The Chinese company Huawei and the US company HP signed a multi-year global cross-licensing agreement for WiFi technology standards.

According to the statement released last Wednesday, “the agreement will allow HP, a computer company based in Palo Alto, California, to use certain Huawei patents related to WiFi in its computers and peripherals, while the Chinese technology company will in turn obtain rights to patents from the US company,” according to a statement from the Chinese company.

The two companies have joined forces in a patent licensing agreement covering essential standards for Wi-Fi technology, used throughout the industry and particularly by companies whose products connect to these types of networks.

 “Huawei is among the largest international patent applicants, standing out as the top applicant in 2025, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), along with South Korean companies Samsung and LG. These three companies filed the most applications last year with the European Patent Office (EPO).”

Furthermore, it maintains bilateral agreements and participates in patent pools to license mobile communications, Wi-Fi, and audio and video encoding technologies. In this regard, it currently holds 165,000 active patents granted worldwide, according to internal sources.

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Brazil launched the “Janela Única de Investimentos” (Single Investment Window) portal, through which it will seek to attract international investment, reduce licensing procedures, and facilitate business creation.

According to the government announcement, the portal centralizes all the services, opportunities, and guidance needed for investors, promising to “reduce the time required to obtain licenses and documents by 35 %, in addition to increasing the volume of international resources by 12 %.”

The tool is structured around three main areas: “services for investors, provision of data and statistics, and promotion of the benefits that Brazil offers to investors.” It is planned to facilitate the opening of companies, investor visas, and support for key sectors such as biofuels and infrastructure. Furthermore, services related to patents and social security are expected to be included in the future.

In this regard, Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade, and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, stated that the country will be more attractive to global investors and added: “We are firmly committed to reducing costs, timelines, and bureaucracy, to providing tax breaks for investments, and to making life easier for those who want to produce and generate wealth, employment, and income in the country.”

In addition to this technological initiative, a decree was signed creating a program to offer legal assistance to international investors in the South American nation.

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The popular brand Nike recently made three trademark applications within the metaverse, most specifically aimed at its SWOOSH Web3 platform.

Swoosh is the name of the platform on Web3, which was launched on its 50th birthday. It is “a new community experience, designed to give you the opportunity to co-create the future of Nike.”

The company’s intention with this platform is to be able to interact with shoes, clothing, accessories and other types of collectible items that can be used in games and other immersive experiences.

“New technology brings new opportunities to innovate, inspire and push boundaries. Sport and culture are evolving, so we want to build a future that is creative, inclusive and full of limitless possibilities for everyone,” the company said.

In the application before the Uspto, Nike protects the trademark .Smoosh among other things for “downloadable virtual goods; digital collectibles and crypto collectibles with and relating to footwear, clothing, hats, bags, backpacks, skins, jewelry, sports equipment, animated and non-animated digital characters and designs, avatars, digital overlays, character skins, art, toys, and trading cards authenticated by non-expendable tokens on a blockchain network for access and use in offline and online digital environments, virtual reality online environments, and extended reality virtual environments.”

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The Rolex watch brand announced that it registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Uspto) to be able to carry out different types of operations within the metaverse.

With this, it is almost confirmed that the brand of Swiss origin decided to take a step towards technology and incorporate everything related to non-fungible tokens (NFT).

Within said registry, some tasks that the brand seeks to carry out stand, such as the creation of “downloadable game software; virtual reality software; augmented reality software; operating systems for virtual private networks; downloadable computer software for blockchain technology; downloadable software containing virtual items, digital collectibles, and non-fungible tokens (NFT), among others.”

On the other hand, Rolex will protect its brand to be able to operate in online auction services for virtual reality, in this specific case with the use of watches, art objects, digital collectibles, NFT, among others.

“Use blockchain technology to provide user verification services; electronic data storage; development and hosting of internet platforms for electronic commerce; development and hosting of virtual environments and online metaverse platforms”, among other functions highlights the registration document.

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The company owned by Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, would allegedly be delivering documents before the United States Patent and Brands Office (UPSTO) for the registration of a new service of cryptocurrency line.

The company that owns Facebook, introduced a total of five requests to register in the United States the “Meta Pay” brand, which clearly seems to be a platform for digital payments and cryptocurrencies. Documents can be observed from the website of the website of the UPSTO.

Josh Gerben, a lawyer specialized in brands and patents gave the advance of the news this week through his social networks.

Applications, which were submitted on May 13, 2022, mention a payment platform that would allow users to store and exchange digital currencies.

Meta Pay could also include investment services and digital asset loan, according to other details in one of the registered trademark presentations. At the same time, he suggests that the financial services line could be part of its social media ecosystem, which includes Facebook, Instagram and the WhatsApp messaging application.

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Meta recently joined the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA), where it promised to make its major cryptocurrency patents free to everyone.

