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Chagee secures trademark victory over lookalike milk-tea branding in China August 28, 2026 | MLex Staff

A Chinese court has ruled that owning registered trademarks doesn’t shield a business from infringement claims when it alters or combines them in ways that create confusion with an established brand.

Japan rights holders say private piracy enforcement has hit its limits August 28, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan's music and publishing industries are pressing the government for stronger tools to combat online piracy, arguing that private enforcement is struggling to keep pace with operators that can shift domains... (more story)

China to open up government IP data for AI, commercial use August 28, 2026 | MLex Staff

China will expand access to and commercial use of government-held intellectual-property data, using it to train industry-specific artificial intelligence models, support financing and corporate research and in... (more story)

IP licensing and business: Aug. 14-Aug. 27 August 27, 2026 | Steve Scherer

Huawei and HP cross-license WiFi to resolve litigation, while drug licensing dominated in recent weeks, led by multibillion-dollar obesity and immunology agreements. Sisvel set point-of-sale pool rates, Access... (more story)

This week at the UPC: Aug. 21-27 August 27, 2026 | Anna Lauwereys

The Unified Patent Court this week decided on injunctions, infringements and withdrawal actions. HMD was found to be an "unwilling licensee" and failed to block an injunction order over its smartphones and tab... (more story)

South Korea music copyright group reverses AI rules amid stakeholder divisions August 27, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo

The Korea Music Copyright Association has withdrawn new filing and registration criteria for AI-assisted musical works less than a month after adopting them, citing requests from the National Assembly and the ... (more story)

Singapore weighs AI training safeguards, patent inventorship rules in IP review August 27, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Singapore is considering whether to make clearer when contractual restrictions can prevent AI developers from relying on a copyright exception for training, as part of a broader review of how its intellectual ... (more story)

China charts broader trade secret protection for specialized AI models August 27, 2026 | MLex Staff

China’s market regulator has highlighted what it calls the country’s first trade secret enforcement case involving an industry-specific large model, extending protection beyond source code to other technical i... (more story)

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Patent pools shape SEP licensing choices in court disputes August 28, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

German applied research organization Fraunhofer has secured injunctions against Finnish mobile phone manufacturer HMD Global in two Unified Patent Court cases, strengthening the role of patent pools in Standar... (more story)

Amgen appeal tests antitrust reach over pending patent rights August 26, 2026 | Steve Scherer

Review by the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit of Amgen’s Enbrel patent strategy could clarify that acquisitions of rights to pending patent applications receive no categorical exemption from antitru... (more story)

US FDA’s handling of commercial information may be harming food safety August 25, 2026 | Nick Robertson

The Food and Drug Administration's handling of confidential commercial information in foodborne illness investigations misapplies trade secret law, advocates tell MLex, granting broad protections for informati... (more story)

OpenAI’s European GPT trademark setback tests ownership of AI terminology August 25, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

OpenAI’s failed bid to keep its GPT trademark in the EU shows the difficulty that technology companies face in protecting terms that become industry vocabulary. The dispute, which follows the rejection of Open... (more story)

Japan's AI code puts 'explain' to the test August 25, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan’s finalized generative AI principles code gives AI providers clearer boundaries around what they are expected to disclose, while putting more substance around what it means to “explain” when they do not.

US DOJ patent deposit stance wins narrow embrace in Corteva-Inari ruling August 24, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

A summary judgment Friday clarified one side of an important boundary for biological patent deposits — public availability does not create a public license. But the question of whether Inari Agriculture's cond... (more story)

US patent litigation drawn into broader third-party funding disclosure debate August 24, 2026 | Steve Scherer

Third-party litigation funders have suffered setbacks in a disclosure fight that includes patent disputes, with the USITC considering new requirements alongside action by states, Congress and a federal rules c... (more story)

Early test of USPTO's ex parte preorder filing leads to re-exam denial August 21, 2026 | Nick Robertson

The US Patent and Trademark Office determined last week that a request for ex parte re-examination of a Xiamen PVTECH Corp. patent does not raise a substantial new question of patentability, an early example o... (more story)