A Delaware federal court held that HP, Dell, and ASUS acquired implied licenses to LiTL’s portable computer patents through a component supplier’s express license, granting summary judgment for the laptop makers under the legal estoppel doctrine.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a split final written decision in a pair of inter partes review proceedings filed by ResMed Corp., finding one Cleveland Medical Devices sleep apnea treatment patent unpatentable while upholding claims in a closely related companion patent, illustrating the all-or-nothing stakes of IPR litigation on patent families.
The U.S. International Trade Commission instituted Investigation No. 337-TA-1508 on a complaint by Seer, Inc. and Brigham and Women’s Hospital against Chinese proteomics company Nanomics Biotechnology, alleging infringement of patents covering AI-enabled protein analysis systems and seeking an exclusion order on Nanomics’ imports.
A Manhattan federal judge denies Emojico’s trademark TRO against Schedule A e-commerce defendants, finding the accused products — shower curtains, earbuds, karaoke machines — look nothing like Emojico’s stylized smiley-face marks.
The Supreme Court granted certiorari to decide whether a trademark’s inherent or conceptual strength is a question of fact for juries or law for judges — a ruling that could reshape summary judgment practice in trademark infringement cases.
An Eastern District of Texas jury awarded Vasu Holdings $3 million after finding Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones infringed a wireless roaming patent, while clearing Samsung on two other asserted patents.
A Northern California judge denied Uber’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, holding that LBT IP’s GPS location-tracking patents — covering satellite-impaired tracking methods and multi-provider mapping interfaces — are directed to genuine technological improvements rather than abstract ideas under Alice.
The D.C. Circuit held that a generic drugmaker cannot escape a Hatch-Waxman patent judgment by amending its drug application — the bar on FDA approval runs to the application number itself, not to any particular labeled indication.
A federal judge issued a TRO on June 26, 2026, blocking a China-based phishing-as-a-service network that weaponized Google Gemini to build fake banking and government websites, finding the ring ‘threatened the security of the internet’ and infringed Google’s Lanham Act trademarks.
A PTAB leadership panel on June 26, 2026 reversed the Board’s earlier cancellation of an Express Mobile website-building patent, holding that PTAB should not reach a different validity outcome than the jury when both forums consider the same evidence — a ruling with broad implications for GoDaddy’s $253M exposure.
A federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of California ruled that multimedia rights companies serving university athletic departments are not categorically exempt from College Sports Commission review under the $2.78 billion House v. NCAA name, image, and likeness settlement.
A Delaware federal judge found that supplement maker Elysium Health failed to prove inequitable conduct or unclean hands by W.R. Grace in connection with nicotinamide riboside patents — leaving intact a $3.6 million willful infringement verdict.
The U.S. International Trade Commission issued a final determination that Voltage LLC violated Section 337 by importing solar trunk bus cable assemblies that infringe two Shoals Technologies patents, imposing a limited exclusion order and 100% bond during presidential review.
The TTAB affirmed in part the USPTO’s refusal to register a blue-and-white stripe trade dress for frozen treat products, finding the design ornamental and commonly used in the industry, while reversing on some narrower grounds.
In a precedential ruling, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board affirmed the USPTO’s refusal to register ‘WEMBY’ for athletic apparel, finding the mark falsely suggests a connection with NBA star Victor Wembanyama and identifies him without his consent.
Authors and publishers reached a $1.5 billion class-action settlement with Anthropic over its use of pirated book databases to train Claude, the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history. The deal — covering some 482,000 titles at roughly $3,100 per work — is awaiting final court approval.
The TTAB refused registration of WEMBY for athletic apparel, finding the mark falsely suggests a connection with NBA star Victor Wembanyama and identifies a living individual without written consent — applying In re Foster to consider post-filing evidence in the false suggestion analysis.
Mr. Justice Meade ordered Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount to make interim RAND payments to Nokia for video streaming codec standard-essential patents, finding that the Nokia Lump Sum Offer was the most credible interim payment benchmark, while discounting Nokia’s claim to full royalties going back to 2011 due to its late-arriving licensing programme.
