In a claim construction ruling on a coke oven corbel patent, the court gave “above” and “gas source” their plain meaning (with a clarification for “gas source”) and rejected an indefiniteness challenge to the “third passageway” limitation.
An Eastern District of Texas judge let patent owners accuse a not-yet-released product before serving infringement contentions, but refused a temporary restraining order because their showing rested only on the defendants’ marketing statements, with no physical product or specifications to com
Granting default judgment against defendants who re-uploaded extreme-weather videos to YouTube, a California federal court awarded $195,000 in copyright statutory damages and $28,000 under the DMCA, far below the $1.225 million requested.
A California federal court granted only part of a default judgment against defendants in Mexico who re-uploaded extreme-weather videos, finding several plaintiffs lacked standing, declining willfulness enhancements, and cutting requested damages and fees.
A Massachusetts federal court construed four terms in Nike’s Flyknit patent case, including limits for footwear, flat-knit edges, heel structures, and ankle parts.
A California federal court awarded $177,500 for copied YouTube videos, removed copyright information, and false DMCA counter-notices.
After a patent case pending since 2015, a Delaware federal judge held that claims directing bit and phase scrambling to reduce peak-to-average power ratio are patent-eligible, but that claims for calculating scrambled phases without applying them are abstract and lack an inventive concept.
An Eastern District of Texas court entered a $472,878 copyright default judgment and permanently enjoined online sellers from using Bee Cups’ media.
An Arizona federal court let Wayf Digital’s ACPA challenge over GEICO.AI proceed but denied emergency return of the domain because the evidence did not support likely success.
In construing claims across seven ballistic-blind patents, a Delaware federal court held that “blind” is not limited to slats and “anti-ballistic” is definite, but found the term “decorative” indefinite as too subjective.
A Texas federal court granted in part a competitor’s motion for partial summary judgment, leaving for trial only a Lanham Act injunction claim over one allegedly false “all heme” statement and breach-of-settlement claims over iron supplement marketing.
Calling the trademark merits murky, an Ohio federal court granted a narrow temporary restraining order barring HeartHero from sending further trademark enforcement communications to Apple’s and Google’s app stores about HeartFitt’s Heart Hero Solo app.
An Ohio federal court denied cross-motions for summary judgment in a t-shirt company’s copyright suit over Amazon’s Merch on Demand, holding that Amazon could be liable as a direct or vicarious infringer but granting Amazon summary judgment on contributory infringement under Cox v. Sony.
Applying the Supreme Court’s Cox v. Sony decision, an Ohio federal court dismissed a t-shirt company’s direct and contributory copyright claims against Google over third-party Shopping Ads, with leave to seek amendment.
An Ohio federal court held that a copyright plaintiff’s own allegations showed the Romo defendants began infringing before its works were registered, so 17 U.S.C. § 412 bars statutory damages and attorney’s fees against them.
A Delaware federal court let a technology company’s federal trade secret claim proceed against two former sales engineers and a rival, but dismissed the Delaware trade secrets act claim and held the employment agreements’ worldwide non-compete and non-solicitation covenants overbroad and
Sitting by designation in Delaware, Federal Circuit Judge Bryson denied dismissal on patent eligibility grounds because the complaint plausibly alleged inventive concepts, but dismissed speculative pre-suit knowledge and multi-defendant direct infringement allegations with leave to amend.
In Oracle’s DTSA suit against Procore, a California federal court denied three motions to strike or exclude expert reports on trade secret damages and device forensics, while finding Oracle violated Rule 26 by not producing laptop images its expert used.
A California federal court held all asserted claims in VirtaMove’s software-containerization patents invalid because three key terms lacked objective boundaries.
A Northern District of California magistrate judge denied a $1.5 million default judgment against a Ukraine-based YouTube channel operator, because the video producer did not address personal jurisdiction, did not show it was the copyright owner who sent the takedown notices needed to sue under DMCA
A New Jersey federal judge denied a marker manufacturer’s request for a preliminary injunction and contempt finding against its former reseller, holding that the record did not show the reseller itself used the “Mighty Marker” mark on listings posted by third-party websites and tha
A D.C. federal judge granted partial summary judgment for an Icelandic influencer on liability for 52 reposts of her photos and videos by a travel company’s Instagram and TikTok accounts, holding that outsourcing the posting to overseas contractors does not avoid direct infringement liability,
A California federal court allowed projector makers’ noninfringement and most invalidity theories to proceed but dismissed patent-misuse, antitrust, and unfair-practice claims with leave to amend.
An Eastern District of Texas judge invalidated one Cloud Byte patent because the company’s infringement theory placed every claimed element in the prior art, while allowing other claims to proceed.