The US Senate confirmed five nominees to be commissioners of the US International Trade Commission on Thursday, bringing the board to a full six members for the first time since 2022. Having a full complement ... (more story)

Japan's Intellectual Property High Court has overturned the patent office's rejection of an application filed by the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, ruling that the patent regulator d... (more story)

Artists and creators in Australia have welcomed the prime minister’s assurance that copyright is not “up for grabs” to train artificial intelligence models, urging AI companies to strike licensing agreements w... (more story)

Patent pools drove licensing activity in early July before mid-year licensing incentives expired, alongside notable licensing deals in agriculture and pharmaceuticals.

The UPC this week granted Fujifilm an injunction against Kodak, kept KeeeX’s €120 million provisional damages claim alive and imposed further penalties in Brita’s enforcement dispute. Several cases ended throu... (more story)

Japan's Intellectual Property High Court has held that a former Nidec employee was liable under the Unfair Competition Prevention Act for leaking confidential company documents to a journalist, but dismissed t... (more story)

The US Copyright Office’s 43 percent average increase in fees, set to go into effect this fall, makes up for recent inflation and fee levels that haven’t adequately offset the office’s costs since the last adj... (more story)

The future of the UK's standard-essential patent and design law regimes will remain uncertain for longer after the UK Intellectual Property Office delayed its response to major consultations on proposed reform... (more story)