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Mandamus petitions pile up as challenges to revamped US PTAB continue September 19, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

Sandisk on Thursday said reliance on patent age to turn away challenges to validity is “lawless on every level.” The company's mandamus petition is the fifth in recent months to take issue with what Sandisk ch... (more story)

EU Commission official flags weak AI licensing market ahead of copyright review September 19, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

The European Commission is preparing to review copyright rules in 2026, as the head of the intellectual property unit warns of a weak AI licensing market. The commission is currently analyzing remuneration as ... (more story)

Licensing of SEPs is key to telecom networking investment, says Ericsson executive September 19, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

Corporate investment in telecom networking equipment innovation is driven by effective licensing of standard-essential patents, an executive from Swedish company Ericsson said Friday. Gabriele Mohsler also sai... (more story)

Tighter patent pre-exam rules target agencies as China pushes for innovation quality September 19, 2025 | MLex Staff

China’s intellectual property protection centers will no longer accept patent pre-examination requests from agencies outside a designated list, in a change that officials say is part of efforts to curb low-qua... (more story)

South Korean broadcasters challenge Naver in court over AI training September 19, 2025 | Wooyoung Lee

South Korea’s three major broadcasting companies argued in court that Naver illegally used their news content to train its artificial intelligence model Hyper Clova X. Korea Broadcasting Service, Seoul Broadca... (more story)

US DOJ's Kallay sounds alarm on abuses in standards development, patent holdout (correct*) September 19, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

The US Department of Justice remains vigilant about competition problems arising at the nexus of antitrust and intellectual property, with an agency enforcer sounding the alarm about standards developers misre... (more story)

Draft SEP regulation axing resulted from conflict, says EU official September 18, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

The European Commission’s withdrawal of its proposed regulation on standard-essential patents came after the EU executive recognized conflict that impacted the legislation, a legal and policy officer of the co... (more story)

OpenAI to see lawsuit filed imminently over training, Danish publishers warn September 18, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

OpenAI has been told by an industry group representing Danish news media that it is readying to sue the company over accusations that it uses Danish press content to train and power its ChatGPT service without... (more story)

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AI 'slop' hits worrisome note for recording industry: Can regulation protect creators? September 19, 2025 | Mike Swift

Music platforms like Deezer are being flooded with ersatz AI-generated tunes, social media platforms like Reddit face an inundation by machine-generated text and images. Is there a role for regulation and legi... (more story)

USPTO study shines light on patent gender gap September 18, 2025 | Nick Robertson

A 2022 study from the US Patent and Trademark Office, published in the American Economic Journal last month, shows that office policy can help close the gap between men and women in the US patent system. Forme... (more story)

Squires confirmed to lead a USPTO at a crossroads September 18, 2025 | Nick Robertson

John A. Squires was confirmed to be the new director of the US Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, ushering in new leadership for the office during a streak of controversial policy changes. Squires, an ad... (more story)

Patent proposal by Lutnick could cost universities $1.8 billion, expert warns September 18, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

US research universities with the five most competitively impactful patent portfolios generate nearly half-a-billion dollars in royalty and equity income each year, according to their public financial reportin... (more story)

China cracks top 10 in WIPO inventiveness report; India surges, US holds steady September 17, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

The 2025 Global Innovation Index is a mixed bag: scientific publications are “truly thriving,” according to the World Intellectual Property Organization, while other metrics — like international patent applica... (more story)

Pending Anthropic settlement shows relevance of data sources in AI training risk September 11, 2025 | Emma Whitford

A potential $1.5 billion deal in California federal court between book authors and Anthropic shows that the manner in which a company procures copyrighted content has the potential to make or break its defense... (more story)

Indian top court's silence speaks volumes on patent-antitrust legal debate September 11, 2025 | Freny Patel

India's top court upheld the quashing of investigations against Ericsson and Monsanto, ending a 12-year legal battle. The Supreme Court of India's silence on the conflict between the patents and competition ac... (more story)

US pharma industry decries Brazil’s IP regulation roadblocks September 10, 2025 | Nick Robertson

Advocates for the US pharmaceutical industry argue that the lack of regulatory data protections and long patent pendency in the Brazilian intellectual property system are holding them, and Brazil, back. Meanwh... (more story)