Australia’s Federal Court extended copyright site-blocking orders for five years and refreshed the covered piracy-site addresses.
The Second Circuit held that a diamond price list alleged to reflect expert judgment could not be denied copyright protection under the merger doctrine at the pleading stage without evidence about how its prices were created.
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement because Biofer’s patent requires maintaining a pH between 7.0 and 9.0 throughout the claimed sugar-oxidation step.
The Federal Circuit affirmed three groups of PTAB decisions invalidating Netlist computer-memory patent claims as obvious.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that patent claims covering one-drop vitamin D delivery to infants were obvious over prior methods.
The D.C. Circuit upheld the DMCA exemption permitting access to medical-device software for diagnosis, maintenance, and repair as a reasoned application of copyright fair use.
The Federal Circuit affirmed Samsung’s complete defense win, including a no-infringement verdict and a ruling that Qualcomm-chip devices remained licensed.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions invalidating all challenged claims of two SpaceTime3D graphical-interface patents as obvious.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB ruling that preserved claims 1–13 but invalidated claims 14–18 of SpaceTime3D’s 3D webpage-interface patent.
The Federal Circuit upheld written-description support for three Cabometyx patents while dismissing as moot and vacating a ruling on a fourth patent claim.
The Federal Circuit transferred a patent-settlement contract appeal to the Fifth Circuit because the claim did not necessarily raise a substantial patent-law issue.
The Federal Circuit held that a district court may decide patent eligibility after finding venue improper when both dismissal grounds were fully presented.
The TTAB barred Lamar Jackson’s ERA 8 BY LAMAR JACKSON application based on claim preclusion and lack of use on the listed bag products.
The Federal Circuit upheld key Smart Mobile wireless-patent claims and sent other claims back because the PTAB did not address evidence that Apple’s proposed prior-art combination would create a data bottleneck.
The Ninth Circuit held that Boeing’s patent-inventorship counterclaims were permissive, leaving the trade-secret appeal in the Ninth Circuit and supporting federal supplemental jurisdiction.
The Federal Circuit vacated part of a PTAB obviousness ruling because the patent’s provisioning and activation terms require adding a new service, not managing an existing one.
A Georgia federal court held that accepting an Instagram collaboration invitation may make an account a co-developer of a post, preventing dismissal on Section 230 grounds.
A Delaware federal court held that Lupin’s roughly 74% ivacaftor generic does not infringe Vertex patent claims requiring 80% or about 80% ivacaftor.
An Ohio federal court allowed a functionality challenge to a banded-knurl fastener mark to proceed but dismissed inadequately pleaded abandonment theories with leave to amend.
The Fifth Circuit revived architectural copyright claims after distinguishing building-design rights from plan copyrights, but held that newly created images lacking CMI did not violate DMCA section 1202(b).
The Federal Circuit held that inventor-advocacy groups lacked organizational and associational standing to challenge the USPTO’s description of a patent’s right to exclude.
A Tennessee federal court awarded $276,283.35 in Lanham Act fees after trial testimony denying confusing use of STARSTRUCK was contradicted by the plaintiff’s own social-media marketing.
The Eleventh Circuit upheld the denial of attorney’s fees to YouTube because Athos’s losing copyright claims were nonfrivolous and reasonably motivated.
A Massachusetts federal court allowed artists’ AI derivative-work and DMCA circumvention claims against Suno to proceed while dismissing a Tennessee statutory claim.
A federal court dismissed part of an author’s AI copyright claim because generalized allegations about shadow libraries did not plausibly connect her books to the Nemotron training data.
An Arizona federal court deemed a failed RAW-versus-Raw Garden trademark case exceptional and awarded the prevailing defendant roughly $2.56 million in attorneys’ fees.
A federal judge acquitted a former Google engineer on economic-espionage counts because the trial evidence did not prove he intended his trade-secret theft to benefit the Chinese government when it occurred.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions invalidating claims from three single-cell nucleic-acid analysis patents as obvious over combined prior art.
The Federal Circuit held that a non-practicing patent owner must plausibly allege its licensees complied with patent-marking rules to seek pre-suit damages, and upheld an exceptional-case fee award.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions preserving Westport’s fuel-injector patent claims because substantial evidence showed the prior art’s flexible membrane did not disclose the claimed solid-like hydraulic link.
A Massachusetts federal court held that an imperfect but genuine fair-use review defeated a Section 512(f) claim over DMCA notices targeting clips of local-government meetings.
The D.C. Circuit dismissed Music Choice’s petition, holding that the Copyright Royalty Board’s post hoc regulatory interpretation was neither a reviewable determination nor binding on the parties.
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.
An Eastern District of New York claim-construction order defined disputed mobile edge-device, bounding-box, Docker-container, and deep-learning limitations in Hayden AI’s traffic-enforcement patents.
The District of Columbia dismissed YMTC’s false-advertising claims because advocacy publications criticizing its China ties were not commercial speech, even if a competitor allegedly funded them.
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.
A California federal court held that ShopSee’s patent on layered shopping and social features for streaming video was directed to an abstract idea and lacked an adequately pleaded inventive concept.
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 affirmed that all 24 claims of a multimedia content-flow patent were unpatentable as obvious over prior art.
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 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 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 Ninth Circuit vacated an injunction because Amazon was unlikely to prove that Perplexity itself accessed Amazon computers when users directed its AI assistant.
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement because the claimed dissolving agent had to dissolve lidocaine as well as keep it from crystallizing.
The Eleventh Circuit held that invisible competitive keyword bidding alone is not trademark infringement and ordered a new damages trial.
The Federal Circuit vacated a patent preliminary injunction because the district court misconstrued “backplate” and “pin” and could not presume irreparable harm.