ChowNow’s False Advertising Claims Against Rival Move Forward
ChowNow Inc. can pursue some of its false advertising claims against competitor Owner.com under both federal and state law, a district court ruled.
The US Supreme Court will hear generic drug maker Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.'s challenge of an appeals court holding that it induced doctors and pharmacists to prescribe its heart medicine for off-label treatments that would infringe a rival’s patents.
Elon Musk’s social media platform is accusing music publishers of violating antitrust law through the seemingly mundane practice of using a trade group to send takedown requests for posts they say infringe their copyrights.
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The head of the US Patent and Trademark Office threw out an administrative tribunal’s decision to consider a Chinese semiconductor firm’s challenges against US-based




ChowNow Inc. can pursue some of its false advertising claims against competitor Owner.com under both federal and state law, a district court ruled.
The First Circuit upheld Puerto Rico’s immunity from trademark claims by Roberto Clemente’s heirs, but revived claims against individual officials, sued in that capacity, as they failed to properly argue qualified immunity.
Texas can continue to ban the sale of meat and fish produced in a lab for human consumption, a federal judge ruled Friday, denying a challenge for now from out-of-state startups that are looking to expand into the beef-dominated state.
The Seventh Circuit on Friday threw out an injunction on Little Caesars’ use of the phrase “pizza puffs,” finding the chain presented strong evidence that consumers view the phrase as a generic term rather than a reference to something specific.
A Texas-based trigger maker that the Department of Justice once accused of selling devices that convert firearms into machine guns sued a rival for patent infringement, continuing a flurry of legal attacks that started in May aimed at its competitors.
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Pauline Newman, the nation’s oldest active federal judge, reiterated her argument the DC Circuit should revive the lawsuit challenging as unconstitutional her suspension from hearing cases at the Federal Circuit.
In this video, we explore how the copyright in a song – the musical composition – works. We look at what courts use to determine whether there was an infringement, and why these cases can be so complicated.
For the past several weeks, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has been routinely and repeatedly used to digitally undress people on X. Despite a mounting outcry from global regulators, the tool has continued operating in the US with limited government intervention.
GoodRx Holdings Inc.'s proposed $32 million settlement of a lawsuit alleging it illegally shared users’ data with
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The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to review the constitutionality of court orders that compel tech companies such as Google to provide anonymized user location data to law enforcement.
Challenged claims of CamelBak Products LLC’s patent that relates to drink bottles with bite-actuated mouthpieces aren’t unpatentable as obvious over prior art, the PTAB said, in an inter partes review by Trove Brands LLC. Trove Brands LLC v. CamelBak Products LLC, P.T.A.B., IPR 2024-01137, 1/15/26
The court vacated and remanded the decision of the PTAB that Apple Inc. didn’t prove by a preponderance of the evidence that challenged claims of Smart Mobile Technologies LLC’s patent that discloses a portable and wireless network box are unpatentable. Apple Inc. v. Smart Mobile Technologies LLC, 2026 BL 9689, Fed. Cir., 2024-1419, nonprecedential, 1/13/26
The court affirmed the TTAB decision rejecting Laurel Designs LLC’s “Sazerac Stitches” mark, because substantial evidence supported the board’s finding that three of the relevant DuPont factors favored a finding of likelihood of confusion. In re Laurel Designs LLC, 2026 BL 9692, Fed. Cir., 2024-1203, nonprecedential, 1/13/26
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