In a case marking OpenAI’s first significant patent lawsuit in Europe, the UPC Court of Appeal overturned the Paris Local Division and held that the UPC has no jurisdiction to adjudicate patent infringement in non-UPC contracting states like the UK, Switzerland, and Spain.
After a jury found Impossible Foods willfully infringed a smaller company’s IMPOSSIBLE trademark on apparel and a cookbook, a federal judge denied laches, awarded attorney fees, and permanently enjoined Impossible Foods from using ‘Impossible’ as a standalone mark on apparel and cookbooks.
A federal court denied Academia.edu’s Section 230 defense and rejected all four attempts to compel arbitration in a class action alleging the platform used professors’ names in commercial advertisements without consent.
The ITC’s Full Commission affirmed that Innoscience infringed Infineon’s GaN transistor patent but found that Innoscience’s current redesigned products do not infringe, leaving the import ban with no practical effect on ongoing U.S. sales.
The U.S. ITC’s limited exclusion order against Innoscience’s GaN power devices became effective July 7, 2026 after the Presidential Review Period expired, but the ruling’s practical impact is narrow: only two claims of Infineon’s ‘481 patent were found infringed, and only by Innoscience’s already-discontinued legacy products.
The Tenth Circuit reversed dismissal of trademark infringement claims, finding a management contract ambiguous on whether a charter school network could use permutations of licensed school names after terminating its management relationship.
A New Hampshire federal court denied Sig Sauer’s motion for summary judgment of noninfringement in a patent dispute over firearm stabilizing braces, finding genuine factual disputes that must be resolved by a jury.
In three pre-trial rulings, the District of Massachusetts denied summary judgment on Abiomed’s written description defense, eliminated its indefiniteness arguments, declined to kill the reverse doctrine of equivalents, and found waiver on a last-minute means-plus-function claim construction bid — setting the stage for trial on Maquet’s intravascular blood pump patent.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s finding that a patent infringement case was ‘exceptional’ under 35 U.S.C. § 285, upholding an attorney fee award where the plaintiff never pursued discovery or demonstrated any evidence of infringement.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s decision not to consider a new prior art reference raised for the first time in the petitioner’s reply brief, leaving one claim of a networked-gaming patent standing.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for Igloo, holding that ‘first to market’ advertising claims about a biodegradable cooler concern the origin of an idea — not an observable product characteristic — and therefore fall outside the Lanham Act’s false advertising protections.
A Virginia federal judge cleared Amazon of infringement on four of five DivX video streaming patents, leaving only a tile-based video encryption patent for trial.
The District of Oregon construed four disputed terms in an e-learning patent, adopting a network-topology-based interpretation of ‘network-side’ and ‘client-side’ consistent with the patent holder’s own positions during inter partes review.
The Canadian Federal Court of Appeal upheld the invalidation of THERME-formative trademark registrations, holding that marks comprising English words may be refused if descriptive when pronounced in French.
The Fourth Circuit held that PTAB draft opinions and inter-judge communications are protected from FOIA disclosure under the deliberative process privilege, and that circulation of drafts to non-panel judges is lawful deliberation, not ex parte misconduct.
The Eleventh Circuit vacated summary judgment against Trunk Archive, holding that a photographer’s retention of narrow collaboration rights does not negate the exclusivity of a licensing agency’s rights under the Copyright Act.
A federal judge denied most of NVIDIA’s motion to dismiss a class action alleging the company trained AI models on pirated books, finding that dataset download scripts ‘have no other purpose than to speed up the process of infringement’ and that the Supreme Court’s Cox ruling does not shield NVIDIA from contributory liability.
The Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction barring a venture lender from interfering with Google’s royalty-free license to manufacture specialized computer chips, affirming that Google’s licensing rights survived the shutdown of its startup partner CNEX Labs.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that a patent for automatically silencing a mobile phone when it pairs with a vehicle is directed to the abstract idea of screening notifications and lacks an inventive concept under Alice.
A Delaware federal court denied Zoom’s motion to dismiss Ricoh’s seven-patent infringement suit under Alice, finding the video conferencing patents plausibly contain inventive concepts beyond abstract ideas.
The UPC Central Division in Milan revoked the Academy of Military Medical Sciences’ European patent on the use of remdesivir to treat COVID-19, finding the claimed invention lacked inventive step because prior art published just ten days before the priority date already identified remdesivir as likely effective against the newly emerged Wuhan coronavirus.
The Delhi High Court granted an interim injunction restraining EaseMyBiz Technologies from launching its app or website, finding the name deceptively similar to MakeMyTrip’s established “MyBiz” corporate travel brand.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that Enviro Tech’s poultry-processing patent was invalid because the term “about” in its pH range limitations failed to inform skilled artisans of the claim scope with reasonable certainty.
Japan’s IP High Court voided a trademark registration for “AI Announcer,” ruling the term is merely descriptive of AI-powered automated news-reading software and cannot be monopolized.
USPTO Director John Squires ordered the PTAB’s Delegated Rehearing Panel to review a decision invalidating a web-design patent, finding the Board gave ‘no explanation’ for diverging from a $170 million jury verdict that upheld the same patent on substantially similar evidence.
