The Federal Circuit held that TexasLDPC received all substantial patent rights, its enforcement-only business model did not terminate the license, and Texas A&M was not a required party.
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement, holding that “universal” spinal-implant preambles limit two patent claims and that substantial evidence supported the jury on a third.
A divided Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement after construing a “cooperating service provider” as one that agrees to supply non-blocking bandwidth.
An Ohio federal court held that factual disputes over abandonment and likely confusion require a trial in the Cheese Hog trademark dispute.
A D.C. federal court allowed MEANS Database’s challenge alleging that FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK marks are generic to proceed past the pleading stage.
A Colorado federal court awarded $7,500 in statutory damages plus fees and costs for willful use of a copyrighted photograph on Pinterest.
The Federal Circuit held that an unauthorized email did not timely commence a patent-term-adjustment challenge and that last-day filing problems did not warrant equitable tolling.
A wrestling promoter’s copyright suit was dismissed because he did not plausibly allege WWE’s access to his sequence or substantial similarity in protected expression.
The Federal Circuit upheld a Section 285 fee award because Viavi inadequately investigated its infringement theory and continued pursuing it after contrary evidence emerged.
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.
Australia’s Federal Court extended copyright site-blocking orders for five years and refreshed the covered piracy-site addresses.
A Florida federal court held that Schedule A defendants prevailed after the copyright plaintiff dismissed with prejudice and awarded $39,802.50 in fees.
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 TTAB sustained Cielo e Terra’s opposition because identical wine goods and the dominant EL CIELO wording made confusion likely.
A Delaware federal court preliminarily barred Operation Bluebird from using TWITTER-formative marks, while finding that X likely abandoned the TWEET mark and bird logo.
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 a PTAB ruling that preserved claims 1–13 but invalidated claims 14–18 of SpaceTime3D’s 3D webpage-interface patent.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions invalidating all challenged claims of two SpaceTime3D graphical-interface patents as obvious.
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 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 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 Fifth Circuit rejected the Ninth Circuit’s server test but held that framed links did not infringe because Particle did not transmit the publisher’s content, while allowing a fact-specific DMCA claim over URLs to continue.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.