TexasLDPC can pursue its patent claims without joining Texas A&M University, the Federal Circuit held in a precedential decision on 14 September 2026. Reversing the dismissal in TexasLDPC v Broadcom, the court found that the licence transferred all substantial patent rights and that the university was not otherwise a required party in this case. Moving to an enforcement-only business had not terminated the agreement: its operative terms expressly contemplated enforcement efforts and sharing litigation recoveries. The ruling addresses the ability to bring the case, not whether...

A committee news item published on the Paraguayan Senate's website on 23 September reports that the Industry and Commerce Committee, chaired by Senator Luis Pettengill, and the Science, Technology, Innovation and Future Committee, chaired by Senator Patrick Kemper, met jointly that day and resolved to postpone, for further analysis, the bill establishing the conditions for collecting agricultural biotechnology royalties and amending Law No. 1630/00 on Patents of Invention. Pettengill said the committees plan to convene working tables with the sectors involved to analyse the proposals...