For any queries, please contact Customer Services or your Account Manager. Dismiss
Editor's Picks
-
Who files now matters as China reshapes its patent invalidation playbook
China’s top intellectual property authority has drawn a procedural line, warning that patent challenges filed under borrowed names — without genuine intent from the... (more story)
-
SEP policies in EU, UK, draw US stakeholder scrutiny in Special 301 comments
In comments for the Office of the US Trade Representative’s annual Special 301 report, multiple major trade organizations called on the US government to place the E... (more story)
-
Federal Circuit top judge signals deep unease with US design patent ‘trend’
A dissent on Monday called for a return to the standard for design patent infringement set over 150 years ago by the Supreme Court in a dispute over tablespoons and... (more story)
Insight View More
In a landmark case, China’s highest court has upheld a 120-million-yuan ($17 million) patent-infringement award to an individual inventor, underscoring the judiciary’s strict stance toward so-called “engineeri... (more story)
A proposed class of authors suing Meta Platforms for allegedly distributing pirated books wants to add a new infringement claim to their complaint, but US District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco was ske... (more story)
This week, the Unified Patent Court upheld a €1.72 million fine against Kodak for incomplete compliance with an earlier Fujifilm decision. It also issued rulings on confidentiality in licensing agreements, clo... (more story)
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court rejected a fashion brand’s appeal accusing a rival of copying its coat designs, faulting its consumer surveys and Instagram-based evidence.
The short-term impact of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s digital transformation program is becoming clear as new figures illustrate the slowdown in the granting of patents while the new system is put in ... (more story)
Amazon and InterDigital have been urged by a UK judge to settle their disagreements over the scope of a Unified Patent Court ruling. The judge, Richard Meade, is concerned that in the event of a positive decis... (more story)
In rulings that granted Nokia injunctions against Asus and Acer, judges in Munich said standard-essential patent users must make payments and provide security to show willingness to take a license, and they re... (more story)
Japan’s IP High Court handed IT consulting firm DAP Realize four appellate defeats, dismissing patent infringement appeals against Sharp, Sony, KDDI and Samsung Electronics Japan, holding that its smartphone i... (more story)
Comment View More
A lapse in congressional authorization for two Small Business Administration programs has cut off federal support for innovation, including defense technologies and drug development. Advocates warn that prolon... (more story)
Apple and Optis will choose a jury Friday in the same Texas courtroom they have already twice tried a bitter clash over patents purportedly essential to the 4G LTE cellular standard. Their third trial, ordere... (more story)
Now that Germany has shut the door on EU guidance for Standard Essential Patents — with the federal court siding with VoiceAge in its dispute with HMD — the European Commission's strategy for the heated techno... (more story)
The confluence of complex state and federal legal frameworks governing name, image and likeness (NIL) has led to a misperception that such rights exist only for the famous. With AI-powered deepfakes of ordinar... (more story)
China’s top intellectual property authority has drawn a procedural line, warning that patent challenges filed under borrowed names — without genuine intent from the named requester — may be halted before reaching the merits.
Generative AI is taking data scraping disputes to a new level as the ravenous hunger to obtain ever larger oceans of data to train large language models has fueled legal combat across the US. While data-scrapi... (more story)
A dissent on Monday called for a return to the standard for design patent infringement set over 150 years ago by the Supreme Court in a dispute over tablespoons and forks. That wouldn’t only take the US back t... (more story)
A dispute over scraped performance data from pachinko machines, a popular arcade-style gambling game in Japan, has produced an early test of how far Japan’s unfair competition “data IP” concept can be used to ... (more story)