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China's Jingdiao ruling tests boundaries of trade-secret protection

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Music industry tackles AI-fueled streaming fraud as licensing market grows

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EU to curb foreign influence over strategic tech standards in upcoming overhaul

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Cloudflare to challenge Belgian site-blocking order in DAZN case September 17, 2026 | Matthew Newman

US-based cloud service provider Cloudflare said it will challenge a Belgian court order requiring its public Domain Name System, or DNS, service to block Belgian users from reaching websites that illegally str... (more story)

This week at the UPC: Sept. 11-17 September 17, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and Giorgi Dvalishvili

Netflix faces an injunction across 18 countries, while other key Unified Patent Court rulings this week addressed DNA-sequencing technology, prior-use rights, late evidence, litigation costs and patent settlem... (more story)

Tokyo court rejects subtitle claim in latest 'Dawn of the Dead' case September 17, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

A Tokyo court dismissed a subtitle translator's copyright and moral rights claim over broadcasts of the cult classic “Dawn of the Dead,” finding that broadcasters did not have to independently check subtitle r... (more story)

South Korea expands espionage law as risks of AI, chip tech theft grow September 17, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo

South Korea has made the biggest change in more than seven decades to the anti-espionage provisions of its criminal code, potentially widening the legal arsenal against theft of trade secrets and advanced tech... (more story)

China's Xiaomi defeats bid for anti-theft patent injunction in India September 17, 2026 | Freny Patel

Xiaomi defeated Conqueror’s bid to halt device sales in India after the Delhi High Court found its Find Device feature lacked patented theft-recovery features, citing delay and impending patent expiry as additional factors.

Microsoft, OpenAI, GitHub not liable for DMCA claims, US appeals court finds September 16, 2026 | Mike Swift

A US appeals court found Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI did not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by omitting copyright-management information in Copilot and Codex outputs because the tools create ne... (more story)

UK court orders music distributor to pay NoCopyrightSounds £1.4 million September 16, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

AEI Music must make an immediate £1.4 million payment to NoCopyrightSounds, the UK High Court ruled Tuesday, handing the record label and music publisher another victory.

Google, Cloudflare, Cisco face Belgian site-blocking deadline in DAZN piracy case September 16, 2026 | Matthew Newman and Inbar Preiss

Google, Cloudflare and Cisco have three months to block access from Belgium to websites that illegally stream content from UK-based sports-streaming service DAZN, following a Belgian court ruling involving alt... (more story)

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India's life-sciences patent guidelines promise clarity, but consistency will be the test September 18, 2026 | Freny Patel

India's draft life-sciences patent guidelines could improve predictability without easing patentability standards, but their impact will depend on consistent examination and applying existing jurisprudence to ... (more story)

New Microsoft, OpenAI docs show knowledge of AI copying costs to US news firms September 18, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Mike Swift

Newly unsealed filings quote OpenAI and Microsoft employees and executives acknowledging that the unlicensed use of millions of news articles published by the New York Times and other news organizations to tra... (more story)

Pepsi's US trademark dispute could reshape brand choices, lawsuit strategy, lawyers say September 17, 2026 | Steve Scherer

Rise Brewing’s Supreme Court challenge to Pepsi could reshape trademark disputes by deciding whether juries or judges assess a mark’s conceptual strength, potentially affecting brand-selection strategies, mark... (more story)

Huawei's decision-making centralized in China, former employees say at US trial September 17, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Corporate decision-making and management of telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies was centralized in China, several former employees testified at the company’s high-profile US trial in New York federal ... (more story)

USPTO fee authority debate highlights potential reform September 17, 2026 | Nick Robertson

The debate in Congress over whether to extend the US Patent and Trademark Office’s authority to set its own fees has resurfaced proposals to reform how the office generates revenue in patent operations. But pu... (more story)

China's Jingdiao ruling tests boundaries of trade-secret protection September 17, 2026 | MLex Staff

China’s top court has sent a strong deterrent message through its 380-million-yuan ($56 million) Jingdiao trade-secret ruling. But can plainly wrongful conduct justify treating tens of thousands of drawings co... (more story)

Drug patent disputes impede US access to cheaper biosimilars September 16, 2026 | Steve Scherer

An AAM report says costly US patent litigation is expected to leave 90 percent of the 118 biologics losing patent protection over the next decade without biosimilar competition. It could cost the healthcare sy... (more story)

Music industry tackles AI-fueled streaming fraud as licensing market grows September 15, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

AI is creating a new revenue stream for record labels while also making streaming fraud cheaper and easier to scale. The labels are pushing tighter distributor checks, clearer AI labeling and voluntary licensi... (more story)