A Massachusetts federal court reduced a trademark jury’s actual-damages award to $37,500 but accepted $15.4 million in equitable profit disgorgement against Beyond Meat.
The Third Circuit held that a professor could not copyright his geometric teaching approach and that two machine-learning courses lacked substantial similarity in protected expression.
A Florida federal court entered summary judgment against a design studio that could not connect the defendant to any reproduction or display of its registered architectural work.
An Eastern District of Pennsylvania judge awarded $975,000 after a jury found willful counterfeiting across two marks and three animal-rescue services plus cyberpiracy.
The Federal Circuit vacated a catheter-patent obviousness rejection because the PTAB construed “flow barrier” more broadly than the specification allowed.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a $3.24 million patent-case fee and expense award based on objectively baseless and bad-faith litigation conduct.
A pro se plaintiff failed to connect NEMO Arms to acquisition of identifiable trade secrets, while his trademark-related claims remained pending.
Patent demand letters were protected under Noerr-Pennington, and a non-owner lacked the patent rights needed to remain a declaratory-judgment defendant.
Disputes over when accused sandal sales became commercially significant prevented summary judgment on laches.
Producers who saw 1992 releases crediting someone else as sole writer could not assert copyright ownership decades later.
Similar marks did not establish likely confusion where fish-skin dog treats and medical dermatology occupied distinct markets, and delay defeated urgency.
An Eastern District of Texas court found AlexSam’s patent case exceptional and awarded all reasonable defense fees because its infringement theory contradicted the agreed construction and prior appellate guidance.
The EU General Court upheld refusal of ULTRADRY for golf bags because consumers would immediately understand the term as describing the bags’ ability to keep contents dry.
The Ninth Circuit held that AI-generated code lacking attribution does not violate the DMCA unless copyright management information was removed or altered from an existing work or copy.
A California federal court held that two computer-networking and storage patents claimed specific technological improvements and plausibly alleged indirect and willful infringement.
An Eastern District of Texas court entered default judgment, awarded $42,000, enjoined further BitTorrent infringement, and ordered deletion of unauthorized copies.
The Federal Circuit preserved NCS Multistage’s contributory-infringement win against TCO but vacated the no-invalidity judgment under the corrected construction of “casing string.”
The Federal Circuit vacated NCS Multistage’s infringement, validity, and damages judgments after correcting the construction of “casing string” and holding an earlier commercial tool was prior art.
The Federal Circuit held that TexasLDPC received all substantial patent rights, its enforcement-only business model did not terminate the license, and Texas A&M was not a required party.
An Ohio federal court held that factual disputes over abandonment and likely confusion require a trial in the Cheese Hog trademark dispute.
A divided Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement after construing a “cooperating service provider” as one that agrees to supply non-blocking bandwidth.
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement, holding that “universal” spinal-implant preambles limit two patent claims and that substantial evidence supported the jury on a third.
A Colorado federal court awarded $7,500 in statutory damages plus fees and costs for willful use of a copyrighted photograph on Pinterest.
A D.C. federal court allowed MEANS Database’s challenge alleging that FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK marks are generic to proceed past the pleading stage.
A wrestling promoter’s copyright suit was dismissed because he did not plausibly allege WWE’s access to his sequence or substantial similarity in protected expression.
The Federal Circuit held that an unauthorized email did not timely commence a patent-term-adjustment challenge and that last-day filing problems did not warrant equitable tolling.
The Federal Circuit upheld a Section 285 fee award because Viavi inadequately investigated its infringement theory and continued pursuing it after contrary evidence emerged.
The Second Circuit held that a diamond price list alleged to reflect expert judgment could not be denied copyright protection under the merger doctrine at the pleading stage without evidence about how its prices were created.
Australia’s Federal Court extended copyright site-blocking orders for five years and refreshed the covered piracy-site addresses.
A Delaware federal court preliminarily barred Operation Bluebird from using TWITTER-formative marks, while finding that X likely abandoned the TWEET mark and bird logo.
The TTAB sustained Cielo e Terra’s opposition because identical wine goods and the dominant EL CIELO wording made confusion likely.
A Florida federal court held that Schedule A defendants prevailed after the copyright plaintiff dismissed with prejudice and awarded $39,802.50 in fees.
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement because Biofer’s patent requires maintaining a pH between 7.0 and 9.0 throughout the claimed sugar-oxidation step.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that patent claims covering one-drop vitamin D delivery to infants were obvious over prior methods.
The Federal Circuit affirmed three groups of PTAB decisions invalidating Netlist computer-memory patent claims as obvious.
On reconsideration, a California federal court granted defendants partial summary judgment because the plaintiffs had not identified one copyrighted work containing the complete selection and arrangement they sought to enforce.
The D.C. Circuit upheld the DMCA exemption permitting access to medical-device software for diagnosis, maintenance, and repair as a reasoned application of copyright fair use.
The Federal Circuit affirmed Samsung’s complete defense win, including a no-infringement verdict and a ruling that Qualcomm-chip devices remained licensed.
The Federal Circuit upheld written-description support for three Cabometyx patents while dismissing as moot and vacating a ruling on a fourth patent claim.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions invalidating all challenged claims of two SpaceTime3D graphical-interface patents as obvious.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB ruling that preserved claims 1–13 but invalidated claims 14–18 of SpaceTime3D’s 3D webpage-interface patent.
The Federal Circuit transferred a patent-settlement contract appeal to the Fifth Circuit because the claim did not necessarily raise a substantial patent-law issue.
The Federal Circuit held that a district court may decide patent eligibility after finding venue improper when both dismissal grounds were fully presented.
The Fifth Circuit rejected the Ninth Circuit’s server test but held that framed links did not infringe because Particle did not transmit the publisher’s content, while allowing a fact-specific DMCA claim over URLs to continue.
The TTAB barred Lamar Jackson’s ERA 8 BY LAMAR JACKSON application based on claim preclusion and lack of use on the listed bag products.
The Federal Circuit upheld key Smart Mobile wireless-patent claims and sent other claims back because the PTAB did not address evidence that Apple’s proposed prior-art combination would create a data bottleneck.
A Georgia federal court held that accepting an Instagram collaboration invitation may make an account a co-developer of a post, preventing dismissal on Section 230 grounds.
The Ninth Circuit held that Boeing’s patent-inventorship counterclaims were permissive, leaving the trade-secret appeal in the Ninth Circuit and supporting federal supplemental jurisdiction.
The Federal Circuit vacated part of a PTAB obviousness ruling because the patent’s provisioning and activation terms require adding a new service, not managing an existing one.
A Delaware federal court held that Lupin’s roughly 74% ivacaftor generic does not infringe Vertex patent claims requiring 80% or about 80% ivacaftor.