according to new guidance announced Wednesday. Th... (more story)
Five months after interim US Patent and Trademark Office leadership and the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division weighed in on a preliminary injunction request by Radian Memory Systems in Texas federa... (more story)
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EU lawmakers disputing the European Commission’s withdrawal of a bill on standard essential patents face a steep legal test at the bloc's highest court as they challenge the limits of the executive branch’s po... (more story)
Underscoring the World Intellectual Property Organization Advisory Board of Judges’ mission to bridge the gap between highly advanced IP jurisdictions and those that need support, the board is finalizing a two... (more story)
Realtek has notched a win in Texas, where a federal judge ordered discovery on whether 2021 infringement claims by a patent assertion entity rise to the level of “exceptional.” The evidence has major implicati... (more story)
Google is again asking for mandamus relief from a discretionary denial of inter partes review, this time pointing to a 2019 holding by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that patents are “open” to... (more story)
Law professor Danny Friedmann of Peking University School of Transnational Law* tells MLex that the US and China copyright offices are risking a return to discredited legal standards when assessing generative ... (more story)
How to hold patent owners liable for “malicious” infringement lawsuits has become one of China’s most contentious judicial questions, as a solar-materials maker strikes back at its accuser over alleged abusive litigation.
From the research awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in economics to a patentee-friendly shift at the US Patent and Trademark Office, innovation is having a moment. Kristen Osenga tells MLex the attention is long ov... (more story)
A recent ruling in a case by Getty Images against Stability AI has provided some clarification on how the UK copyright regime handles AI training, the models and their output. But it also highlighted problems ... (more story)