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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...
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...
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 warns NVIDIA on conditional appeals in ParTec patent dispute
The Unified Patent Court's Court of Appeal has reinforced an important procedural point for defendants relying on conditional patent revocation counterclaims: if an infringement claimant appeals a finding of non-infringement, the defendant should file its own...
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...
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...
Federal Circuit backs PTAB’s different claim construction in Ravin crossbow patent dispute
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...
Federal Circuit leaves PTAB invalidity ruling intact in Nike wearable patent dispute with Lululemon
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...
Argentina removed from USTR Special 301 Priority Watch List after decade of scrutiny
Argentina has been removed from the United States Trade Representative's (USTR) Special 301 Priority Watch List for the first time in more than a decade, marking a significant milestone in the country's efforts to strengthen its intellectual property (IP) framework....
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