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US university, research institution licensing stays strong amid patent retreat

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BioNTech, Pfizer defeat Promosome Covid-19 vaccine patent lawsuit at UPC

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Rare Japan IP Court opinion request probes pharmaceutical patent rules

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China upholds hospital trademark despite original registrant's hoarding history July 09, 2026 | MLex Staff

A Chinese court ruled that trademarks acquired from bad-faith registrants should be assessed on their own merits, overturning an earlier decision that invalidated a hospital's trademark because of its original... (more story)

US pharma, Brazilian IP groups differ on US tariff response July 08, 2026 | Nick Robertson

Organizations representing the American pharmaceutical industry and IP policy groups encouraged the Office of the US Trade Representative this week to move forward with punitive action against Brazil following... (more story)

UK drink maker Aapa Life slogan wasn't distinctive enough, watchdog says July 08, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

UK soft drink maker Aapa Life's effort to trademark the phrase “It’s pop, but better” was rejected in May on the grounds that it was insufficiently distinctive, the UK Intellectual Property Office has said. Th... (more story)

BioNTech, Pfizer defeat Promosome Covid-19 vaccine patent lawsuit at UPC July 08, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

BioNTech and Pfizer have defeated Promosome’s Unified Patent Court lawsuit over Comirnaty Covid-19 vaccines, with judges revoking the asserted mRNA-related patent in Germany, France and Sweden. The court found... (more story)

Meta subject to French antitrust injunction in dispute with publishers (update*) July 08, 2026 | Jean Comte

Meta Platforms must negotiate with press publishers over remuneration for using their content and provide them with the necessary information, according to interim measures adopted on Wednesday by the French c... (more story)

China clarifies standards for post-filed experimental data in Pfizer patent challenge July 08, 2026 | MLex Staff

China's patent regulator has clarified the standards for evaluating post-filed experimental data in pharmaceutical patent challenges, citing a landmark Pfizer drug patent case to explain how such evidence shou... (more story)

Japan court rejects patent on technology that makes robots seem alive July 08, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan's Intellectual Property High Court has upheld the rejection of a patent application for technology designed to make robots appear more lifelike by simulating subtle involuntary human eye movements, findi... (more story)

Salesforce battles bid to put CEO Benioff at center of US AI copyright dispute July 07, 2026 | Amy Miller

Book authors accusing Salesforce of illegally using a pirated online dataset to train its artificial intelligence tools want to search documents from Chief Executive Marc Benioff and other senior executives, a... (more story)

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US university, research institution licensing stays strong amid patent retreat July 08, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

US universities and research institutions continued commercializing new technologies in 2025, inking more deals and forming more startups than in 2024. But declines in patenting — including a precipitous, 40 p... (more story)

AI likely to fuel boom in intangible assets as investment gap grows July 08, 2026 | Steve Scherer

Investment in intangible assets is outpacing spending on physical assets by an ever-wider margin, and artificial intelligence is expected to speed the shift, the World Intellectual Property Organization said on Wednesday.

Canada’s generic GLP-1 highlights patent disparity with US July 07, 2026 | Nick Robertson

The approval of the first generic semaglutide for weight loss in Canada last week highlights key differences in patent regulation between Canada and the US, where the market-leading GLP-1 medication will enjoy... (more story)

Streaming platforms seek EU court guidance on Belgian copyright rules July 03, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and Matthew Newman

Belgian streaming platform Streamz, Spotify, Google and other companies will ask the EU's highest court on July 6 and July 7 to determine whether Belgium can require streaming platforms to make additional paym... (more story)

'Forensics first' approach gains ground in US trade secret litigation July 02, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

A new Sedona Conference draft commentary — and a dispute between two enterprise database software providers currently unfolding across two US states — could show trade secret litigation transitioning to a fron... (more story)

Joseph Allen on keeping the Bayh-Dole Act’s legacy alive, 45 years later July 02, 2026 | Nick Robertson

Joseph Allen, president of the Bayh-Dole Coalition, didn’t know much about innovation policy when he started helping craft his coalition’s namesake university patent rights bill in the late 1970s. It transform... (more story)

Delaware, NJ courts' patent funding data sharpens debate over disclosure July 01, 2026 | Steve Scherer

A new study of third-party litigation funding, or TPLF, found that patent litigation accounts for nearly all funded cases before US District Judge Colm Connolly in Delaware, with about 15 percent of patent sui... (more story)

China's trademark overhaul shifts trademark protection beyond registration July 01, 2026 | MLex Staff

China's latest trademark law overhaul suggests policymakers are redefining trademarks less as rights acquired through registration than as commercial assets whose protection depends on continued lawful use.