IP Law 360
JUNE 17, 2025
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said Tuesday it is developing various artificial intelligence programs to help patent and trademark examiners, including tools to help them identify prior art faster.
IAM Magazine
JUNE 17, 2025
It is an unusual arrangement but IPValue says it shows licensees trust its work and will front money to buy patents covering semiconductor, computing, display and communications technologies
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TorrentFreak
JUNE 17, 2025
In the late ’90s, with P2P file-sharing yet to really take off, music industry insiders had already toyed with the idea of a ‘celestial jukebox’ that could access all music in the world. While the idea sounded appealing, the economics were not straightforward, and it took an external in ter vention to spur record labels into action. When Napster launched in 1999, it sparked a music revolution that changed the industry forever.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
In the digital age, businesses may assume that firewalls, login credentials and restricted access are enough to shield proprietary data. But a recent federal court decision shows that a “trade secret” under the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) may require more than technical controls — it requires documented, enforceable commitments to confidentiality.
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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
The Illusion of More
JUNE 17, 2025
“Midjourney is the quintessential copyright free-rider and a bottomless pit of plagiarism.” Well, there it is. If you had been wondering whether and when the major studios would file a copyright infringement suit against a developer of generative AI (GAI), it finally happened on June 11. Disney and its subsidiaries, along with Universal Studios, filed […] The post Major Film Studios File Copyright Suit Against Midjourney appeared first on The Illusion of More.
IP Watchdog
JUNE 17, 2025
This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed I speak with F. Scott Kieff, former Commissioner on the International Trade Commission, and Joshua Hartman, head of Merchant & Gould’s ITC practice group. Our conversation, which took place on June 4, focused on the landmark ruling by the Federal Circuit in Lashify, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, which was a big win for small business patent owners.
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IP and Legal Filings
JUNE 17, 2025
India’s media and entertainment (M&E) industry, worth more than $25 billion, functions within a vibrant tax regime influenced by GST reforms, income tax laws, and focused incentives. In the post-GST era, the sector shifted from state-level fragmented taxes to a consolidated structure, while current budgets and policies seek to fuel growth through subsidies and ease of compliance.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
On June 4, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Judges Taranto, Chen, and Hughes) affirmed the District of Delaware’s claim construction in a patent infringement dispute involving lipid components used in Moderna’s (Moderna, Inc., ModernaTX, Inc., and Moderna US, Inc.) mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine. The case centered on the interpretation of the term “branched alkyl” as recited in U.S.
TorrentFreak
JUNE 17, 2025
Incorporated in Georgia, YuppTV USA Inc. markets itself as one of the world’s largest internet-based TV and on-demand platforms for South Asian content. Most of the company’s subscribers are described as “non-resident individuals.” Filed at a federal court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, YuppTV’s copyright complaint begins by naming Canada-based Harpreet Singh Randhawa as the operator of one or more IPTV services, sold under multiple brand names.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
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IAM Magazine
JUNE 17, 2025
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JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
Scam notices are being sent to those who have filed trademark applications with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) or already own a registered mark. The notices are designed to exploit publicly available information, and these fraudulent communications often create a false sense of urgency or appear to be official communications and typically request payment for services such as trademark monitoring, renewal, or registration in various directories.
IP Watchdog
JUNE 17, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to grant a number of IP petitions, including one in which a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ruled in October 2024 that NexStep, Inc. failed to prove Comcast Cable Communications had infringed its patents under the doctrine of equivalents.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
When prosecuting a patent with similar language across various claims make sure your claim terms have different meanings, otherwise, during litigation you may lose the strategic opportunity to keep some claims valid if others are found invalid. In Power2B v. Samsung, the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) reversed a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) and held that an asserted claim limitation was obvious over the prior art because the asserted claim limitation’s meaning was.
IP Intelligence
JUNE 17, 2025
On June 13, the Federal Circuit reversed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB or Board) nonprecedential decision finding no likelihood of confusion between opposer Château Lynch-Bages’ and applicant Château Angélus S.A.’s respective trademarks. The Federal Circuit reasoned that the Board erroneously determined that the marks at issue – “ECHO DE LYNCH BAGES” and “ECHO D’ANGÉLUS” – contained house marks and gave “predominant” weight to the similarity factor in its DuPont analysis to arrive a
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
On June 11, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision invalidating two patents owned by Agilent Technologies. The patents at issue, U.S. Patent Nos. 10,337,001 and 10,900,034, claim synthetic CRISPR guide RNAs with specific chemical modifications intended to improve stability and functionality.
Patently-O
JUNE 17, 2025
In a significant decision with implications for patent litigation practice, the Federal Circuit has vacated both infringement and damages judgments totaling $300 million in Optis Cellular Technology v. Apple Inc. , finding multiple errors by the Eastern District of Texas that undermined the validity of the jury's verdict. Judge Prost's opinion identified four distinct areas of reversible error: Improper verdict form construction that violated Apple's Seventh Amendment right to jury unanimity, In
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
After years of handling hundreds of Strike 3 Holdings (S3) copyright defense cases, there is one question I get seemingly more than any other. The question is this: "should I contact my ISP to call off the subpoena?".
