A federal judge in San Diego granted Intuit summary judgment of noninfringement, finding that TurboTax’s co-browsing feature does not infringe Samesurf’s U.S. Patent No. 9,483,448 covering synchronized web browsing technology.
A federal court in North Carolina dismissed copyright infringement claims by a cabinetry designer, holding that custom cabinet designs registered as ‘architectural works’ are not eligible for that category of copyright protection because they are not the design of a building.
A Northern District of California judge barred both parties from presenting reasonable royalty damages or willful infringement evidence at an upcoming UGG design patent trial, applying judicial estoppel to prevent Quince from advancing a damages theory it had previously blocked Deckers from pursuing
In a certified-for-publication opinion, the California Court of Appeal reversed dismissal of Guild Mortgage’s claims against CrossCountry Mortgage for aiding and abetting employee duty-of-loyalty breaches, holding for the first time that California’s trade secret statute does not preempt
The Sixth Circuit reversed summary judgment for George Clinton and his company Thang, holding that genuine disputes of material fact exist about whether the late P-Funk keyboardist Bernie Worrell was a co-author and co-owner of the group’s sound recordings under copyright law.
The Federal Circuit affirmed judgment as a matter of law that DISH Network’s AutoHop commercial-skipping feature does not infringe ClearPlay’s content-filtering patents, finding that AutoHop uses categorical on/off settings rather than directly disabling individual navigation objects.
A Northern District of Illinois judge reduced a $58.9 million jury verdict to $10.4 million in a decade-long trade secret case involving fleet management technology for garbage trucks, finding that while the defendant’s conduct was reprehensible, the damages were excessive.
A federal judge denied PhillyWine LLC’s emergency motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to stop the Wine School of Philadelphia from using the ‘Philly Wine School’ trademark, finding the challenger showed only sporadic prior use of the name.
A D.C. federal judge denied motions to dismiss copyright infringement claims brought by a jury consultant against three defense attorneys who downloaded her copyrighted jury-attitude report from a public court docket and filed it in support of their own clients’ January 6 venue-transfer motion
The Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s reduction of an $82 million jury verdict for breach of contract to just $3, and held that trade secret plaintiffs have a statutory right to pursue unjust enrichment damages under both the DTSA and Michigan’s trade secrets act.