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The Federal Circuit has upheld a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) ruling that certain claims of US Patent No. 10,561,170 were invalid for anticipation. The court also upheld the Board’s denial of the patent owner’s proposed substitut… Read More

The European Patent Office (EPO) has announced that, as part of the European Union’s latest sanctions against Russia, it will refuse all patent requests filed by Russian nationals or companies with ties to Russia. All requests filed since July 10,… Read More

The Danish company Novo Nordisk and Viatris’ Mylan Pharmaceuticals have settled their patent dispute before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or the Board) involving the weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Mylan’s partner, the Indian… Read More

A federal court jury in Delaware has awarded Acceleration Bay $30.5 million in damages for Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’s) infringement of two of its patents. As The Register notes, Acceleration Bay is described by its founder as “an incubator… Read More

The Second Circuit has reversed a ruling by a federal court in the Southern District of New York dismissing copyright and trademark claims over sales of counterfeit “American Girl” dolls. The Circuit Court found that the defendant Chinese company… Read More

The Federal Circuit has vacated a summary judgment ruling in a patent case involving Qualcomm, finding that the court erred in its application of collateral estoppel and abused its discretion in excluding expert testimony on patent validity. The case… Read More

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) canceled four SUPER HERO trademarks jointly owned by Marvel and DC after a challenge by a comic writer. As TechDirt explains, Scott Richold is a British comic artist who produces the Superbabies line of com… Read More

The US Copyright Office has granted an exemption to copyright law that is expected to benefit fans of the McDonalds’ McFlurry. For years, hopeful McFlurry-eaters have often been told that the ice cream machine is out of order. As the New York Times… Read More