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This week at the UPC: Sept. 4-10 September 10, 2026 | Giorgi Dvalishvili

This week, the Unified Patent Court granted Abbott Diabetes Care a preliminary injunction, blocking SiBionics’ GS3-R glucose monitor across all 18 UPC states. Other rulings sharpened UPC rules on evidence pres... (more story)

Tokyo court rejects inventor pay claim tied to Murata's 4.3bn yen IP transfer September 10, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

A former employee whose patents were among intellectual property transferred within Japanese electronics group Murata for 4.3 billion yen ($28 million) was not entitled to a share of that value, a Tokyo court has ruled.

China's latest copyright strategy calls for rules on training data, generative AI September 10, 2026 | MLex Staff

China’s top copyright regulator has made the development of copyright rules for artificial intelligence, including training data and generative AI, a priority in its new five-year work plan, bringing renewed a... (more story)

India draws clearer patent boundaries for life sciences in court-driven guidelines September 10, 2026 | Freny Patel

India's draft pharmaceutical and biotechnology patent guidelines incorporate recent court rulings, giving life-sciences companies clearer guidance on patentability, evidentiary requirements, diagnostic inventi... (more story)

Huawei built business on crime, theft, US argues as racketeering trial begins September 10, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

For 20 years, Huawei Technologies operated its business as a criminal enterprise, using theft, lies and cover-ups, federal prosecutors told jurors Wednesday in their opening argument in the long-anticipated tr... (more story)

EU aims to unlock €10bn in IP-backed finance a year with new Innovation Act September 09, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

The EU is looking to patents and other intellectual property assets to become a bigger source of financing for European companies, with its European Innovation Act aiming to unlock €10.2 billion a year while t... (more story)

China top court issues first AI dispute guidelines, leaves copyright questions open September 09, 2026 | MLex Staff

China’s top court has issued its first judicial guidelines for artificial-intelligence disputes, clarifying fault, platform liability and evidentiary burdens while leaving unresolved whether training AI models... (more story)

China top IP court refines patent judgments amid rise in emerging-industry cases September 09, 2026 | MLex Staff

China’s top intellectual property court is reshaping its approach to judgments to better coordinate infringement litigation with administrative patent challenges, amid a sharp rise in cases involving strategic... (more story)

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X’s ‘Twitter’ injunction shows cracks in retired trademark portfolio September 10, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

A parenthetical is keeping X Corp.’s “Twitter” trademarks enforceable — for now — but a trail of digital relics wasn’t enough for a Delaware federal judge to include “Tweet” or the famed bird logo in a prelimi... (more story)

US copyright owners seek fresh take on transformative fair use in AI training wars September 09, 2026 | Emma Whitford

Copyright owners aren’t denying the myriad novel uses of ChatGPT, summary judgment briefs in closely watched US lawsuits show. Instead, they say that an innovative technology can still be a substitute for the ... (more story)

Laion case could steer EU AI copyright reform September 09, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

Germany’s top civil court is poised to send a copyright dispute between a photographer and AI dataset provider Laion to the EU's top court, raising questions over text and data mining, machine-readable opt-out... (more story)

India's DABUS copyright test may not work for everyday AI users September 08, 2026 | Freny Patel

India’s Copyright Office identified the human author for artwork generated by Stephen Thaler's DABUS-artificial intelligence system, but doing so for outputs produced through commercial generative-AI tools may... (more story)

OpenAI agent breach strains IP rules built around human conduct September 04, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

A recent unauthorized download of private code and data hosted on Hugging Face — and public staging of some of the same material — is surfacing new questions about liability under US intellectual property law,... (more story)

Trump DOJ sets unmatched pace for statements of interest in IP cases September 04, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has waded into private intellectual property litigation at nearly three times the rate of his first administration and more frequently than any recent predecessor. B... (more story)

USPTO advisory committee lapse erodes accountability, former members say September 04, 2026 | Nick Robertson

The US Patent and Trademark Office’s public advisory committees haven’t met for nearly two years, missing statutory deadlines and remaining largely vacant. Their partial reconstitution has yet to restore an im... (more story)

Kraftwerk sample saga heads to next chapter after German copyright ruling September 03, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

Pioneering electronic band Kraftwerk is “disappointed” in Germany’s top court ruling that its sample used by music producers falls into a copyright exception under a law that was reformed in 2021. But for uses... (more story)