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The world’s first financial exchange for licensing and trading intellectual property will launch its first offering next week.

The ITC has asked for additional information about three Apple patents before deciding whether some Samsung products should be banned from the US for infringing them.

In a guest post to the Managing IP blog, Michele C Bosch and Anthony J Lombardi of Finnegan in Washington DC and Reston VA respectively explain why a constitutional challenge to the recently enacted America Invents Act is likely

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the organisation that sets royalty fees for copyrighted music.

Inventors of LCDs, USB, nanotechnology, pyrosequencing, furniture doors and train wheels were recognised at the EPO European Inventor Award 2013 held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands this week.

The IP Office of Singapore and China's SIPO have agreed to a pilot PPH programme.

Chinese companies might be innovating more than ever, but last year the country paid almost $17 billion more in licence fees and royalties than it received. Slashing that deficit requires not only more inventions, but better licensing strategies

Advanced economies raising alarms over the state of IP protection in growing markets are nothing new, but what happens when the object of criticism is poised to become the world’s largest economy?

India’s accession means the Madrid Protocol now covers more than two-thirds of the world’s population. Is this the tipping-point for the international trade mark system, and what reforms are needed? Emma Barraclough, James Nurton and Alli Pyrah report

In a recent decision of the Austrian Supreme IP Tribunal, an Austrian audit company named Confida requested the cancellation of three younger trade marks, all including the word Confida and registered for services including auditing services and financial services in class 36. The cancellation action was based on the company name, as the company was registered in 1978 in the Austrian company register and the attacked marks were only registered in the 1990s and later. Likelihood of confusion between the opposing signs was not under dispute.