1) Pharma and Biotech Patent Litigation Summit Europe returns in 2026: rebranded event features tech industry track, UPC litigation forum

Kisaco Research’s annual Pharma and Biotech Patent Litigation Summit Europe will take place from January 19 to January 21 in the Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, with ip fray as an official media partner.

2) InterDigital’s Brazilian double whammy against Disney: preliminary (but merits-based) injunction over two streaming patents

InterDigital’s merits-based two-patent injunction is harder to get stayed or overturned than most Brazilian patent PIs.

3) Last week, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company received a U.S. patent on summoning a character and letting it fight another

games fray was first to spot and discuss an outrageously generic video game patent that the USPTO granted ot Nintendo without the slightest objection.

Attorney Kirk Sigmon of U.S. firm Banner Witcoff agrees and told video game outlet PC Gamer that this was "an ambarrassing failure of the U.S. patent system, full stop": https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/an-embarrassing-failure-of-the-us-patent-system-videogame-ip-lawyer-says-nintendos-latest-patents-on-pokemon-mechanics-should-not-have-happened-full-stop/ A video game YouTuber operating a channel named FritangaPlays reached out to us and we've already recorded a detailed explanation of what went wrong in that patent examination process, based on publicly accessible documents.