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July 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel applied the wrong legal standard when it affirmed a Utah federal judge’s entry of judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) in a patent infringement case brought against DISH Network LLC and another entity, the plaintiff-appellant company tells the appellate court in a petition for rehearing en banc and panel rehearing.
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July 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied a patent owner’s petition for a writ of certiorari to decide whether the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrongly issued a one-word affirmance of a Utah federal judge’s finding that the petitioner’s patent describing a means of measuring heart rate during exercise was directed at a patent-ineligible abstract concept.
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July 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 denied an application by President Donald J. Trump and others to stay an interlocutory injunction in a case over the president’s ability to remove Shira Perlmutter from her position as the register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office.
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July 01, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied a plaintiff company’s petition for a writ of certiorari, declining to review a September 2025 Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel’s decision to vacate a jury’s $166 million verdict against AT&T Mobility LLC and Nokia of America Corp. in the company’s favor.
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July 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The limitations of large language models mean that a proposed witness’s prompting of ChatGPT and parroting of its outputs on whether an artificial intelligence model memorized works does not qualify him as an expert, defendants tell a judge in California federal court.
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July 01, 2026
MARSHALL, Texas — After a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel in early June found that a Texas federal judge improperly combined four patents related to a heating and ventilation system into a single infringement question on the verdict form and wrongly gave the jury incomplete instructions on patent eligibility and also vacated a jury’s award of more than $11.5 million in damages, the parties notified the Texas federal court that they had reached a settlement in the dispute.
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June 30, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a June 29 order, a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel denied a computing company’s petition for a writ of mandamus, denying its bid to move a patent infringement dispute involving cryptocurrency mining technology from one federal district in Texas to another; the panel held that the company failed to show that it had an indisputable right to transfer, especially given its own third-party complaint tying the action to the original Texas district.
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June 30, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — Tobacco company Altria Group Inc. and its subsidiaries, including companies that manufacture and sell NJOY vapes, on June 29 filed notice in Virginia federal court that they are appealing a judge’s denial of their motion to preliminarily enjoin an International Trade Commission (ITC) investigation into NJOY vapes stemming from a patent complaint brought by Juul Labs Inc. (JLI), which the plaintiffs argued were unconstitutional.
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June 30, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on June 29 asked the publishers of nearly 400 local and regional newspapers why their copyright suit against Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI entities should not be stayed pending resolution of active summary judgment motions in the OpenAI multidistrict litigation.
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June 30, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A pair of judges recently severed defendants in copyright cases involving artificial intelligence companies, finding that similar conduct by the defendants alone does not meet the standards for joinder under federal law.
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June 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 29 denied a Kentucky mother’s petition for a writ of certiorari, deciding against hearing the mother’s contention that a Kentucky federal judge and the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrongly rejected her arguments that that the fair-use provision of the Copyright Act permitted her to request a copy of a mental health survey that was to be administered to students at a public high school.
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June 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a June 29 order list, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a coffee company’s petition for a writ of certiorari in a trademark infringement dispute with PepsiCo Inc., agreeing to hear the company’s argument that the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals alone considers a trademark’s strength a question of law and not a question of fact. The grant follows an amicus curiae brief from the U.S. government telling the court that certiorari should be denied, even though it believes the Second Circuit’s opinion was erroneous.
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June 26, 2026
NEW YORK — News plaintiffs on June 25 responded to OpenAI entities’ motion for judgment on the pleadings by asking a New York federal judge for leave to amend to their complaint to both voluntarily dismiss and amend contributory copyright claims in the wake of recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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June 26, 2026
ST. LOUIS — In a June 25 opinion, an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a Minnesota federal judge’s dismissal of a hotel management company’s claims that a hotel chain company breached a trademark licensing agreement by allowing a competing management company to use certain marks in an exclusive geographic area; the panel agreed with the judge’s conclusion that the competing hotel management company did not use marks covered by the agreement.
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June 26, 2026
ATLANTA — An 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed a Florida federal judge’s grant of summary judgment in defendant-appellee entities’ favor in what the panel called “a spirited battle of trademarks tied to the sport of competitive international cheerleading” because the panel determined that the body of evidence presented by the appellant entity raised questions of fact that could not be resolved at summary judgment regarding genericness and secondary meaning.
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June 26, 2026
BALTIMORE — A federal magistrate judge in Maryland granted summary judgment in favor of a music licensing organization and other copyright owners that accused a Baltimore bar of performing copyrighted songs originally performed by a-ha, Cutting Crew and the Dixie Chicks without a license, rejecting the bar’s request for a hearing on damages after it admitted liability.
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June 25, 2026
CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge partly granted summary judgment to both sides in a dispute over the copyright ownership of four videos after a Chicago-based media outlet separated from another media outlet covering the same area; the judge determined that the plaintiff entity owned valid copyrights for three of the four videos, while the defendant’s use of portions of the fourth video constituted fair use.
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June 25, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a Massachusetts federal judge’s finding that a biopharmaceutical company’s patent claims were invalid as anticipated by a public disclosure of a chemical compound central to the patent, leaving in place a win for Pfizer Inc. as it defended its treatment for COVID-19.
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June 25, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel agreed with a New Jersey federal judge’s finding that plaintiff-appellant companies failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on the merits of their patent infringement claims against another entity, affirming the judge’s decision to deny a preliminary injunction in the dispute centering around a patented method for treating chronic back pain.
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June 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition for panel rehearing or en banc rehearing from DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. and related DePuy entities, leaving in place a split panel’s January opinion that reversed a Pennsylvania federal judge’s decision to exclude expert witnesses in a dispute brought by a physician who claimed that the DePuy entities induced surgeons to infringe certain claims of his patents.
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June 23, 2026
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge in Utah found that the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to consider a Mandarin language learning company’s claims that the Utah State Board of Education and certain educators infringed copyrighted educational material because the defendants are immunized by the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; the judge dismissed the complaint without prejudice.
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June 23, 2026
MARSHALL, Texas — A Texas federal judge rejected arguments from three cell phone providers that the conclusions of a company’s damages expert “are sufficiently unreliable and flawed” and ruled that the expert can testify in a patent infringement dispute involving technology used in cellular networking equipment.
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June 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court denied on June 22 Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp.’s petition for a writ of certiorari in which the company challenged the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ finding that Dolby lacked standing to appeal a procedural issue in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings where the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) held that a petitioner failed to show the invalidity of Dolby’s patent.
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June 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel reversed a Washington federal judge’s finding that video game company Valve Corp. was estopped from asserting invalidity arguments in defense of infringement claims asserted against it regarding a patent describing a video game controller with extra buttons located on the back; the panel held that the judge relied on insufficient evidence and failed to account for hindsight bias.
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June 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on June 22 denied a sports-based nonprofit organization’s petition for a writ of certiorari, leaving in place a December Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals opinion that affirmed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (TTAB’s) decision to cancel trademarks containing the phrase “more than an athlete.”