The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s obviousness rejection of a pro se inventor’s patent application for an automated kitchen system, holding that substantial evidence supported the motivation to combine the cited prior art references.
The PTAB issues a Final Written Decision upholding Yangtze Memory Technologies’ U.S. patent on electrostatic discharge bus architecture, rejecting Micron’s invalidity challenge — and earlier rejecting Micron’s novel argument that national security grounds should shield the IPR from Board review.
A Northern District of Illinois judge granted Ty Inc.’s motion for a preliminary injunction blocking Pop Mart from selling its ‘Pucky’ collectible figurine line, finding that Pop Mart’s products likely infringe and dilute Ty’s famous Beanie Baby trademark and trade dress.
The Fifth Circuit revived a trade secret RICO claim, holding that the systematic acquisition of trade secrets—not merely their ongoing use—can satisfy RICO’s ‘pattern of racketeering activity’ requirement, potentially enabling treble damages and attorney fees for trade secret owners whose secrets were stolen in a pattern of competitive IP raids.
In a nonprecedential ruling, the Federal Circuit affirmed that copyright infringement claims against the U.S. government must proceed exclusively under 28 U.S.C. §1498(b) and cannot be recast as Tucker Act ‘takings’ claims — a ruling arising from a pro se plaintiff’s allegation that the government used his AI dissertation without compensation.
Judge Edward Chen of the N.D. Cal. granted Apple summary judgment, holding that Neonode’s foundational swipe gesture patent (U.S. 8,095,879) is invalid for lack of written description under 35 U.S.C. § 112.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that claim 18 of Purdue Pharma’s patent on abuse-deterrent OxyContin — covering tablets heated in a coating pan — was obvious in light of prior German pharmaceutical art, ending a litigation effort by Purdue’s successor Knoa Pharma.
Ohio’s Fifth District Court of Appeals affirmed that Google Search is not a common carrier under Ohio common law, holding that a search engine’s curated results page is an editorial product, not the neutral transport of others’ content.
The Eighth Circuit held that federal trademark claims under the Lanham Act fell within a forum selection clause requiring state court litigation, affirming that state courts have concurrent jurisdiction over Lanham Act suits.
A federal judge in San Francisco severed a copyright lawsuit by six authors against Anthropic and five other AI companies, holding there was no conspiracy among the competing LLM developers to justify joint litigation, while transferring the OpenAI claims to the New York AI copyright MDL.
A North Carolina federal judge dismissed a patent infringement suit against Epic Games (Fortnite) with prejudice, holding that U.S. Patent 10,142,810 — claiming a method for managing communications across services using a single user identifier — was directed to an abstract idea and lacked any inventive concept under Alice.
The Second Circuit vacated summary judgment for a California winery in an Italian competitor’s trademark suit, holding that a 2004 TTAB decision did not have preclusive effect under B&B Hardware because the TTAB had never considered the parties’ actual marketplace usage.
India’s Delhi High Court Division Bench reversed a single-judge injunction against Intas Pharmaceuticals’ BEVATAS cancer drug, holding that the INN-derived prefix ‘BEV/BEVA’ is publici juris and that ten years of concurrent market use with no actual confusion disproved likelihood of confusion with Sun Pharma’s BEVETEX.
A federal judge in the Central District of California granted judgment on the pleadings to a Twitch streamer who livestreamed a nearly four-hour critical reaction to a YouTube documentary, holding that her real-time commentary, criticism, and mockery constituted fair use as a matter of law.
Case Overview Shoals Technologies Group, LLC v. Voltage, LLC and Ningbo Voltage Smart Production Co., No. 1:25-cv-00026 (M.D.N.C. June 5,
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions finding all challenged claims of three patents related to lost-computer recovery screens unpatentable as obvious, rejecting challenges to IPR institution and claim construction.
The Fourth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for BrowserStack after Deque Systems repeatedly failed to disclose its damages calculations in a copyright infringement case over web accessibility software, holding that the district court properly excluded Deque’s damages evidence under Rule 37(c)(1) and that Deque failed to raise a genuine dispute on injunctive relief.
Case: Joby Aero, Inc. v. Archer Aviation Inc., No. 25-cv-10703-SVK (N.D. Cal. June 5, 2026) Court: United States District Court,
The Federal Circuit affirmed that Nexus Pharmaceuticals’ generic minocycline product infringes Melinta’s patent covering a magnesium-containing antibiotic formulation that reduces injection-site hemolysis.
The U.S. International Trade Commission has instituted a Section 337 investigation (337-TA-1504) into allegations that Amazon’s Echo speakers, Echo Show displays, and Fire TV devices infringe five AI voice technology patents owned by Cerence Operating Company.
A Northern District of California court allowed Joby Aero’s core DTSA claim over a stolen real estate exclusivity agreement to proceed while dismissing all of Archer Aviation’s counterclaims as impermissible shotgun pleadings.
Case: NETGEAR, Inc. v. Choice Electronics Inc., No. 25-cv-02601-RS (N.D. Cal. June 5, 2026) Judge: Chief Judge Richard Seeborg Opinion:
A unanimous Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit and ended Amarin’s induced infringement suit against Hikma’s skinny-label generic of Vascepa, holding that anodyne marketing references to the branded drug do not plausibly allege that a generic maker actively encouraged infringing uses.
The Federal Circuit vacated an $11.5 million patent infringement verdict against ecobee, holding that a single-question verdict form covering four patents was improper and that the jury was not properly instructed on the abstract idea under Alice step two.