A D.C. federal judge refused to dismiss the NRA’s trademark claims against its own charitable arm, ruling that the NRA’s cease-and-desist letter plausibly revoked the consent it had previously given the Foundation to use the NRA name and marks.
The Eleventh Circuit reversed summary judgment for a rival cheerleading event organizer, holding that genuine fact issues exist about whether USASF’s “THE CHEERLEADING WORLDS” and “WORLDS” marks are descriptive with acquired secondary meaning rather than generic.
The PTAB held that a child patent in a continuation family is not invalid for obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) if its expiration date does not exceed the original patent’s expiration date — including any patent term adjustment (PTA) — providing important clarity for continuation patent strategy.
A Louisiana federal judge denied Total90 LLC’s preliminary injunction bid against Nike, holding that a lapsed trademark registration does not constitute abandonment when the registrant continues active commercial use — a reminder that trademark rights flow from use, not paperwork.
The Federal Circuit affirmed dismissal of a pro se inventor’s civil rights and tort claims against the USPTO, holding that disagreement with patent examination decisions cannot be recast as record falsification or a constitutional violation.
USPTO Director John Squires vacated a PTAB panel’s obviousness finding on U.S. Patent No. 11,828,425, ruling the Board failed to explain why its conclusion on claim 2 differed from a jury verdict finding the same claim valid and infringed — reinforcing the September 2025 PTAB parallel-proceedings memorandum.
A California district court dismissed NCII claims against Cloudflare under Section 230, holding that a content delivery network is protected as an access software provider even when it lacks the ability to remove content from a third-party platform like Facebook.
The Fourth Circuit affirmed that Sophos’s post-acquisition antivirus products were not “derivations” of the named containerization products in a 2016 patent license agreement, even though they shared some common source code, because the shared code was inactive in the original products and the newer products did not originate from them.
The Third Circuit reversed dismissal of Mike Huckabee’s right-of-publicity suit against Meta over fake CBD endorsement ads, finding that three factors — Huckabee’s well-known opposition to cannabis, Meta’s history of hosting similar fake-celebrity ads, and a link to a fake Fox News site — plausibly established that Meta knew or should have known the ads were fraudulent.
The Federal Circuit affirmed Intel’s summary judgment win, finding PACT XPP forfeited its capability-based infringement theory on the ‘301 patent and that prosecution statements during ex parte reexamination narrowed the ‘593 patent’s ‘physically dedicated connection’ claim to exclude Intel’s shared-bus architecture.
The Federal Circuit affirmed invalidation of Enanta’s Paxlovid-related patent because its 2020 provisional application disclosed ‘C2’ alkyl groups while the issued patent claimed ‘C1,’ a difference of one carbon atom that broke the priority chain and exposed the claims to anticipation by Pfizer’s prior disclosure of nirmatrelvir.
The UPC Düsseldorf Local Division rules that Article 72 UPCA’s five-year limitation period covers only financial compensation — not injunctions — confirming that patent holders face no time bar on seeking pan-European injunctive relief regardless of when infringement was discovered.
USPTO Director Squires issued a precedential decision vacating three IPR institution grants after a federal court found all challenged Lightning Roulette patents invalid under § 101, while simultaneously establishing a new 30-day deadline for parties to request Director Review of institution decisions.
The Supreme Court declined to review VPX’s challenge to a $272 million Lanham Act false advertising verdict won by Monster Energy over Bang energy drinks’ “Super Creatine” claims, finalizing one of the largest false advertising verdicts in U.S. history.
The Supreme Court declined to review the Federal Circuit’s ruling that an acquirer of common law trademark rights can cancel a later federal registration — even when those common law rights were acquired after the inter partes cancellation proceeding had already begun.
Director John Squires’s June 22, 2026 precedential order extends the Director Review request window from 14 to 30 days, defines three categories of “exceptional circumstances” warranting further extensions, and terminates three IPRs where district courts had already found the challenged claims invalid under § 101.
A federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas awarded Aspen Networks $190 million, finding that Verizon Wireless infringed U.S. Patent No. 8,009,554 covering the core technology enabling seamless Wi-Fi/cellular call handoff (VoWi-Fi).
Judge Noreika invalidates Novartis subsidiary’s patents covering Lutathera (lutetium-177 dotatate) cancer drug, finding all asserted claims invalid under the on-sale bar — clearing a potential path for generic competition.
In a precedential decision, the Federal Circuit reversed district court estoppel orders that had blocked Valve from using two prior-art grounds at trial, holding that classification searches returning 26,333 results do not establish discovery and that hindsight-infected forward citation searches cannot prove what a 2016 petitioner reasonably could have raised.
The Federal Circuit reversed and remanded a district court’s IPR estoppel ruling for the second time, holding that a classification search returning 26,333 results cannot show a prior art reference was “reasonably discoverable,” and that Cardinal IP’s search evidence for a second invalidity ground was tainted by hindsight bias throughout.
Judge Albright denies Acer’s post-trial JMOL motion, upholding a $10.3 million jury verdict for SVV Technology Innovations on LED display technology patents covering gaming monitors.
The Federal Circuit affirmed denial of a preliminary injunction sought by Boston Scientific to block Stryker’s OptaBlate BVN spine pain device, finding substantial questions about whether Stryker’s product meets the patent’s introducer placement requirements.
The U.S. International Trade Commission announced it will review portions of the administrative law judge’s determination that GoTrax and Gyroor infringed Razor USA’s hoverboard patents, with a limited exclusion order and cease-and-desist orders recommended by the ALJ pending Commission review.
A C.D. Cal. magistrate judge partially granted Midjourney’s motion to compel, requiring the defendant studios to produce some data about their own AI use while denying broader requests as irrelevant or work-product privileged — a significant discovery development in a major AI copyright case.
A federal judge in Delaware denied Guardant Health’s post-trial motions seeking to overturn or modify the jury’s $83.4 million verdict for willful infringement of University of Washington duplex consensus sequencing patents exclusively licensed to TwinStrand Biosciences.
A Central District of California court granted summary judgment for a fashion blogger who used a train photo found on Google Images, finding all four fair use factors weighed in her favor and rejecting the plaintiff’s CMI (§ 1202) claim as well.
Judge Gregory Williams of the District of Delaware denied GlaxoSmithKline’s motions to dismiss prosecution laches defenses asserted by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, finding the defendants plausibly alleged that GSK unreasonably delayed patent prosecution for over a decade and then broadened mRNA vaccine claims only after its rivals’ COVID vaccine technology became public.
An E.D. Mich. judge allowed Eight Mile Style’s direct copyright infringement claim to proceed against Meta for storing 243 Eminem compositions in its music libraries without authorization, while dismissing contributory, vicarious, and inducement claims in a ruling that applies the Supreme Court’s 2026 Cox decision.
The Fourth Circuit affirmed that a retroactive OFAC license validated Cubaexport’s 2005 trademark renewal fee payment for the HAVANA CLUB mark, upholding the USPTO Director’s decision to accept the long-delayed renewal and dealing Bacardi another setback in the decadeslong rum trademark battle.
The Supreme Court declined to review a $168 million trade secret award against Tata Consultancy Services, leaving intact the Fifth Circuit’s judgment upholding $56 million in compensatory damages and $112 million in punitive damages for TCS’s theft of life-insurance software trade secrets from Computer Sciences Corporation.
A federal judge denied former Google engineer Linwei Ding’s motion for a new trial on convictions for stealing more than 2,000 pages of Google AI trade secrets and committing economic espionage, rejecting his claim that prosecutors improperly excluded jurors of Chinese descent.
A Northern California jury found Quince’s shearling boot infringed Deckers’ design patent on the UGG Classic Ultra Mini Boot upper — but simultaneously invalidated the patent as obvious in light of a crowded prior-art field, leaving Deckers without relief.