Ford Wrongly Escaped $105 Million Verdict, Fed. Cir. Says

Ford Motor Co. shouldn’t have avoided damages awarded in a $105 million jury verdict that it had stolen software that it had been licensing from Versata Software Inc., the Federal Circuit said Friday.

OpenAI Must Produce Testimony From Musk Case in Copyright Suits

OpenAI Inc. must produce testimony from the company’s recent trial victory over Elon Musk and X.AI as part of separate, sprawling copyright litigation against the artificial intelligence giant, a federal magistrate judge ruled.

Roofr Wipes Out Patents Underlying Delaware Infringement Suit

Roofr Inc. convinced the Federal Circuit that an administrative tribunal was right to invalidate two patents describing processes of using satellite imagery to obtain roof measurements.

Maxim Drops Trade Secrets Suit Against Playboy After Setback

Magazine publisher Maxim Inc. dropped its copyright and trade secrets suit over rival Playboy Inc.'s modeling contest less than a week after failing to secure a ban on Playboy using its secrets while the litigation played out.

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Tesla Inc. battery supplier Solus Advance Materials Co. and its four Volta Energy units owe SK nexilis Co. $3.3 million for infringing patents by creating and selling copper foil products that are used inside electric vehicles.

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Case: Patents/Claim Construction (Fed. Cir.)

The court affirmed the decision of the PTAB that challenged claims of Samesurf Inc.'s patent are unpatentable as obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Intuit Inc., because the board correctly construed a disputed claim term.
Samesurf Inc. v. Intuit Inc., 2026 BL 187683, Fed. Cir., 2024-2268, 2024-2269, nonprecedential, 5/21/26

Case: Patents/Obviousness (Fed. Cir.)

The court affirmed the decision of a federal district court that claims of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.'s patents weren’t infringed by Lupin Ltd. and Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s manufacturing process, and that certain patent claims were obvious over prior art. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. v. Lupin Ltd., 2026 BL 187696, Fed. Cir., 2024-2297, nonprecedential, 5/21/26

Case: Trademarks/Jurisdiction (S.D.N.Y.)

The court denied Transcendent Travel Services LLC’s motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction Transcend Cruises Inc.'s action seeking a declaratory judgment of non-infringement of the “Transcendent” mark. Transcend Cruises v. Transcendent Travel Servs., 2026 BL 187673, S.D.N.Y., 25-cv-8796 (PKC), 5/21/26

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