A California federal court granted a preliminary injunction barring Chinese wellness device maker Xiamen Olymate from using the “OlyLife” brand, finding the name creates a false connection to the Olympic Games in violation of the Olympic and Amateur Sports Act.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed denial of a preliminary injunction against P&G’s Spruce weed killer, holding that Scotts failed to prove its Miracle-Gro green-and-yellow trade dress was distinctive enough to support a likelihood of confusion.
A federal judge in the Western District of Washington denied a joint motion to enter a consent judgment and permanent injunction settling Eli Lilly’s trademark claims over its Mounjaro and Zepbound weight-loss drugs, finding the proposed decree and injunction “overbroad.”
NEC Corporation v. Anker Innovations Technology Co., Ltd. et al, No. 2:24-CV-00720-JRG (E.D. Tex. June 4, 2026) (Gilstrap, J.) Download
The Federal Circuit reversed a PTAB decision that had upheld claims of a spinal implant patent, finding the Board misconstrued the term ‘complementary with one another’ and that the claims are obvious under the correct construction.
Case: ProSync Technology Group, LLC v. Miller, No. SAG-26-1436 (D. Md. June 4, 2026) Court: United States District Court for
The Federal Circuit affirmed that all four Arendi patents directed to identifying information in a document and searching external databases are patent-ineligible under Section 101, ending a decade-long litigation against Google and Oath (Yahoo).
Two California attorneys drew $2,500 fines, six-month Ninth Circuit suspensions, and mandatory AI-disclosure orders after filing briefs that cited cases that did not exist. The court held that an attorney’s signature attests to personal verification of every citation, no matter who or what drafted the brief.
Starr™ v. Google LLC, 2026 WL 1603313 (W.D. Tex. June 3, 2026) The Western District of Texas granted Google’s motion
In Anonymous Media Research Holdings LLC v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., No. 2:23-cv-00439 (E.D. Tex.), Judge Rodney Gilstrap denied Samsung’s
The UPC Court of Appeal ruled that the Unified Patent Court can accept jurisdiction over patent infringement in non-member states like the UK, but overturned a Mannheim injunction on substantive grounds — establishing a three-category framework for managing long-arm claims.
A New Jersey federal court dismissed copyright claims against Netflix’s Boy Scouts abuse documentary, holding that factual content and common documentary techniques like archival footage, survivor interviews, and somber lighting are not protectable expression.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that patents claiming automated farming data collection using generic computer components are directed to patent-ineligible abstract ideas under Alice, but vacated the district court’s unexplained denial of attorney’s fees and remanded for further proceedings.
A Missouri federal court dismissed with prejudice all nine claims by a pro se plaintiff who alleged ChatGPT misappropriated her ’emotional-interaction model,’ holding that voluntarily inputting information into an AI tool defeats trade secret, CFAA, and privacy claims.
A Virginia federal court granted a temporary restraining order blocking political news site NOTUS from rebranding as ‘The Star,’ finding the Washington Star newspaper demonstrated a likelihood of trademark confusion.
The U.S. International Trade Commission has instituted a Section 337 investigation into gray market Monster Energy drinks imported by 13 respondents, alleging trademark infringement through the sale of products manufactured exclusively for foreign markets.
The Eleventh Circuit reversed a jury verdict, holding that 2 Live Crew member Mark Ross’s copyright termination interests were swept into his bankruptcy estate and remained there because they were never scheduled or administered — leaving the group one vote short of the statutory majority needed to reclaim their album copyrights.
A federal court ordered two fake “Fisher Investments Europe” websites shut down and their domains transferred, finding cybersquatting liability under the ACPA and ruling that in rem domain actions require no showing of bad faith.
A Northern District of California court denied Google’s motion to dismiss a direct infringement claim over containerization technology patents, finding that whether Google Kubernetes Engine and Cloud Run satisfy the patent’s filtering requirement must await claim construction.
The Supreme Court denied certiorari in CareDx v. Natera, leaving intact the Third Circuit’s ruling that proof of actual consumer deception is required to support Lanham Act damages even when advertising is deliberately and literally false.
The District of Delaware dismissed an Australian fintech company’s patent infringement suit against JPMorgan, holding that a blockchain-based financial transaction processing patent is directed to patent-ineligible abstract ideas under Section 101.
A Texas federal court construed ten disputed terms across five cybersecurity patents asserted by Arizona State University’s commercialization arm against CrowdStrike, largely adopting plain-and-ordinary-meaning constructions and rejecting CrowdStrike’s bids to narrow the claims.
The Seventh Circuit ruled that email service on Chinese defendants in Schedule A trademark counterfeiting cases is improper under the Hague Service Convention, but remanded for the district court to determine whether the Convention applies.
The District of Delaware denied Align Technology’s bid to invalidate two intra-oral dental scanning patents under Section 101, finding the claims directed to specific technological improvements rather than abstract ideas, while dismissing willful and indirect infringement claims against both Align and Medit for failure to adequately plead pre-suit knowledge.
A federal magistrate judge in Houston denied a motion to dismiss trade secret and non-compete claims against a former territory manager who forwarded hundreds of confidential emails to his personal Gmail, deleted over 1,000 company emails, and joined a direct competitor.
Orange County Superior Court sustains demurrer on Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code section 14245 trademark infringement and section 14247 dilution counts for ambiguous mark identification, missing state registration, and conclusory scienter allegations, while allowing a conversion claim premised on a trademark to proceed.