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Weintraub Tobin

The Briefing: Taylor Swift, Trademark Law, and the Fight Over ‘Life of a Showgirl’

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Can a five word phrase be worth millions? In this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Matt Sugarman break down the high stakes trademark dispute between Las Vegas performer Maren Flagg and...more

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AI Reporter - April 2026

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A series of lawsuits highlights mounting scrutiny over AI safety and accountability. A federal suit in the Northern District of California accuses xAI of knowingly allowing its Grok chatbot to generate child sexual abuse...more

Wiley Rein LLP

DOJ’s Recent Statements Reflect Consistent Focus, Balanced Approach to Antitrust and IP Enforcement

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Over the past year, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division has delivered consistent message about the relationship between antitrust law and intellectual property (IP) rights: strong patent rights and...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The Digital Heartbeat: Rolex, AI, and Counterfeit Protection

Few brands have matched the impact Rolex has had on the evolution of horology. From the 1926 debut of the “Oyster,”[1] the world’s first waterproof case, to the perfection of the “perpetual self-winding rotor”[2] in 1931,...more

Miller Johnson

Unnamed Inventor, Invalid Patent 

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Fortress Iron, LP v. Digger Specialties, Inc., 2026 WL 899158 (Fed. Cir. April 2, 2026) - The Constitution mandates that the U.S. patent system promote the progress of science and useful arts.  Naming and crediting all...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Patentee Secures Reversal of JMOL on Written Description and Enablement for Method of Treatment by Administering Genus of...

Today the Federal Circuit reversed a district court’s JMOL and held that claims to a method of treating headaches using a genus of antagonistic anti-CGRP antibodies satisfied both the written description and enablement...more

Venable LLP

Spotlight On: Neulasta® (pegfilgrastim) / Fulphila® (pegfilgrastim-jmdb) / Udenyca® (pegfilgrastim-cbqv) / Ziextenzo®...

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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...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

ANDA Litigation Settlements - First Quarter 2026

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This chart summarizes the case name, drug, patents-in-suit, and publicly available terms for reported settlements in federal district court cases that are filed pursuant to the Hatch-Waxman Act....more

Venable LLP

Spotlight On: Enbrel® (etanercept) / Erelzi® (etanercept-szzs) / Eticovo® (etanercept-ykro) - April 2026

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*Etanercept 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...more

Venable LLP

Spotlight On: Actemra® (tocilizumab) / Tofidence™ (tocilizumab-bavi) / Tyenne® (tocilizumab-aazg) / Avtozma® (tocilizumab-anoh) -...

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Tocilizumab Challenged Claim Types in IPRs: Claims are counted in each IPR, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple IPRs are counted more than once. Within each IPR, claims are counted only once, whether they...more

Hogan Lovells

Vietnam accelerates IP process: Pros and cons of the new timelines for IP owners

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From 1 April 2026, Vietnam's amended Intellectual Property Law significantly accelerates IP examination, opposition and registration timelines, while introducing new fast‑track options for qualifying applications. Although...more

Venable LLP

Spotlight On: Prolia® / Xgeva® (denosumab) / Jubbonti® / Wyost® (denosumab-bbdz) / Ospomyv® / Xbryk® (denosumab-dssb) / Stoboclo®...

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Denosumab Challenged Claim Types in Litigation: Claims are counted in each litigation, so claims from the same patent challenged in multiple litigations are counted more than once. Within each litigation a claim is counted...more

Venable LLP

Spotlight On: Herceptin® (trastuzumab) / Ogivri® (trastuzumab-dkst) / Herzuma® (trastuzumab-pkrb) / Ontruzant® (trastuzumab-dttb)...

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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...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

USPTO's AI Search Pilot May Reshape Patent Filing Strategy

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office‘s Artificial Intelligence Search Automated Pilot, or ASAP, program introduces earlier visibility into the prior art landscape by providing applicants with an automated search results...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Beware the Cost of Incorrect Inventorship

On April 2, 2026, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision in Fortress Iron, LP v. Digger Specialties, Inc. (appeal docket No. 2024-2313) that serves as a stinging reminder of the cost of incorrect inventorship....more

Haynes Boone

Biotech Insights - Spring 2026

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Regulatory Overview: Post-Approval Changes to Marketed Drugs - The popularity of GLP-1s have brought post-approval changes to New Drug Applications (NDAs) to centerstage. Recently, the FDA approved Wegovy in tablet form,...more

Alston & Bird

Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending April 10, 2026

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Our Patent Case Summaries provide a weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial...more

Oberheiden P.C.

Hiring a False Advertising Lawyer to Sue Under the Lanham Act

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False and misleading advertising campaigns can have significant consequences for competitors. Whether a company’s deceptive practices relate to its own products or services, a competitor’s products or services, or a...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

9th Circ. Copyright Ruling Highlights Doubts On Intrinsic Test

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s Jan. 2 decision in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg — the long-running copyright dispute arising from tattoo artist Katherine Von Drachenberg’s rendering of a photograph of Miles...more

Venable LLP

What Companies Get Wrong About Open-Source Software Licensing: Legal Risk and Contract Fixes

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Want to learn more about drafting, negotiating, and understanding intellectual property and technology contracts and have 10 minutes to spare? Grab your morning coffee or afternoon tea and dig into our Tech Contract Quick...more

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Spotlight On: Biosimilar Litigations - April 2026

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Biosimilar Litigations include litigations relating to biosimilar/follow-on products of CDER-listed reference products. Litigations between biosimilar applicants/manufacturers and reference product sponsors as well as...more

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When Proprietary Code Escapes: How Companies Should Prevent IP Leakage—and What to Do the Moment It Happens

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For many companies, the most valuable assets on the balance sheet are not the ones it fully captures. They are buried in source code, internal tooling, model harnesses, prompts, training pipelines, product roadmaps,...more

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Spotlight On: Rituxan® (rituximab) / Truxima® (rituximab-abbs) / Ruxience® (rituximab-pvvr) / Riabni™ (rituximab-arrx) - April...

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Rituximab 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...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Announces That It Has Turned the Corner on Unexamined Application Backlog

In a press release issued last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that for the first time in nearly a decade, the number of first Office actions that the USPTO has issued during the fiscal year is exceeding...more

Smart & Biggar

Recording corporate changes with trademark offices: why it matters and what you need to know

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Corporate reorganizations and transactions frequently result in changes to trademark ownership. However, the need to formally record those changes with trademark offices is often overlooked. What may appear to be a...more

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