Judge Ronnie Abrams of the Southern District of New York entered a final default judgment and permanent injunction against twelve defendants for selling counterfeit Denim Tears apparel on Walmart.com Marketplace.
A federal judge held that authors suing Databricks and MosaicML adequately pleaded direct copyright infringement tied to the DBRX large language model, rejecting the companies' argument that alleged copying during early development — rather than final train...
A Pennsylvania federal judge has cancelled a trademark registration for the term "MEDDPICC" and granted summary judgment to plaintiff MEDDICC LTD., resolving the core intellectual property dispute between the two parties.
A federal judge in Manhattan has frozen assets and ordered expedited discovery against a large group of anonymous online sellers accused of hawking unauthorized Godzilla merchandise on Walmart's marketplace.
The Southern District of New York granted USA Weightlifting's motion for injunctive relief, permanently enjoining USA Masters Weightlifting Inc. from using the "USA WEIGHTLIFTING MARKS" and ordering the transfer of infringing domain names.
The Federal Circuit on Friday reversed a Northern District of California grant of summary judgment to Intel Corp. in a patent infringement suit brought by VLSI Technology LLC, ruling that a pretrial stipulation established a U.S. nexus for 70% of Intel prod...
VirtaMove, Corp. and Google LLC have stipulated to consolidate two related patent infringement lawsuits into a single civil action, streamlining discovery and trial proceedings for overlapping claims involving the same patent family.
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday reversed the dismissal of a trademark dispute over the intellectual property rights of artist Frida Kahlo, holding that a Southern District of Florida court has personal jurisdiction over the artist's grand-niece and her Mexic...
The Eleventh Circuit reversed a Southern District of Florida dismissal in Frida Kahlo Corporation v. Mara Cristina Teresa Romeo Pinedo, holding that the district court had personal jurisdiction over Pinedo and her Mexican corporation, Familia Kahlo...
A federal judge in Tacoma ruled that a psychiatrist's trademark infringement suit against a rival TMS clinic must go to trial on the core disputed issues, while holding as a matter of law that the "Olympia TMS" mark is descriptive rather than generic.
A federal judge denied a preliminary injunction sought by entertainer Selena Scola against drag performer Cody Barnes and two media companies over competing claims to the stage name "Lexi Love," ruling that the factual record is too unsettled to establish w...
The Third Circuit on Friday upheld a district court's refusal to enjoin Samsung Bioepis from supplying a Cigna subsidiary with a private-label version of the ustekinumab biosimilar Pyzchiva, holding that Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Biotech had not sho...
A federal judge in Delaware granted Google summary judgment on patent-eligibility grounds, holding that the sole remaining claim in B.E. Technology's infringement suit is directed to an abstract idea and contains no inventive concept sufficient to save it u...
A federal judge dismissed all three trade secret counts against a competing cutlery-services company but allowed a tortious interference claim to proceed, applying the pleading specificity standard the Seventh Circuit demands for trade secret claims.
A federal judge struck Apple's inequitable conduct and unclean hands affirmative defenses in a patent infringement case, holding that Apple's pleadings failed to satisfy Rule 9(b)'s particularity requirements — though Apple gets one more chance to replead m...
The justices pressed both sides hard on where to draw the line between passive infrastructure and culpable participation in online piracy.