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.
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.
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 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 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 und
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 vacc
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.