Courts Searched — April 20, 2026

Daily Summary — April 20, 2026

Today is Sunday, April 20, 2026. Federal appellate courts do not issue opinions on weekends. The automatic ingestion pipeline ran successfully across all 20 configured sources. Supplemental web searches identified two additional IP opinions from the prior week (April 16–17) not captured by the pipeline.

Statistics

Metric	Count
Pipeline sources ingested	20
Pipeline pending cases at publish time	0
Posts published by pipeline (today)	4
Posts published by supplemental search	2
Total posts in sitemap	41

Summaries Published — April 20, 2026

Case	Court	Topic	Source
Russell v. Walmart	Supreme Court	Copyright	Pipeline
Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings	Supreme Court	Trademark	Pipeline
CPC Patent Technologies v. Apple	Supreme Court	Patent	Pipeline
Zirvi v. Akin Gump	Supreme Court	Patent	Pipeline
B.E. Technology v. Google	D. Del.	Patent §101	Supplemental
Apple v. Masimo (ITC)	ITC	Utility Patent	Supplemental

Courts Searched by Pipeline

Source	Court	Status
us_scotus	U.S. Supreme Court	Searched
us_cafc	Federal Circuit	Searched
us_cadc	D.C. Circuit	Searched
us_ca1	First Circuit	Searched
us_ca2	Second Circuit	Searched
us_ca3	Third Circuit	Searched
us_ca4	Fourth Circuit	Searched
us_ca5	Fifth Circuit	Searched
us_ca6	Sixth Circuit	Searched
us_ca8	Eighth Circuit	Searched
us_ca9	Ninth Circuit	Searched
us_ca10	Tenth Circuit	Searched
us_ca11	Eleventh Circuit	Searched
us_govinfo_uscourts	District Courts (GovInfo)	Searched
us_courts_news	US Courts News	Searched
us_state_ca	California Courts	Searched
us_state_de	Delaware Courts	Searched
us_state_il	Illinois Courts	Searched
us_state_tx	Texas Courts	Searched
ca_scc	Supreme Court of Canada	Searched

Courts Not Searchable Today

Court	Reason
Seventh Circuit (us_ca7)	Not in pipeline configuration
ITC (USITC)	Supplemental web search only; no automated feed
PTAB	Supplemental web search only; no automated feed
Court of Federal Claims	Not in pipeline configuration
Court of International Trade	Not in pipeline configuration
EPO Boards of Appeal	Not in pipeline configuration

Supplemental Search Coverage

The following search queries were run manually to supplement the pipeline:

Federal Circuit opinions April 2026
PTAB decisions April 2026
Patent ruling court opinion April 2026
Trademark decision court April 2026
Trade secret ruling April 2026
Section 230 ruling April 2026
AI intellectual property court ruling April 2026
ITC International Trade Commission opinion April 2026
Right of publicity ruling April 2026
IPWatchdog, Patently-O, Bloomberg Law IP, Law360 IP (April 18–20, 2026)