Driving a rover on the Moon is harder than driving on black ice. Space Mobility fixes that. On bare regolith a rover is slow to stop, slides around, and keeps about 25 percent of its Earth driving capability. On the Space Mobility road, built on site from Moon dust, "Mechanical Gravity" restores handling to 99 percent of what it has on Earth. Patents pending; ground validation underway; first tile deployed on the Moon targeted for 2028. Watch the interview and see the road at spacemobility.com/news.

Samsung puts a touchscreen on your palm, Intel's windows hide a crash before you see it, and Disney's AI invents memories to match yours + 12 more.

Laura Peter of the United States begins term as Deputy Director General.  She is responsible for administering the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) system, the Patent Law Treaty and the Budapest Treaty, among others. She also takes charge of WIPO’s programs relating to the technology sector such as standard essential patents, legislative advice on trade secrets and patents, and the modernization of WIPO’s services and architecture for the progressive development of the international patent system. Also in this issue: Global Innovation Index 2026 published – Global IP Assignment Platform pilot underway – Introducing WIPO Wallet – PCT information update – Special feature: Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026

In the long-running dispute between DivX and Netflix, the EPO has revoked a key patent held by DivX, covering progressive video playback technology. The decision follows a recent ruling by the UPC's Munich local division, which upheld the same patent and found Netflix liable for indirect infringement across 18 UPC member states.

As patent attorneys, we are by now all hopefully well versed in the confidentiality and hallucination risks of using AI. However, as AI tools are increasingly used to read, summarise and come to conclusions about third-party documents, there is another risk we need to think about: prompt injection. This is the sneaky practice of hiding instructions in documents given to an AI system in order to manipulate the outcome in the favour of one party.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Emotional Perception AI (EPAI) brought much-awaited clarity on how software inventions should be examined at the UKIPO. The decision brought the UK approach into alignment with that taken by the EPO.

Stellantis has secured a US patent for a quick-release high-voltage battery system that could let electric vehicles jettison their battery packs in dangerous situations and drive away using a secondary power source.

The WIPO GREEN database is a free, solutions oriented, global innovation catalogue that connects needs for solving environmental or climate change problems with tangible solutions. The database consists of uploads of needs and solutions, green technology patents from the WIPO Patentscope database, imports from select partner organizations, relevant knowledge material, and expert or company profiles. Uploads are either uploaded by users themselves or by WIPO GREEN or others, in which case the uploaded information is based on publicly available information. For each technology it is indicated who has uploaded. Some of the unique features of the database are: Always-on AI-assisted auto-matching, user uploads tracing and alerts, full-text search for solutions based on long need descriptions, and the Patent2Solution search function for finding commercial applications of a patent. Free registration is required for uploading. It is not a requirement that a technology uploaded has a patent or other secure IP rights. Uploading to the database does not entail any IP right protection.