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Stability AI pushes back at Getty with cake analogy in UK copyright appeal

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Ericsson denied Asus sales ban in mixed UPC video patent rulings

ETSI leadership election challenged over tech giants’ influence

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This week at the UPC: Nov. 6-12 November 12, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and MLex Staff

Asus defeated Ericsson’s bid for an injunction over a video-coding patent, after Unified Patent Court judges found Ericsson had failed to give adequate notice before suing. GSK also secured a vaccine injunction against Pfi...(read more)

Music-sharing platforms spared extra licenses in EU court ruling November 12, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

A single copyright license can cover both sharing users’ uploads and storing the necessary copies on platforms’ servers, EU judges have ruled. The decision clarifies the rules for online platforms and music collecting soci...(read more)

South Korea to update copyright guide for AI-assisted works November 12, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo

South Korea plans to update its copyright registration guide for AI-assisted works and develop a platform to help AI companies identify rights holders and license literary works for training, a culture ministry official sa...(read more)

China court speeds up drug-patent disputes, clarifies rules before generic launch November 12, 2026 | MLex Staff

China has sped up court proceedings and clarified rules for resolving drug-patent disputes before generic medicines reach the market, giving drugmakers clearer guidance on protecting innovation and pursuing market entry.

Global Weather blocked from pursuing US copyright suit against India's TV Today November 12, 2026 | Freny Patel

Global Weather Productions and five content creators were barred from suing TV Today in California after the Delhi High Court provisionally found that YouTube’s jurisdiction clause was insufficient grounds for US copyright...(read more)

Japan court rejects race-specific antidepressant patent bid November 12, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan’s IP High Court has upheld the rejection of a patent application for a two-drug antidepressant treatment specifically for patients of Asian ancestry, finding that the claimed benefits were predictable from earlier re...(read more)

Stability AI pushes back at Getty with cake analogy in UK copyright appeal November 11, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Stability AI challenged Getty Images' UK copyright appeal with a cake analogy on Wednesday, comparing Getty's argument to treating a cake as an “infringing copy” of a recipe because the chef had photographed it before baki...(read more)

Getty renews attack on Stability AI as copyright claim reaches UK appeal court November 11, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Stock image library Getty Images told a London court on Wednesday that Stability AI's image-generation model can be considered an “infringing copy” even if it does not contain the protected images used to train it. Getty, ...(read more)

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GSK-Moderna deal shows value of patent access in crowded vaccine market November 12, 2026 | Steve Scherer

GSK and Moderna’s cross-license offers vaccine rivals a possible route through overlapping pipelines and uncertain patent litigation, lawyers told MLex. A pending US appeal could limit recovery against Moderna for governme...(read more)

India's IP court push needs expertise, access, clearer rules, not just new courts November 12, 2026 | Freny Patel

India’s push for dedicated IP courts could widen access to expertise, but without trained benches, adequate resources and clearer jurisdiction rules, businesses risk facing familiar delays in newly designated forums.

Squires loosens grip on patent reviews, keeps control of initial screening November 11, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

Administrative patent judges will soon regain their authority to decide which patent challenges are worthy of advancing to a determination of their merits, the US Patent and Trademark Office announced late Tuesday. Directo...(read more)

US midterm elections reshape congressional IP leadership, cloud patent reform prospects November 10, 2026 | Nick Robertson

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)

US Fifth Circuit’s discovery ruling unlikely to deter SEP litigants, lawyers say November 06, 2026 | Nick Robertson

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)

ETSI leadership election challenged over tech giants’ influence November 05, 2026 | Melissa Ritti and Inbar Preiss

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)

UK design overhaul puts protection ahead of simplification November 04, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

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)

Sisvel executive says EU's renewed SEP push could fracture global licensing November 03, 2026 | Steve Scherer

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)