Patent Office Tells Staff to Stay Home After Security Alert

The US Patent and Trademark Office closed its headquarters Friday and told its staff to work remotely as it updates safety measures in response to the expected release of a former employee from police custody, which is now scheduled for next week.

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Lenovo Group Ltd. and Universal Connectivity Technologies Inc. resolved their patent infringement dispute concerning the sale of monitors, docking stations, and laptops.

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SIM IP Inc., a company started by patent monetization executive Erich Spangenberg, announced Thursday it purchased research platform Garden Intel for $150 million.

Federal Circuit Appears Skeptical of Intel Escape in VLSI Suit

An appeals court seemed open to reviving VLSI Technology LLC’s California patent suit against Intel Corp., homing in on a stipulation made in the early stages of the eight-year-old case that VLSI says eviscerates Intel’s winning defense.

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Meta Can’t Close Door on Another Amended Complaint in AI Suit

Meta Platforms Inc. convinced a California federal judge to coordinate discovery in authors’ AI copyright suit with a new case, but not to pause the case outright or block a fourth amended compliant—yet.

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Apple Plans to Allow Outside Voice-Controlled Chatbots in Cars

Apple Inc. is preparing to allow voice-controlled artificial intelligence apps from other companies in CarPlay, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that will let users query AI chatbots through its vehicle interface for the first time.

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Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

The PTAB held that all challenged claims of Exact Sciences Corporation’s patent that relates to methods and kits for analysis of fecal samples are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Geneoscopy Inc. Geneoscopy Inc. v. Exact Sciences Corporation, P.T.A.B., IPR 2024-01330, 2/5/26

Case: Patents/Eligibility (Fed. Cir.)

The court affirmed the decision of a federal district court holding that, as a matter of law, all asserted claims of Q Technologies Inc.'s patents directed to methods and systems for content sharing using uniquely generated identifiers are invalid. Q Technologies Inc. v. Walmart Inc. , 2026 BL 37495, Fed. Cir., 2024-1667, nonprecedential, 2/5/26

Case: Patents/Summary Judgment (Fed. Cir.)

The court affirmed the decision of a federal district court granting Tricam Industries Inc. summary judgment on Little Giant Ladder Systems LLC’s action for infringement of a patent that discloses a multi-position ladder with two sets of rails and a locking mechanism. Little Giant Ladder Systems LLC v. Tricam Industries Inc., 2026 BL 37476, Fed. Cir., 2024-2115, nonprecedential, 2/5/26

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