The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office deals Nintendo a legal blow in its patent pursuits over Pokemon's character-summoning ...

The United States Patent and Trade Office (USPTO) has revoked a patent it granted Nintendo last year, based on a gameplay mechanic used in other games. Last September, Nintendo was granted a US patent ...

Back in November, the US Patent and Trademark Office decided to reexamine a highly controversial and confusing Nintendo patent related to summoning characters and making them fight. The patent ...

Two pharmaceutical giants head to the Supreme Court on Monday in a dispute over a patent covering cholesterol-lowering antibodies. In Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi, the justices will consider whether Amgen’s ...

The meaning of “protected by a basic patent” has been clarified in Teva v Gilead, in a return to familiar ground The Court of Justice of the EU today clarified when a product is protected by a basic ...

Nintendo has plenty of space to respond, however.

Tomotoshi Shimano of Shiga International Patent Office examines the implications of recent High Court decisions relating to the interpretation of ‘working of a patented invention’ IP High Court (IPHC) ...

While Linux and open-source software (OSS) are no longer constantly under intellectual property (IP) attacks, the Open Invention Network (OIN) patent consortium still stands guard over its patents.