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US House advances bill targeting foreign third-party litigation funding November 19, 2025 | Nick Robertson

The House Judiciary Committee Tuesday passed a bill which would mandate that plaintiffs disclose their relationships with foreign third-party litigation funders and ban foreign state-backed funders. The change... (more story)

OpenAI communications would bolster US circumvention claim, Ziff Davis says November 18, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld

Ziff Davis, the online publisher of websites such as Mashable and LifeHacker, is seeking to amend its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI for the second time, saying new evidence — including redacted internal Ope... (more story)

UK lawmakers hear criticism of IP-backed lending November 18, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams

The head of Allica Bank cast doubt on the prospects of IP-backed lending as a solution to the UK’s SME and start-up funding issues on Tuesday, pointing instead to the Growth Guarantee Scheme as a better area o... (more story)

Shanghai Huayi faces $60m patent battle with Arkema in China November 18, 2025 | MLex Staff

A high-stakes patent dispute between China’s Shanghai Huayi Group and French specialty chemicals producer Arkema has intensified, with Arkema refining its infringement claims while keeping its hefty 430-millio... (more story)

US Supreme Court leaves intact Section 230 immunity for false e-commerce listings November 17, 2025 | Nick Robertson

The US Supreme Court on Monday left in place a broad interpretation of safe harbor under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act for e-commerce sites. Planet Green Cartridges had petitioned the court to ... (more story)

US Supreme Court passes on challenge to invalidation of expired patents November 17, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

Two petitions for writ of certiorari by Gesture Technology Partners were denied Monday at the US Supreme Court in a blow to patentees hoping to extract damages for past infringement. The nonpracticing entity ... (more story)

AI, bitstream changes anchor China's revamp of patent-examination rulebook November 17, 2025 | MLex Staff

China’s top intellectual property authority has introduced sweeping revisions to its patent-examination guidelines, putting artificial intelligence and digital bitstream-related inventions under closer scrutiny.

Japan actors' union, Itochu launch first official voice database to curb AI misuse November 17, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi

Japan’s largest actors and voice-artists union has teamed up with trading house Itochu and its systems arm to launch what it called the country’s first official voice database, designed to protect performers f... (more story)

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Is the UK’s AI training and copyright regime suffering a conceptual crisis? November 18, 2025 | Frank Hersey

A recent ruling in a case by Getty Images against Stability AI has provided some clarification on how the UK copyright regime handles AI training, the models and their output. But it also highlighted problems ... (more story)

USPTO puts pendency, backlog in its crosshairs with new initiatives November 17, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

Recent changes aimed at shortening the time it takes to receive a first office action from the US Patent and Trademark Office could be especially beneficial for solo inventors and other small and medium-sized ... (more story)

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)