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November 26, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 25 affirmed a California federal judge’s decision to order more than $250,000 in attorney fees and additional sanctions against a company that sued Google LLC for allegedly infringing a patent on a system that allows musical artists to remotely update an album already on a user’s device.
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November 26, 2025
NEW YORK — A federal magistrate judge in New York recommended that a patent plaintiff’s complaint against Google LLC be dismissed with prejudice after the man failed to appear at an October evidentiary bench trial on infringement claims he brought against the technology company; the plaintiff has “repeatedly claimed” that the magistrate judge “had no authority to conduct a bench trial without his consent,” the magistrate judge wrote.
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November 25, 2025
WILMINGTON, Del. — A federal magistrate judge in Delaware denied a motion for a new trial from affiliated coal companies that a jury held willfully infringed another energy company’s patents on the use of chemical additives to capture mercury emissions at coal-fired power plants, leaving in place the jury’s award of more than $57 million to the plaintiff company; the magistrate judge said the defendant entities “rehash[ed]” arguments already rejected in an earlier denial of judgment as a matter of law.
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November 25, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 24 affirmed a Virginia federal judge’s dismissal of claims that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) engaged in fraud to deny a pro se appellant’s patent applications, noting that it is the third time the appeals court has considered “frivolous” claims from the appellant.
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November 25, 2025
SEATTLE — A trading card company said it will appeal multiple rulings in a copyright dispute involving a former employee who left to develop a trading card game for a competitor after a Washington federal judge, who previously dismissed most of the claims against the former employee and competitor and ruled to exclude testimony from an expert on damages, awarded the company $39,000 in accordance with an accepted offer of judgment.
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November 24, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied a pro se patent owner’s petition for a writ of certiorari in an order list on Nov. 24, leaving in place a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals opinion that affirmed a finding that multiple claims of the petitioner’s patent were invalid in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings initiated by Apple Inc.
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November 24, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A medical product company will not have the opportunity to argue that its proposed trademark on the color of its medical gloves is not generic, as the U.S. Supreme Court rejected its petition for a writ of certiorari in a Nov. 24 order list; the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (PTO) finding that the proposed mark was not distinctive.
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November 24, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A split Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) decision to uphold the validity of a technology company’s patents on stylus-based inputs for mobile devices; the majority agreed with PTAB that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and an affiliate improperly introduced a new obviousness theory in a reply during inter partes review (IPR).
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November 21, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 20 held that the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) wrongly construed the claim term “acquiring interest data” when considering the patentability of a claim phrase in a patent describing a system to determine if a computer is being used by a human or a “bot”; under the correct construction, the panel held that the claim is anticipated by a prior art reference.
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November 21, 2025
TAMPA, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida denied a plaintiff sports medicine company’s motion for attorney fees, holding that its trademark dispute with another sports medicine company was not “exceptional” as defined in the Lanham Act despite the judge’s earlier grant of summary judgment in the plaintiff’s favor that led to an order canceling the defendant entity’s federally registered trademark.
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November 20, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An Oregon federal magistrate judge properly granted summary judgment of noninfringement in favor of defendant railcar manufacturers in a dispute over patents related to railroad gondola cars because the accused cars lacked a required “floor panel extension” as defined by the patents, a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Nov. 19.
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November 20, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania federal judge held that a plaintiff designer is not barred from seeking damages and fees against a clothing company that contracted with another designer to use a pattern that allegedly infringed the plaintiff’s copyrighted design, finding that a four-year gap between the defendant designer’s alleged infringement and the clothing company’s use of the pattern on pajamas constituted separate acts of alleged infringement after a substantial cessation.
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November 20, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California granted a joint stipulation relating two actions accusing Salesforce Inc. of pirating copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence.
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November 20, 2025
FORT WORTH, Texas — An IT services company has sued an energy company in Texas federal court alleging that it misappropriated trade secrets when it misused login credentials related to proprietary software code that the IT company created and managed for the energy company’s operations as a provider of proppants to the hydraulic fracturing industry.
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November 20, 2025
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A candidate for Congress seeking to represent parts of Detroit and The Campbell’s Soup Co. settled their trademark dispute in a Michigan federal court, with the candidate agreeing to remove from her social media images that referenced the company’s soup can; the candidate had argued that her use of the can design was a parodic reference to her own last name.
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November 19, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said on Nov. 18 that a generic drug maker “has overcome the doubly high burden of persuading us to overturn a jury verdict of no invalidity” in a dispute over a patent relating to a medication for eyelash growth, reversing a Colorado federal jury’s infringement finding and $39 million in damages.
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November 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a Tennessee federal judge’s decision to grant more than $100,000 in attorney fees to a small grocery chain, finding no abuse of discretion in the judge’s finding that a plaintiff security technology company had a pattern of bringing frivolous patent infringement claims.
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November 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held that a new trial is needed on damages in a dispute over a patent describing a type of self-balancing unicycle, agreeing with the defendant-appellant companies that a Washington federal judge wrongly excluded evidence of noninfringing substitutes.
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November 18, 2025
RICHMOND, Va. — While a Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel agreed that a Virginia federal court, and not one in California, was the proper venue to consider copyright claims involving stock images of vehicles due to a forum selection clause in a contract, the panel also affirmed a Virginia federal judge’s decision to decline to exercise jurisdiction over a declaratory judgment action brought by a software company named as a defendant in an infringement suit filed in the California federal court.
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November 17, 2025
NEW YORK — Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere Inc. must face news publishers’ allegations that its Command product outputs copyrighted works and misattributes trademarks, a federal judge in New York said in denying a motion for partial dismissal.
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November 17, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 17 rejected a patent-holding company’s petitions for writs of certiorari in disputes with Apple Inc., Google LLC, LG Electronics Inc. and an affiliate over multiple technology patents, declining to take up the company’s arguments regarding the constitutionality of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
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November 17, 2025
SEATTLE — A federal judge in Washington granted DISH Network LLC’s motion for default judgment against a Ukrainian company it accused of vicariously contributing to piracy, entering nearly $42 million in statutory damages against the company and its chief executive officer, along with a permanent injunction for willful infringement.
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November 14, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal judge in Michigan wrongly construed the term “transparency” in an infringement dispute concerning patents related to a school bus sign, and it was unreasonable for a jury to find infringement under the doctrine of equivalents, a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Nov. 13; the panel reversed an infringement judgment as to one of the patents and vacated the infringement finding as to the other.
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November 14, 2025
ATLANTA — An 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed a Georgia federal judge’s grant of summary judgment in favor of 1-800-Flowers.com Inc. in a trademark dispute brought by competitor Edible Arrangements LLC, finding that the appellant company’s most recent trademark infringement claims were not released by a 2016 settlement between the companies.
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November 14, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI entities must produce 20 million ChatGPT chat logs after a federal magistrate judge in New York said the company never explained why existing protective orders and its own de-identification efforts would not sufficiently protect user privacy.