The UK Intellectual Property Office will reassess a patent application for the software behind a virtual dial gauge,  giving an indication of how it will adapt to the new alignment with European practice. It's... (more story)

Lace Lithography, a Norwegian technology company, has gained conditional approval from the UK government to buy advanced semiconductor intellectual property from Britain’s University of Birmingham following a ... (more story)

China's highest court has upheld two Huawei patents challenged by smartphone maker HMD Technology (Shenzhen), reinforcing an approach to inventive step that focuses on a patent's underlying technical concept r... (more story)

US patent case filings reached their highest level in a decade last year before falling back in early 2026, while petitions at the US Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board dropped over th... (more story)

Chinese authorities will be able to bar citizens from leaving the country over export-control or technology-transfer violations that may endanger China’s industrial or technology security, under new State Coun... (more story)

Japan's Intellectual Property High Court has ruled that reproducing copyrighted images in online posts criticizing the images themselves can qualify as lawful quotation, rejecting an attempt by a copyright own... (more story)

Japan has issued new guidance urging companies to make intellectual property a core part of business strategy rather than treating it primarily as a legal or compliance function, marking the government's lates... (more story)

A German collective rights management organization has won its copyright lawsuit against Suno, developer of an AI music generator. A Munich court found that Suno reproduced copyrighted music without permission... (more story)