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2026 BakerHostetler IP Perspectives (BHIPP) v3.0

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Intellectual property is one of the – if not the – greatest assets a business can own. Innovative companies need to carefully identify and protect their IP assets in order to maximize their value over their terms of...more

Smart & Biggar

Canadian patent law 2025: a year in review

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2025 saw a significant statutory change and the long-awaited Supreme Court of Canada hearing of an appeal regarding the patentability of methods of medical treatment. The courts also considered due care in the context of...more

Hogan Lovells

Launch of new mobile-themed gTLD extension

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Almost twenty years after the launch of the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .MOBI, a new mobile-themed gTLD has just been introduced: .MOBILE....more

Smart & Biggar

[Webinar] Canadian trademark law 2025: a year in review - January 29th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

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Our presenters Toba Cooper, Karl Racine, Jennie Yum and Kwan T. Loh will deliver a roundup of Canadian trademark law, highlighting some of the most important new cases and practice directions from 2025. These are the key...more

K&L Gates LLP

Reputation (High Court’s Version): Bed Bath ‘N’ Table v Global Retail Brands Australia

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The High Court of Australia has allowed Bed Bath ‘N’ Table Pty Ltd’s (BBNT) appeal from the decision of the Full Federal Court in its case against Global Retail Brands Australia Pty Ltd (GRBA)....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Supreme Court to Resolve Dispute Over Marketing of “Skinny Labeled” Generics

The Hatch-Waxman Act has always represented a delicate balance between the interests of innovator and generic drugmakers: innovators seek to maintain exclusivity as broadly and long as possible, generics seek to come to...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Supreme Court Takes Up Hikma v. Amarin

On Friday, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Hikma Pharmaceuticals v. Amarin Pharma, ending an almost three-year lull in patent cases at the Court. The case presents two related questions, one framed specifically in the...more

K&L Gates LLP

PTAB Reinforces Preference for PGR

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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently designated a post-grant review (PGR) decision as precedential. In the decision, the Director issued a discretionary denial decision confirming that the proper analysis was a...more

Hogan Lovells

China releases near‑final draft trademark law: What’s about to change?

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On 27 December 2025, the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress released the Draft Amendment to the Trademark Law of the PRC for public comment. Comments from stakeholders are due by 10 February 2026, and...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Has Miss Betty Boop Boop-Oop-a-Dooped Into The Public Domain? Sort of.

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Fans of the iconic Betty Boop character have taken to social media to share their dream celebrity casting for Miss Boop now that Dizzy Dishes, the six-minute cartoon that first featured the Betty Boop character, has entered...more

Benesch

What Does "Registers" Mean? The Wrong Interpretation Could Allow Cybersquatters to Escape Liability

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Imagine that an up-and-coming business intends to register the business’s trademark, but another person catches wind of this rising business and registers a website domain name that “is identical or confusingly similar to”...more

Hogan Lovells

POST GRANT PULSE November / December 2025

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This Post Grant Pulse provides updates on recent institution statistics, what to look out for in key discretionary factors, and other strategies to consider. ...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Supreme Court to Address ‘Skinny Label’ Patent Disputes

On January 16, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Amarin Pharma, Inc., a patent dispute that could reshape the landscape of generic drug competition and patent enforcement....more

PilieroMazza PLLC

The Rise of OTA in Defense Contracting, Part 5: Commercial Solutions Openings and NDAA FY26

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In the evolving landscape of government contracting, non-FAR-based procurements, including Other Transactions Authority (OTA), have become a focal point. A key element of President Trump’s April 9, 2025, Executive Order,...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Legal and Regulatory Environment

Regulatory actions and enforcement activities - In 2025, regulatory oversight in China’s consumer sector underwent a series of developments, with authorities placing renewed emphasis on the safety and quality of consumer...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

When a Name Becomes a Mirage: The CJEU on Designer Surnames as Trade Marks

Fashion houses trade in dreams, and often in names. But what happens when a famous designer leaves the label, and the business keeps using the designer’s surname as a trade mark?...more

DLA Piper

WIPO Releases 13th Edition Of The Nice Classification: Key Points

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The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published the 13th edition of the Nice Classification, introducing changes across all 45 classes of goods and services, effective January 1, 2026. Brand owners are...more

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg

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Ninth Circuit affirms jury finding that tattoo of jazz icon Miles Davis by celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D was not substantially similar to and did not infringe plaintiff’s photograph....more

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James v. UMG Recordings, Inc.

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District court dismisses claims by rap and hip-hop group Salt N-Pepa seeking declaration they had validly terminated grant of copyright in sound recordings to UMG Recordings’ predecessor and alleging possessory interest in...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Solicitor General Proves Persuasive; Supreme Court Grants Hikma’s Certiorari Petition

In recent years, the Federal Circuit has, with varying levels of agreement, considered what behavior by generic drugmakers constitutes inducement of infringement regarding so-called “off-label” prescribing for indications not...more

Thompson Coburn LLP

AI Hallucinated Me. If You Are a Writer, It May Hallucinate You

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Artificial intelligence programs can “hallucinate”—make things up. We’ve seen that when lawyers have had AI write their legal briefs, and the resulting documents cite totally fictitious “hallucinated” precedents. Because of...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

The Pitch - December 2025

The Pitch newsletter is a monthly update of legal issues and news affecting or related to the music, film and television, fine arts, media, professional athletics, eSports, and gaming industries. The Pitch features a diverse...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Two and a Half Years of the UPC – Trends And Turning Points

Welcome to our latest briefing, in which we look back at Unified Patent Court (UPC) developments in the last six months (July to December 2025) since our last briefing (The UPC Two Years On – published July 2025) and consider...more

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Dismissal for Flushing Bank in Patent Litigation

Hughes Hubbard successfully achieved dismissal with prejudice for Flushing Bank in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by DigitalDoors concerning methods for data processing, storage, and security. DigitalDoors alleged...more

Goodwin

California’s AB 2013 Takes Effect: Navigating AI Training Data Transparency and Trade Secret Risk

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California’s AB 2013, also known as the Generative Artificial Intelligence: Training Data Transparency Act (TDTA), took effect on January 1, 2026. In our June 2025 alert, “California’s AB 2013: Generative AI Developers Must...more

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