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Company vs Company
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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Country vs Country
An order signed on 23 October takes the 50% duty off plywood, some paper, machinery and seaweed, and puts it on carpets, paints, freezers and canoes from 30 October. The overall standoff is unchanged.
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Government vs Company
The Transportation Department says US airspace rules applied because the flights carried Delta flight numbers. The two European carriers argue air traffic control forced them lower.
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Government vs Company
The probe concerned delivery delays and customer complaints. The FTC has not commented, and the terms have not been published.
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Country vs Country
The trade representative’s office wants to keep the Section 301 vessel charges switched off until 9 January 2027, but the plan is not final and Beijing has not said whether it will match it.
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Company vs Company
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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Government vs Company
Northern Ashanti Mines is challenging the Minerals Commission in Accra’s High Court, and security forces have reportedly taken over the site.
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Government vs Company
Schools were told in August to review ties with listed foreign institutions or risk research funding. The department now claims full compliance, though some universities are keeping parts of their programmes.
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Country vs Country
Seoul sent officials to Strasbourg to argue that the Industrial Accelerator Act’s EU-origin preferences should not shut out Korean carmakers, steelmakers and battery firms.
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Company vs Company
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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Government vs Company
The penalty in the state’s Cambridge Analytica case dwarfs the 2019 FTC fine. Meta says it will appeal.
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Country vs Country
A final injury finding by the US International Trade Commission means anti-dumping and anti-subsidy orders on the three countries’ cells and modules can be issued in early November.
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Government vs Company
New general licences let the Burgas refinery, Lukoil’s fuel stations abroad and its Bulgarian fuel suppliers keep trading, a year after Washington blacklisted the Russian oil major.
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Country vs Country
Jakarta’s trade ministry warns that Europe’s tougher quota-and-tariff regimes threaten market access for its steelmakers, and says it will press its case through diplomatic channels.
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Country vs Country
Brussels wants cheaper tuition for EU students and a youth mobility scheme; in return it is offering easier food trade and closer energy ties. A reported compromise would set EU fees at about £13,000 a year.
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Country vs Country
Taipei will add advanced semiconductors and AI servers to its export-control list, a step it ties to its trade deal with Washington. No start date has been set.
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Country vs Country
Washington has threatened to lift its 25% duty on Canadian vehicles to 50% on 1 January, and Ottawa’s opposition leader has taken his case for tariff-free auto trade straight to Detroit.
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Country vs Country
The “all others” rate falls to 24.75% from 35.16%, but a separate 10% national-security tariff on lumber stays in place.
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Government vs Company
The second-biggest US bank also settled 475 apparent sanctions violations with OFAC, covering payments linked to Russia, Iran and other programmes.
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Country vs Country
September brought a sixth straight year-on-year gain, yet car trips remain almost a third under pre-trade-war levels and many Canadians say a trade deal would not change their plans.
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Company vs Company
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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Country vs Country
A year-old national-security probe into imported robots and CNC machines has produced no announced action, leaving manufacturers to plan around metal-content duties instead.
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Country vs Country
Brussels calls it a first step. Beijing has published no numbers, and the mechanism, baseline and timetable are still unclear.
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Government vs Company
Vice President JD Vance accused Harvard, Stanford, MIT and six others of using foreign researchers as cheaper labour. University records cast doubt on some of the figures behind the claim.
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Company vs Company
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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Government vs Company
The LCIA award follows a fight over the Awash–Weldiya line, abandoned by its builder when Ethiopia’s northern war reached the sites.
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Country vs Country
A revised draft drops the fixed 36-month deadline in favour of a risk-based phase-out, after operators warned of costs of up to $45 billion. Beijing has threatened retaliation.
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Company vs Company
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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Country vs Country
Beijing’s investigation into a dye and pesticide intermediate lands as the EU’s trade commissioner prepares to visit, adding chemicals to a widening list of disputed goods.
