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Only 2 of 13 DuPont factors decide nearly all US TTAB cases, research suggests
At the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, just two of the 13 DuPont factors for likelihood of confusion can determine the outcome of over 99 percent of cases, accord... (more story)
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US trade-secret damages, criminal penalties in China could soar in 2026
In Asia, where trade secret violations are enforced via unfair-competition law, referrals for criminal prosecution should continue to climb, while in the UK, effort... (more story)
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UK IPO head raises possibility of UK rejoining UPC
Adam Williams, the chief executive of the UK Intellectual Property Office, has declined to rule out the prospect of the country rejoining the Unified Patent Court, ... (more story)
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The US Patent and Trademark Office on Friday designated as precedential or informative 13 Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions regarding their discretionary denial — the same that were designated in Decembe... (more story)
X Corp. alleged in a new US antitrust complaint that major music publishers and the National Music Publishers Association formed an anticompetitive scheme to coerce X into buying industry-wide music licenses a... (more story)
At the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, just two of the 13 DuPont factors for likelihood of confusion can determine the outcome of over 99 percent of cases, according to new research by Southern Illinois Univ... (more story)
China’s Supreme People’s Court has rejected a jurisdictional challenge in a standard-essential patent antitrust dispute, warning that licensing contracts can be used as “means or tools” for monopoly conduct. T... (more story)
MediaTek and Realtek attorneys faced extensive questioning from a California federal judge Thursday as he considers whether to throw out antitrust litigation related to a $1 million bounty for patent infringem... (more story)
Finding errors in an earlier ruling, an Indian court has stayed an injunction against Automat Irrigation’s hydromat valve. The Delhi High Court also observed inapplicable UK precedents and differences, ruling ... (more story)
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a precedential decision Thursday that mixed determinations in US International Trade Commission investigations trigger different deadlines to appeal due... (more story)
This week, the UPC published decisions made in the final days of 2025, including rejecting Amazon’s bid to suspend orders in its FRAND dispute with InterDigital, while also closing appeals, rehearings and cost challenges.
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A legal dispute between two fast-fashion juggernauts was pared back this week when a US judge ruled Temu’s foreign corporate parent won’t stay a defendant in the case. But the news was not all bad for Shein, w... (more story)
In Asia, where trade secret violations are enforced via unfair-competition law, referrals for criminal prosecution should continue to climb, while in the UK, efforts by standard-essential patent owners to keep... (more story)
The boom in AI and the platform economy is posing challenges to Europe’s legal order and will raise questions over the approach to copyright, contracts and transparency, according to Maciej Szpunar, one of the... (more story)
The refusal to register “George Orwell” as a trademark for content goods by the EU's top intellectual property appeal body has raised concerns among celebrities and estates that famous-name trademarks may be h... (more story)
A sweeping US federal legislative proposal from Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn to regulate artificial intelligence is the opening salvo in what could be a year of substantive debate on Capitol H... (more story)
Meta Platform’s blockbuster acquisition of Manus appears straightforward: A US tech giant buys a promising artificial intelligence startup. But the deal exposes a troubling pattern for Beijing — Chinese-develo... (more story)
As companies increasingly customize AI models with proprietary software, agents and data-labeling frameworks, Saul Ewing partner Matthew Kohel told MLex that IP practitioners must remain keenly aware of the co... (more story)
The end of 2025 will mark the end of a post-Brexit rule that allowed trademark use in the UK to count in the EU, and vice versa. Elsewhere in 2026, India’s recent endorsement of an olfactory trademark is expec... (more story)