( August 18, 2026, 11:54 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a Pennsylvania federal judge’s denial of a preliminary injunction in a dispute over a design patent for a hook for hanging handbags in closets, holding that the judge’s finding that the appellant was unlikely to succeed on the merits a reasonable conclusion due to differences between the design patent and the accused product; the panel issued an erratum to the opinion on Aug. 17, correcting a minor error....