A new European body focused on mediating patent disputes is planning to publish guidelines on how questions of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory, or FRAND, rates for standard essential patents, or SEPs, ... (more story)

The UPC this week clarified how conditional revocation claims should proceed on appeal, upheld Baussmann’s wooden-nail patent in amended form and ruled that Chinese defendants could not avoid proceedings by re... (more story)

China's largest academic database has begun removing papers that list artificial intelligence systems as authors, setting new boundaries for generative AI in academic publishing and reigniting debate over copy... (more story)

China's highest court has upheld the invalidation of an Aux compressor patent after finding that its claims exceeded what the patent specification actually disclosed, bringing to a close a years-long legal bat... (more story)

L'Oréal won a Delhi High Court appeal allowing it to add trademark infringement claims to an existing passing-off suit, reinforcing that post-registration infringement claims need not require separate proceedings.

Short film distributor Shorts International has applied to have its trademark claim against Google’s YouTube Shorts heard by the UK Supreme Court, after it lost its case against the tech giant at the Court of Appeal.

The outlook for UK intellectual property policy remains uncertain after the country's new prime minister Andy Burnham took office this week and scrapped the ministry which had overseen the UK Intellectual Prop... (more story)

Japan's Intellectual Property High Court has upheld the validity of a Japanese patent covering cross-border e-commerce customs-clearance technology while separately confirming that Alibaba's accused software d... (more story)