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 17, 2025
In an age where digital access defines education, research, and participation, European libraries face serious legal and technical barriers to lending electronic books. Despite the digital shift, outdated or restrictive interpretations of copyright law often prevent libraries from fulfilling their public mission online. A new report led by the Future Law Lab at Jagiellonian University and the Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation , developed as part of the KR21 project , addresses this challenge by proposi
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions - ALNYLAM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. v. MODERNA, INC. [OPINION] (2023-2357, 06/04/2025) (Taranto, Chen, Hughes) - Taranto, J. The Court affirmed the district court’s claim construction ruling, which formed the basis for the parties’ stipulated judgment of non-infringement.
McKinsey Operations
JUNE 17, 2025
Skip to main content The new tariff reality: From risk to resilience June 17, 2025 | Podcast Shifting tariffs and trade policies are pushing companies to rethink their supply chain strategies to protect growth and stay competitive. This conversation takes a considered look at what changes in tariffs mean for international companies, whatâs at stake, and the challenges and opportunities that the complex tariff environment presents.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
In Ingenico v. IOENGINE, No. 2023-1367 (Fed. Cir. May 7, 2025), the Federal Circuit resolved a long-standing split among District Courts in favor of petitioners regarding inter partes review (IPR) estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2).
IP Watchdog
JUNE 17, 2025
Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) today signed onto the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2025 as co-sponsors with Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE). PERA 2025 was introduced on May 1 in both the Senate and the House of Representatives by Tillis, Coons and Representatives Kevin Kiley (R-CA) and Scott Peters (D-CA).
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
USPTO Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart recently issued a decision discretionarily denying five petitions for inter partes review (IPR) filed by iRhythm against patents owned by Welch Allyn based on a factor that had not been used before—the petitioner’s longstanding awareness of an issued patent. This was notable not only because it was the first use of “settled expectations” to support a discretionary denial but also because the Acting Director found that many of the standard.
Patently-O
JUNE 17, 2025
by Dennis Crouch In Ancora v. Roku, the Federal Circuit relaxed the rigid nexus requirement for objective evidence of non-obviousness -- but only for patent licensing evidence. The court emphasized that actual patent licenses (those worth > litigation costs) inherently reflect the validity of the patented technology. This decision contrasts with stricter standards still imposed on other types of objective indicia.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
As recent innovations in automotive technology continue to fuel unprecedented growth across the industry, companies must adapt their privacy and confidentiality capabilities to safeguard highly valuable trade secrets. With economists estimating that trade secrets in the United States are worth upward of $5 trillion, it is more important than ever to have robust measures and policies in place to mitigate information leaks and trade secret misappropriation.
IP Law 360
JUNE 17, 2025
For busy intellectual property attorneys, summer can present the perfect opportunity to catch up on some reading, whether it's a treatise on contracts in the entertainment sector or a vivid work of science fiction that has the potential to bring new perspective to one's personal and professional lives.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
Welcome to the Intellectual Property Litigation Newsletter, our review of decisions and trends in the intellectual property arena. In this edition, we learn that unilateral assertion is not industry standard, the IPR estoppel statute gets grounded, and a mere consumer can’t oppose a trademark registration.
IP Law 360
JUNE 17, 2025
A California federal judge has sided with agriculture technology company Carbon Autonomous Robotic Systems to block a rival from selling a laser-based weeding tool that Carbon claims infringes its patents.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
Trastuzumab Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple litigations/IPRs are counted more than once. Within each litigation a claim is counted only once. Within each IPR, claims are counted only once, whether they are challenged under § 102, § 103, or both.
IP Law 360
JUNE 17, 2025
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday threw out the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision that invalidated claims in an Express Mobile patent covering ways to build a website, handing a loss to patent challengers Meta, Google and others.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
On June 13, the Federal Circuit reversed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB or Board) nonprecedential decision finding no likelihood of confusion between opposer Château Lynch-Bages’ and applicant Château Angélus S.A.’s respective trademarks.
IP Law 360
JUNE 17, 2025
The Third Circuit on Tuesday granted an interlocutory appeal from tech startup Ross Intelligence, which is challenging a ruling from a Delaware federal court that concluded it infringed copyrighted material from Thomson Reuters' Westlaw platform to create a competing legal research tool powered by artificial intelligence.
JD Supra Law
JUNE 17, 2025
Pegfilgrastim Challenged Claim Types in IPR and Litigation: Claims include those challenged in litigations and IPRs. Claims are counted in each litigation and IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple litigations/IPRs are counted more than once. Within each litigation a claim is counted only once. Within each IPR, claims are counted only once, whether they are challenged under § 102, § 103, or both.
IP Close Up
JUNE 17, 2025
Released today are new videos of featured speakers Andrei Iancu, fmr Undersecretary of Commerce and Director of the U.S.
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