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The 11th Circuit has reversed a decision by a Georgia federal district court dismissing trademark infringement and cancellation claims against an intellectual property (IP) holding company headquartered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). The circui… Read More

The Eight Circuit has issued an opinion in a copyright case that avoided invitations by both parties to address the “compelling legal question” left open by the U.S. Supreme Court in Unicolors v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz (2022) as to whether… Read More

In a new lawsuit filed in a California federal court, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup xAI has accused Sam Altman’s OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets. xAI makes the generative AI (GenAI) tool called Grok, and OpenAI makes the G… Read More

The Federal Circuit reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB or Board) determination that Carl Zeiss failed to prove that patent claims to X-ray imaging systems incorporating projection magnification were invalid as anticipated by a scienti… Read More

The Federal Circuit has reversed a summary judgment ruling from a district court, finding that patent claims directed to the idea of depositing a check using a handheld device are abstract and thus unpatentable. The case is United Services Automobile… Read More

On May 1, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE), with Representatives Kevin Kiley (R-CA) and Scott Peters (D-CA), officially reintroduced the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act (PERA). PERA would eliminate judicial exceptions to patent e… Read More

The Federal Circuit has reversed in part and vacated in part a district court’s injunction that blocked Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals from conducting clinical research and seeking regulatory approval for expanded uses of its once-nightly narcolepsy dr… Read More

The Federal Circuit has affirmed a district court’s decision that patent claims to mobile wallet payment systems owned by Fintiv were invalid as indefinite under 35 U.S.C. 112(6). The case is Fintiv, Inc. v. PayPal Holdings, Inc. Fintiv sued PayPal… Read More