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EU confirms SEP bill withdrawal, raising questions for market evolution
The European Commission has confirmed it will withdraw its SEP licensing proposal after months of political deadlock. The move ends years of debate but leaves unres... (more story)
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Plan for value-based US patent fee changes draws pushback, praise
Reports that the Commerce Department is considering adding a new fee to patents based on their value could lead to increased revenue and streamlined operation of th... (more story)
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Skechers hit with US patent complaint on cusp of $9.4 billion acquisition
Skechers USA Inc.’s transition to a privately held company hit a snag when a purported pioneer of hands-free footwear technology claimed responsibility for innovati... (more story)
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Headwater Research cannot block an AT&T executive without patent licensing or valuation experience from testifying as a fact witness at trial next week, a US magistrate judge ruled, finding that his take on sp... (more story)
Two recent criminal cases in China have put a spotlight on how the country protects trade secrets while managing employee mobility, as authorities step up enforcement against former employees accused of misapp... (more story)
The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board invoked discretionary denial against two inter-partes review petitions by Google against Soundclear Technologies yesterday, with Acting Deputy Chief Administrative Patent J... (more story)
Holders of trademarks in one EU member state may prevent a third party from stocking the trademarked good in another member state if that third party intends to supply the goods into the member state where the... (more story)
Missouri Republican US Senator Josh Hawley’s new bill would create a private tort for the mishandling of personal data — including copyrighted works — by artificial intelligence companies. The effort wades int... (more story)
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court upheld the Japan Patent Office’s refusal to register US-based Waters Technologies’ “WATERS” trademark for scientific software, ruling that the mark was confusingly simi... (more story)
The IP lawsuit filed by Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ IP to elicit documents about the sale of nanopore-sequencing devices has been put on a three-month pause, in an Australian court ruling designed to give th... (more story)
Pfizer and its German vaccines arm BioNTech have said that they will continue their fight to overturn a finding that their Covid-19 vaccine infringed Moderna’s mRNA patent. The UK Court of Appeal today denied ... (more story)
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Vietnam is setting up long-awaited specialized intellectual property courts in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, aiming to modernize judicial enforcement and attract innovation-driven investment. But whether the new... (more story)
Zaptera Motors USA is fending off a renewed motion to dismiss its claim the founders of Aptera Motors Inc. misappropriated trade secrets associated with a solar-powered electric vehicle when relaunching as Apt... (more story)
China’s highest court has further clarified the legal weight of patent-evaluation reports in infringement disputes, issuing a binding judicial interpretation that bars courts from dismissing a patentee’s claim... (more story)
UK companies facing new requirements to share customer and business data are awaiting details on how their trade secrets will be protected under the new requirements. Unlike the EU’s Data Act, the UK’s new dat... (more story)
The EU is rolling out a new system to protect the names of regionally made products such as ceramics or textiles, creating a separate regime next to its long-standing rules for agricultural goods, and the Euro... (more story)
The European Commission has confirmed it will withdraw its SEP licensing proposal after months of political deadlock. The move ends years of debate but leaves unresolved tensions between patent holders and imp... (more story)
When US President Donald Trump unexpectedly jumped into a heated debate last week over the fairness of training artificial intelligence models on unlicensed content, tech lobbyists celebrated and creators groa... (more story)
News of a $1.05 billion arbitral award to standard-essential patent owner InterDigital could prompt adversaries to rethink global litigation as a winning strategy.