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 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.
A Northern District of California federal judge partially confirmed an arbitration award protecting Tesla’s dry battery electrode trade secrets, upholding a narrow injunction blocking supplier Matthews International from selling certain battery equipment, while remanding other portions of the award.
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.
Judge Thomas Kleeh dismissed Amgen’s Walker Process antitrust counterclaims in Regeneron’s patent suit over Eylea biosimilars, finding Amgen failed to plausibly allege that Regeneron knowingly made false statements to the USPTO to obtain its blocking patent.
India’s Bombay High Court ordered Google, Meta, and X to remove approximately 275 deepfake videos, AI-generated chatbot personas, and morphed images exploiting actress Preity Zinta’s name and likeness — marking one of India’s first significant judicial interventions against AI-generated personality-rights violations.
A Southern District of New York judge dismissed a freelance artist’s copyright claims that Hachette used AI to replicate his commissioned book covers for Sandra Brown novels, finding he failed to establish substantial similarity between his artwork and Hachette’s redesigned covers.
The U.S. ITC’s limited exclusion order against Innoscience’s legacy GaN semiconductor products became final on July 7, 2026 after the Presidential Review Period expired without intervention — though Innoscience’s current product line, redesigned to avoid the ‘481 patent, remains freely importable.
A Northern District of California judge dismissed all claims against Meta under Section 230, holding that algorithmic amplification of third-party posts does not override the statutory immunity—algorithms create liability only when they generate content, not when they surface it.
The Federal Circuit affirms invalidation of two Dental Monitoring patents covering deep-learning dental arch image analysis, holding that applying generic machine learning to a new domain — orthodontic imaging — does not supply the “inventive concept” required for patent eligibility under § 101.
A Central District of California judge granted Roland’s motion to dismiss, holding that Behringer parent Empower Tribe’s polyphonic guitar tuner patent claims are directed to an abstract idea and lack the inventive concept needed to survive § 101 scrutiny.
A Pennsylvania federal court dismissed Pearl’s trade dress claim for its marching band drum carrier design without prejudice, holding that Pearl’s own utility patent on the same design features provided strong evidence of functionality, defeating trade dress protection.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for MillerKnoll, holding that the Nelson family authorized the company’s ownership of the iconic George Nelson Bubble Lamp trademarks through a 2006 royalty agreement — and in a precedential ruling, confirmed that authorization defeats unregistered trademark infringement claims under Lanham Act § 1125(a).
A Western District of Texas jury delivered a split verdict against Align Technology in its Invisalign patent suit against ClearCorrect, finding all four asserted patents on multilayer dental aligners infringed but invalid—leaving Align without patent protection against its largest clear-aligner competitor.
The Eighth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for four former employees, holding that Wilbur-Ellis Company’s trade secret claims failed because it never specifically identified what trade secrets were taken or how — and that the coordinated mass departure to a competitor did not, without more, breach the employees’ duty of loyalty.
A federal magistrate judge recommended $14.6 million in statutory damages against online retailers who sold counterfeit merchandise bearing TRUMP and MAGA trademarks after they defaulted by failing to respond to the lawsuit.
A California federal judge dismissed a seven-year patent infringement lawsuit against E. & J. Gallo Winery, finding that the winery’s irrigation systems do not satisfy the scope of the asserted patents on vineyard monitoring technology.
A federal judge dismissed with prejudice a Florida poet’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Taylor Swift, finding the plaintiff’s poems lack protectable expression and the works are not substantially similar.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board cancels all eight claims of Intellectual Ventures’ U.S. Patent 11,664,889, which covers TD-CDMA closed-loop power control in 3G wireless networks, finding them unpatentable over prior art combinations led by the Dateki reference.
Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed with prejudice a poet’s $25 million copyright suit against Taylor Swift, holding that the alleged overlaps — common themes, ubiquitous metaphors, and isolated phrases — amount at most to unprotectable ideas rather than original expression.
A Manhattan federal judge permanently dismisses Loyal-T Systems’ patent infringement suit against American Express, ruling that the accused Membership Rewards and Plenti loyalty programs do not infringe patents requiring a loyalty platform “separate and apart” from a payment card.
Magistrate Judge Payne issued three pre-trial Daubert orders in Smart RF’s patent suit against AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, allowing a damages expert’s comparable-license methodology to stand while partially excluding an invalidity expert for untimely disclosures.
Europe’s highest court dismissed Google’s final appeal on July 2, 2026, confirming the €4.1 billion Android antitrust fine — the largest upheld competition penalty in EU history — and opening the door for private damages suits by rivals harmed by Google’s pre-installation practices.
A federal judge denied summary judgment on all sides in the sprawling copyright lawsuit alleging that the dembow rhythm underlying over 1,800 reggaeton songs was stolen from Jamaican producers Steely and Clevie’s 1989 ‘Fish Market’ recording.
In a sweeping pretrial conference order, Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled on 23 contested motions in Stratasys’s 3D-printing patent case against Bambu Lab — letting most patents advance to trial while striking key portions of Stratasys’s damages theory.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that ClickFunnels’ sales-funnel website creation patents are invalid under § 101, holding that the abstract idea of “filtering information based on user preferences” cannot be rescued by conventional template-selection and sequential-webpage features, while also clarifying the burden-shifting framework for representative-claim analysis.
