Month: July 2026
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District Judge preserves Masimo’s $634M jury verdict against Apple; Federal Circuit denies rehearing request over their USITC case
The patent and trade secret dispute over the Apple Watch rumbles on.
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Anthropic accused of infringing University of Tennessee neural network patents as judge approves $1.5B class action payout
While genAI companies have mainly been the focus of copyright complaints, patents are fast becoming a flashpoint in the rapidly growing industry.
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German Federal Patent Court upholds key Duesenfeld battery recycling patent
The German Federal Patent Court has rejected No Canaryâs nullity action against Duesenfeldâs battery recycling patent, leaving the patent in force as parallel infringement proceedings continue before the Higher Regional Court of DĂźsseldorf.
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NVIDIA hit with patent infringement suit over Israeli subsidiaryâs AI chip products
XtreamEdge Inc. and Concurrent Ventures LLC have sued NVIDIA and Mellanox in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California over the infringement of five of their patents related to data processing.
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Moderna calls itself the âtrue innovatorâ in response to CureVac mRNA patent lawsuit, cites broken non-assert promise
Moderna has filed a response to CureVacâs mRNA patent suit, denying infringement, attacking the validity of all 10 patents, and calling the lawsuit âultimately a meritless attempt to claim success for work it never didâ.
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Maxell notches partial USITC win against Samsung as Galaxy import ban recommended
It’s just one part of a multi-theater battle between the two Asian companies which has seen Maxell awarded, and subsequently stripped of, $112 million in damages.
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Wendy’s, Gap, and other merchants hit in Texas PAE campaign asserting ex-Cypress Semiconductor patents
Near Field Electronics is targeting digital payments at a time when point-of-sale devices are becoming a patent hotspot.
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Viasat prevails in $229M jury verdict against Japanese rival over NAND patent infringement
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has ruled that Kioxia owes Viasat $229 million for infringing one of its flash-memory patents.
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Awaiting potential $1.3B Moderna payout, Arbutus expands Covid-19 patent fight to Pfizer, BioNTech in Canada and UPC
Arbutus and Genevant have filed new lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech in Canada and the UPC over lipid nanoparticle patents, days after collecting $178 million from their Moderna settlement.
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The CNIPA aligns Chinaâs administrative SEP injunction standard with courtsâ FRAND test
The CNIPA has made FRAND review a condition for administrative SEP cease-infringement orders, aligning the administrative approach with the judicial test. The clarification closes a gap in Chinaâs dual-track patent enforcement system while CNIPA promotes greater use of administrative proceedings for SEP disputes.