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White House correspondent, covers patent, trade and regulatory news
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed this appeal by mutual agreement of the parties. The court ordered that each side shall bear its own costs.
The Third Circuit affirmed a district court ruling granting summary judgment to defendants in a student loan debt collection dispute. The court held that the plaintiff failed to meet the heavy burden required to prove a violation of Pennsylvania's Dragonetti Act.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed a summary judgment ruling in favor of an energy company in a dispute over natural gas extraction. The court held that the plaintiffs' claims for trespass and conversion were barred by a valid oil and gas lease ratified by their mother.
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed a district court judgment holding defendants liable for copyright infringement of Arabic-language programming. The court rejected challenges to DISH's ownership chain and upheld the finding that defendants directly infringed by using encoders to transmit protected works to U.S. customers.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment in a personal injury case, ruling that the plaintiff's claims were barred by Washington's three-year statute of limitations. The court rejected the plaintiff's argument that the discovery rule tolled the limitations period, finding he knew or should have known of the allegations by 2015 or 2016.
The Fourth Circuit reversed a district court's grant of summary judgment in a contract dispute involving an elderly homeowner. The appellate court held that evidence of undue influence existed regarding a release signed under financial duress after a sewage backup.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision dismissing a likelihood of confusion claim. The court held that the dissimilarity between Fuente's letter X marks and Vaporous's stick figure design mark was dispositive, outweighing other factors favoring confusion.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Merit Systems Protection Board's decision in a nonprecedential order. The court issued a per curiam judgment without providing detailed legal reasoning.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court's summary judgment for the government in a challenge to the permanent disqualification of a convenience store from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The court held that the store failed to raise a genuine dispute of material fact regarding suspicious transaction patterns that evidenced SNAP trafficking.
The Eleventh Circuit denied Henkels & McCoy's petition for review, upholding the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission's finding that the company violated the Occupational Safety and Health Act's general duty clause. The court ruled that the Commission's decision was supported by substantial evidence and was not arbitrary or capricious.
