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States are beginning to test whether they can fill a gap left by federal copyright and patent law for works created with artificial intelligence, with Arkansas adopting a first-of-its-kind ownership rule for generative content and lawmakers elsewhere weighing their own proposals.
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May 18, 2026
The full Federal Circuit on Monday rejected Polygroup Ltd.'s request to rethink a panel decision affirming a $71.4 million judgment against it for infringing competitor Willis Electric Co. Ltd.'s artificial prelit Christmas tree patent.
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May 18, 2026
High school athletes told a California federal judge that state regulations unfairly limit their name, image and likeness opportunities, contrary to the state governing body's claim that the rules exist to protect amateurism and keep transfers reasonable.
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May 18, 2026
The debate over the role of injunctions in patent cases remains active in the U.S., and European leaders shouldn't think that there is a "consensus" in the country, said former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal.
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May 18, 2026
A mobile game company that won a $420 million jury verdict in April against a rival over its use of bots and representations that its games relied on skill has urged a New York federal judge to order an increased disgorgement of $1.4 billion, arguing it was "hard to imagine a civil case with a worse defendant."
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May 18, 2026
The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune on Friday urged a New York federal judge to reject Perplexity AI's bid to pare down their copyright and trademark lawsuits, arguing the company cannot blame users for allegedly infringing outputs generated by a system Perplexity itself built with copied news content.
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May 18, 2026
Elon Musk's xAI is asking a California federal court to force a group of women suing over Grok-generated deepfake images of them in sexual situations, saying they haven't shown that proceeding under pseudonyms is necessary to protect their privacy.
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May 18, 2026
A Boston federal jury on Monday found Takeda Pharmaceuticals conspired with a generic drugmaker to delay the launch of a generic version of Takeda's anticonstipation drug, awarding purchasers $885 million, a figure that's expected to swell after a rule tripling plaintiffs' antitrust damages is applied.
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May 18, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a broad mix of celebrity estate litigation, merger disputes, investor suits, record demands, sanctions fights and questions over corporate moves away from Delaware.
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May 18, 2026
The Chicago Cubs told an Illinois federal court to grant them a quick win in the Major League Baseball team's trademark infringement suit against a bar owner who, among other things, allegedly kept using the team's trademarks even after his licensing agreement with it expired.
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May 18, 2026
The Second Circuit appeared inclined Monday to reverse a trial judge's findings that left a California winery owing $1.3 million to Italian vintner Cesari SRL in a well-aged trademark dispute, with three judges suggesting the case was improperly decided.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected yet another challenge to the Federal Circuit's use of one-line orders to affirm Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions, a practice CAO Lighting Inc. argued violates the high court's Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo precedent.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected the United Services Automobile Association's appeal of a Federal Circuit decision that wiped out $223 million in judgments it won against PNC Bank and found the mobile check deposit patents at issue invalid for covering only abstract ideas.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday shot down a vehicle identification system patent owner's challenge to the Federal Circuit's reversal of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision allowing it to amend claims in two patents challenged by rideshare giant Lyft.
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May 15, 2026
The Federal Circuit's full lineup came together Friday to provide practitioners with insight about their experience sitting on other courts, in a conference where the chief judge dropped the court's first (and only) single.
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May 15, 2026
A Belgian software company has urged a California state court to throw out a nearly $400,000 fraud and breach of contract lawsuit filed by the owners of the PlugPlay cannabis vape brand, arguing both sides agreed all disputes must be litigated in Belgium.
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May 15, 2026
An attorney representing an animator who unsuccessfully alleged that The Walt Disney Co.'s "Moana" lifted his Polynesian adventure story must pay more than $475,000 in sanctions, a California federal judge ruled, saying he "acted recklessly" by pursuing trade secret misappropriation claims premised on a forged document.
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May 15, 2026
A judge on a D.C. Circuit panel said a set of industry groups covering the advanced medical device industry might have "overshot" in a challenge to a Library of Congress exemption that said use of copyrighted software for the purpose of repairing those devices fell under fair use, since the groups tried to lump the software that merely operates the machines into the case.
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May 15, 2026
A New York federal judge shot down Maxim's bid to stop Playboy from allegedly ripping off the mechanics behind Maxim's "Cover Girl Competition," saying Maxim's delay in voicing misappropriation concerns and efforts to partner with Playboy amid the magazine's "Great Playmate Search" undermined Maxim's claims of irreparable harm.
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May 15, 2026
The Federal Circuit has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to hear Judge Pauline Newman's appeal targeting a suspension imposed on her by the court's other judges, arguing that a lower court correctly held that her challenges to the order are not subject to judicial review.
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May 15, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Friday backed lower court decisions that cleared a pair of banks of allegations that they infringed an online banking patent, but threw out a nearly $85,000 sanctions order against the patent owner and its counsel.
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May 15, 2026
A healthcare services company and the former senior executive it accused of disclosing confidential information and trade secrets reached a settlement, dismissing the case less than two months after the company filed its complaint, according to a joint stipulation for dismissal filed Friday in Colorado federal court.
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May 15, 2026
A California federal judge said Friday she's inclined to deny Meta Platforms Inc.'s summary judgment bid on an Illinois resident's claims Meta violated the Prairie State's Biometric Information Privacy Act by obtaining her voice recordings from Facebook and Messenger platforms, saying there's enough evidence to establish a material factual dispute.
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May 15, 2026
A New York federal judge said he would not grant a favorable judgment or a new trial to the owner of a location tracking patent who accused Google of infringement, saying the owner had not raised any arguments that would merit disturbing the finding that he acted with intent to deceive the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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May 15, 2026
The operator of Infowars says bankrupt broadcaster Alex Jones has a legal right to "freely compete" with his former outlet, telling a Texas appeals court the website shut down because a court-appointed receiver failed to pay a third-party streaming service, not because Jones absconded with its property.
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May 15, 2026
A Texas federal jury said that a decorative hardware company owes more than $9.4 million for infringing a series of patents relating to electrical outlet cover plates that include other functions like LED lights and USB chargers.