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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)

Indonesia court restores patent evergreening barrier, aiding generics September 08, 2026 | Roffie Kurniawan

Indonesia’s pharmaceutical patent landscape has shifted back in favor of generic drugmakers after the Constitutional Court restored restrictions designed to prevent patent “evergreening.”

Flowerbx wins UK trademark claim against Flowers Box London September 07, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

Flowerbx, a luxury flower supplier, has won its claim for trademark infringement against competitor Flowers Box London, after a UK judge found that the similarity between the names had caused demonstrable conf... (more story)

China court rejects prior-use defense tied to foreign company registration September 07, 2026 | MLex Staff

A Chinese paint supplier cannot rely on a foreign company registration to claim prior use of a trademark, a Chinese appellate court has ruled, stressing that the defense requires proof of actual use with marke... (more story)

BRICS IP offices deepen patent, IP cooperation at India meeting September 07, 2026 | Freny Patel

BRICS intellectual property offices are stepping up patent cooperation aimed at cutting examination backlogs and duplicated work, though applicants must wait to see whether closer coordination delivers faster ... (more story)

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India's DABUS copyright test may not work for everyday AI users September 08, 2026 | Freny Patel

India’s Copyright Office identified the human author for artwork generated by Stephen Thaler's DABUS-artificial intelligence system, but doing so for outputs produced through commercial generative-AI tools may... (more story)

OpenAI agent breach strains IP rules built around human conduct September 04, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

A recent unauthorized download of private code and data hosted on Hugging Face — and public staging of some of the same material — is surfacing new questions about liability under US intellectual property law,... (more story)

Trump DOJ sets unmatched pace for statements of interest in IP cases September 04, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has waded into private intellectual property litigation at nearly three times the rate of his first administration and more frequently than any recent predecessor. B... (more story)

USPTO advisory committee lapse erodes accountability, former members say September 04, 2026 | Nick Robertson

The US Patent and Trademark Office’s public advisory committees haven’t met for nearly two years, missing statutory deadlines and remaining largely vacant. Their partial reconstitution has yet to restore an im... (more story)

Kraftwerk sample saga heads to next chapter after German copyright ruling September 03, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

Pioneering electronic band Kraftwerk is “disappointed” in Germany’s top court ruling that its sample used by music producers falls into a copyright exception under a law that was reformed in 2021. But for uses... (more story)

India hotel copyright fight puts double-licensing question before Supreme Court September 03, 2026 | Freny Patel

India's Supreme Court could clarify whether hotels need separate copyright licenses for television broadcasts when cable operators are already licensed, potentially defining where one licensing obligation ends... (more story)

Trump administration escalates AI training defense with US court statement September 02, 2026 | Emma Whitford

President Donald Trump’s administration took its most forceful action to date defending artificial intelligence companies’ model training practices, telling a federal judge that a “narrow” fair use analysis wo... (more story)

Canada seeks to turn US research uncertainty into engine for patents, startups September 02, 2026 | Steve Scherer

Canada has recruited 48 researchers from US institutions including Harvard and MIT in a bid to strengthen its future pipeline of patents, startups and licensing revenue as Washington cuts research funding and ... (more story)