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Mexico’s Banda Maguey settles US trademark fight with former members November 14, 2025 | Nick Robertson

Mexican technobanda group Banda Maguey secured a settlement in its trademark and copyright litigation Friday against former members who were operating in the US. Attorney David Martinez of Robins Kaplan tells ... (more story)

InterDigital, Amazon square off at pivotal hearing before EU's UPC November 14, 2025 | Charlotte Westphal

A UK court-ordered interim license won’t hinder patent enforcement elsewhere because other jurisdictions can make their own determination of whether the license is valid, Amazon told the EU Unified Patent Cour... (more story)

Ericsson files patent suits against Chinese phonemaker in Brazil, India, Nigeria, UPC November 14, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Ericsson has sued Chinese smartphone maker Transsion in Brazil, India and Nigeria and also at the Unified Patent Court, alleging refusal to license its 4G and 5G Standard Essential Patents on FRAND terms.

Key question on employee inventor compensation to be decided by UK court November 14, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

The question of whether employees who invent patented products should have the significance of their inventions considered in the aggregate when seeking compensation from their employer is set to be considered... (more story)

Birkenstock wins Dutch copyright suit after German defeat November 14, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

A Dutch court has ruled that Birkenstock’s three sandal models are protected by copyright, finding Scapino infringed them. The Dutch decision diverges from Germany’s rejection of similar claims, and comes ahea... (more story)

EU countries show support for ‘additional measures’ for AI copyright licensing November 14, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi

A significant number of EU member states believe the AI Act’s transparency rules are insufficient and want new EU-level measures to improve copyright licensing for AI training. European governments highlighted... (more story)

AI regulation in India needs teeth, enforcement of clear laws, experts say November 14, 2025 | Freny Patel

India's "light touch" AI governance faces calls for clearer, enforceable rules on deepfakes, copyright and labor displacement, according to experts discussing the new India AI Guidelines and the Competition Co... (more story)

Law firm likely tricking authors into exiting Anthropic's $1.5bn deal, US judge says November 13, 2025 | Amy Miller

An Arizona-based law firm is likely trying to trick authors into opting out of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class-action settlement when it doesn’t have the experience or expertise to pursue individual claims on t... (more story)

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Handling of Yangtze Memory-led patent challenges a slippery slope for USPTO November 14, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

An order to show cause this week by US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has rankled some in the intellectual property space, domestically and abroad.

Japan court tests limits of cross-border IP control in US skateboarder brand dispute November 13, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan’s courts have drawn a clearer line between use rights and ownership in the long-running dispute between US skateboarder Mark Gonzales and Tokyo-based Sakura International, curbing a former licensee’s abi... (more story)

I-MAK's Tahir Amin presses US Congress on effect of patents on drug prices November 12, 2025 | Nick Robertson

Tahir Amin, CEO of the IP advocacy group Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge, is urging lawmakers to examine how patent practices such as evergreening and thickets drive up drug costs. While critic... (more story)

China inches closer to claiming half of global patent filings November 12, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

A new report by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows global patent prosecution continuing to bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic. The gains are largely attributable to intellectual property o... (more story)

US tech companies face growing risk over use of shadow libraries for AI training November 11, 2025 | Amy Miller

Anthropic’s record-breaking $1.5 billion deal resolving copyright claims related to the use of "shadow libraries" has opened the door to a wave of lawsuits against US tech companies, and US authors are walking... (more story)

California’s Prop 50 redistricting could reshape House IP policy November 11, 2025 | Nick Robertson

California’s Proposition 50 redistricting could unseat two of the few US House members who are consistently active in intellectual property policy — Republican Representatives Darrell Issa and Kevin Kiley — po... (more story)

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)