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Patents, trademarks, copycats, contracts and supply disputes: companies taking each other to court.
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Seven years of litigation, a billion-dollar verdict and a unanimous Supreme Court ruling ended in a quiet settlement in 2018. The fight still shapes how design patents are valued.
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Disney is appealing a Rio de Janeiro court order while Ericsson opens new cases against it, adding to a growing list of video codec disputes.
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The rival railroad says the deal would leave thousands of shippers with a single carrier, as farm groups line up behind it and US regulators set a review running into 2027.
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The sportswear giant says the online boutique’s stripes are deceptively similar to its own. White Fox says they are decoration, and experts say the case could test adidas’s mark in Australia.
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A split ICC tribunal found the US exporter’s Calcasieu Pass unit breached its contract with the Portuguese energy group, but damages will not be set until 2027 or later and are capped at $170 million.
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A jury found Quince’s cheaper sheepskin boot did copy UGG’s patented design, but ruled the patent itself invalid. Deckers is now taking the case to the Federal Circuit.
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A Florida federal jury found the air taxi developer broke a 2021 confidentiality deal and wilfully misused its former supplier’s designs. Joby says it built the system itself and will challenge the verdict.
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A Delaware judge has barred Accord BioPharma and Bio-Thera from selling their FDA-approved golimumab copy while J&J’s unit pursues a 17-patent case.
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After losing at trial and on appeal, adidas has asked the justices to revive its case over Thom Browne’s four-bar design, pointing to emails that surfaced in a UK case.
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A Utah federal judge refused to throw out most of the military drone maker’s claims against George Matus and Vector Defense, sending the dispute towards discovery.
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A San Diego jury found that the Taptic Engine in iPhones and Apple Watches infringes two patents held by a small audio-tech company. Apple says it does not use the technology and will appeal.
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The footwear maker says the discount chain kept selling the products for months after a demand letter. It wants damages and the stock destroyed.
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The US 3D-printing pioneer won the first of two infringement trials against the fast-growing Chinese printer maker, which says it will appeal.
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A Munich court found Micron infringed two Chinese-owned utility models. Micron has appealed and is suing YMTC in Idaho over patent ownership and trade secrets.
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The Polish group’s Lithuanian business terminated the near-€1bn contract last year after the UK contractor’s financial collapse delayed work and payments.
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A Chinese court’s life sentence and asset confiscation for founder Hui Ka Yan has added a cross-border complication to Hong Kong recovery cases worth billions.
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The port operator is folding its digital efforts into its own logistics business and dropping the neutral booking marketplace it bought in 2020. SeaRates’ founder has started again, independently.
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A Marshall jury cleared the three carriers, backed by Ericsson and Nokia, of infringing patents asserted by ASUS-linked licensing companies.
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A patent complaint at the US International Trade Commission puts Samsung smartphones and tablets under investigation. Maxell is seeking an import ban, not damages.
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Prestige Imports claims the carmaker used a federal connected-vehicle ruling as cover for a withdrawal it had planned for years. Polestar says the government decision was beyond its control.
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The High Court rejected Shein’s claim over product photos on Temu’s platform and upheld Temu’s counterclaim. A competition trial between the two is still to come.
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A Dutch foundation backed by HOTREC more than tripled its claimant list in an Amsterdam case over price-parity clauses, and expects about 18,000 hotels by the end of the year.
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A jury found the plant-based meat maker wilfully infringed Joel Runyon’s “Impossible” marks. The judge has now thrown out the $1.75m punitive award and ordered a new trial.
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The award over securities frozen since 2022 is one of more than 100 Russian claims against the Belgian depository, which insists only Belgian courts have jurisdiction.
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A New York federal judge found the keto ice cream maker deliberately imitated Van Leeuwen’s pastel packaging. Weeks later, Rebel filed for Chapter 11 and is appealing.
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Georgia Aldridge bought lookalike Dior, Fendi, Celine and Loewe products on AliExpress and resold them to her followers. The High Court rejected the brands’ claim that buyers were fooled.
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The Swiss crop-protection group says BASF’s new product copies a patented herbicide-and-safener combination behind its own Storen, and wants it kept off the market before the autumn selling season.
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RiseandShine lost its case against Mtn Dew Rise Energy without a jury ever weighing in. The justices will decide whether a trademark’s strength is for judges or juries to judge.
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Francheska Pujols says the budget retailer kept running ads with AI-made versions of her in sexualised poses she never shot. Rainbow says it used its images properly.
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