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July 23, 2026
The European Patent Office said Thursday that digital filings will soon become mandatory, rounding off a decade of gradual transformation toward an electronic system for protecting inventions.
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July 23, 2026
Unilever has persuaded officials to stop a deodorant brand from registering "Whole Body Deodorant For Pits, Privates & Beyond" as a trademark, as it demonstrated that the phrase simply described the products on offer.
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July 23, 2026
The Unified Patent Court hit Disney with a pan-European injunction on Thursday, barring the media giant from infringing InterDigital's video codec technology in major markets including France, Germany and Italy.
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July 23, 2026
Electrolux has denied causing a startup to lose more than £200 million ($266 million) amid their failed home appliance development partnership, telling a London court that it did not misuse any of its opponent's confidential information.
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July 22, 2026
The 2026 FIFA World Cup came to an end Sunday with Spain winning for the second time in its history, but intellectual property battles are just heating up as companies and individuals seek to capitalize on the global event, experts told Law360.
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July 22, 2026
The Court of Appeal for the Unified Patent Court ruled Thursday that defendants may appeal a lower court's refusal to hear their conditional request to revoke a patent if that court later finds the defendant infringed the patent.
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July 22, 2026
European officials dismissed Imperial Tobacco's bid to invalidate a Philip Morris patent related to a device that measures how an e-cigarette is heated, ruling that an earlier design the British company cited provided different features.
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July 22, 2026
Universal Music Group has failed to register the trademark "Casablanca Records" after a Parisian fashion label convinced British officials that there was a high likelihood that consumers would confuse the two brands.
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July 22, 2026
Apple has urged an Israeli tech company to abandon U.S. litigation over a royalties dispute for wireless charging patents, saying the case is no longer necessary because the companies agreed to negotiate new licensing terms in the U.K.
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July 22, 2026
A payments software company has filed a copyright infringement claim over a 6,000-word guide for businesses that it had published online, telling a London court that a rival republished the text on its own websites.
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July 21, 2026
Prime Minister Andy Burnham has handed a cabinet role to artificial intelligence minister Kanishka Narayan, raising questions about the fate of intellectual property — previously part of Narayan's remit — within a reshuffled government.
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July 21, 2026
Hugo Boss has successfully contested a Spanish timber company's bid to register the trademark "Boss," as European officials ruled that consumers would inevitably confuse the name with the global menswear brand.
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July 21, 2026
A Korean skincare company has won a second shot at securing protection for a patent designed to repair damaged tissue, as an appellate board found that a critical manufacturing step was already disclosed in its original application.
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July 21, 2026
Jellycat has pushed back against a claim by a London accessories retailer that its bag charms would not be mistaken for the toymaker's plush range, arguing that consumers would struggle to tell them apart because of their anthropomorphic features.
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July 21, 2026
An American defense contractor has maintained that a drone manufacturer deliberately copied its design, telling a court that its British rival could not sidestep the claim by arguing that the patent was invalid because it had publicly demonstrated a prototype.
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July 20, 2026
Andy Burnham succeeded Keir Starmer as British prime minister on Monday, pledging to end four decades of private sector-led policy by expanding state control over people's well-being and the economy.
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July 20, 2026
A former British aerospace company engineer has denied sharing its confidential data with a U.S. rival, saying a copy of a propulsion system she designed gave her no competitive advantage because she deleted it soon after leaving.
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July 20, 2026
The U.S. has accused a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary of infringing a U.S. government patent covering a blood cancer treatment, stepping up its response amid an ongoing claim that the patent is invalid.
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July 20, 2026
Jaguar Land Rover has defeated Ineos Automotive's bid to invalidate the trademark protecting its classic Defender design, after European officials ruled the off-road vehicle's shape remains widely recognizable by consumers across the bloc.
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July 20, 2026
Video game giant Atari has sued an alleged copycat company, seeking damages and an injunction to prevent it from using the Atari name after claiming it deliberately infringed trademarks associated with its 54-year-old brand.
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July 20, 2026
The European Union fined online retailer AliExpress €550 million ($629 million) on Monday for failing to prevent the sale of illegal, unsafe and counterfeit products on its platform, the largest-ever financial penalty handed for breaching the bloc's digital rules.
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July 17, 2026
InterDigital has formally dropped its bid to block Amazon from infringing its video streaming intellectual property at Europe's patent court after the two companies agreed to resolve their dispute through arbitration.
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July 17, 2026
A ruling by Europe's highest court that geo-blocking measures can sufficiently restrict public access to works from territories where copyright remains in force strikes an effective balance between protecting territorial IP rights and allowing public domain works to proliferate, experts say.
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July 17, 2026
The past week in London has seen Snapchat and Dolby press on with a fresh infringement claim in their ongoing patent battle, The Telegraph face an intellectual property claim by a photo archive, a group of international human rights barristers and chambers sued, and oil business Equinor embroiled in a contract dispute with BP after recently acquiring full ownership in their offshore project. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 17, 2026
Europe's patent court has revoked an inspection order that allowed a sustainable technology company to open up a rival's containers to check whether a hydrogen reactor was infringing its patent, as the reactor was clearly being used for experimental purposes as part of an EU research project.