Our cultural obsession with intellectual property ownership has gotten out of control. Bylines, patents and copyrights treat ideas as commodities to be hoarded and defended. Yet nature offers an ...

In wrapping up the 2023-24 term and embarking on the 2024-25 term, the Supreme Court was asked to decide a number of intellectual property cases. The Court issued several significant opinions in 2024 ...

Guanyang Yao of Liu, Shen & Associates reviews several Chinese court rulings on standard-essential patent disputes, including Panasonic v Oppo, and the growing judicial focus on mediation and ...

On April 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ("Federal Circuit") issued a significant decision in Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., Case No. 2023-2437 (Apr. 18, ...

Xuelan Yue of Liu Shen & Associates draws on several ‘model cases’ put forward by the Intellectual Property Court of the Supreme People’s Court of China to highlight trends in trade secret ...

On Feb. 19, the Office of the United States Trade Representative held hearings on the challenges that America’s innovative industries face in protecting their intellectual property rights abroad. The ...

A sunglass design copycat case has resulted in the country’s first detentions involving the crime of copying the design of another company’s product.

In the New Economy, intellectual property is often the corporate crown jewels, both for companies in the technology business and for those that simply use technology to make their own businesses more ...

By Isaac Kundakogo Kunko*Intellectual property (IP) has significant private value for businesses and public value when applied to provide goods and services to the public through IP licensing ...

The Stanton Foundation awarded a $112,000 grant to Case Western Reserve University School of Law’s Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology and the Arts to support its recently launched First Amendment ...