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A Delaware federal jury found TVision Insights Inc. didn’t infringe a Nielsen Holdings Ltd. subsidiary’s patent claim covering technology for creating digital signatures used to identify audio content.

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Case: Patents/International Trade (Fed. Cir.)

The court denied Ecto World LLC’s petition for a writ of mandamus directing the U.S. International Trade Commission to terminate or stay its ongoing investigation into whether the importation of certain flavored vape products violates international trade law. In re Ecto World LLC, 2026 BL 218162, Fed. Cir., 2026-132, nonprecedential, 6/11/26

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

The court affirmed the decision of a federal district court dismissing Dynapass IP Holdings LLC’s claim that Bank of America Corporation infringed a patent that relates to systems and methods for user authentication in which user tokens are supplied through communication devices. Dynapass IP Holdings Inc. v. Bank of America Corporation, 2026 BL 218152, Fed. Cir., 2025-1222, nonprecedential, 6/11/26

Case: Patents/Obviousness (P.T.A.B.)

The PTAB said that some challenged claims of Miracor Medical SA’s patent that relates to medical care for normalizing and stabilizing cardiac function after a heart failure are obvious over prior art, in an inter partes review by Abbott Laboratories. Abbott Laboratories v. Miracor Medical SA, P.T.A.B., IPR 2025-00096, 6/11/26

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