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• January 20, 2026

  Tiger Woods' Golf League Escapes EU TM Challenge

  Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy's golf league has moved closer to securing a "Los Angeles Golf Club" trademark in the European Union after a California retailer dropped its attempt to quash the application.

• January 20, 2026

  Adidas Fails To Block Salomon's Trainer Design Patent

  European appellate officials have granted Salomon a patent over a shoe design despite attacks from Adidas, ruling that skilled inventors wouldn't have incorporated the same elastic woven material or its shoe-like layers to improve comfort and user feel. 

• January 20, 2026

  UPC Guards Details Of Huawei's FRAND Talks With Rival

  The Unified Patent Court has ordered that Huawei's negotiations over a 5G license with Nokia-linked Finnish phone maker HMD should remain confidential as the pair look to reach an agreement on FRAND terms.

• January 20, 2026

  EPO Launches Patent Pilot Program With Australia

  The European Patent Office is to launch a pilot program with Australia, allowing applicants from the antipodean nation to request international search reports and preliminary examinations with the EPO. 

• January 20, 2026

  Paddington Bear Owner Denies Claim For Digital Royalties

  The owner of the rights to Paddington Bear told a London court Tuesday that its modern royalty distribution deal formalized a gentlemen's agreement struck by the bear's creator in the 1970s and doesn't entitle another company to claim income from online merchandising.

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