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The TTAB's first precedential opinion of 2026 refused registration of an eight-slice pancake design as a trademark, finding the configuration functional — largely because the applicants' own marketing materials and arguments explained exactly why it's useful.

A federal judge permanently enjoined all federal agencies from implementing the Executive Order's directive to defund NPR and PBS, ruling that singling out two media organizations based on the President's disapproval of their coverage crosses the line from program design to punishment.

A new class action says Klarna combined Wall Street's originate-and-sell recklessness with payday lending tactics — and the Trump administration gutted the only agency that could stop it.

Sneaker influencer Nick Tuinenburg sold knockoff Nikes on Discord and launched his own Dunk lookalikes. A federal jury just hit him with $11 million in damages. The case is a warning to every brand founder who thinks copying a silhouette without the logo keeps them safe.

A jury in rural Ohio just handed Afroman a full defense verdict after seven sheriff's deputies sued him for turning footage of their botched raid into an album's worth of diss tracks. The trial featured a deputy who couldn't confirm whether Afroman's claim of sleeping with his wife was actually fals

Under U.S. copyright law, the photographer who takes a picture owns it — not the person in it. Cardi B is learning that the hard way.

California's AB 2013 survived xAI's legal challenge. AI companies must now disclose their training data. What they reveal could expose a copyright liability the industry has been betting against for years.

Nineteen of the 137 Venezuelans whom the Trump administration deported to El Salvador's CECOT megaprison under the Alien Enemies Act — the same men the government called terrorists, gang members, and enemies of the state — are now asking to be flown back to the United States to challenge those desig

The Department of War designated Anthropic — an American AI company — a "supply chain risk to national security," a label previously reserved for foreign adversaries like Huawei and ZTE. The reason? Anthropic won't remove two contract provisions: no mass domestic surveillance, and no autonomous weap

Judge Cannon permanently bars the DOJ from releasing Volume II of the Smith report. The motions were "unopposed" because no one was permitted to oppose them.

Blake Lively's company is using a trademark opposition to block a Utah entrepreneur from registering BEAUTY BY BLAKE. It's a smart strategy. It's also a legally questionable one.

Can They Just Backfill With Other Statutes? Technically, yes. Practically? Good luck. The President still has tariff authority under Section 232 and Section 301 — but those statutes require actual investigations, actual findings, and actual legal justification. You can't use a Section 301 finding ab

The 1972 Coca-Cola v. Gemini Rising case shows how trademark parody can cause illegal consumer confusion.

Trump's DOJ drops appeal of court order blocking massive UCLA settlement that would have banned diversity programs and declared transgender people don't exist.

The TTAB ruled that PISSTERINE mouthwash would confuse consumers with LISTERINE, rejecting parody as a defense to trademark infringement.