The Federal Circuit vacated a district court ruling that two “executable program code” limitations in TrackTime’s audio-synchronization patents were means-plus-function terms, remanding for fresh analysis under the intervening Dyfan precedent, while affirming invalidity of a related patent claim for anticipation.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that “mounted on” in a video laryngoscope patent means fastened to the exterior of the blade — not merely positioned inside with an exposed lens — ending a 16-year patent infringement battle.
The Delhi High Court Division Bench dismissed ITC Limited’s bid to block a former hotel licensee from continuing to use the Dakshin restaurant trademark, finding that the licensee had built independent goodwill through decades of use and that ITC’s prolonged silence amounted to acquiescence.
A California federal court dismissed all copyright claims against YouTube — without invoking the DMCA safe harbor — while allowing a pro se author’s direct infringement claims against the YouTube channel operators who narrated his book chapter-by-chapter to proceed.
A Colorado federal judge grants Amgen a preliminary injunction blocking the state’s first-in-the-nation Enbrel price cap, finding that capping the price of a patented drug is not a permissible option for states under federal patent law.
In the fourth trial of the OMG Girlz doll case, a Los Angeles jury finds MGA Entertainment owes no punitive damages to T.I. and Tiny Harris — leaving the prior $17.8 million compensatory award intact while rejecting the bid for up to $125 million more.
The Federal Circuit affirms the TTAB’s refusal to register four ‘Mon Ami’ dog-treat marks, finding the Board’s likelihood-of-confusion analysis under DuPont factor one is supported by substantial evidence.
A magistrate judge recommended a $68 million default judgment against 26 defendants who operated a large-scale scheme to flood the U.S. supply chain with counterfeit Biktarvy and Descovy HIV medications bearing Gilead’s registered trademarks.
A split Federal Circuit affirms the patent claim construction that kept a generic Nuedexta competitor off the market, but vacates the bond waiver and orders the district court to set a proper security amount.
A Delaware federal judge dismissed Signant Health’s DTSA trade secret claims against Definium Therapeutics, finding that identifying confidential LSD-trial technology only in broad, categorical terms — without pinpointing the specific information allegedly misappropriated — is insufficient to survive a motion to dismiss.
A UK Intellectual Property Enterprise Court judge dismisses all trademark infringement and passing-off claims by easyGroup (the entity behind easyJet, easyHotel, and related brands) against bathroom retailer Easy Bathrooms, ruling that the claimant failed to prove a legally recognisable “family of marks” and that 13 years of market coexistence demonstrated no consumer confusion.
A Western District of Washington court denied Zillow’s motion to dismiss IBM’s single sign-on authentication patent claim (U.S. Patent No. 7,631,346), sending the case toward trial and potentially exposing platforms using federated login to similar claims.
A Delaware federal court held that HP, Dell, and ASUS acquired implied licenses to LiTL’s portable computer patents through a component supplier’s express license, granting summary judgment for the laptop makers under the legal estoppel doctrine.
A Delaware court ruled that HP, Dell, and ASUS hold implied patent licenses through their unnamed component supplier’s settlement with LiTL LLC, granting summary judgment of noninfringement on all six asserted portable-computer design patents.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a split final written decision in a pair of inter partes review proceedings filed by ResMed Corp., finding one Cleveland Medical Devices sleep apnea treatment patent unpatentable while upholding claims in a closely related companion patent, illustrating the all-or-nothing stakes of IPR litigation on patent families.
The Supreme Court granted certiorari to decide whether a trademark’s inherent or conceptual strength is a question of fact for juries or law for judges — a ruling that could reshape summary judgment practice in trademark infringement cases.
The U.S. International Trade Commission instituted Investigation No. 337-TA-1508 on a complaint by Seer, Inc. and Brigham and Women’s Hospital against Chinese proteomics company Nanomics Biotechnology, alleging infringement of patents covering AI-enabled protein analysis systems and seeking an exclusion order on Nanomics’ imports.
A Manhattan federal judge denies Emojico’s trademark TRO against Schedule A e-commerce defendants, finding the accused products — shower curtains, earbuds, karaoke machines — look nothing like Emojico’s stylized smiley-face marks.
A federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of California ruled that multimedia rights companies serving university athletic departments are not categorically exempt from College Sports Commission review under the $2.78 billion House v. NCAA name, image, and likeness settlement.
A federal judge issued a TRO on June 26, 2026, blocking a China-based phishing-as-a-service network that weaponized Google Gemini to build fake banking and government websites, finding the ring ‘threatened the security of the internet’ and infringed Google’s Lanham Act trademarks.
A Delaware federal judge found that supplement maker Elysium Health failed to prove inequitable conduct or unclean hands by W.R. Grace in connection with nicotinamide riboside patents — leaving intact a $3.6 million willful infringement verdict.
The D.C. Circuit held that a generic drugmaker cannot escape a Hatch-Waxman patent judgment by amending its drug application — the bar on FDA approval runs to the application number itself, not to any particular labeled indication.
A Northern California judge denied Uber’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, holding that LBT IP’s GPS location-tracking patents — covering satellite-impaired tracking methods and multi-provider mapping interfaces — are directed to genuine technological improvements rather than abstract ideas under Alice.
An Eastern District of Texas jury awarded Vasu Holdings $3 million after finding Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones infringed a wireless roaming patent, while clearing Samsung on two other asserted patents.