Generic drug companies are using preliminary discovery in Australia to investigate whether they have grounds to challenge the validity of pharmaceutical patents, in a potentially significant development for patent litigation strategy. The issue arose in proceedings...

The Intellectual Property Office has published a notice concerning government amendments to the Intellectual Property Rights (Imported Goods) Enforcement Rules, with particular implications for patent enforcement at the border. Trinidad and Tobago's Intellectual...

Singapore has launched a major public consultation examining how artificial intelligence should interact with the country's intellectual property regime, including the use of copyrighted works to train AI systems and the treatment of inventions created with AI...

China has imposed what is believed to be the country's largest-ever penalty for unauthorized patent agency practice, with an Anhui regulator ordering the Anhui branch of Beijing BoXTe Patent Agency (General Partnership) to pay a total of RMB 17.08 million (more than...

The global race to develop autonomous cars is a multi-billion-dollar competition. Multiple groups of legacy automobile manufacturers, commercial truck manufacturers, information technology companies, and AI and robotics developers are competing to replace or augment...

Chris McDonald MP has been confirmed as the UK minister with responsibility for intellectual property as part of his role as Minister of State for Science, Innovation and Investment. Chris McDonald MP has been confirmed as the new UK minister with responsibility for...

Australia's Federal Court has ordered a former employee and his company to withdraw patent applications, including a PCT application, before publication after finding a serious question that information obtained during his employment had been improperly used. In an...

India's IP Office has published a new draft patent practice manual incorporating recent legislative, procedural, and technological developments and is inviting stakeholder comments for 30 days. The Office of the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks...

A growing cluster of patent disputes is targeting the cooling, thermal-management, and computing technologies underpinning the rapid expansion of AI data centers. The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is creating a growing body of patent...

BoomCloud 360 has taken its expanding spatial-audio patent campaign to the US International Trade Commission, seeking import restrictions against Apple, Samsung, and Google. The US International Trade Commission (USITC) disclosed on August 20 that it had received a...

The UK Intellectual Property Office has issued new examination guidance following the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on AI-related patentability, setting out how examiners should approach computer-implemented inventions. The UK Intellectual Property Office (UKIPO)...

The appeal arose from the refusal of Indian Patent Application No. 468/DELNP/2008 titled “Method and Arrangement for Optimising the Operational Times and Cell Change Performance of Mobile Terminals.” During the proceedings, the Court noted that despite the existence...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed requiring third-party requesters for ex parte reexamination to identify all real parties in interest behind a challenge. The proposed rule, published in the Federal Register on July 22, 2026, would add...

Novartis has successfully defended its Entresto patent protection in the UK, after the High Court rejected Accord Healthcare's challenge to the validity of the relevant patent rights and found that Accord's intended generic product would infringe. Mr. Justice Meade...

Cytokinetics has launched a Delaware patent action against Bristol Myers Squibb and its MyoKardia subsidiary, seeking to clear a recently issued patent that it says does not cover its cardiac myosin inhibitor MYQORZO (aficamten). Cytokinetics filed the complaint on...

After two highly successful and well-regarded annual events, we’re thrilled to announce the Winter Intellectual Property Conference 2026, now with a brand-new format designed to deliver even more value. This single-day event brings the entire IP community together...

Open source software is the engine for almost every enterprise stack. Open Invention Network (OIN) was created to safeguard open source from bad actors. Over the last two decades, open source has been able to flourish, driving innovation in the software market to...

A patent owner’s success in securing a favorable claim construction in district court does not necessarily mean the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) will adopt the same construction in a parallel inter partes review (IPR), a recent Federal Circuit decision...

Nike's efforts to revive a wearable technology patent have come to an end after the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit summarily affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision finding every challenged claim of the patent unpatentable. In a Rule 36...