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 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 Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB ruling that an earlier wireless-communications patent anticipated G+’s challenged 5G signal-transmission claims.
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 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 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 Federal Circuit upheld the PTAB’s obviousness ruling and denial of substitute claims for a railcar anomaly-monitoring patent.
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 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.
The Federal Circuit vacated PTAB rulings because the Board required a skilled artisan personally to fabricate a claimed integrated circuit.
The Federal Circuit vacated noninfringement summary judgment because ambiguous prosecution statements were not a clear disclaimer.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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 Ninth Circuit reversed a $40 million jury verdict against XP Power for stealing Comet Technologies’ semiconductor manufacturing trade secrets, finding the district court improperly placed the burden of proof on the defendant.
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.
The Federal Circuit vacated a PTAB decision upholding Parus Holdings’ voice-browsing patent against Google’s IPR challenge, holding that the Board improperly analyzed prior art in isolation rather than in combination, secretly construed a claim term without notice to Google, and failed to explain its inconsistency with earlier IPR rulings on related Parus patents.
The Federal Circuit reversed a preliminary injunction in a patent dispute over insulated truck cargo doors, holding that the accused ‘sandwich’ panel door raised substantial questions of non-infringement under three separate claim limitations and that the patentee failed to show irreparable harm.
A Northern District of California judge awarded Netflix $3 million in attorney fees after finding that plaintiff Lauri Valjakka and his counsel committed fraud by asserting ownership of U.S. Patent No. 8,495,167 while concealing a Finnish court’s prior determination that Valjakka did not own the patent — rendering the entire suit objectively baseless from its inception.
A Western District of Texas judge ruled that LzLabs GmbH’s Software Defined Mainframe technology infringes five IBM patents covering mainframe instruction translation and emulation techniques, handing IBM a significant win in its effort to protect the proprietary architecture underpinning its multi-billion-dollar mainframe franchise.
Apple filed a blockbuster trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI, io Products, and two former senior Apple engineers, alleging OpenAI systematically recruited Apple employees to steal confidential hardware engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain secrets for its AI device program.
The Fourth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction against a Dutch software company’s use of an American company’s brand and trade secrets, holding that Abitron Austria’s conduct-focused test for the territorial reach of U.S. IP law is satisfied where the defendant directly targeted U.S. customers online.
Judge Corley dismissed Swedish music company Epidemic Sound’s copyright infringement suit against Meta, finding it failed to plausibly allege that Meta’s content was substantially similar to Epidemic Sound’s protected works.
The Fourth Circuit vacated a practice-bar suspension imposed on a Womble Bond attorney in a cross-border trademark and trade-secret case, holding that civil contempt requires clear and convincing evidence of harm from the specific contemnor’s noncompliance.
Following a $102 million jury verdict in April, Manhattan federal Judge Jennifer Rochon issued a permanent injunction barring art publisher Michael McKenzie from reproducing, marketing, or selling works by the late artist Robert Indiana, including his iconic LOVE imagery.
The England and Wales Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by Altana Wealth and Brevent Advisory, upholding the High Court’s finding that they misused Illiquidx’s confidential information—a strategy for creating a sanctions-compliant Venezuelan debt fund—when they launched a competing fund after their joint venture collapsed.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB’s finding that cloud-gaming method claims were obvious over prior art—while clarifying the scope of the mandate rule and confirming that a tribunal on remand may reach claim limitations left unaddressed in the original appeal.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s ex parte reexamination finding that claim 1 of Magnolia’s blood sequestration device patent is anticipated by a 1999 Brannon prior art reference, rejecting Magnolia’s arguments about timing and configuration requirements.
A California federal court dismissed contributory copyright claims against eBay, holding that responding to takedown notices is sufficient and that platforms need not implement permanent staydown systems to avoid secondary liability.
The Fifth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit filed by a dissolved Louisiana LLC, holding that under FRCP 17(b)(3) the relevant law is the state where suit is filed—Texas—and Texas law does not allow dissolved entities to bring new claims.
The Federal Circuit affirmed invalidity of Wyeth’s lung cancer treatment patents after holding that the specifications failed to enable skilled artisans to determine an appropriate daily dosage for patients without undue experimentation, erasing a $107.5 million jury verdict.