Intellectual Property

Following objections from major patent holders and smaller technology firms alike, the UK government is taking a lighter touch to standard-essential patent reform, focusing instead on licensing guidance, volun... (more story)

A Shanghai appeals court upheld a ruling ordering a platform operator to pay compensation for using artificial intelligence to replicate a voice actor’s voice without permission for commercial promotion, clari... (more story)

Insta360 has lost a design patent appeal against three Shenzhen-based companies, with a Chinese court finding that shared camera features common in earlier designs were insufficient to establish infringement.

Google faces a third EU copyright referral over Gemini, as Hungarian judges seek clarity on whether AI training and chatbot responses fall under the same rules, how far copyright exceptions extend and whether ... (more story)

An EU court adviser will deliver an opinion on Nov. 3 in a closely watched Google Gemini copyright case, after an earlier date was dropped. The ruling to follow could clarify AI training and publishers’ rights... (more story)

China’s Guangzhou intellectual property authority has ordered three businesses to stop selling earphones that infringe a Huawei industrial-design patent and keep remaining inventory off the market, highlightin... (more story)

A Dutch court has barred Merck’s under-the-skin version of cancer drug Keytruda in eight European countries, upholding Halozyme’s drug-delivery patent and applying EU top court guidance allowing courts to issu... (more story)

Japan’s Supreme Court for the first time found the “special circumstances” test satisfied for tort liability when a business copies material outside copyright protection, upholding damages over a free, adverti... (more story)