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Xiaomi triumphs in Chinese appeal over smart-toilet trademark misuse December 19, 2025 | MLex Staff

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has won a landmark court victory, securing 30 million yuan ($4.3 million) in damages over the unauthorized use of its well-known trademarks on smart toilets, reinforcing the brand’s c... (more story)

IP licensing and business: Dec. 8–Dec. 18 December 18, 2025 | Nick Robertson

The AI licensing space is heating up, with a $1 billion deal between the Walt Disney Company and OpenAI grabbing headlines, while consolidation reaches the video codec patent pool space.

US Senate bill aims to reduce copyright registration barriers for photographers December 18, 2025 | Nick Robertson

A bill introduced in the US Senate this week would allow photographers to register up to 3,000 photographs at the same time, up from 750, and create a deferred registration fee payment system, with the goal of... (more story)

Acer awarded UK interim license in Nokia SEP dispute December 18, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

A UK judge granted Acer an interim license in its dispute with Nokia over standard essential patents on Thursday. The judge rejected Nokia’s argument that Acer’s refusal to enter into arbitration would make Ac... (more story)

This week at the UPC: Dec. 12-18 December 18, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Charlotte Westphal

This week, the Unified Patent Court saw an infringement case, the revocation of a patent and a matter about costs. It also gave guidance on the enforcement of security of costs decisions in non-UPC territory.

Facebook post may be copyrighted but Romania’s rules overreach, EU court adviser says December 18, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Social media posts may qualify for copyright, an adviser to the EU's top court has said, and media can rely on the current-events exception when reporting news. But Romania’s additional restrictions are unlawf... (more story)

Copyright fees that ignore hotel occupancy could be illegal, EU Court says December 18, 2025 | Lewis Crofts

Czech enforcers can prosecute a rights-management company for abusing its market power, if it has charged copyright fees without checking actual room occupancy rates, the EU Court of Justice has ruled. But che... (more story)

Heirs must have access to court in co-authored copyright dispute, EU judges say December 18, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

National rules in France requiring all copyright co-authors to be summoned to take part in a lawsuit are lawful, unless they block access to justice, the EU’s top court has ruled. The dispute in question conce... (more story)

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Indian generics muscle into global weight-loss gold rush as Novo Nordisk's patent crumbles December 19, 2025 | Freny Patel

In the high-stakes world of patents, a "thumping victory" in the Delhi High Court has fundamentally rewritten the playbook for India’s pharmaceutical generics giants.

AI licensing deals mark new legal risk for tech companies left out December 17, 2025 | Nick Robertson, Emma Whitford

As more media giants partner with AI companies to license their content, tech firms left on the outside face mounting legal risk that will only grow with the burgeoning licensing market. After OpenAI and the W... (more story)

Trademark debate over doctrine of foreign equivalents heats up in US December 16, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

At their first conference of the new year the US Supreme Court will consider a Swiss apparel maker's bid to reinstate its application to trademark "vetements" — the French word for clothing. A more recent Trad... (more story)

White House again weighs in with US high court on ‘skinny label’ infringement December 16, 2025 | Nick Robertson

With the US solicitor general urging the Supreme Court this month to grant certiorari in Hikma Pharmaceuticals’ appeal of an induced infringement verdict over a generic drug’s “skinny label,” both US political... (more story)

Combined Access Advance, Via LA codec pools could fend off AV1 threat December 15, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

The video compression patent licensing market will be transformed by Access Advance’s planned acquisition of the Via LA HEVC/VVC program. Time will tell if the consolidation of core technologies by Google, App... (more story)

Ross, Westlaw appeal tackles both longstanding US precedent, novel AI December 12, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Melissa Ritti

There is no shortage of interest in an ongoing clash between Ross Intelligence and Thomson Reuters in what could yield the first US appellate ruling on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an arti... (more story)

OpenAI appeal of German copyright ruling looks to focus on 'memorization' December 12, 2025 | Inbar Preiss and Frank Hersey

OpenAI’s decision to appeal a German court ruling in favor of music rights group GEMA may set a new precedent on whether “memorization” inside large language models counts as reproduction. In its early indicat... (more story)

UPC appeal rulings set unified framework for holistic inventive step test December 11, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

The Unified Patent Court has set a long-term framework for assessing inventive step, replacing diverging lower-court approaches. Litigants now have greater legal certainty over the court's holistic method, to ... (more story)