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Federal Circuit Allows TexasLDPC to Sue Without Joining Patent Owner

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...
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Paraguay's Senate Postpones the Agricultural Biotechnology Royalties Bill: Patent Law Amendment Goes to Working Tables

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...
A victor on a winner's podium holding only two small coins, while a towering stack of money and a padlocked contract scroll loom behind and a gavel sits nearby, symbolising a nominal-damages win that nonetheless hinges on huge future licence fees in an architecture-licensing dispute

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Winning but Awarded $2: In Qualcomm v. Arm, the Real Fight Is Over Billions in Future Licence Fees

Winning the case — and walking away with $2. On 13 October, a Delaware federal jury found that chip-architecture firm Arm had breached its architecture licence agreement with Qualcomm and intentionally interfered with Qualcomm's business dealings with Meta, yet awarded Qualcomm just $2 in damages — $1 on each of the two claims it won.## Behind the $2 lie billions in licence feesDon't be fooled by the figure.
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Thailand's IP Search Adds a Legal-Entity Status Check: Spot Trademarks Owned by Dissolved or Dormant Companies at a Glance

Thailand's Department of Intellectual Property (DIP) rolled out a handy new feature on 29 September: it has wired the Department of Business Development's (DBD) company-registration data into its official trademark search system, IP Search — so when you look up a trademark whose owner is a legal entity, you can check in the same place whether that company is still active, or has been dissolved, wound up, struck off or left dormant.
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Getty Images files for Chapter 11: what it means for image licences

Is Getty Images, one of the world's largest stock libraries, going bust? Not quite. On 21 October 2026, Getty Images Holdings (OTCPK: GETY) said certain of its US entities had commenced a prepackaged Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (No. 26-11646) to carry out a previously announced financial restructuring. The library keeps trading, and the company expects no impact on contributors, partners or customers.
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UK IPO Consults on a FRAND Opinion Service for SEP Licence Offers

The UK is testing a mechanism that sits between party-to-party negotiation and formal pricing by a court or arbitrator. On 20 October 2026, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) opened a call for evidence on whether an IPO-led FRAND Opinion Service is feasible: the idea is for the IPO to give an opinion on whether a standard-essential patent (SEP) licence offer falls within a 'plausible FRAND range'. The government says it has not decided to introduce it; the call for evidence closes on 15 December 2026.