Magistrate Judge Hixson denies the motion to dismiss filed by Judang Team LLC, Perfeos LLC, Jot & Journeys, and their Florida-based founder Antonio Jose Liévano in Meta’s suit alleging an interconnected deceptive advertising scheme that improperly obtained advertising credit lines from Meta.
Magistrate Judge DeMarchi denies Owner.com’s motion to dismiss ChowNow’s Lanham Act and California state-law claims for lack of standing and lets most of the substantive claims proceed in this competitor false-advertising and trademark dispute among restaurant-technology platforms.
Judge Lin grants Apple’s motion to stay Telcom Ventures’ patent infringement suit over Apple Pay features pending Patent Trial and Appeal Board inter partes review of two of Telcom’s asserted patents, applying the three-factor framework from PersonalWeb Technologies v. Apple.
Judge White certifies for Ninth Circuit interlocutory appeal two questions arising from his earlier denial of Meta’s motion to dismiss in a putative class action alleging Facebook failed to combat scam advertisements: whether Meta’s Terms of Service and Community Standards impose an affirmative anti
Judge Illston denies the Steinberg defendants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings in Clear View West’s eleven-count action over their alleged scheme — while serving as CVW’s Director of Sales — to launch a competing APOLLO retractable-screen brand using CVW’s trade secrets and to redirect CVW dist
Magistrate Judge Beeler resolves four discovery disputes in Oracle’s trade-secret suit against Procore over construction-payment software, holding that Oracle’s 174-file disclosure is sufficiently particular, financial discovery extends beyond Procore Pay, and Procore must search text messages on em
Judge Tigar dismisses with prejudice a pro se plaintiff’s sweeping claims that her prompts to ChatGPT created trade secrets and copyrights that OpenAI then commercialized in its Study Together, Deep Research Agent, and ChatGPT Agent features, holding that none of the claims plausibly states a basis
Judge Davila grants summary judgment for Pinterest on a putative class action by professional photographers, holding that the DMCA Section 512(c) safe harbor extends to Pinterest’s display of user-uploaded copyrighted images in email and push notifications, not just on the platform itself.