On July 31, 2020, in the case of American Axle v. Neapco, the Federal Circuit split 6-6 on the question of whether to grant en banc review of a panel decision on patent eligibility seen by many as an unwarranted extension of the principle that...

Ladas & Parry congratulates attorney David Brezina in his persistence and eventual success in the take down, not once but twice, of fake social media profiles used to scam customers of Wayne Farms, one of the world’s largest poultry...

On August 11, 2020, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision of Judge Koh sitting in the Northern District of California that certain of Qualcomm’s business practices relating to its standards essential patents (SEPs) breached the...

In July, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the case of Automotive Body Parts Association v. Ford Global Technologies, LLC agreed with car manufacturers that aesthetic functionality and exceptions in infringement law for patent auto...

In Textilis v. Svenkst Tenn AB, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) held that the 2015 amendments to the trademark regulation (Article 7(1)(e)(iii) of Regulation No 207/2009), which limited the right for trademark protection if the mark consisted...

On January 22, 2019, SCOTUS held In Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc, that a prior public sale of a patented product could destroy the novelty of a patent for that product even though there was no disclosure of the inventive...