A federal court partially excluded Carnegie Mellon’s patent damages expert in a hard-disk drive patent case, finding her royalty calculations improperly included time-barred infringement and failed to apportion damages between patented and unpatented features.
The UK Patents Court set a $392 million lump-sum FRAND balancing payment for a global SEP cross-license between Samsung and ZTE, largely discounting prior ZTE licenses negotiated under the shadow of U.S. sanctions as non-FRAND comparables.
An Oregon federal judge denied Columbia University’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction and denied its motion to transfer, allowing Columbia Sportswear’s trademark infringement and breach-of-coexistence-agreement claims to proceed in Oregon.
A New Jersey federal judge awarded Benjamin Moore $4.2 million in unpaid trademark royalties from its former Moroccan licensee and reversed his own earlier decision to allow the licensee’s trade secret and tortious interference counterclaims.
A California federal court ruled that a Houston attorney who served as outside counsel to Schrader Cellars has no ownership interest in the winery or its RBS wine brand, rejecting his claim of a decades-old handshake deal.
Following a $13 million jury verdict for trade secret misappropriation, a Texas federal court granted a permanent injunction but significantly narrowed its scope, and required plaintiffs to elect between overlapping damages theories to avoid double recovery.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s finding that Wildseed Mobile’s targeted mobile advertising patent claims are unpatentable as obvious, rejecting the patent owner’s narrow construction of ‘information taken from a message.’
A Northern District of California court dismissed six AI bot patents as ineligible under Alice but spared a seventh — a real-time translation patent — finding its claims specified how a remote server achieves multilingual group communication, rather than merely claiming the abstract idea of translation.
In a remarkable reversal of its own prior reversal, the Tenth Circuit unanimously held that Netflix’s use of a 66-second funeral clip in the Tiger King docuseries was fair use, finding all four statutory factors favor the defendants.
The CJEU held that a retirement home’s retransmission of satellite TV and radio signals to residents’ rooms via internal cable does not constitute a ‘communication to the public’ under EU copyright law, because residents are not a ‘new public’ beyond the original broadcast audience.
An Illinois federal court dismissed the trespass to chattels claim in a dispute over a browser extension that displays price comparison popups over e-commerce sites, continuing the long line of “website framing” cases.
A California federal court dismissed Brandy Melville’s Lanham Act and unfair competition claims against Shein, finding they were preempted by the Copyright Act because they merely recast copyright infringement allegations as trademark claims.
A federal court dismissed Eli Lilly’s Lanham Act false advertising claim against Empower Pharmacy over compounded tirzepatide (the active ingredient in Mounjaro and Zepbound) for lack of proximate causation, but allowed state consumer protection claims to proceed in eight states.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that a patent for monitoring vehicles using RFID detection and operator identification is directed to the abstract idea of detecting, transmitting, and processing data, and lacks any inventive concept to survive Alice scrutiny.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB’s construction of ‘short range’ as a relative term and upheld the invalidation of one claim, but vacated and remanded on four other claims where the Board failed to address FedEx’s argument about power management instructions.
In a precedential decision, the TTAB cancelled Everwise Credit Union’s trademark registration after finding the credit union filed its statement of use before actually using the mark in commerce, while still operating under its former Teachers Credit Union brand.
A New York federal court denied Deloitte’s motion to dismiss trade secret misappropriation claims alleging the consulting giant posed as a partner to steal proprietary vaccine-tracking software and then used it to secure an $80 million CDC contract.
The Second Circuit held for the first time that ‘misconduct’ under Rule 60(b)(3) does not include merely negligent discovery failures, and affirmed denial of Adidas’s motion to reopen a jury verdict favoring Thom Browne’s four-stripe activewear designs.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that Cisco’s products do not infringe three Centripetal network security patents, reaching the opposite result from the original bench trial that was vacated due to the judge’s failure to disclose his wife’s Cisco stock ownership.
The Seventh Circuit affirmed a $2,000 statutory damages award in a trademark counterfeiting and cybersquatting default case, holding that obtaining a default judgment alone does not excuse a plaintiff from proving up its damages request.
In a precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit drew a sharp § 101 line between functional ‘optimization’ claims that recite a result without specifying a concrete configuration and ‘constellation’ claims that recite specific non-uniform point arrangements. It vacated summary judgment of eligibility for the former and affirmed eligibility for the latter, while affirming the underlying jury verdict, willful-infringement finding, and damages award against LG.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of claims by Rohingya plaintiffs alleging Facebook’s algorithm amplified anti-Rohingya violence in Myanmar, holding that Section 230 immunizes Meta from liability for algorithmically recommending third-party content — though two concurring opinions urged the court to reconsider its broad reading of Section 230.
The PTAB invalidated all challenged claims in two Maxell video processing patents, continuing Samsung’s campaign to dismantle the patent portfolio behind a $112 million E.D. Texas jury verdict that was already overturned on JMOL.
The Ninth Circuit ruled that Section 230 bars claims by Rohingya plaintiffs alleging that Facebook’s algorithmic design fueled genocide in Myanmar, but two concurrences urged the court to reconsider the sweeping scope of the immunity.
A Delaware federal judge denied Duracell’s motion to dismiss BASF’s trade secret claims over proprietary lithium-ion battery cathode technology, rejecting defenses of independent development and licensing.