Recently, the patent portfolio management company Malikie Innovations Limited filed a lawsuit against OPPO, its sub-brands Realme and OnePlus, and OPPO’s distributors in Europe regarding Patent No. EP3843496.

On July 8, 2026, Thailand’s Specialized Appeals Court issued a second-instance ruling on the long-standing trademark dispute between Luckin Coffee and the Thai company Royal 50R Group: It dismissed the defendant’s appeal, affirmed that Luckin Coffee holds superior rights to the disputed trademark, upheld the revocation of the defendant’s registered trademark, and maintained the court’s previous rulings, including a permanent injunction, 10 million baht in damages, and ongoing compensation. With this ruling, Luckin has secured a final victory in its efforts to protect its rights against malicious trademark squatting in Thailand.

This case stems from two patent infringement lawsuits filed by Siemens with the Munich Regional Court No. 1 in September 2025, involving EP2070269, titled “Group Scheduling,” and EP2052517, titled “Method and System for Providing Access to a Specific Key,” respectively. Honor subsequently filed requests for invalidation of the two patents with the German Federal Patent Court on January 14 and January 20, 2026.

On July 23, 2026, the commission imposed fines on TikTok and two Apple affiliates, ordering them to rectify their violations and disclose the facts regarding their illegal collection, use, and cross-border transfer of South Korean users’ personal information. TikTok was fined 10.306 billion won (approximately 47.54 million yuan), while Apple was fined 252 million won (equivalent to approximately 1.16 million RMB).

This is the largest fine imposed by the European Commission since the DSA took effect, far exceeding the previous fines of 120 million euros against the social media platform X (December 2025) and 200 million euros against the Chinese e-commerce platform Temu (May 2026).

Recently, a federal court in California granted final approval to the $1.5 billion copyright settlement reached between AI company Anthropic and a group of authors. This ruling brings to a close the class action lawsuit filed in 2024 alleging that Anthropic used copyrighted works without authorization to train its large language model, Claude.

On July 16, 2026, a jury in Waco, Texas, at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, ruled that Japanese flash memory manufacturer Kioxia had infringed on a flash memory technology patent held by U.S. satellite communications company Viasat, ordering Kioxia to pay Viasat $229,025,021 in damages. This damages award, calculated based on a running royalty rate, covers only Kioxia’s past infringement through March 30, 2026, and does not include a one-time license fee for future use of the technology.

This case stems from a counterclaim filed by Temu in response to a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by SHEIN. In August 2023, SHEIN sued Temu and its sellers in the United Kingdom for large-scale misappropriation of product images. In February 2024, the High Court of Justice in the United Kingdom ruled in favor of Temu’s motion to dismiss the infringement claims and allowed Temu to pursue its own claims. This ruling directly prompted Temu to file a counterclaim based on antitrust grounds.

The investigation stems from a complaint filed by Netlist under Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which prohibits the importation of products that infringe on intellectual property rights. Netlist alleges that the respondents’ DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) products were imported in violation of this provision.

The generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) patent landscape has reached a new milestone, with more new patents published in 2024 and 2025 than in the entire preceding ten years combined, according to new data published recently by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).