1 The district court in Mannheim, Germany, preliminarily ruled that Apple infringed Ericsson's patents.

2 Meizu's new patent: Owners can be identified by smell.

3 Kweichow Moutai applied to register the trademark of ancient cartoon characters.

4 China's Intellectual Property Office has ruled that the red hearts trademark, which is essentially the same as the Childlife trademark is invalid.

5 The U.S. federal court in Boston ordered LLY.US to pay $176.5 million in damages to TEVA.US for infringing a patent on a migraine drug.