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This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) indicates that the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act’s language could be changed to address concerns about gene patents; the Seventh Circuit says that Teva plausibly alleged that Eli Lilly breached the terms of a Hatch-Waxman settlemen; and more.

his week on Other Barks & Bites: the Sixth Circuit issued a ruling in favor of office furniture company MillerKnoll in a trademark case over the intellectual property rights to the Bubble Lamp; U.S. District Judge Jane Boyle issued a Section 101 ruling knocking out offline commerce transaction patent claims owned by Wolverine Barcode; the Federal Circuit found that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board did not violate the CAFC’s mandate on remand after the Board issued new findings on claim limitations disclosed by prior art; the European Union Intellectual Property Office announced that the agency received a record number of applications for EU trademarks during the first half of 2026; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the UK Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Apple’s appeal of a $502 million judgment setting a global 4G licensing rate with Optis Technology; the Federal Circuit remands a Delaware district court ruling invalidating TrackTime’s patents for reconsideration under intervening precedent on indefiniteness analysis from Dyfan v. Target Corp.; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: Circuit Judge Leonard Stark authors a concurrence explaining the Federal Circuit’s changes to the skilled searcher test in Ironburg Inventions v. Valve; Senate committees separately advance bills aimed at clarifying the framework for likeness rights in collegiate sports and creating a federal right to a person’s likeness; the Senate Finance Committee announces a hearing to vet several of President Trump’s nominees, including Peter-Anthony Pappas; USPTO Director John Squires issues a decision declining discretionary denial and designated informative in part for its analysis of U.S. manufacturing considerations; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: Senators Chuck Grassley and Amy Klobuchar introduced the American Innovation and Choice Online Act into Congress; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office waived the petition fee for the Streamlined Claim Set pilot program; the Council for Innovation Promotion publishes a study on the impacts of intellectual property rights in cultivating technology ecosystems;

This Week in Other Barks & Bites: the Seventh Circuit remands a Schedule A trademark case to determine whether the Hague Convention’s terms on proper service apply to particular Chinese defendants; President Donald Trump criticizes the automotive industry’s alleged efforts to impede consumer choice on auto repairs; he Eleventh Circuit finds no valid copyright termination notice sent in a case involving members of 2 Live Crew; and more.

This week on Other Barks & Bites: Circuit Judge Prost dissents from a Federal Circuit panel majority that found the statute of limitations had run out in Insulet’s trade secret case against EOFlow; the Copyright Office proposes amendments to the group registration option for frequently updated news websites; a bipartisan coalition of U.S. Senators announce a new bill representing an agreement struck on name, image and likeness (NIL) rights for college athletes; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act moves one step closer toward enactment; the Federal Circuit reverses attorney’s fees award and attorney sanctions in a patent case over e-banking technology; the Court of Justice for the European Union finds that a publisher’s right to fair compensation established by EU member states is permissible if qualifying as consideration for the right to republish; Nokia earns a stay of UK court rulings in its RAND licensing battle over video codec patents with Acer and Asus; the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office places informative designations on a trio of Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions applying agency precedent on inconsistent claim construction positions; Cisco announces 4,000 layoffs on the same day that it reported a 12% year-over-year jump in quarterly revenues; top Congressional Democrats publicly opposed President Trump’s ouster of the National Science Board membership; and the European General Court tells the European Union Intellectual Property Office that it did not sufficiently analyze links between an ammunition trademark and a famous French comic serial.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: a Ninth Circuit majority affirms a summary judgment dismissing false representation claims over Circuit Judge Bumatay’s dissent; a joint WIPO-IRENA report advances several recommendations to promote the electrification of the EU’s heavy-duty road transport sector; China’s Tencent removed more than 250,000 AI songs from its streams during 2025 for corporate policy violations; the Eleventh Circuit reverses a summary judgment ruling that had dismissed infringement claims brought by a licensee of photographs captured by Annie Liebovitz; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the U.S. Trade Representative issues its annual Special 301 Report listing the European Union as a Watch List nation for IP-related issues; Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) publicly oppose the Trump Administration’s decisions to cut federal funding for science and upend the National Science Board; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: Judge Alan Albright indicates that he will leave the Western District of Texas bench in August to re-enter private practice; Daren Tang is reelected as WIPO’s Director General; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit reverses a California district court’s denial of JMOL on trade secret and patent inventorship claims related to a cosmetic penile implant; the Senate Commerce Committee unanimously advances a bill to reauthorize the National Quantum Initiative; the Court of Justice for the European Union clarifies the scope of the pastiche exception for new works sampling copyrighted works to engage in artistic, critical or humorous dialogue; and more.

This week in Other Barks and Bites: the EU’s GPAI Signatory Taskforce convenes a second meeting to focus on copyright issues like mitigating infringing AI outputs; Meta and CoreWeave extend their AI cloud partnership through 2032 with a new deal worth $21 billion; and more.

This week in Other Barks & Bites: the Federal Circuit rules that the omission of a co-inventor from a patent invalidates those patent claims if inventorship cannot be corrected; President Donald Trump signs an executive order placing 100% tariffs on drug companies who do not onshore production of patented pharmaceuticals; and more.