A Pennsylvania federal court awarded $400,000 in statutory damages per defendant and permanently enjoined 32 online sellers that willfully copied Nifty Home Products’ BACON BIN works.
A California federal court held that video creators plausibly alleged standing and a DMCA anti-circumvention claim based on ByteDance’s alleged bypass of YouTube safeguards to collect AI training data.
A New Jersey federal court construed “defibrotide” to require less than 10% double-stranded DNA because the patent applicants clearly surrendered broader scope during prosecution.
A Pennsylvania federal court held that Workers United plausibly alleged a live controversy over its Starbucks Workers United name and raised-fist logo, allowing its trademark and copyright declaratory claims to proceed.
The Federal Circuit held that later experimental data may show whether a patent enabled its full scope and affirmed the invalidation of an enormous enzyme genus.
The Federal Circuit affirmed judgment against Truinject because its lost-deal damages theory lacked causation and its new appellate theories were forfeited.
A Washington federal court awarded nearly $1.25 million in fees after willful trade-secret misappropriation but denied exemplary damages as unnecessary for punishment and deterrence.
A New York federal court clarified that injury notice triggered Hardwire’s duty to investigate but left a jury to decide diligence, discovery of Freyssinet’s role, and fraudulent concealment.
The Federal Circuit held that a scientifically impossible claim can be definite yet invalid because the patent cannot enable its full scope.
An Illinois federal court enjoined an unlicensed rooftop business from selling views of Cubs games and using Cubs trademarks after its royalty agreement expired.
The Federal Circuit held that new claims and repackaged arguments did not satisfy the rule for reopening prosecution after a new Board rejection.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that inadequate written-description support broke priority and made the inventor’s earlier publication invalidating prior art.
The Federal Circuit required a fuller sanctions analysis where multiple pre-suit signals raised serious questions about software-patent eligibility.
The Federal Circuit dismissed ParkerVision’s appeal because unresolved claims from the same patent prevented a final, appealable judgment.
The Third Circuit held that Westlaw headnotes are copyrightable and that a competing AI legal-research company did not fairly use them as training material.
A Connecticut federal court held that LEGO could not establish fair use as a matter of law for copying an artist’s painted jacket onto a Queer Eye minifigure, while dismissing the artist’s trade-dress claim for lack of likely confusion.
A North Carolina federal court granted Ruger summary judgment because the SCAR and SFAR rifle marks were materially different and the remaining marketplace factors could not establish likely confusion.
An Eastern District of Texas court let induced-infringement claims over contactless credit-card technology proceed and declined to invalidate five patents under Section 101 at the pleading stage.
The D.C. Circuit upheld the Department of War’s exclusion of Claude from its supply chain, rejecting statutory, due-process, and First Amendment challenges.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that prior-art codewords qualified as claimed feature vectors, leaving all challenged speech-recognition patent claims unpatentable for obviousness.
The Federal Circuit held that patents combining user history, page context, and ad-performance data claimed an abstract targeted-advertising idea without an inventive concept.
A D.C. federal court held that detailed software, configuration, and roadmap allegations could support trade-secret claims even though related hardware appeared in an issued patent.
A Louisiana federal court held that Copyright Office registrations gave constructive notice that time-barred most of a former band member’s joint-ownership and royalty claims.
A New York federal court entered a $169,000 default judgment and broad injunction over a copycat website, hijacked accounts, and unauthorized use of the EVERYDAYPPL marks.
A Massachusetts federal court denied a software company’s preliminary injunction because it lacked technical proof of copying or trade-secret use and waited nearly three years to seek relief.
The Ninth Circuit held that displaying third-party material in generic search results did not plead Google’s commercial use of the plaintiff’s name as a trademark.
The D.C. Circuit vacated a Copyright Royalty Board allocation because the Board did not explain how it combined two divergent valuation methods.
The Federal Circuit held object-level profitability claims ineligible because their asserted parallel-processing improvement was not required by the claims.
In a precedential ruling, the TTAB held that tribal sovereign immunity cannot block opposition or cancellation proceedings over federal trademark registrations.
The UPC upheld Honeywell’s telescopic-conveyor patent, found post-license infringement, and ordered a six-country injunction plus provisional damages.
An Eastern District of Texas court found AlexSam’s patent suit exceptional from filing and awarded Cigna $1.76 million because the infringement theory conflicted with an agreed construction and binding Federal Circuit guidance.
A Florida federal court held that a Spanish streaming operator’s paid subscriptions, advertising, and substantial Florida traffic supported personal jurisdiction over Tencent’s copyright and trademark claims.
A New Jersey federal court confirmed ownership of a blood-drip necklace copyright but held that access, actual copying, willfulness, and damages remain jury questions.
A Massachusetts federal court reduced a trademark jury’s actual-damages award to $37,500 but accepted $15.4 million in equitable profit disgorgement against Beyond Meat.
The Third Circuit held that a professor could not copyright his geometric teaching approach and that two machine-learning courses lacked substantial similarity in protected expression.
A Florida federal court entered summary judgment against a design studio that could not connect the defendant to any reproduction or display of its registered architectural work.
An Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge awarded $975,000 after a jury found willful counterfeiting across two marks and three animal-rescue services plus cyberpiracy.
The Federal Circuit vacated a catheter-patent obviousness rejection because the PTAB construed “flow barrier” more broadly than the specification allowed.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a $3.24 million patent-case fee and expense award based on objectively baseless and bad-faith litigation conduct.
A pro se plaintiff failed to connect NEMO Arms to acquisition of identifiable trade secrets, while his trademark-related claims remained pending.
Patent demand letters were protected under Noerr-Pennington, and a non-owner lacked the patent rights needed to remain a declaratory-judgment defendant.
Disputes over when accused sandal sales became commercially significant prevented summary judgment on laches.
Producers who saw 1992 releases crediting someone else as sole writer could not assert copyright ownership decades later.
Similar marks did not establish likely confusion where fish-skin dog treats and medical dermatology occupied distinct markets, and delay defeated urgency.
An Eastern District of Texas court found AlexSam’s patent case exceptional and awarded all reasonable defense fees because its infringement theory contradicted the agreed construction and prior appellate guidance.
The EU General Court upheld refusal of ULTRADRY for golf bags because consumers would immediately understand the term as describing the bags’ ability to keep contents dry.
The Ninth Circuit held that AI-generated code lacking attribution does not violate the DMCA unless copyright management information was removed or altered from an existing work or copy.
A California federal court held that two computer-networking and storage patents claimed specific technological improvements and plausibly alleged indirect and willful infringement.
An Eastern District of Texas court entered default judgment, awarded $42,000, enjoined further BitTorrent infringement, and ordered deletion of unauthorized copies.
The Federal Circuit preserved NCS Multistage’s contributory-infringement win against TCO but vacated the no-invalidity judgment under the corrected construction of “casing string.”