Category Archives: Patent Eligibility

In Versata v. Ford, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reinstated an $82.26 million jury award for Versata Software LLC against Ford Motor Company on May 22, 2026. The award had previously been reduced in a 2023 decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, which lowered the breach of contract award from $82.3 million to a nominal $3 and cut a $22.4 million trade secret misappropriation award to $0.

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A patent permanent injunction does not automatically follow a finding of infringement—even a willful one carrying a verdict worth hundreds of millions of dollars. On May 18, 2026, the Eastern District of Texas addressed a Motion for Permanent Injunction by Collision Communications, Inc (“Collision”) seeking to enjoin Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (“Samsung”) from infringing U.S. Patent No. 7,593,492 (the “’492 Patent”).

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The Supreme Court is poised to decide one of the most consequential questions in pharmaceutical patent law: when does a generic drug’s marketing create skinny label patent infringement liability? Continue reading…

On October 27, 2025, Judge Sidney H. Stein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied OpenAI’s motion to dismiss authors’ output-based copyright infringement claims in In re OpenAI, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation.

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On August 19, 2025, the Federal Circuit issued a non-precedential opinion affirming a Louisiana district court’s invalidation of U.S. Patent No. 6,918,801, owned by Wilco Marsh Buggies & Draglines, Inc. (“Wilco”), under the on-sale bar.

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