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Shenzhen Intermediate Court Recognizes Unregistered Well-Known Trademark in Memory Chip Sector and Applies Punitive Damages in Typical Case
The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court recognized an unregistered trademark used on memory chips by a leading Chinese storage semiconductor company as a well-known mark. Wang and 21 related parties had acquired shell companies, registered the mark as their trade names, and sold infringing SSDs and memory cards through 29 e-commerce stores with sales exceeding RMB 22.5 million. Finding organized, family-run, professional-scale counterfeiting, the court applied punitive damages to RMB 3 million
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MPA and ByteDance Reach Cooperation on Intellectual Property Protection for AI Video and Image Generation Models
On August 17, 2026, ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) announced a memorandum of understanding on IP protection for ByteDance's generative AI models Seedance and Seedream, offered through TikTok, CapCut and Dreamina — described as Hollywood's first IP agreement with an AI company. The MOU follows the MPA's February 2026 cease-and-desist letter over AI-generated content reproducing protected film characters and actor likenesses. No financial terms or specific filtering mechanisms
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Pleading Licensee Marking After VDPP v. Volkswagen: Settlement Licensees Must Mark, and the Patentee Must Plead Its Efforts to Make Them
In a precedential August 19, 2026 decision authored by Chief Judge Moore, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed dismissal of non-practicing entity VDPP's patent infringement suit against Volkswagen. Because VDPP licensed the expired asserted patent to eleven settling defendants without marking obligations and failed to plead reasonable efforts to ensure licensee compliance with 35 U.S.C. § 287, it could not recover back damages. The court also affirmed a $207,543.60 attorney
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Revised Measures for the Administration of Priority Examination of Patents to Take Effect on September 1
The revised Measures for the Administration of Priority Examination of Patents (CNIPA Order No. 85) will take effect on September 1, 2026. The revision refocuses scarce priority-examination resources on high-quality applications in emerging and future industries, and establishes a closed-loop governance mechanism of provincial recommendation, unified CNIPA review, departmental coordination, dynamic quota allocation and dishonesty penalties — a shift from case-by-case acceleration toward whole-pr
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CIPO Releases Its 2026-2031 Business Strategy: Fee Review, Provisional Patent Option and Two New Accelerated Examination Pathways
The Canadian Intellectual Property Office's 2026-2031 Business Strategy, analyzed in commentary published August 11, 2026, sets four priorities for the next five years and several initiatives of direct interest to applicants: a comprehensive fee review beginning this winter, a Next Generation Trademarks System, consideration of a provisional patent option, and two new accelerated patent examination pathways — a fee-based ultra-fast-track service and a no-cost stream for government-priority techn
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