An Ohio federal court allowed a functionality challenge to a banded-knurl fastener mark to proceed but dismissed inadequately pleaded abandonment theories with leave to amend.
A Tennessee federal court awarded $276,283.35 in Lanham Act fees after trial testimony denying confusing use of STARSTRUCK was contradicted by the plaintiff’s own social-media marketing.
The Fifth Circuit revived architectural copyright claims after distinguishing building-design rights from plan copyrights, but held that newly created images lacking CMI did not violate DMCA section 1202(b).
The Federal Circuit held that inventor-advocacy groups lacked organizational and associational standing to challenge the USPTO’s description of a patent’s right to exclude.
An Arizona federal court deemed a failed RAW-versus-Raw Garden trademark case exceptional and awarded the prevailing defendant roughly $2.56 million in attorneys’ fees.
A federal judge acquitted a former Google engineer on economic-espionage counts because the trial evidence did not prove he intended his trade-secret theft to benefit the Chinese government when it occurred.
A federal court dismissed part of an author’s AI copyright claim because generalized allegations about shadow libraries did not plausibly connect her books to the Nemotron training data.
A Massachusetts federal court allowed artists’ AI derivative-work and DMCA circumvention claims against Suno to proceed while dismissing a Tennessee statutory claim.
The Eleventh Circuit upheld the denial of attorney’s fees to YouTube because Athos’s losing copyright claims were nonfrivolous and reasonably motivated.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions invalidating claims from three single-cell nucleic-acid analysis patents as obvious over combined prior art.
The Federal Circuit held that a non-practicing patent owner must plausibly allege its licensees complied with patent-marking rules to seek pre-suit damages, and upheld an exceptional-case fee award.
A Massachusetts federal court held that an imperfect but genuine fair-use review defeated a Section 512(f) claim over DMCA notices targeting clips of local-government meetings.
The D.C. Circuit dismissed Music Choice’s petition, holding that the Copyright Royalty Board’s post hoc regulatory interpretation was neither a reviewable determination nor binding on the parties.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB decisions preserving Westport’s fuel-injector patent claims because substantial evidence showed the prior art’s flexible membrane did not disclose the claimed solid-like hydraulic link.
The Federal Circuit upheld denial of a design-patent preliminary injunction because the accused handbag hook was plainly dissimilar and irreparable harm was unsupported.
The Federal Circuit upheld a PTAB obviousness ruling, finding facial-analysis research reasonably pertinent to Nielsen’s audience-measurement image claims.
A California federal court held that ShopSee’s patent on layered shopping and social features for streaming video was directed to an abstract idea and lacked an adequately pleaded inventive concept.
An Eastern District of New York claim-construction order defined disputed mobile edge-device, bounding-box, Docker-container, and deep-learning limitations in Hayden AI’s traffic-enforcement patents.
The District of Columbia dismissed YMTC’s false-advertising claims because advocacy publications criticizing its China ties were not commercial speech, even if a competitor allegedly funded them.
The Fourth Circuit held that foreign-market Gilead drugs can be non-genuine under trademark law when their labeling and quality controls materially differ from authorized U.S. products.
The TTAB refused registration of SERENA VENTURES because it was likely to be confused with SERENA for overlapping financial and investment services.
The Federal Circuit vacated a PTAB obviousness ruling because an AIA reference needs written-description support for at least one published claim to claim its provisional filing date.
The Federal Circuit held that patents for generating and sharing interactive charts claimed an abstract idea without an inventive concept.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that all 24 claims of a multimedia content-flow patent were unpatentable as obvious over prior art.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that an earlier streaming-media patent anticipated WAG Acquisition’s buffering claims.
The USPTO Appeals Review Panel reinstated all OTDP rejections, holding that Federal Circuit precedent makes the anti-harassment rationale independently sufficient even without patent-term extension.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that a crossbow patent claim was anticipated after construing “mounted to” to include direct and indirect connections bounded by the claim’s other limitations.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB decision finding Nike fitness-watch patent claims anticipated or obvious because the prior art supported the Board’s broad reading of fitness level and its combinations.
The Eleventh Circuit held that invisible competitive keyword bidding alone is not trademark infringement and ordered a new damages trial.
The Ninth Circuit vacated an injunction because Amazon was unlikely to prove that Perplexity itself accessed Amazon computers when users directed its AI assistant.
The Ninth Circuit held that Jack Daniel’s failed to prove its famous marks were likely to be tarnished by VIP’s Bad Spaniels dog-toy parody.
The Federal Circuit vacated a patent preliminary injunction because the district court misconstrued “backplate” and “pin” and could not presume irreparable harm.
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement because the claimed dissolving agent had to dissolve lidocaine as well as keep it from crystallizing.
The Federal Circuit revived MPH Technologies’ mobile-security patent case, holding that the asserted claims were not limited to IPSec and that a challenged secure-connection limitation was not indefinite.
The Federal Circuit held that substantial evidence supported the PTAB’s finding that Pfizer’s proposed vaccine claims would have been obvious.
The Federal Circuit affirmed noninfringement because Leica’s microscopes use selected wavelengths rather than the claimed entire spectrum of white light.
The Ninth Circuit vacated a multimillion-dollar false-advertising recovery because a CEO’s salary was not his profit, while preserving the exceptional-case attorney-fee award.
The Seventh Circuit rejected software copyright and trade-secret claims where no evidence showed copied source code and the alleged secrets were public, visible, or too generic.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB ruling that an earlier wireless-communications patent anticipated G+’s challenged 5G signal-transmission claims.
The Federal Circuit held that measurable claim distances were not indefinite merely because the patent might not teach every design choice needed to build an operable magazine.
The Third Circuit upheld a fudge-recipe trade-secret verdict and attorney-fee awards on unsuccessful trademark and copyright claims.
The Federal Circuit reversed a patent verdict because prior art anticipated the asserted claims and the accused stent coating was not the claimed thread-like fiber.
The Third Circuit held that Jiaherb failed to prove saw palmetto oil was adulterated, defeating its Lanham Act false-advertising and related contract claims.
The Delhi High Court denied ANI’s interim injunction, finding that OpenAI’s storage of news works for LLM training was prima facie fair dealing under Indian copyright law.
The Fifth Circuit held that Section 230 preempts Texas’s mandate requiring social-media platforms to monitor and filter specified third-party content for minors.
The Federal Circuit upheld the PTAB’s obviousness ruling and denial of substitute claims for a railcar anomaly-monitoring patent.
The Federal Circuit revived a digital-picture-frame claim tied to a physically separate interface while affirming that broader functional display claims were patent-ineligible.
The Federal Circuit upheld denial and dissolution of preliminary relief where accused products practiced a later-issued, presumptively valid design patent.
A federal court let a DMCA subpoena proceed against an anonymous archive operator but deferred disclosure while considering a protective order.
The Federal Circuit affirmed PTAB obviousness rulings based on archived evidence of an arXiv publication and qualified machine-learning testimony.