China top court issues first AI dispute guidelines, leaves copyright questions open
September 09, 2026
| MLex Staff
China’s top court has issued its first judicial guidelines for artificial-intelligence disputes, clarifying fault, platform liability and evidentiary burdens while leaving unresolved whether training AI models... (more story)
China top IP court refines patent judgments amid rise in emerging-industry cases
September 09, 2026
| MLex Staff
China’s top intellectual property court is reshaping its approach to judgments to better coordinate infringement litigation with administrative patent challenges, amid a sharp rise in cases involving strategic... (more story)
Japan ramps up public spending on content as Cool Japan Fund falters
September 09, 2026
| Toko Sekiguchi
Japan is seeking a sharp increase in public spending on creators and the content industry just as mounting losses at the government-backed Cool Japan Fund force policymakers to reconsider an earlier model for ... (more story)
China widens lead over US in WIPO innovation cluster rankings
September 08, 2026
| Melissa Ritti
The US lost two entries in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s list of the top 100 geographies for innovation while China added one, with a patent-intensive battery hub accounting for the annual ran... (more story)
Flemish far-right party likely misused Ikea’s brand, EU court rules
September 08, 2026
| Inbar Preiss
The EU’s top court has drawn the line between political parody and trademark protection, saying Vlaams Belang’s Ikea-themed immigration campaign was likely unjustified even as it recognized that free speech ca... (more story)
China top IP official outlines protection, commercialization priorities through 2030
September 08, 2026
| MLex Staff
China will strengthen intellectual property protection in emerging fields, speed the commercialization of research results and deepen international cooperation as it begins the 15th Five-Year Plan, which runs ... (more story)
Naver maintains contracts shield it from broadcasters' AI copyright claims
September 08, 2026
| Choonsik Yoo
Naver told a South Korean court on Tuesday that its use of news content from the country’s three largest television broadcasters to train artificial intelligence models complied with content-sharing contracts ... (more story)
Japan court says structural similarities in manga not enough for copyright infringement
September 08, 2026
| Toko Sekiguchi
Japan's IP High Court has ruled that similarities in plot, character settings, props and the way scenes are arranged are not enough to establish manga copyright infringement unless they reproduce the original ... (more story)