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The Federal Circuit on Thursday seemed unsure whether it should wipe out Snap Inc.'s defeat of an infringement suit from Sanderling Management Ltd. over three marketing patents, on the basis that a California federal judge wrongly invalidated them under the Alice decision.

A Texas federal judge has cleared Google of infringing one claim in a Sonos wireless audio system patent while also declaring the patent invalid, handing the tech giant a win in the latest installment of the companies' sprawling legal fight.

A Federal Circuit panel on Monday pressed an attorney for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board erred in a twice-remanded final decision that held Nike's footwear stitching patent invalid again in a long-running feud with Adidas AG.

The full Federal Circuit has declined to reconsider a panel decision from May ordering U.S. District Judge Alan Albright to transfer BillJCo LLC's infringement suit against Apple over beacon technology out of the Western District of Texas to California.

The decadelong patent pilot program that put patent cases before district judges with an interest in intellectual property improved efficiency and experience, but had little impact on venue change or the affirmance rate of patent cases on appeal, a report has found.

Apple has persuaded the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that two patents owned by GUI Global Products Ltd. are no good after Samsung got the board to invalidate them last month, giving both tech giants a boost in fighting off infringement allegations.

The Federal Circuit on Monday upheld a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that seven of eight claims in a Sleep Number Corp. mattress valve patent were not shown to be invalid in a challenge brought by a rival, American National Manufacturing Inc.

Seagen Inc. has persuaded the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on rehearing to deny a challenge from Daiichi Sankyo Inc. and AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP to its cancer antibody patent, with the board saying the post-grant review is no longer warranted under the controversial Fintiv precedent.

Texas sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday over guidance it issued earlier this week mandating that doctors are required to perform abortions deemed necessary in emergency situations, regardless of state abortion restrictions.

Senate Republicans on Thursday refused to fast-track a Democratic bill that would protect the right of pregnant people to cross state lines to obtain abortions, and would also shield those who transport them, as well as providers in states where abortion remains legal from lawsuits and prosecution.