A Manhattan federal judge permanently dismisses Loyal-T Systems’ patent infringement suit against American Express, ruling that the accused Membership Rewards and Plenti loyalty programs do not infringe patents requiring a loyalty platform “separate and apart” from a payment card.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board cancels all eight claims of Intellectual Ventures’ U.S. Patent 11,664,889, which covers TD-CDMA closed-loop power control in 3G wireless networks, finding them unpatentable over prior art combinations led by the Dateki reference.
A federal judge dismissed with prejudice a Florida poet’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Taylor Swift, finding the plaintiff’s poems lack protectable expression and the works are not substantially similar.
Magistrate Judge Payne issued three pre-trial Daubert orders in Smart RF’s patent suit against AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, allowing a damages expert’s comparable-license methodology to stand while partially excluding an invalidity expert for untimely disclosures.
Europe’s highest court dismissed Google’s final appeal on July 2, 2026, confirming the €4.1 billion Android antitrust fine — the largest upheld competition penalty in EU history — and opening the door for private damages suits by rivals harmed by Google’s pre-installation practices.
A federal judge denied summary judgment on all sides in the sprawling copyright lawsuit alleging that the dembow rhythm underlying over 1,800 reggaeton songs was stolen from Jamaican producers Steely and Clevie’s 1989 ‘Fish Market’ recording.
In a sweeping pretrial conference order, Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled on 23 contested motions in Stratasys’s 3D-printing patent case against Bambu Lab — letting most patents advance to trial while striking key portions of Stratasys’s damages theory.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that ClickFunnels’ sales-funnel website creation patents are invalid under § 101, holding that the abstract idea of “filtering information based on user preferences” cannot be rescued by conventional template-selection and sequential-webpage features, while also clarifying the burden-shifting framework for representative-claim analysis.
The Delhi High Court Division Bench dismissed ITC Limited’s bid to block a former hotel licensee from continuing to use the Dakshin restaurant trademark, finding that the licensee had built independent goodwill through decades of use and that ITC’s prolonged silence amounted to acquiescence.
A California federal court dismissed all copyright claims against YouTube — without invoking the DMCA safe harbor — while allowing a pro se author’s direct infringement claims against the YouTube channel operators who narrated his book chapter-by-chapter to proceed.
The Federal Circuit affirmed that “mounted on” in a video laryngoscope patent means fastened to the exterior of the blade — not merely positioned inside with an exposed lens — ending a 16-year patent infringement battle.
The Federal Circuit vacated a district court ruling that two “executable program code” limitations in TrackTime’s audio-synchronization patents were means-plus-function terms, remanding for fresh analysis under the intervening Dyfan precedent, while affirming invalidity of a related patent claim for anticipation.
A Colorado federal judge grants Amgen a preliminary injunction blocking the state’s first-in-the-nation Enbrel price cap, finding that capping the price of a patented drug is not a permissible option for states under federal patent law.
In the fourth trial of the OMG Girlz doll case, a Los Angeles jury finds MGA Entertainment owes no punitive damages to T.I. and Tiny Harris — leaving the prior $17.8 million compensatory award intact while rejecting the bid for up to $125 million more.
The Federal Circuit affirms the TTAB’s refusal to register four ‘Mon Ami’ dog-treat marks, finding the Board’s likelihood-of-confusion analysis under DuPont factor one is supported by substantial evidence.
A UK Intellectual Property Enterprise Court judge dismisses all trademark infringement and passing-off claims by easyGroup (the entity behind easyJet, easyHotel, and related brands) against bathroom retailer Easy Bathrooms, ruling that the claimant failed to prove a legally recognisable “family of marks” and that 13 years of market coexistence demonstrated no consumer confusion.
A Western District of Washington court denied Zillow’s motion to dismiss IBM’s single sign-on authentication patent claim (U.S. Patent No. 7,631,346), sending the case toward trial and potentially exposing platforms using federated login to similar claims.
A magistrate judge recommended a $68 million default judgment against 26 defendants who operated a large-scale scheme to flood the U.S. supply chain with counterfeit Biktarvy and Descovy HIV medications bearing Gilead’s registered trademarks.
A Delaware federal judge dismissed Signant Health’s DTSA trade secret claims against Definium Therapeutics, finding that identifying confidential LSD-trial technology only in broad, categorical terms — without pinpointing the specific information allegedly misappropriated — is insufficient to survive a motion to dismiss.
A split Federal Circuit affirms the patent claim construction that kept a generic Nuedexta competitor off the market, but vacates the bond waiver and orders the district court to set a proper security amount.
A Delaware court ruled that HP, Dell, and ASUS hold implied patent licenses through their unnamed component supplier’s settlement with LiTL LLC, granting summary judgment of noninfringement on all six asserted portable-computer design patents.
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.