WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 27 affirmed a stipulated judgment of noninfringement issued by a Delaware federal judge in a patent dispute over a transcatheter aortic valve, holding that there was no error in the judge’s construction of the disputed claim phrase “outer frame.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. president has the power to remove executive officers, including the register of copyrights, the acting librarian of congress, President Donald J. Trump and others argue in an Oct. 27 U.S. Supreme Court application seeking to stay an interlocutory injunction by the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals majority vacated a lower federal court’s dismissal of a law firm insured’s defense and indemnification claims against its professional liability insurer, reversed its denial of the insured’s motion for partial summary judgment as to the insurer’s duty to defend and remanded for the lower court to enter partial summary judgment in favor of the insured, finding that the insurer cannot defeat its duty to defend based on the policy’s misappropriation exclusion.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A split District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel denied the Federal Trade Commission’s motion for an emergency stay pending appeal of a lower court’s preliminary injunction enjoining the FTC’s civil investigative demand of Media Matters for America regarding its reporting alleging in part that advertisements on X, formerly known as Twitter, “appeared adjacent to antisemitic posts,” finding that the FTC did not show the likelihood of overturning the lower court’s finding of a link “between Media Matters’ protected speech and the Commission’s issuance of its sweeping and unexplained Demand.”

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky workers’ compensation law binds the carrier responsible for the last injurious exposure to asbestos in a workers’ compensation case, even though that insurer did not participate in previous proceedings as a result of a change to the last date of exposure, the Kentucky Supreme Court said in affirming a lower appellate court ruling.

CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for Lands’ End Inc. and Lands’ End Outfitters Inc. (together, Lands’ End) in a suit brought by airline employees who alleged that their uniforms caused symptoms such as rashes, headaches and hair loss, finding that none of the employees’ experts proved causation and that the employees also failed to abide by the warranty's terms.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — There was no error in the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) construal of the claim term “coupled” in its consideration of a technology company’s patent describing an inductive charging system, a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Oct. 24, affirming PTAB’s findings that multiple claims of the patent were obvious due to prior art references.

NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a Texas federal judge’s grant of summary judgment to a law firm on its trademark claims against a man and two attorneys who made a fake website using the law firm’s name as part of a landlord-tenant dispute, but the panel vacated more than $2 million in damages and fees the judge ordered to be paid to the real law firm, finding that the judge failed to explain the basis for the award.