The COPA group advocates having all technology patents related to cryptocurrencies and blockchain publicly. This week the Facebook-owned company joined the organization, with Shayne O’Reilly as its representative.

Meta will become one of 30 other companies that have pledged not to enforce their “core cryptocurrency patents” COPA CEO Max Sills describes “core cryptocurrency patents” as any “technology that enables the creation, mining, storage, transmission, settlement, integrity or security of cryptocurrencies.”

With the COPA initiative, it is hoped that it will stimulate the growth of blockchain innovation while reducing the risk of patent litigation.

By forming an association and requiring member companies to contribute their patents to a collective patent library, COPA hopes to spur blockchain innovation by reducing the risk of patent litigation.

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BlackBerry has reached an agreement with Catapult IP Innovations whereby it sells patents that are not essential to its business operations, including those related to its mobile devices.

The Canadian company will keep the patents on the products and services that are currently essential to its operations, but has decided to sell the rest, which correspond to mobile devices, messaging and wireless networks.

The sale agreement was signed with the US company for 600 million dollars, which will be executed through a first cash payment of 450 million dollars and a promissory note of 150 million dollars, in five annual installments of 30 million dollars in cash. from the third anniversary of the closing date.

From BlackBerry they assured in a statement that this acquisition of patents will not affect the users of the company’s products, solutions or services.

This news comes shortly after support for phones running BlackBerry 7.1 OS and earlier, BlackBerry 10, BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.1 and earlier software ended.

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A federal court in the United States ruled that Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms cannot patent their inventions in this country even though they have not had the collaboration of people, since only a human being can be recognized as an inventor.

The decision comes after a complaint by AI researcher Stephen Thaler, who sought to obtain two patents for two inventions of an AI of his creation called ‘Dabus’: a design of interlocking food containers and a warning light with flashes hard to ignore.

Last week, Alexandria Virginia District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled against Thales and Dabus, arguing that only one individual can claim to be the creator of a patent.

Under US federal law, only a natural person can receive a patent, and Brinkema cites previous jurisprudence to argue that companies (legal entities) are not allowed to patent inventions in that country either.

This court ruling is consistent with the decision made in April 2020 by the United States Patent and Registration Office (USPTO), which determined that inventions can only be registered in the name of human beings.

Subsequently, the Artificial Inventor Project campaign, led by University of Surrey (UK) Law Professor Ryan Abbott, defended the right to patent inventions by AI, and has already obtained rulings in their favor in Australia and South Africa .

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The video game studio Electronic Arts (EA) decided to give up all its accessibility patents for videogames, among which its “Ping” system stands out, which facilitates communication to people with hearing, cognitive and speech disabilities, granting other companies of video game and developers of the sector their technologies for free.

The videogame company expects the supply of the patents “encourage to create new features that make video games more inclusive” (…). “We hope that developers take full advantage of these patents and encourage those who have resources, innovation and The creativity to do the same as us, creating its own assignments that give priority to accessibility,” said Chris Bruzzo, executive vice president of Positive Play, Comercial and Marketing at EA.

Among the five technologies assigned by EA is its “ping system”, used in Apex Legends, aimed at reducing the toxicity in the game in communication functions and to make it more accessible to people with auditory, cognitive and speech disabilities.

Three of the patents covered by the assignment are related to a technology that makes video games more accessible to players with vision problems and are already used in Electronic Arts videogames, such as Madden NFL and FIFA franchises.

It is also opening the source code of a technical solution that similarly addresses the problems of daltonism, brightness and contrast in digital content. The code can be found at Github, where developers can obtain it to use in their games.

The fifth patent included in the assignment is related to personalized sound technology, whose objective is to help players with hearing problems by modifying or creating music based on their auditory preferences and that suits the limitations they may have.

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The German Constitutional Court gave the green light to the European unitary patent after rejecting constitutional complaints against the project, which had slowed down the approval of the initiative in Germany.

The judicial entity determined that the plaintiffs did not sufficiently demonstrate that their fundamental rights were violated, therefore it dismissed the complaints.

The objective of the European Union (EU) unitary patent is to reduce the time and cost of registering an invention by allowing each patent applicant to file a single application for a unitary effect in a centralized way, without the need to validate it in each country of the block.

The EU unitary patent is expected to reduce the cost of registering an invention by as much as 32,000 euros ($ 39,000), according to figures from the European Commission.

Now there is nothing to prevent the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, from promulgating the law approving the European unitary patent, which has already been approved by the Bundestag and the Bundesrat (Lower House and Upper House of Parliament, respectively) at the end of 2020.

With the unblocking of the project by Germany, which did not grant its consent for years due to unconstitutional appeals preceding the complaints dismissed today, the establishment of the Unified Patent Court, whose headquarters will be in Luxembourg, can proceed.

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