A Seattle federal jury returned a verdict for Valve Corporation on every count, finding inventor Leigh Rothschild and his affiliated entities and counsel violated Washington’s Patent Troll Prevention Act, breached a 2016 settlement and license, and that the asserted patent claim was obvious —
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.
The court denied a motion to dismiss filed by Wooden Bay (doing business as Bronxton) in a trademark-infringement case brought by hat-and-accessories brand Brixton, ruling that the complaint adequately alleged likelihood of confusion based on shared shield-design logo, similar font, overlapping clot
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.
The court allowed a serial adult-content copyright plaintiff to issue an early subpoena to an internet service provider for the name and address of a John Doe defendant identified only by IP address, but ordered confidential treatment of any identifying information produced and gave the Doe defendan
Judge Hernán D. Vera remanded a music-rights case to Los Angeles Superior Court after Pardis Music dropped its federal copyright infringement claims (which it could not pursue federally because it lacked a registered copyright under 17 U.S.C. § 411(a)), eliminating federal-question jurisdiction.
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