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Texas Round-Up: December 2025

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Our Texas Round-Up for December 2025 covers decisions from the Eastern District addressing subject matter eligibility under Section 101 and the timeliness of expert opinions on non-infringing alternatives....more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Countdown to Data Privacy Day 2026: Deepfakes, Digital Replicas, and Synthetic Performers: Privacy Risks and Compliance in 2026

Deepfakes have moved from novelty to material enterprise risk, reshaping how organizations assess privacy, security, brand integrity and marketing. This technology can erode evidentiary trust, enable impersonation and fraud...more

Hogan Lovells

China’s new trademark use standards: Practical guidance for brand owners

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China's National Intellectual Property Administration (“CNIPA”) has recently issued a new enforcement directive identifying seven categories of illegal trademark use that will be subject to heightened administrative scrutiny....more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

When Substantial Similarity Becomes Subjective: The Ninth Circuit’s Warning in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg

On January 2, 2026, the Ninth Circuit issued a closely watched copyright decision in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg. The decision’s significance lies not in the verdict itself, but in the Court’s unusually candid critique of the...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Universal Music Group’s Recent Success in Blocking Section 203 Termination Rights Could Pose a Threat to Artists’ Abilities to...

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On January 8, 2026, the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York granted Universal Music Group’s motion to dismiss, and in so doing, prevented hip-hop group, Salt-N-Pepa, from exercising its termination rights...more

Lathrop GPM

“Flawed,” “Distorted” and “An Empty Promise”- Judges Call to Fundamentally Overhaul the Ninth Circuit’s Test for Copyright...

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In a decision that may foreshadow major doctrinal change, two judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals have urged the court to rethink – or abandon – its long‑standing framework for assessing substantial similarity in...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Supreme Court Update - January 20, 2026

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On January 20, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States issued three decisions: Berk v. Choy No. 24-440: This case involves state “affidavit of merit” statutes that require certain types of lawsuits, like medical...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Stay ADvised: 2026, Issue 2

New York AG Scrutinizes Instacart's Algorithmic Pricing Practices - On January 8, 2026, the New York Attorney General's Office sent a formal information request to Instacart seeking details about its pricing practices and...more

Proskauer - The Patent Playbook

Supreme Court Takes Up Hikma v. Amarin: Induced Infringement and Skinny Labels in the Crosshairs

The Supreme Court’s decision to review Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. v. Amarin Pharma Inc. places renewed attention on a familiar but unsettled issue in pharmaceutical patent law: how the induced infringement doctrine...more

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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

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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

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[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

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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

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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

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