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.
A federal judge dismissed xAI’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI with prejudice, holding that routine interviewing of a prospective employee does not constitute inducement to reveal trade secrets and that xAI failed to plausibly allege OpenAI knew any confidential information was disclosed.
The Federal Circuit affirmed a PTAB inter partes review finding that claims of Medmix’s fluid-mixing patent (U.S. 9,010,578) are obvious, rejecting the patent owner’s narrow claim construction for ‘at least two ramps’ and upholding the Board’s motivation-to-combine analysis.
The First Circuit vacated summary judgment for Ricky Martin in a 12-year copyright dispute, holding that a district court cannot resolve a copyright infringement case before any discovery when all key evidence is in the defendant’s control.
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.
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.
Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the Northern District of California dismissed TDK Corporation of Japan from a piezoelectric MEMS patent infringement suit, holding that conclusory stream-of-commerce allegations were insufficient to establish personal jurisdiction and that plaintiff lacked a legitimate basis for naming the Japanese parent company as a defendant.
Judge Charles Breyer of the Northern District of California granted BMW a temporary restraining order blocking Zync Inc. from proceeding with an ITC trade secret investigation, finding BMW likely to succeed in enforcing a contractual forum selection clause designating German courts as the exclusive forum for disputes under their infotainment technology NDA.
A new PTAB panel — assembled after a conflict-of-interest controversy forced removal of the original APJ — issues a second Final Written Decision finding U.S. Patent No. 9,917,856 unpatentable on obviousness grounds, dealing another blow to Centripetal Networks’ once-$1.9 billion patent assertion against Cisco.
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.
The 1st Circuit vacates a grant of summary judgment for Ricky Martin and remands for discovery in a twelve-year copyright dispute over the 2014 FIFA World Cup song ‘Vida’ — ruling that a district court cannot race to summary judgment while denying the plaintiff any discovery at all.
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 Northern District of California judge denied Meta’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by adult-film producer Strike 3 Holdings, finding sufficient evidence that Meta systematically downloaded thousands of films for AI training data.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board upheld two Zaxcom wireless audio recording patents in back-to-back IPR final written decisions, finding that Academy Award and Emmy Award recognition for the technology defeated RØDE Microphones’ obviousness challenge.
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.
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 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.
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.
The Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of DynaPass’s infringement claim against Bank of America, holding that the claim term ‘receiving the password’ requires the user to submit a pre-combined passcode-and-token password — not submit the two components separately as BofA’s mobile banking app does.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued split decisions in Stratasys Inc.’s ongoing patent dispute with Chinese 3D-printing rival Bambu Lab and its parent Shenzhen Tuozhu Technology, invalidating claims in one Stratasys patent while upholding another covering networked 3D printing.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidated all claims of Inari Medical’s U.S. Patent No. 11,554,005 covering a system for treating embolism, finding the claims anticipated by and obvious over prior art in a Final Written Decision from IPR2025-00289.
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.
The Seventh Circuit affirmed a $739,500 trademark judgment in favor of Grunt Style LLC, finding that Grunt Style’s use of the Army motto ‘This We’ll Defend’ since 2011 gave it common-law priority over TWD, LLC’s 2014 use and 2015 federal registration.
The PTAB issues a Final Written Decision upholding Yangtze Memory Technologies’ U.S. patent on electrostatic discharge bus architecture, rejecting Micron’s invalidity challenge — and earlier rejecting Micron’s novel argument that national security grounds should shield the IPR from Board review.
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.
The Ninth Circuit granted en banc rehearing in the Kat Von D tattoo-copyright case, vacating the panel opinion that affirmed a jury verdict finding no substantial similarity between a photographer’s Miles Davis portrait and a photorealistic tattoo — a signal that the full court may overhaul the circuit’s decades-old “intrinsic test” for copyright similarity.