Firms Are ‘Working for Free’ on Anthropic Settlement, Judge Says

A federal judge indicated three law firms seeking $75 million in attorneys’ fees from Anthropic PBC’s historic $1.5 billion copyright class action settlement with authors and publishers won’t receive any share of the pot.

Disney Forced to Defend Toy Story 3 ‘Lotso’ Trademark Case

Walt Disney Studios failed in its latest bid to escape a Supreme Court-revived trademark suit over the 2010 movie Toy Story 3’s “Lots-O-Huggin’ Bear” character.

Google Keeps Its Victory Over Owner of Web-Conferencing Patent

A district court was right to dismiss an infringement suit against Google LLC based on the tech titan’s argument that the web-conferencing patent asserted against it captured an abstract idea and is therefore invalid, the Federal Circuit ruled.

Novartis Wins Bid to Shut Down MSN Challenge of Entresto Patent

MSN Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. can’t reopen disputes resolved in earlier litigation over the scope, validity, and infringement of a patent for Novartis AG’s blockbuster heart-failure drug Entresto, a federal judge ruled.

High Court’s ‘Skinny-Label’ Case Has Broader Implications

A US Supreme Court fight over how branded drugs’ makers must plead induced infringement in “skinny-label” patent suits could both reshape the pharmaceutical industry’s financial and legal calculus and influence how soon lower-cost generics reach patients.

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China Tells Alibaba, Tech Firms to Prep Nvidia H200 Orders

Chinese officials have told the country’s largest tech firms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. they can prepare orders for Nvidia Corp.’s H200 AI chips, suggesting Beijing is close to formally approving imports of components essential to running artificial intelligence.

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Marvin Gaye, Ed Sheeran & the 'Blurred Lines' of Music Copyright

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.

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Google Antitrust Accord Over Its App Store Meets Skeptical Judge

Google’s proposed settlement with Epic Games Inc. in a long-running antitrust dispute over how the tech giant operates its mobile app store drew deep skepticism from a federal judge, who repeatedly questioned if it was a “sweetheart deal” for the two companies at the expense of the broader market.

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Case: Patents/Procedure (Fed. Cir.)

The court affirmed the decision of the PTAB sustaining an examining attorney’s rejection of claims of EcoFactor Inc.'s patent, because the board properly sustained the examiner’s rejection of EcoFactor’s claims for improper enlargement. In re Ecofactor Inc., 2026 BL 17988, Fed. Cir., 2024-2081, nonprecedential, 1/21/26

Case: Patents/Procedure (Fed. Cir.)

The court reversed in part, vacated in part, and remanded the decision of the PTAB that Apple Inc. failed to prove that challenged claims of Smart Mobile Technologies LLC’s patents unpatentable as obvious over prior art. Apple Inc. v. Smart Mobile Technologies LLC, 2026 BL 18009, Fed. Cir., 2024-1352, nonprecedential, 1/21/26

Case: Patents/Licensing (Fed. Cir.)

The court affirmed the decision of a federal district court entering the parties’ stipulated final judgment of noninfringement in Lionra Technologies Ltd.'s patent infringement action against Cisco Systems Inc., because Lionra’s patent license agreement with RPX Corporation extinguished the infringement claims. Lionra Technologies Ltd. v. Cisco Systems Inc. , 2026 BL 18031, Fed. Cir., 2024-2153, nonprecedential, 1/21/26

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