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• July 11, 2025

  Catching Up On Stewart's Discretionary Denial Decisions

  Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart and a top administrative patent judge issued 15 discretionary denial decisions on Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions over the past week, across nearly 40 cases. Here's what she decided.

• July 11, 2025

  Muhammad Ali Ex-Photog Copyright Verdict Kept Mostly Intact

  Muhammad Ali's onetime personal photographer will keep $1.65 million in statutory copyright damages awarded by a jury against a licensing broker, a New York federal judge ruled Thursday, but a profits award must be cut from $750,000 to under $5,000.

• July 11, 2025

  4th Circ. Backs 'GT Racing' Gaming Chair Social Media Block

  The Fourth Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court's decision blocking gaming chair company Wudi Industrial from using the trademark "GT Racing" in its social media accessible in European countries for certain goods.

• July 11, 2025

  NPE Drops Injunction Bid In Samsung IP Suit Eyed By Feds

  A nonpracticing entity has dropped its bid for a preliminary injunction in its patent infringement case against Samsung in eastern Texas federal court, shortly after the federal government made the rare move of expressing interest in the case.

• July 11, 2025

  Fed. Circ. Questions Patent Ownership After J&J's $20M Loss

  The Federal Circuit appeared somewhat skeptical Friday that an orthopedic surgeon held onto the rights of knee replacement patents that he disputably assigned elsewhere, which would endanger the $20 million infringement verdict he won against a Johnson & Johnson unit.

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