Intellectual Property

Some of the lawmakers most influential on IP policy in Congress are set to leave Washington in January, but party shakeups in the House and Senate create both uncertainty and opportunity for progress on IP policy issues, a...(read more)

Despite a US appeals court decision last week that may place guardrails on some Section 1782 discovery proceedings, litigation remains an important tool for standard-essential patent implementers litigating before the Unif...(read more)

Cyberprime, a Polish cybersecurity manufacturer, is challenging the appointment of ETSI’s sole chair nominee by consensus. The company cites concerns about outsized influence by major patent holders and US technology gian...(read more)

The UK government will not abolish its unregistered design right, it said Wednesday, opting instead to preserve existing protections while pursuing targeted registration checks and cheaper civil enforcement. The next phase...(read more)

A renewed EU effort to regulate standard-essential patent licensing risks splintering global markets and harming smaller innovators and patent pool administrators, Sisvel's executive head of government affairs, Matteo Saba...(read more)

The Unified Patent Court is developing rules on when intermediaries can face injunctions for helping others bring allegedly infringing products to market. UPC Court of Appeal President Klaus Grabinski said questions referr...(read more)

The recent denial of Meishan CRRC Fastening System Co’s petition for inter partes review before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board expands upon how the US Patent and Trademark Office will apply its new standards for identif...(read more)

Double-digit amicus briefs filed in coordinated lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft in New York federal court show two camps championing human creativity — each accusing the other of undermining the statutory purpose of ...(read more)