December 15, 2025
The Federal Circuit decided its first en banc utility patent case in years and expanded who can use the U.S. International Trade Commission, while both the appeals court and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office took on the eligibility of AI patents. Here's a look at the top patent decisions of 2025.
August 07, 2025
Eyelash extension maker Lashify and a company it accused of patent infringement have reached a settlement, according to a Thursday filing at the U.S. International Trade Commission, after the Federal Circuit used the case to relax rules on filing suits at the ITC.
July 02, 2025
A ruling by the full Federal Circuit invited greater scrutiny of patent damages testimony, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's acting director established new criteria for rejecting patent challenges. Here's a look at the top patent decisions from the first half of 2025.
June 25, 2025
The full Federal Circuit on Wednesday rejected the U.S. International Trade Commission's call to reconsider a panel's holding that sales, marketing and similar expenditures can satisfy domestic industry requirements.
June 05, 2025
A coalition representing big companies including Google and Apple is backing the U.S. International Trade Commission's request that the Federal Circuit rethink its finding that the commission had been wrongly barring domestic expenses related to sales, marketing and other activities from ITC patent cases.
May 21, 2025
The U.S. International Trade Commission wants the Federal Circuit to rethink its finding that the commission was wrongly prohibiting domestic expenses related to sales, marketing and other activities from allowing companies to pursue ITC patent cases.
March 11, 2025
A recent Federal Circuit decision discarding the U.S. International Trade Commission's limits on what types of domestic expenses qualify a company to bring a patent suit at the agency marks a pronounced shift that will likely spur considerably more ITC cases, attorneys say.
March 05, 2025
The Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday that the U.S. International Trade Commission has wrongly prohibited domestic expenses related to sales, marketing and other activities from allowing companies to pursue ITC patent cases, and revived a suit brought by eyelash extension company Lashify.
January 13, 2025
A Federal Circuit panel on Monday questioned the U.S. International Trade Commission's holding that sales and marketing activities by eyelash extension company Lashify weren't enough to allow it to prevail in a patent suit, with one judge saying the ITC's reading "makes no sense."
January 09, 2025
OpenAI and its backers at Microsoft will try persuading a New York judge to dismiss one of the major copyright suits against them, with arguments that using news stories to train the startup's artificial intelligence model is a "transformative" use. Here's a spotlight on where that case stands — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.