Intellectual Property

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)

Drugmakers struck licensing deals for cancer and metabolic treatments, while technology companies broadened agreements covering mobile communications, wireless charging and AI infrastructure, and Nokia saw pat... (more story)

Whether Anthropic's Claude spits out song lyrics verbatim, creates derivative works or generates new songs, Anthropic’s use of those lyrics isn't transformative, lawyers for music publishers argued Wednesday a... (more story)