A West Texas federal judge delayed the start of a patent trial between Apple Inc. and Fintiv Inc. to give the Federal Circuit time to weigh Apple’s complaint that he sent the case back to Waco.

Altice USA is seeking court declarations that its broadband networks and equipment, along with its Optimum and Suddenlink products, don’t infringe patents owned by Brainbox Innovations’ CommWorks, DataCloud and DigiMedia units.

Instagram LLC convinced a federal judge in California on Friday to tentatively toss a proposed class action alleging the social media giant’s embedding tool induces third-party publishers to display works posted by Instagram users without paying them, infringing the users’ copyrights.

Prior challenges at an administrative tribunal shouldn’t bar David Beasley from suing his former bandmate for infringing the trademark on the band’s name, “The Ebonys,” the Third Circuit ruled.

Parts of two SentriLock LLC patents related to automobile lock boxes used by car dealerships are likely invalid, a patent office tribunal said, agreeing to review challenges brought by a rival security company.

Comcast won a ruling granting its request to exclude an expert’s testimony on potential damages from a jury trial set to begin Monday with an inventor’s closely held company, but the federal judge also adopted a magistrate’s recommendation that he deny Comcast’s bid to invalidate two patents for which NexStep is seeking royalties for alleged infringement by Comcast’s Xfinity My Account app.

Assertio Therapeutics Inc. will pay $3.85 million to exit a class action over its alleged role in a scheme to delay generic versions of the Bausch Health Cos. diabetes drug Glumetza through illegal patent settlements, according to a federal court filing in San Francisco.