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
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
Adopting the magistrate judge’s report and recommendation, the court struck Smith Interface Technologies’ indirect infringement contentions against Apple without leave to amend, finding the contentions failed to provide the specific factual identification required by the Southern Distric
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.
Judge Christina Snyder granted summary judgment for VMG Partners and other investors on a Defend Trade Secrets Act claim because plaintiff Vitamin Friends LLC could not show it owned the supplier trade secrets — its affiliate Better Nutritionals did. Repeat fraud, RICO, and breach-of-fiduciary-duty
Germany’s Federal Court of Justice held that the name of the James Bond character “Miss Moneypenny” does not enjoy independent work-title protection under § 5(1) and (3) German Trademark Act, because the fictional figure lacks the visual individuality and standalone fame required t
In a same-day companion ruling to Meril v. Edwards, the UPC Court of Appeal articulated a comprehensive inventive-step framework: identify the objective problem from the perspective of the skilled person, choose a realistic starting point in the prior art, and assess whether the skilled person ̵
Same-day companion to Amgen v. Sanofi/Regeneron, the UPC Court of Appeal in Meril v. Edwards held that the ‘same parties’ test under Art. 33(4) UPCA looks to identity of interests; that disclosed embodiments are generally covered by the patent claims unless the specification clearly teac
Germany’s Federal Court of Justice dismissed Ferrari’s appeal challenging the “Testa Rossa” trademark, leaving in place the BPatG’s January 2025 ruling that bad-faith trademark applications under § 8(2) No. 10 MarkenG require objective evidence of damaging or obstructin
The UPC Court of Appeal set out a workable test for when a generic pharmaceutical’s pre-launch activity creates an imminent threat of infringement supporting provisional measures: a bare marketing authorisation does not, but completion of national health-technology-assessment, pricing, and rei
Korea’s Supreme Court affirmed dismissal of indirect patent-infringement claims against a domestic manufacturer that produced 13 individual conjugate substrates in Korea but exported them for final mixing into a 13-valent pneumococcal vaccine abroad, holding that under the territoriality princ
France’s Cour de cassation held that when assessing trademark forfeiture for non-use under Article L.714-5 CPI, courts must analyze whether the proven use covers an autonomous sub-category of goods or services narrower than the registered category — looking to the purpose or destination of the
The UPC Düsseldorf Local Division articulated the substantive framework for second medical-use claim infringement: the alleged infringer must offer or place the medicinal product on the market in a way that leads or may lead to the claimed therapeutic use, with knowledge or constructive knowledge th
The Paris Judicial Court issued France’s first major upcycling decision, holding that incorporating cut pieces of authentic Hermès silk scarves into Levi’s denim jackets — even when sold as commercial ‘upcycling’ — constitutes copyright infringement, trademark infringement, a
The CJEU Grand Chamber held that Article 4(1) of Regulation 1215/2012 entitles a court of a defendant’s domicile member state to hear infringement claims regarding a European patent’s national parts validated in other member states (and even in non-EU states), notwithstanding invalidity