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First round of challengers to inter partes review changes rebuffed in US November 07, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

In one precedential and two nonprecedential orders issued Thursday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit signaled its view that the discretionary authority of the US Patent and Trademark Office Dire... (more story)

Asda fails to prove 'distinctiveness' of Tang Gold orange ahead of UK trial November 07, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

UK supermarket chain Asda has failed to convince a judge that its variety of seedless mandarin oranges were “factually distinct” from the version produced by Nador Cott Protection ahead of a major trial later ... (more story)

Wuxi DK leverages DuPont-derived solar paste patent in new suit against Chinese rival November 07, 2025 | MLex Staff

Wuxi DK Electronic Materials has sued Zhejiang Gonda Electronic Technology for allegedly infringing a DuPont-origin solar conductive-paste patent, seeking 200 million yuan ($28 million) in damages.

ZTE says SEP antitrust suit doesn’t belong in US court November 07, 2025 | Alex Wilts

Allowing Samsung’s antitrust claim against ZTE Corp. to move forward would be “unprecedented,” an attorney for ZTE told a California federal judge Thursday, arguing that the alleged conduct has no meaningful c... (more story)

US judge to review whether firm is tricking authors into exiting Anthropic deal November 06, 2025 | Amy Miller

Book authors who won the largest copyright infringement settlement in US history against artificial intelligence developer Anthropic say they’re facing another hurdle before getting their payments. An Arizona-... (more story)

This week at the UPC: Oct. 31-Nov. 6 November 06, 2025 | Charlotte Westphal

This week, the Unified Patent Court clarified the rules on cost decisions, language translations of patents and appeals of preliminary objections. It also stressed the importance of strong evidence submitted f... (more story)

UK rules on AI copyright globally significant, says Swedish music rights chief November 06, 2025 | Frank Hersey

The UK government’s regulatory choices on AI and copyright are globally significant, said the head of Sweden’s music rights body that has launched the world’s first collective rights licensing platform for mus... (more story)

IP licensing and business: Oct. 24-Nov. 6 November 06, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

Xerox renewed its relationship with IPValue Management following an almost two-decade hiatus, while US-based data sciences technology company Datavault AI demonstrated the breadth of its portfolio, licensing i... (more story)

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State authority to regulate patent ‘trolls’ at stake in Longhorn appeal November 07, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

A US appellate court on Monday will hear a case which pits Micron Technology against nonpracticing entity Longhorn IP and its affiliate Katana Silicon Technologies. The dispute over license demands and infring... (more story)

OpenAI-Microsoft judge tees up broadest infringement theory by US authors November 06, 2025 | Emma Whitford

A federal judge in New York recently advanced the broadest theory of artificial intelligence-driven copyright infringement to date from book authors, in a case alleging three distinct phases of infringement fr... (more story)

China's AI copyright rulings diverge on platform fault, align on liability baseline November 06, 2025 | MLex Staff

Shanghai and Hangzhou courts took differing views on AI platform fault in two copyright cases, distinguishing neutral service providers from more active participants in the content creation and distribution process.

Assertive or excessive? Lawsuit over scrapped SEP regulation splits EU lawmakers November 05, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Tuesday’s European Parliament committee vote to sue the European Commission over its move to withdraw a law regulating Standard Essential Patents has opened up divisions among lawmakers, and also poses questio... (more story)

White House RFI responses reveal consensus on venue for AI fair use debate October 31, 2025 | Emma Whitford

Groups at odds over whether it is fair to freely train artificial intelligence models on copyrighted works nevertheless agree that the issue is best left to the courts, new recommendations to the White House s... (more story)

Japan's $55bn piracy price tag drives new legal muscle at home and abroad October 31, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi

The issue of digital piracy, which costs Japanese content creators about $55 billion annually, is quickly shifting from whether Japan can act against offshore operators, to how fast courts and platforms can co... (more story)

UMG copyright suit against Udio ends, but AI music dispute continues October 30, 2025 | Mike Swift and Emma Whitford

While it’s too soon to say peace is at hand between AI music startups and the music industry, the settlement of copyright litigation between Universal Music Group and Udio would assure that artists get paid wh... (more story)

App Association’s Reed addresses fears about US PTAB amid AI’s rise October 30, 2025 | Nick Robertson

Morgan Reed, president of ACT | The App Association, sat down with MLex to discuss how his organization is coping with uncertainty in US intellectual property policy. Policy changes at the US Patent and Tradem... (more story)