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UK IPO still grappling with surge of trademark filings from front companies
Another record year for trademark filings at the UK Intellectual Property Office was driven by applications from China, which contributed more than all other non-UK... (more story)
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In 2026, the clock is ticking for progress on IP legislation
Looming retirements and difficult reelection bids threaten to upend the leadership of intellectual property policymaking in both the House and Senate in 2026, incre... (more story)
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Japan IP Court says sample family-court pleading is copyright-protected
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court held that a template-style family-court sample pleading was copyright-protected, rejecting full-text reposting as lawful qu... (more story)
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Nvidia’s blockbuster $20 billion licensing and talent acquisition deal with Groq could give the tech giant an advantage in the competitive AI chatbot market, while Lupin announced its first foray into the GLP-1 space.
It has been a slow week for the Unified Patent Court, whose Court of First Instance was open between the Christmas holidays and New Year's Day. Apart from developments in the InterDigital-Amazon dispute, the c... (more story)
India has opened its nuclear power sector to private investment as it seeks to reach 100 GW of capacity by 2047. While companies can now build and operate reactors under the 2025 Sustainable Harnessing and Adv... (more story)
A local court in China’s northwest Xinjiang region has that images generated by artificial intelligence software with a single click do not qualify as “works” under the Copyright Law, clarifying the legal stat... (more story)
The US Patent and Trademark Office on Monday announced the formation of a standard-essential patent (SEP) working group. The move follows recent statements of interest from office leadership favoring stronger ... (more story)
Masimo’s attempt to reinstate a limited-exclusion order to bar the import of Apple watches over patent infringement claims was dismissed in District of Columbia district court last week after the US Internatio... (more story)
Japan’s Cabinet Office is seeking public comment on a draft principles code that would press generative AI businesses to disclose model training and web crawling practices and respond to limited training-data ... (more story)
An Osaka court found that Hermes’ Birkin bag shape and its H-shaped sandal upper were protected in Japan but awarded only modest damages for online sales of lookalikes.
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Even without a nationwide ban, noncompete agreements remain under increasing federal and state scrutiny with the FTC targeting overly broad practices and states expanding restrictions. IP attorneys should prio... (more story)
Another record year for trademark filings at the UK Intellectual Property Office was driven by applications from China, which contributed more than all other non-UK filings put together. The trend continues to... (more story)
Major copyright cases at the EU Court of Justice — involving generative AI, press publishers and streaming platforms — will likely come to judgment in 2026, testing how far EU law can adapt to platforms’ power... (more story)
In 2025 the rising prominence of a then-fledgling Unified Patent Court may have taken top billing for practitioners, but in 2026 the spotlight is firmly affixed on the US Patent and Trademark Office. Myriad ch... (more story)
Former Google engineer LInwei Ding will face a federal jury in San Francisco in early January, accused of trade secret theft and economic espionage for allegedly stealing Google's AI secrets for China, in a hi... (more story)
Copyright protects works reflecting human creative choices, the EU Court of Justice recently clarified, but experts say its originality and recognizability tests could complicate enforcement and copyright clai... (more story)
Looming retirements and difficult reelection bids threaten to upend the leadership of intellectual property policymaking in both the House and Senate in 2026, increasing the pressure to pass key legislation swiftly.
From Jan. 1, 2026, holders of UK trademarks which sit on the register as “clones” of EU-registered marks will have to prove that they've been consistently used in the UK in the five years since Brexit, or leav... (more story)