Mississippi state appeals court judge Cory Wilson is President Donald Trump’s intended pick to fill a vacant seat on the New Orleans-based federal appeals court after Republican opposition derailed the previous nominee, the White House said.

A merchant applying for a “Friday Beers” trademark sued TGI Fridays after receiving cease-and-desist letters warning that it would infringe the restaurant chain’s marks.

The Federal Circuit has denied a request that it wait to kick Patent Trial and Appeal Board disputes back to the board for new proceedings in light of an October decision that the judges were unconstitutionally appointed.

Irish burger chain Supermac’s, following its trademark victory over McDonald’s Corp. in the European Union last year, mostly blocked London bar Supermax from registering its name in the U.K.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board declined to review Nikola Corp.'s truck seat door patent that Tesla Inc. argued was obvious and therefore invalid.

A former grad student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who helped discover a patented process that made his academic adviser $5 million wasn’t entitled to proceeds from the sale, the Seventh Circuit said.

Mallinckrodt said a generic version of injectable acetaminophen proposed by Baxter International’s Baxter Healthcare unit infringes five patents for Ofirmev, used to reduce pain and fever.