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El Salvador expands international IP framework as three WIPO treaties enter into force
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 Treaty on...
El Salvador expands international IP framework as three WIPO treaties enter into force
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 Treaty on...
UKIPO again refuses Emotional Perception AI patent after Supreme Court remittal
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 this year that...
UPC gives patent applicants another reason to think carefully about opt-outs
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...
Huawei and Qualcomm reset 5G patent relationship with major cross-license deal
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 agreement...
Data center boom creates new patent battleground around AI infrastructure
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 seeks US import orders against Apple, Samsung, and Google over audio patents
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...
UKIPO changes AI patent examination practice following Supreme Court ruling
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)...
UKIPO changes AI patent examination practice following Supreme Court ruling
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)...
Delhi High Court sets out a seven-step test for patentability of mental acts under Section 3(m) of the Patents Act
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...
USPTO proposes new transparency rules for parties behind patent reexamination challenges
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...
UK High Court upholds Novartis’ Entresto patent and SPC in Accord challenge
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 challenges BMS patent in bid to clear MYQORZO launch obstacle
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...
ByteDance (TikTok) joins the Open Invention Network 2.0 community
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...
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