Ford Motors is the defendant in two intellectual property lawsuits, according to Wall St. Cheat Sheet.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the highest proportion of intellectual property cases in its history this year in its nine-month term ending in June, according to Reuters. The justices will hear eight cases on intellectual property issues. Six of them are on patent law, two of which were argued on Feb. 26, and the remaining two are on copyright law.

Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. have joined 17 other companies and associations in drafting a letter to the European Union asking a new court to limit the ability of companies that license technology to win court injunctions against product sales when the validity of the patent being licensed is in dispute.

The U.S. may include India in the "Priority Foreign Country" list for intellectual property rights, according to the Press Trust of India. The U.S. industry and trade lobbies are pushing for India to be added to this list, which compiles those countries that have significant intellectual property protection issues. A Priority Foreign Country is the worst classification under the U.S. Trade Act, and denotes a nation with no adequate protection of intellectual property rights or equitable market access to U.S. companies. Inclusion on this list leads to trade sanctions.

The White House recently announced new measures to improve the patent process and improve intellectual property protection as, despite the Obama administration's urging, Congress has yet to act on these issues. Obama also asked Congress again to pass legislation meant to reduce abusive patent legislation, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Intellectual property issues that originate in China are as infamous as they are difficult to address. However, according to The Financial Post, it is becoming easier for businesses to seek legal remedies for intellectual property violations.

The International Game Developers Association, an advocacy organization based in New Jersey, recently criticized King.com Ltd, the developer of the popular game "Candy Crush Saga," for its application to register the term "Candy" as a trademark in the U.S.

IT research and advisory company Gartner recently released a report on 3D printing called "Predicts 2014: 3D Printing at the Inflection Point." In it, the company predicts the loss of at least $100 billion annually in intellectual property worldwide by 2018 as a direct result of 3D printing.

Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird," recently filed suit against a museum in Alabama that unfairly benefits from that work, according to Bloomberg. Monroe County Heritage Museum Inc. asked Judge William H. Steele of the federal court in Mobile, Ala., to dismiss Lee's claims against it, which the judge declined to do. Steele ruled the motion to dismiss lacked legal reasoning and relied instead on "bald conclusions" that did not demonstrate the claims should be thrown out.

The new Top Level Domains (TLDs) set to be introduced by ICANN may be vulnerable to serious intellectual property issues, according to research from the ICANN-approved Trademark Clearinghouse. Domain names related to established brands are already being sought out for purchase by third parties. According to the research conducted by Trademark Clearinghouse, "unknown entities" have already reserved domain names relating to 80 percent of the U.K.'s 50 most valuable brands under the domain name .WEB. These same buyers have attempted to pre-order 78 percent of the U.K.'s top 50 brands under the .ONLINE domain, 70 percent under .SHOP and 68 percent under .BLOG.