Philip Morris International Inc. is facing a possible import ban of its IQOS heated-tobacco sticks to the U.S. after it lost the first round of a legal trade battle with British American Tobacco Plc.

A Heineken NV subsidiary promised neither it nor any related company would attack a Miami craft brewer’s “Tropical Bay IPA” trademark, resolving a chunk of a Florida federal lawsuit.

A webpage’s shopping cart icon alone doesn’t provide “means for ordering” goods, a trademark office tribunal said in rejecting it as a sample showing use of a trademark in commerce.

Federal Circuit Chief Judge Sharon Prost has seen improvements in diversity among the court’s bar and clerks, and is excited for the bench to hit an upcoming diversity milestone.

Washington state’s attorney general has sued a North Carolina patent licensing business over its allegedly “predatory ‘patent troll’” practices.

The country band formerly known as Lady Antebellum can continue its bid for a court ruling that its “Lady A” trademark doesn’t infringe an artist who claims she has common law rights to it, a Tennessee federal court said.

The following are personnel changes and other news recently announced by prominent intellectual property law firms and other IP-related organizations: