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August 11, 2026
A New York federal judge has allowed a video production technology company to pursue trade secret claims accusing a onetime business partner of using confidential information behind its robotic camera system to develop competing technology.
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August 11, 2026
An insurer does not have to defend a fashion company in its latest bout in a long-running trademark infringement dispute with Adidas, a California federal judge has ruled, saying the claims fell under a prior publication exclusion because they included allegations the company published infringing advertisement before the policy period.
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August 11, 2026
The full Federal Circuit on Tuesday refused to review the test for proving design patent infringement, rejecting a massage device maker's argument that the court has strayed from U.S. Supreme Court precedent but drawing a dissent arguing the court has "messed up" the law.
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August 11, 2026
A California federal judge has sanctioned Meta, finding the company failed to preserve key evidence in a lawsuit by Australian businessman Andrew Forrest over fraudulent Facebook advertisements that falsely used his name and likeness to promote cryptocurrency and investment scams, saying the spoliation prejudiced Forrest's case.
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August 11, 2026
FedEx Corp. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to scrutinize a Federal Circuit decision declining to review whether Qualcomm complied with real-party-in-interest requirements in petitions challenging FedEx patents, despite the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office conceding an error in the case.
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August 11, 2026
Microsoft has urged a Washington federal judge to toss PC gamers' proposed class action accusing the tech giant of forging an illegal price-matching pact with video game developer Valve Corp., saying the plaintiffs' counsel has spent years arguing contrary claims that Valve bullied publishers into accepting its terms.
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August 11, 2026
Months after adding two Reed Smith LLP intellectual property attorneys in San Francisco, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP announced Tuesday that the firm has hired another Reed Smith IP litigator to further expand its patent litigation team in the Bay Area.
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August 11, 2026
Netflix Inc. has urged the Tenth Circuit to reject a bid to revisit its ruling that the streaming giant made fair use of a 66-second funeral clip in its "Tiger King" docuseries, arguing the panel faithfully applied U.S. Supreme Court precedent and did not create special fair use protection for documentaries.
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August 11, 2026
Television producer Avalon has pushed back against the owners of Paddington Bear, arguing that its own depiction of the character as a "cocaine smuggler" poses little threat to the brand's reputation because viewers would recognize it as parody.
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August 10, 2026
A California federal court rejected a bid Monday from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, for a stay in CoStar's copyright case while CREXi looks to undo the disqualification of its attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.
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August 10, 2026
Former Chief Federal Circuit Judge Paul Michel, patent law professors and a group of startup companies on Monday backed Collision Communications Inc.'s bid for a permanent injunction on Samsung products found to infringe its patents, saying courts have misread U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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August 10, 2026
A Nevada federal judge has rejected lighting company Signify's motion for treble damages and $4.3 million in attorney fees atop an over $410,000 patent infringement verdict against its rival Lepro, ruling that Lepro's conduct was not malicious or in bad faith.
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August 10, 2026
Welch Allyn Inc. has entered a deal to bring a close to a lawsuit in Delaware federal court accusing iRhythm Technologies Inc. of infringing a series of heart monitor patents after iRhythm had its attempts to challenge some of those patents shot down.
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August 10, 2026
A software company failed to persuade the Second Circuit to undo a federal judge's decision allowing IBM to dodge a copyright suit, with the appellate court on Monday agreeing the case was time-barred.
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August 10, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Monday said a California federal court was right to find that patents covering digital interactive charts are invalid under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice decision, saying the patents "provide no meaningful limitation to the abstract idea" of creating charts.
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August 10, 2026
An excess insurer owes up to $5 million in coverage for a financial service company's arbitration over allegations workers misappropriated their previous employer's trade secrets, the Delaware Superior Court said, finding the arbitration was not connected to a dispute that occurred before the policy period.
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August 10, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Monday refused to restore a content streaming patent Netflix was accused of infringing, agreeing with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that an earlier patent rendered the claims of the patent invalid.
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August 10, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Monday reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that invalidated a group of claims in a Dental Monitoring SAS dental imaging patent, finding that a previous provisional patent application was missing a written description and thus can't be used as prior art.
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August 10, 2026
A Washington federal magistrate judge has partly granted a Colorado aerospace company's bid for more depositions in an intellectual property suit against Boeing over technology used in NASA's moon program, while rejecting broader requests for financial information and documents.
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August 10, 2026
Holland & Hart LLP has brought on more attorneys from Ashurst Perkins Coie, welcoming a trio of patent partners with a history of representing clients in the technology sector, the firm announced Monday.
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August 10, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving merger settlements, contract claims, controlling stockholders, music rights, prejudgment interest, absentee voting and stockholder standing.
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August 10, 2026
A Western District of Texas jury has found that GD Energy Products did not infringe a patent covering a packing assembly for pumps used in the oil and gas industry, marking the end of the final patent trial overseen by U.S. District Judge Alan Albright.
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August 07, 2026
A California federal judge denied rapper Ye's request Friday for a new trial over whether an early version of his Grammy-winning hit "Hurricane" he played at a listening party contained an uncleared sound recording, rejecting the music mogul's contention that the jury received an improper implied license instruction.
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August 07, 2026
Apple has lost its bid to escape a patent infringement lawsuit over the iPhone's Hide My Email feature after a Delaware federal court on Friday found that a jury needs to answer the questions of the case.
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August 07, 2026
Samsung has urged the U.S. International Trade Commission not to ban imports of its smartphones and tablets that a judge found to infringe a Maxell patent, saying a ban would only benefit a "foreign serial litigant," while Maxell said such an order would safeguard U.S. industry.