Intellectual Property

Novo Nordisk has lost a European semaglutide patent, with the European Patent Office's Board of Appeal rejecting the Wegovy and Ozempic-maker's eleventh-hour effort to amend its claims in a decision published ... (more story)

Customs, law enforcement and other authorities detained a record 196 million counterfeit items in the European Union in 2025, 67 percent more than the year before. A new joint enforcement report by the Europea... (more story)

Employee-inventors can rely on the combined benefit of multiple patents when seeking compensation under Section 40 of the Patents Act — even if none individually meets the statutory threshold — the UK Court of... (more story)

A co-founder of The Commodores has lost an appeal against the refusal of his company’s efforts to register a trademark in the UK for the band’s name. The High Court on Friday upheld findings of passing off and... (more story)

News outlets suing OpenAI and its investor Microsoft are highlighting a recent appellate decision that training artificial intelligence on copyrighted works is not fair, as they push back on their adversaries’... (more story)

A bill introduced in the US House on Thursday would prohibit, with some exceptions, branded drug manufacturers from compensating generic and biosimilar drugmakers to delay market entry through patent settlemen... (more story)

This week at the Unified Patent Court, Align Technology won an injunction covering 17 UPC countries, while Gucci and Alpina Coffee Systems defeated infringement claims and largely secured patent revocations. O... (more story)

The Department of Justice's shift on competition policy in relation to standard essential patents during the second Trump administration is disappointing as it has "gone too far" in favor of patent holders, a ... (more story)