U.S. support for a waiver of patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines heads to the World Trade Organization, setting the stage for potentially thorny talks over sharing the proprietary know-how needed to boost global supplies of the life-saving shots.

The U.S. Copyright Office is close to recommending judges for a new small claims tribunal and expects them to hear cases by the end of the year, Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter told a House panel.

Novartis said a competing branded version of its 0.5-milligram Gilenya capsules proposed by Handa infringes two patents for the blockbuster multiple-sclerosis drug.

Jefferies analyst Michael Yee wrote in a note that while Covid vaccine stocks slumped on headlines that the Biden administration may support a waiver of vaccine patents, the bottleneck is “neither access nor patents (or price) but simply that there aren’t enough vials, raw materials, etc. to manufacture it regardless of patents.”

Don Everly owns the rights to the Everly Brothers’ 1960 song “Cathy’s Clown,” a federal judge ruled, handing a loss to the heirs of his brother Phil, who died in 2014.

An Australian online merchant faced a Federal Circuit skeptical of its bid to have the “Ugg” trademark nullified because it was a generic term for sheepskin boots before it was a brand.

Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE must face a patent suit alleging their Covid-19 vaccine was developed with the unauthorized use of a fluorescent protein, after a California federal judge denied their bid for a quick exit.