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Government vs Company
A 15% cap on Chinese shareholdings would catch the German carmaker, whose two largest Chinese investors hold nearly 20%. Its sponsor now says Mercedes will not be banned, but the text has not changed.
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Company vs Company
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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Country vs Country
Washington has capped the parts it clears for Chinese planemaker COMAC and is weighing wider curbs, in a move commentators tie to China’s grip on rare earths.
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Country vs Country
Brazil has used up its 2026 allowance under China’s beef safeguard, so shipments now pay 67% in total for the rest of the year. Beijing has also not accepted Brazil’s plan to borrow Uruguay’s unused volume.
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Company vs Company
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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Government vs Company
The state body that guards Israel’s “golden share” in Zim has thrown out the original deal structure, so the German carrier and its local partner FIMI must file a reworked plan.
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Government vs Company
A draft from the Federal Network Agency treats the whole radio access network as security-critical, which would let Berlin bar Huawei kit from thousands of mobile sites.
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Government vs Company
Ottawa says the US steelmaker is bound by job commitments it made to win approval for its 2024 takeover of Stelco; the company blames the US–Canada tariff war and says it will fight in court.
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Government vs Company
Objections were notified after a two-year investigation. The authority did not name the company; French media identified it as Canal+.
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Company vs Company
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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Country vs Country
A new joint Board of Trade has drawn up two lists of “non-sensitive” products. What it has not said is how deep the cuts will go, or when they start.
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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Government vs Company
A divided tribunal ruled it had no jurisdiction under the OIC investment agreement and ordered the investors to pay Egypt’s costs.
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Government vs Company
The deal to end the state attorneys general’s antitrust suit requires Paramount to keep Pluto TV or an equivalent free service running for five years.
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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Government vs Company
The Justice Department’s three-year case against the meat industry’s main data provider ends without a trial or a finding of liability, but with tight limits on what the company may share.
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Government vs Company
The General Court backed the European Commission’s 2023 veto, accepting that flights would have fed Booking’s dominant hotel business; Booking is weighing an appeal.
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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Government vs Company
A per-item environmental fee took effect on 1 September. Zara and H&M fall outside it, and China has called the rules discriminatory.
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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Government vs Company
A preliminary injunction halts the June listing while the drug-development contractor’s lawsuit proceeds. The label would also have fed into the new BIOSECURE Act restrictions.
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Government vs Company
Trax International says artificial intelligence invented weaknesses in its bid for White Sands Missile Range work, after the GAO rejected its protest in May.
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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Country vs Country
Berlin cleared almost €800m of licences in five months, more than in the previous 20 months combined, with most of the value tied to a single naval project.
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Country vs Country
New Section 301 duties of 10% or 12.5% replaced the expired temporary tariff on 24 July. Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia and Malaysia were promised a duty-relief quota tied to buying US cotton.
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Government vs Company
Two decisions, one on Search and one on the Play Store, came with a 60-day deadline to comply or face daily penalties.
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Country vs Country
Brussels adopted its largest set of Russia listings since 2022, extending transaction bans to banks and crypto platforms outside Russia that it says help evade sanctions.
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Country vs Country
Washington says generics stay duty-free until August 2028, then face 100% and later 200% levies unless production moves to the US. India supplies an estimated 40–45% of the generics Americans take.
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Government vs Company
The European Commission’s formal charges cover cement additives and concrete admixtures in France, Germany and Spain during the post-pandemic cost surge of 2021–2022.
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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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Country vs Country
Treasury says Ali Ansari used a St Kitts holding company to build real estate holdings in Europe and the Gulf for the benefit of Iran’s elite and the Revolutionary Guards.
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Country vs Country
The temporary duty, aimed squarely at the flood of low-value shipments from China, replaces an exemption that had stood since 2008. France says parcel imports from China have since fallen by up to 40%.
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Company vs Company
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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Company vs Company
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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