Five-minute video briefs of the leading U.S. Supreme Court, Federal Circuit, and other selected patent, trademark, and copyright decisions — the facts, the question presented, what the Court held, and the rule each case stands for.
In an opinion by Judge Arnold, the Eighth Circuit affirmed the Northern District of Iowa and held that the chartreuse…
A unanimous Supreme Court held that Amarin failed to state a claim that Hikma induced infringement of its method-of-use…
In an opinion by Justice Thomas, the Supreme Court reversed a $1 billion judgment and held that an Internet service…
In a securities-fraud prosecution, Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York held that documents the defendant…
A jury had found infringement and awarded a verdict — and the Federal Circuit wiped it out on eligibility. In GoTV…
Software claims that describe what a system achieves, rather than how it achieves it, remain a hard sell under Section…
In an opinion by Director John Squires, the USPTO Appeals Review Panel — sitting under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b) — vacated a new…
Rather than reach for a single test for what makes an idea 'abstract,' Judge William Bryson gathered the Section 101…
Is training an AI model on copyrighted books fair use? In Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc., 788 F. Supp. 3d 1026 (N.D…
Training an AI on books can be fair use — but downloading pirated copies to build a permanent library is not. That was…
The Federal Circuit's first utility-patent en banc decision since 2018. Sitting en banc, the court held, 8-2, in an…
A brief of Recentive Analytics, Inc. v. Fox Corp., 134 F.4th 1205 (Fed. Cir. 2025). In its first decision on the…
A unanimous D.C. Circuit panel, in an opinion by Judge Millett, affirmed the Copyright Office's refusal to register an…
For years the International Trade Commission excluded sales, marketing, warehousing, and distribution spending from the…
A unanimous Supreme Court vacated a $43 million trademark award, holding that a “defendant’s profits” award under…
The first major U.S. ruling on using copyrighted material to train an AI came in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH…
The “TRUMP TOO SMALL” case. The Supreme Court held that the Lanham Act’s names clause — barring registration of a mark…
Sitting en banc, the Federal Circuit overruled the forty-year-old Rosen-Durling test for design-patent obviousness as…
In an opinion by Justice Kagan, a 6-3 Supreme Court held that the Copyright Act contains no separate three-year cap on…
The Supreme Court held that the Lanham Act’s infringement provisions are not extraterritorial: infringing “use in…
The "Bad Spaniels" dog-toy case. A unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, held that the Rogers v…
In an opinion by Justice Sotomayor, a 7-2 Supreme Court held that the first fair-use factor — the purpose and character…
A unanimous Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Gorsuch, held that Amgen's patents were invalid for lack of…
In an opinion by Justice Breyer, a 6-3 Supreme Court held that the safe harbor in 17 U.S.C. §411(b)(1) — which keeps a…
By a 5-4 vote, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court held that assignor estoppel — the rule barring a…
In an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court held that the unreviewable authority the Patent Trial and…
In an opinion by Justice Breyer, a 6-2 Supreme Court held that Google's copying of roughly 11,500 lines of "declaring…
In an opinion by Justice Ginsburg, an 8-1 Supreme Court held that there is no nearly per se rule that a "generic.com"…
In a unanimous opinion by Justice Sotomayor, the Supreme Court held that there is no standalone doctrine of "defense…
In an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, a 5-4 Supreme Court held that the annotations in the Official Code of Georgia…
In an opinion by Justice Gorsuch, the Supreme Court held — unanimously in the judgment — that a trademark plaintiff…
In an opinion by Justice Ginsburg, a 7-2 Supreme Court held that 35 U.S.C. Section 314(d) bars judicial review of the…
In an opinion by Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court held that the Copyright Remedy Clarification Act did not validly…
In a unanimous opinion by Justice Sotomayor, the Supreme Court held that the phrase 'all the expenses of the…
In an opinion by Justice Kagan, a 6-3 Supreme Court held that the Lanham Act's prohibition on registering 'immoral or…
In an opinion by Justice Sotomayor, a 6-3 Supreme Court held that a federal agency is not a 'person' who may petition…
In an opinion by Justice Kagan, an 8-1 Supreme Court held that a debtor-licensor's rejection of a trademark license in…
In a unanimous opinion by Justice Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court held that the term 'full costs' in the Copyright Act's…
In a unanimous opinion by Justice Ginsburg, the Supreme Court held that under 17 U.S.C. Section 411(a), 'registration…
In a unanimous opinion by Justice Thomas, the Supreme Court held that a commercial sale of an invention to a third…
By a 7-2 vote, in an opinion by Justice Thomas, the Supreme Court held that a patent owner can recover lost foreign…
By a 5-4 vote, in an opinion by Justice Gorsuch, the Supreme Court held that when the PTAB institutes an inter partes…
A brief of Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC, 584 U.S. 325 (2018). In a 7-2 opinion by…
A brief of Berkheimer v. HP Inc., 881 F.3d 1360 (Fed. Cir. 2018). In an opinion by Judge Moore, the Federal Circuit…
A brief of Aqua Products, Inc. v. Matal, 872 F.3d 1290 (Fed. Cir. 2017) (en banc). In a deeply fractured decision with…
A brief of Matal v. Tam, 582 U.S. 218 (2017). The Supreme Court unanimously held that the Lanham Act's disparagement…
A brief of Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc., 582 U.S. 1 (2017). In a unanimous opinion by Justice Thomas, the Supreme Court…
A brief of Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark International, Inc., 581 U.S. 360 (2017). In an opinion by Chief…
A brief of TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, 581 U.S. 258 (2017). In an 8-0 opinion by Justice Thomas…
A brief of Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc., 580 U.S. 405 (2017). In a 6-2 opinion by Justice Thomas, the…
A brief of SCA Hygiene Products Aktiebolag v. First Quality Baby Products, LLC, 580 U.S. 328 (2017). In a 7-1 opinion…
A brief of Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp., 580 U.S. 140 (2017). In a 7-0 opinion by Justice Sotomayor, the…
A brief of Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple Inc., 580 U.S. 53 (2016). In a unanimous opinion by Justice Sotomayor, the…
A brief of Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., 839 F.3d 1034 (Fed. Cir. 2016) (en banc). By an 8-3 vote, in an…
A brief of McRO, Inc. v. Bandai Namco Games America Inc., 837 F.3d 1299 (Fed. Cir. 2016) — the 'Planet Blue' case. In…
A brief of Electric Power Group, LLC v. Alstom S.A., 830 F.3d 1350 (Fed. Cir. 2016). In an opinion by Judge Taranto…
A brief of Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corp., 822 F.3d 1327 (Fed. Cir. 2016). In an opinion by Judge Hughes, the Federal…
These videos are educational case briefs, not legal advice, and watching them does not create an attorney-client relationship with the presenter or the firm. Case law and its interpretation evolves, always check a decision's subsequent history. Do not rely on these case briefs, but read the case yourself or have your attorney read them. Videos are presented via AI avatars and voice clones of Kyle Coleman and John Goodhue, created with their participation and consent.
