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Clover, SC — Shumaker has achieved a federal victory for artistic integrity, with a judge awarding a Clover, S.C. artist $158,400, including maximum Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) damages, in a case reaffirming the power of...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a mixed ruling in a dispute over patents covering child car seat technology, explaining that infringement under the doctrine of equivalents requires an equivalent for...more
WONDERLAND SWITZERLAND AG v. EVENFLO COMPANY, INC. [OPINION] (2023-2043, 2023-2233, 2023-2326, 12/17/2025) (Moore, Prost, Reyna) - Moore, J. The Court reversed the district court’s judgment of infringement of the asserted...more
The District of Delaware recently denied a defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s demand for enhanced damages based on willful infringement pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 284, explaining that neither a demand for damages under §...more
On December 9, 2025, District Judge Eric Komitee (E.D.N.Y.) denied Defendant Bemmo, Inc.’s (Bemmo) motion to dismiss under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), finding Plaintiff The Ridge Wallet, LLC (Ridge Wallet) pled...more
A federal jury in Massachusetts ordered Beyond Meat, Inc. to pay $38.9 million to Sonate Corp. d/b/a Vegadelphia Foods for willful trademark infringement tied to slogans used in national advertising for meat-free products....more
District courts are split on whether a complaint can provide the required knowledge for post-suit indirect and willful infringement in that same lawsuit. Chief Judge Connolly in the District of Delaware recently confirmed...more
Supreme Court Wrestles with Billion-Dollar Question: When Are ISPs Liable for User Piracy? On December 1, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what may prove to be one of the most consequential copyright...more
On September 23, 2025, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) issued a precedential opinion affirming in part, reversing in part, and vacating in part, decisions from the United States District Court for the...more
On August 29, 2025, United States District Judge Pamela K. Chen (E.D.N.Y.) granted Plaintiff Tools Aviation, LLC’s (“Plaintiff”) motion for reasonable attorney’s fees, finding the case “exceptional” pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §...more
On August 14, 2025, Judge McMahon (S.D.N.Y.) issued a Final Judgment in favor of plaintiff Geigtech East Bay LLC (“Geigtech”) in the total amount of $5,951,153.15. See Geigtech E. Bay LLC v. Lutron Elecs. Co, Case No....more
In considering a motion to dismiss infringement claims for two related patents, the District of Massachusetts recently held that pre-suit knowledge of a “parent” patent, without more, is insufficient to establish pre-suit...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit's (Seventh Circuit) decision in Curry v. Revolution Laboratories, LLC, 124 F.4th 441 (7th Cir. 2024), has drawn attention to the interplay between federal and state law in...more
On June 30, 2025, the Supreme Court granted a petition for certiorari from Cox Communications Inc. and agreed to weigh in on one of the most consequential digital copyright cases in recent memory....more
The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to review whether an internet service provider (ISP) can be liable for copyright infringement for providing an internet connection that leads to piracy. Cox Communications,...more
On June 11, 2025, Disney (including Lucasfilm, Marvel, and 20th Century Studios) and Universal Pictures (including DreamWorks) filed a Complaint for direct and secondary copyright infringement in the Central District of...more
Some of the largest movie studios have entered the fray of GenAI copyright litigation. Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, and DreamWorks sued the image-GenAI company Midjourney, Inc. in the...more
On February 26, 2025, in Dewberry Group v. Dewberry Engineers, the Supreme Court unanimously vacated a $43 million damages award for trademark infringement, ruling that the lower court improperly conflated the defendant with...more
Appellate courts issued a variety of notable intellectual property (IP) cases in 2024, including cases touching on Orange Book listings, extraterritoriality, willful infringement, design patent obviousness, and public...more
On June 6, 2024, Shenzhen Waydoo Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd. (“Waydoo”) filed a petition for inter partes review (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent No. 9,359,044 (“the ’044 Patent”) (“IPR998”), assigned to MHL Custom, Inc. (“MHL”)....more
Sixty-seven patent infringement trials reached a jury verdict in 2024. Of these 67 patent infringement verdicts, thirty-one (approximately 46%) were a complete patent owner win on all patent infringement and validity issues. ...more
'Tis the season for a Christmas … lawsuit? Yes, that's right. This year, Santa's workshop is abuzz with more than just toymaking. Indeed, instead of focusing on their mischievous escapades of making snow angels in flour on...more
Character Technologies has been hit with two lawsuits, including a wrongful death suit (among other claims), in less than two months over its popular Character.ai chatbot. The first was filed in the U.S. District Court for...more
Do trademarks protect iconic names and imagery, or only their use as a brand identifier? This question was at the heart of a closely watched trademark trial in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, where a federal jury...more
The tests for willful and indirect (both inducement and contributory) patent infringement require a finding by the court that the alleged infringer had prior knowledge of infringement of the at-issue patent....more