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  1. October 01, 2025

    Inventor's $11M Award Slashed To $5M Over Pet Device IP

    A New Jersey federal judge has hit two pet supply companies with a $5 million damages bill for misappropriating a woman's idea for a skin medicine applicator for dogs and cats, more than four years after the Federal Circuit faulted the original $11 million award in the long-running case.

  2. February 13, 2024

    Expert's 11th-Hour Change Blocked In Pet Device IP Retrial

    A New Jersey federal judge refused Tuesday to allow an expert witness to make an 11th-hour addition to his report on the "head start" period in a new damages trial on an inventor's claim that a pet supply company misappropriated her idea for a skin medicine applicator for dogs and cats.

  3. February 08, 2024

    IP Forecast: 2nd Circ. To Hear TM Fight Over Whiskey Bottles

    The Second Circuit will consider whether a jury in the Southern District of New York was wrong to decide that the shape of bottles used by the Bulleit bourbon brand is distinctive enough to be protected by trademark law. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.

  4. June 02, 2020

    Pet Supply Co. Trims $12.6M Award In Product Patent Suit

    A New Jersey federal judge has trimmed an inventor's roughly $12.6 million jury award in her suit alleging that a pet supply company stole her idea for a skin medicine applicator for dogs and cats, finding that the business did not infringe her patent and that certain damages were duplicative.

  5. July 02, 2018

    Inventor Wins $11M Jury Award In Pet Product Patent Row

    A pet supply store has been slapped with an $11 million judgment following a New Jersey federal jury's finding, after a nearly monthlong trial, that it copied an inventor's patent for a skin medicine applicator for dogs and cats.