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EU aims to unlock €10bn in IP-backed finance a year with new Innovation Act September 09, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

The EU is looking to patents and other intellectual property assets to become a bigger source of financing for European companies, with its European Innovation Act aiming to unlock €10.2 billion a year while t... (more story)

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 courts clarify unfair-competition risks for AI, digital conduct September 09, 2026 | MLex Staff

China’s top court on Wednesday released nine typical unfair-competition cases illustrating how existing rules can apply to AI-generated content, platform workarounds and other emerging digital practices, as pa... (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)

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Laion case could steer EU AI copyright reform September 09, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

Germany’s top civil court is poised to send a copyright dispute between a photographer and AI dataset provider Laion to the EU's top court, raising questions over text and data mining, machine-readable opt-out... (more story)

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)