Federal district court decisions
Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the Northern District of California awarded Favored Tech $2,208,115.77 in attorney’s fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285 after finding that P2I Ltd.’s nano-coating patent infringement case was exceptional due to bad faith litigation conduct.
A Delaware jury unanimously found that Amgen’s Teneobio subsidiary willfully infringed Harbour Antibodies’ foundational patent on transgenic mouse platforms for generating fully human monoclonal antibodies, awarding $20.2 million in damages that could be trebled to $60.6 million for willfulness.
A Delaware federal jury found that TVision Insights did not infringe Nielsen’s patent covering digital-signature technology used to identify audio content for television audience measurement, handing TVision a trial victory in a long-running patent dispute over audience-tracking methods.
A Delaware federal jury finds Amgen and its subsidiary Teneobio willfully infringed a foundational patent covering the production of heavy chain-only antibodies in transgenic mice, awarding $20.2 million in damages — the full amount requested by the plaintiffs.
A Southern District of New York judge dismissed a trademark infringement suit by New York radio host Maurice Watts against Amazon Studios over use of the name ‘The Love Zone’ in Amazon’s crime thriller series ‘Cross,’ finding no evidence that the fictional reference misled viewers about the source of the real radio show.
A Virginia federal judge denied Altria Group and NJOY’s motion for a preliminary injunction to halt an ITC patent investigation over vaping device patents, rejecting the companies’ argument that the ITC’s administrative law judge appointment process is unconstitutional.
After surviving Meta’s Section 230 defense by pointing to AI-generated ad content, plaintiffs find their state law claims preempted by SLUSA — because the same theory that defeated Section 230 proves the fraud was ‘in connection with’ securities purchases.
A W.D. Wash. judge denies Ravensburger’s bid for nearly $3.8 million in attorney fees after defeating Upper Deck’s copyright suit over the Disney Lorcana trading card game, finding Upper Deck’s suit was neither unreasonable nor frivolous despite its failure.
Judge Jennifer L. Hall of the District of Delaware denied Ferring’s post-trial motions, preserving a $25 million jury verdict in favor of Finch Therapeutics and the University of Minnesota on three fecal microbiota transplant patents covering Ferring’s Rebyota product.
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.
A New Jersey federal court allowed WinView’s direct patent infringement claims against FanDuel to proceed, while dismissing with prejudice the indirect and willful infringement counts for failure to plead pre-suit knowledge — the same result previously reached in a parallel WinView case against DraftKings.
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.
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.
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,
Case: Joby Aero, Inc. v. Archer Aviation Inc., No. 25-cv-10703-SVK (N.D. Cal. June 5, 2026) Court: United States District Court,
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 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.
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
Case: ProSync Technology Group, LLC v. Miller, No. SAG-26-1436 (D. Md. June 4, 2026) Court: United States District Court for
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.”
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Massachusetts federal jury found that Abiomed’s Impella heart pump devices do not infringe Maquet Cardiovascular’s intravascular blood pump patents, ending a long-running patent dispute between the Johnson & Johnson and Getinge subsidiaries.
A federal judge in San Diego granted Intuit summary judgment of noninfringement, finding that TurboTax’s co-browsing feature does not infringe Samesurf’s U.S. Patent No. 9,483,448 covering synchronized web browsing technology.
A federal court in North Carolina dismissed copyright infringement claims by a cabinetry designer, holding that custom cabinet designs registered as ‘architectural works’ are not eligible for that category of copyright protection because they are not the design of a building.
A Northern District of California judge barred both parties from presenting reasonable royalty damages or willful infringement evidence at an upcoming UGG design patent trial, applying judicial estoppel to prevent Quince from advancing a damages theory it had previously blocked Deckers from pursuing.
A Northern District of Illinois judge reduced a $58.9 million jury verdict to $10.4 million in a decade-long trade secret case involving fleet management technology for garbage trucks, finding that while the defendant’s conduct was reprehensible, the damages were excessive.
A federal judge denied PhillyWine LLC’s emergency motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to stop the Wine School of Philadelphia from using the ‘Philly Wine School’ trademark, finding the challenger showed only sporadic prior use of the name.
A D.C. federal judge denied motions to dismiss copyright infringement claims brought by a jury consultant against three defense attorneys who downloaded her copyrighted jury-attitude report from a public court docket and filed it in support of their own clients’ January 6 venue-transfer motions without permission or payment.
A Central District of California judge denied motions to dismiss Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros.’ copyright claims against the makers of Hailuo AI, finding that the video-generation tool’s reproduction of iconic characters like Spider-Man and Darth Vader plausibly constitutes both direct and contributory infringement.
An Eastern District of Texas jury awarded SK nexilis $3.3 million after finding that Solus Advanced Materials and its Volta Energy subsidiaries willfully infringed five patents covering electrolytic copper foil manufacturing methods used in electric vehicle batteries.
A federal court in the Southern District of California dismissed all claims from five ad-viewability and ad-refresh patents as patent-ineligible under Section 101, finding they recite abstract ideas of determining whether a webpage area is visible and sending content based on that determination.
A federal court in the Eastern District of Missouri denied cross-motions for summary judgment in a trade secret case where departing employees allegedly prepared requests for proposals for a competitor while still employed, sending the case to trial on misappropriation and fiduciary duty claims.
A federal magistrate in Kansas recommended adverse inference sanctions against OPISystems for spoliation of evidence in a trade secret case involving stolen agricultural grain-bin management source code, after finding that a former employee stored proprietary code on personal devices and a competitor failed to preserve it.
A federal court in the Eastern District of California dismissed trademark infringement claims involving the ALIEN mark for nicotine products after the plaintiff failed, even on a second attempt, to adequately plead priority of use over the defendant’s ALIENLABS mark for cannabis products.
A federal judge enters a $19.5 million default judgment against shadow library Anna’s Archive and orders global registries to disable the site’s remaining domains, marking the second massive judgment against the piracy operation in 2026.
A New Jersey federal court denied a preliminary injunction in a dispute between competing waterfront restaurants, holding that a restaurant logo known only in a regional market is not ‘famous’ enough for federal trademark dilution protection.
An Ohio federal court entered a $1 million default judgment against a convicted counterfeiter who placed unauthorized NIJ certification marks on body armor sold to law enforcement, ordering permanent injunction and destruction of infringing goods.