Published The Government will explore early FRAND determinations, improve access to SEP information, and assess a voluntary opinion service, but has ruled out a standalone rate determination track and further restrictions on injunctions for now. The UK Government has...
Published The Hague District Court found that Merck’s subcutaneous cancer treatment infringes a patent covering modified hyaluronidase technology, highlighting the reach of drug-delivery patents and the potential for cross-border enforcement. A Dutch court has ordered...
Published El Salvador has expanded its participation in the international intellectual property system, with three WIPO-administered treaties entering into force in the country today. The Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement, the Patent Law Treaty (PLT) and the Singapore...
Published Patent applicants considering whether to opt their European patent applications out of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) system may need to make that decision earlier than previously thought, following a September 21 ruling by the UPC Court of Appeal in Sidel...
Published The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO) has again refused Emotional Perception AI Limited’s patent application for an artificial neural network (ANN)-based media recommendation system, following the UK Supreme Court’s landmark ruling earlier...
Published Huawei and Qualcomm have agreed to a broad, multi-year patent licensing deal covering 5G, computing, artificial intelligence, and networking technologies, in a significant development for the global standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing landscape. The...