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• July 23, 2025

  Texas Jury Says Verizon Owes $175M For Infringing 2 Patents

  A federal jury Wednesday found that Verizon infringed a pair of wireless communications patents owned by Headwater Research, putting the telecommunications company on the hook for $175 million in damages.

• July 23, 2025

  Full Fed. Circ. Won't Disturb Machine Learning Patent Ruling

  The full Federal Circuit on Wednesday declined to reconsider its first-ever patent eligibility decision involving machine learning, leaving in place a panel's April findings that applying established machine learning methods to a new area cannot be patented.

• July 23, 2025

  9th Circ. Clarifies Bored Ape NFTs Are Trademarkable Goods

  The Ninth Circuit issued a significant ruling for digital asset creators Wednesday finding that Yuga Labs' Bored Ape Yacht Club nonfungible tokens are protectable "goods" under federal law, while also reversing Yuga Labs' $8 million summary judgment win and ruling that a jury must decide whether rival NFTs confuse consumers.

• July 23, 2025

  Anthropic Judge Says Authors Can Seek OpenAI Docs In NY

  A California federal judge on Wednesday told a certified class of authors claiming Anthropic stole their work to train its AI technology that they have his blessing to ask a New York court overseeing copyright litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft to produce documents and deposition testimony related to the California case.

• July 23, 2025

  Astellas, Generics Scolded For 'Abusive' Discovery In IP Case

  A Delaware federal magistrate judge on Wednesday rebuked Astellas Pharma and makers of generic drugs for what she deemed exploitation of the discovery dispute process in the brand-name company's patent infringement case, calling their dozens of fights "not just excessive" but also "abusive of the discovery dispute process."

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