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The appeals court reversed an order compelling a patent buyer’s unredacted purchase agreement after Europe’s Unified Patent Court had rejected the same evidence request as premature. The ruling limits, but does not eliminate, U.S. discovery assistance for foreign patent cases.
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The agreement would close a decade-old antitrust fight over insulin-pen patents listed in the FDA’s Orange Book. A court had already called the listings improper and exclusionary, but causation, Sanofi’s defense and damages remained unresolved.
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The Legal Board of Appeal revived an anonymized divisional application filed one day after its parent patent was granted, finding that applicants may rely on the EPO’s published outage safeguards. The decision is narrow, evidence-dependent and not a licence to ignore deadlines.
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Oura has opened a new front against Ultrahuman’s redesigned smart ring, asserting an ornamental-design patent and a utility patent granted two days before the lawsuit. Ring Pro remains on sale, and the claims have not been adjudicated.
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Elon Musk says SpaceX has closed $40 billion of debt for GPUs arriving in early 2027. The scale is consequential, but no public filing yet explains the pricing, maturity, collateral or even what “closed” means.
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Meta has postponed revised commercial terms until November 20 after publishers, advertisers and a U.S. senator challenged language they say could reach content beyond Meta’s platforms. Meta says the revision does not expand AI-training rights or override website owners’ robots.txt instructions.
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A new European Commission–EUIPO report values 2025 detentions at €6.3 billion. The mix of intercepted labels, packaging and e-commerce parcels shows how counterfeit supply chains are adapting—but record seizures do not by themselves prove the illegal market grew by the same amount.
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A federal judge heard competing bids to decide whether Anthropic’s use of copyrighted song lyrics to train Claude is protected by fair use. No ruling was issued, and the dispute now turns on a crucial distinction between transformative training and outputs that may compete with licensed lyrics or human-written songs.
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Four conditional CHIPS Act awards would fund high-voltage fusion electronics, vertical gallium-nitride transistors and ultra-pure quartz processing. The package targets the less visible hardware that converts and controls electricity, but every award still requires due diligence and a final agreement.
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