The Federal Circuit upheld a PTAB obviousness ruling, finding facial-analysis research reasonably pertinent to Nielsen’s audience-measurement image claims.
The Federal Circuit upheld denial of a design-patent preliminary injunction because the accused handbag hook was plainly dissimilar and irreparable harm was unsupported.
The Fourth Circuit held that foreign-market Gilead drugs can be non-genuine under trademark law when their labeling and quality controls materially differ from authorized U.S. products.
The TTAB refused registration of SERENA VENTURES because it was likely to be confused with SERENA for overlapping financial and investment services.
The Federal Circuit held that patents for generating and sharing interactive charts claimed an abstract idea without an inventive concept.
The Federal Circuit vacated a PTAB obviousness ruling because an AIA reference needs written-description support for at least one published claim to claim its provisional filing date.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that all 24 claims of a multimedia content-flow patent were unpatentable as obvious over prior art.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that an earlier streaming-media patent anticipated WAG Acquisition’s buffering claims.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that a crossbow patent claim was anticipated after construing “mounted to” to include direct and indirect connections bounded by the claim’s other limitations.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB decision finding Nike fitness-watch patent claims anticipated or obvious because the prior art supported the Board’s broad reading of fitness level and its combinations.
The Federal Circuit vacated a patent preliminary injunction because the district court misconstrued “backplate” and “pin” and could not presume irreparable harm.
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement because the claimed dissolving agent had to dissolve lidocaine as well as keep it from crystallizing.
The Ninth Circuit vacated an injunction because Amazon was unlikely to prove that Perplexity itself accessed Amazon computers when users directed its AI assistant.
The Ninth Circuit held that Jack Daniel’s failed to prove its famous marks were likely to be tarnished by VIP’s Bad Spaniels dog-toy parody.
The Eleventh Circuit held that invisible competitive keyword bidding alone is not trademark infringement and ordered a new damages trial.
The Federal Circuit revived MPH Technologies’ mobile-security patent case, holding that the asserted claims were not limited to IPSec and that a challenged secure-connection limitation was not indefinite.
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement because Leica’s microscopes use selected wavelengths rather than the claimed entire spectrum of white light.
The Federal Circuit held that substantial evidence supported the PTAB’s finding that Pfizer’s proposed vaccine claims would have been obvious.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB ruling that an earlier wireless-communications patent anticipated G+’s challenged 5G signal-transmission claims.
The Federal Circuit held that measurable claim distances were not indefinite merely because the patent might not teach every design choice needed to build an operable magazine.
The Seventh Circuit rejected software copyright and trade-secret claims where no evidence showed copied source code and the alleged secrets were public, visible, or too generic.
The Ninth Circuit vacated a multimillion-dollar false-advertising recovery because a CEO’s salary was not his profit, while preserving the exceptional-case attorney-fee award.
The Third Circuit upheld a fudge-recipe trade-secret verdict and attorney-fee awards on unsuccessful trademark and copyright claims.
The Federal Circuit reversed a patent verdict because prior art anticipated the asserted claims and the accused stent coating was not the claimed thread-like fiber.
The Third Circuit held that Jiaherb failed to prove saw palmetto oil was adulterated, defeating its Lanham Act false-advertising and related contract claims.
The Fifth Circuit held that Section 230 preempts Texas’s mandate requiring social-media platforms to monitor and filter specified third-party content for minors.
The Federal Circuit upheld the PTAB’s obviousness ruling and denial of substitute claims for a railcar anomaly-monitoring patent.
The Delhi High Court denied ANI’s interim injunction, finding that OpenAI’s storage of news works for LLM training was prima facie fair dealing under Indian copyright law.
The Federal Circuit revived a digital-picture-frame claim tied to a physically separate interface while affirming that broader functional display claims were patent-ineligible.
The Federal Circuit upheld denial and dissolution of preliminary relief where accused products practiced a later-issued, presumptively valid design patent.
A federal court let a DMCA subpoena proceed against an anonymous archive operator but deferred disclosure while considering a protective order.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB obviousness rulings based on archived evidence of an arXiv publication and qualified machine-learning testimony.
The Federal Circuit vacated noninfringement summary judgment because ambiguous prosecution statements were not a clear disclaimer.
The Federal Circuit affirmed because an IPR petition’s headings did not substitute for developed obviousness arguments for each challenged claim.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that challenged inkjet-printhead patent claims were obvious over a combination of prior-art references.
The Federal Circuit vacated PTAB rulings because the Board required a skilled artisan personally to fabricate a claimed integrated circuit.
A California federal court dismissed Google’s DMCA claims because anti-scraping technology must control access to copyrighted material with the copyright owner’s authority.
A federal court approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright class settlement, finding its per-work relief, notice, claims process, and limited release fair and adequate.
Federal Circuit affirms PTAB finding that claims in Woodway’s curved-running-belt manual treadmill patent are obvious over 1970s–1990s prior art, rejecting narrow claim construction and commercial success arguments.
A Florida federal court adopts a magistrate’s recommendation and enters a $14.6 million statutory damages judgment against 73 online sellers of counterfeit Trump-branded merchandise under the Lanham Act’s counterfeiting provisions.
The Supreme Court of Canada rules 7-2 that methods of medical treatment remain unpatentable in Canada, but upholds Janssen’s dosing-regimen patent for INVEGA SUSTENNA because the specific schedule does not require professional medical judgment to implement.
A federal jury in Waco, Texas awards Viasat $229 million in damages after finding Kioxia’s NAND flash memory products infringed U.S. Patent No. 8,615,700, covering forward error correction with parallel detection for flash memories.
The Federal Circuit affirmed two PTAB inter partes review decisions invalidating all claims of Slingshot Printing’s inkjet-printer temperature-sensor patents as obvious over a combination of prior art references.
The Federal Circuit vacated a $12.7 million copyright damages award against the government for unauthorized copying of healthcare interoperability software, holding that courts misapplied the ‘book of wisdom’ by considering unforeseeable events and that punitive willful-infringement damages are unavailable under 28 U.S.C. § 1498(b).
The ITC institutes Investigation No. 337-TA-1511 against Samsung, Google, NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Supermicro based on Netlist’s HBM and DDR5 memory patents, seeking exclusion orders that could disrupt AI hardware supply chains.
Judge Komitee awards Van Leeuwen $23,785,000 in disgorgement of Rebel Creamery’s profits and issues a permanent packaging redesign injunction after finding that Rebel’s ice cream packaging infringed Van Leeuwen’s distinctive minimalist trade dress under the Lanham Act and New York law.
The EU General Court ruled that ‘OPENAI’ cannot be registered as an EU trademark because it descriptively conveys ‘openly accessible artificial intelligence’ — a potentially far-reaching ruling for AI companies seeking trademark protection in Europe.
The Second Circuit affirmed an arbitral award giving Acorda only $16.5M of the ~$82M in post-expiration royalties it paid on an Ampyra MS drug patent, holding Brulotte/Kimble do not mandate full restitution and that New York’s Voluntary-Pay Doctrine bars recovery of royalties paid without contemporaneous protest.
The Federal Circuit affirmed three PTAB decisions preserving CPC Patent Technologies’ biometric smart-lock patents, holding that ASSA ABLOY failed to prove obviousness under its own proposed claim construction and forfeited a Bianco-only invalidity theory by raising it too late.
The Tenth Circuit reversed dismissal of Lanham Act false advertising claims, holding that Hill’s Pet Nutrition’s website statements and veterinary education materials could constitute actionable commercial speech when they allegedly disparaged grain-free competitors—and that the “establishment claim doctrine” allows courts to probe whether cited science actually supports the marketing claims made.