Andrew Karpan

Microsoft says Nvidia should be the first to face patent infringement claims from a Texas startup that initiated a legal fight targeting microchips used to power Microsoft's generative artificial intelligence models, saying the chipmaker is the "only source" of the products at issue in the lawsuit.

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday rubber-stamped a ruling out of Delaware federal court that cleared Intel of allegations that the chipmaker infringed patents by a University of Maryland professor who purportedly developed an important idea in the world of "parallel computing" in 2006.

A Maryland federal judge said Monday that a drug company is, yet again, failing to make "good faith substantial compliance" with the terms of an injunction that followed a $15 million jury verdict in a dispute over a proprietary probiotic formula.

Federal Circuit judges decided Monday to keep intact three patent board decisions that had knocked out claims in a patent issued to Dutch mobile telecom developer Koninklijke KPN NV that covered a way of regulating access to a telecommunications network.

A Tennessee pharmaceutical company convinced a California federal jury that a rival owes it about $35 million for infringing its trademarks on brands of post-surgical eyedrops.

A Minnesota company that makes commercial floor scrubbers was ordered by a jury to pay a little under $10 million to a small licensing company that owns reissued patents that cover the idea of using "tiny bubbles" as a way of "oxygenating flowing water."

Meta has scored a ruling from Waco's U.S. District Judge Alan Albright finding that some of the language in patents connected to a failed mobile fitness brand, asserted against Meta's virtual reality headsets, fails to hold up in court.

A federal judge in San Antonio says the Patent Act's immunity protecting physicians from patent lawsuits is "broad, but it is not limitless," and it does not extend to a wellness software licensing company that "only licenses its product to medical providers."

Delegates from the world's major intellectual property groups signed a treaty Friday that would, if approved, establish new rules to facilitate the filing of design patents.

Google has persuaded a California federal court to nip in the bud one of the newer patent lawsuits targeting its Nest smart home brand, winning a ruling that found an air conditioner capable of "calculating and comparing thermal efficiency" wasn't enough for a patent.