The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court ruling that found defendants Gaby Fraifer and associated companies liable for copyright infringement by retransmitting Dish Network's exclusive Arabic-language programming through unauthorized st...
Writing for a unanimous Federal Circuit panel, Circuit Judge Hughes on Tuesday affirmed a trademark board ruling that dismissed Fuente Marketing's opposition to Vaporous Technologies' vaporizer mark, holding that 'consumers would not perceive [the] design m...
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's decision allowing UpCodes, an online research platform, to publish copyrighted ASTM technical standards that have been incorporated into building codes, finding the use likely constitutes fair use un...
Chief Judge Moore, writing for a unanimous Federal Circuit panel on Monday, dismissed IronSource Ltd.'s appeal of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision, holding that the mobile app technology company 'fails to establish an injury in fact sufficient to co...
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday affirmed a Northern District of Indiana decision that invalidated two railing patents for omitting a coinventor, ruling that an omitted inventor counts as a 'party concerned' who must receive notice before inventorship can b...
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a South Carolina federal magistrate's summary judgment ruling that barred Clear Touch Interactive's trademark infringement claims against a former reseller, finding the claims were precluded by a settlement agreement d...
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a South Carolina federal magistrate judge's ruling that an interactive technology company's trademark infringement claims were barred by a settlement agreement that dismissed "all possible claims and counterclaims," ca...
A Federal Circuit panel on Wednesday rejected Ascendis Pharma's attempt to bypass a mandatory stay deadline by voluntarily dismissing and refiling its patent declaratory judgment action, ruling that the company cannot "use voluntary dismissal as an indirect...
A federal appeals court Tuesday affirmed summary judgment for Fresh Bourbon, holding that Victory Global failed to prove its rival's claims to being the "first" African American distillery constituted literally false advertising under the Lanham Act.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a $1 billion judgment against internet provider Cox Communications, ruling 7-2 that internet service providers cannot be held liable for copyright infringement by users based solely on knowledge of illegal activity, wit...