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Netflix hit with UPC injunction in DivX streaming patent dispute September 16, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

The online streaming giant faces a UPC injunction across 18 European countries after judges found its streaming software infringed a DivX patent. The Munich court upheld the patent, rejected Netflix’s invalidi... (more story)

Japan's Supreme Court to test tort limits on copying beyond copyright September 16, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan’s Supreme Court will rule next month on whether tort law can stop a business from deliberately copying and commercially exploiting a product that copyright law does not protect.

EU seeks to build on Canada trade deal with targeted ‘Alliance for the Future’ September 16, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet

The EU and Canada plan to deepen cooperation beyond their CETA trade agreement, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday, proposing an “Alliance for the Future” focused on technology, ... (more story)

OpenAI avoids immediate scraping ban in ANI India copyright appeal September 16, 2026 | Freny Patel

OpenAI avoided an immediate restriction on using ANI's news content to train ChatGPT as a Delhi High Court appeal tests how India's copyright protections apply to AI training amid growing rights-holder concerns.

Former T-Mobile exec describes ‘salient moment’ of Huawei breach at US trial September 15, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

A former T-Mobile executive told a US jury Tuesday about three incidents in 2013 involving Huawei Technologies employees violating agreements surrounding access to the company’s testing labs, and the theft of ... (more story)

China top court finds unfair competition in Lukfook trade-name dispute September 15, 2026 | MLex Staff

China’s top court has held that a business can commit unfair competition by registering and using a corporate name similar to another party’s trademark if it is likely to mislead consumers, even when it uses t... (more story)

US judge denies USPTO more time to defend whistleblower report redactions September 14, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

The clock is ticking on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s deadline to explain its redactions to an anonymous report alleging an Intel-linked effort to invalidate VLSI Technology patents before the Patent Tr... (more story)

BRICS puts AI training, rights-holder remuneration on IP agenda September 14, 2026 | Freny Patel

BRICS countries at the their recent meeting have put IP rights in artificial-intelligence training and fair remuneration for rights holders on their cooperation agenda, while seeking a greater role in global AI governance.

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Music industry tackles AI-fueled streaming fraud as licensing market grows September 15, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

AI is creating a new revenue stream for record labels while also making streaming fraud cheaper and easier to scale. The labels are pushing tighter distributor checks, clearer AI labeling and voluntary licensi... (more story)

US presses Supreme Court to leave IPR criteria to USPTO discretion September 14, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

A filing by the federal government in support of the US Patent and Trademark Office’s “settled expectations” policy goes beyond patent age to argue that because Congress never required inter partes review inst... (more story)

Uncrustables fame ruling sets up functionality fight over crimped edge September 11, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

J.M. Smucker Co.'s trademark dilution claim against Trader Joe’s remains live after a US judge found the Uncrustables maker adequately pleaded the fame of four asserted design marks. Discovery will likely test... (more story)

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)