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On October 20, 2026, Buc-ee’s amended its federal trademark complaint against Beaver’s Mini Mart, a small convenience store in Beavercreek, Ohio. According to reporting by USA TODAY and WHIO, the amended filing puts more weight on Buc-ee’s registered BEAVER’S word mark and less on the resemblance between the two companies’ cartoon beavers. No court has…
B.L. Harbert International, LLC, an Alabama-based builder of U.S. embassies and consulates, has sued the United States in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims for at least $461,097,380. The company says the State Department made it keep working through the COVID-19 pandemic, then refused to fully pay the extra costs and walked away from a…
Smile More Intellectual Holdings, LLC filed a federal trademark lawsuit against American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. and The Smiley Company on September 25, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. The case, Smile More Intellectual Holdings, LLC v. American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. et al., is docketed as No. 6:26-cv-02240. The docket…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked Cable One Inc. from completing its approximately $480 million purchase of the remaining 55% stake in Mega Broadband Investments Holdings LLC. The order came on October 9, 2026, the same day lender CoBank ACB filed an emergency lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New…
A federal jury in Tampa has ordered electric air-taxi developer Joby Aero, Inc. to pay approximately $116.9 million to Aerosonic LLC after finding that Joby breached a nondisclosure agreement and willfully misappropriated Aerosonic’s trade secrets involving aircraft air-data probes. The verdict is not yet a final judgment, and Joby says it will challenge it. The…
Micron Technology has agreed to pay Netlist, Inc. $600 million over five years under a patent license that comes with a settlement of their legal disputes. Micron will pay $30 million for each of 20 calendar quarters, from the fourth quarter of 2026 through the third quarter of 2031. In return, Micron gets a worldwide,…
A federal jury in San Diego found on September 25, 2026 that Apple’s Taptic Engine, the haptic feedback hardware in iPhones and Apple Watches, infringed two patents owned by Taction Technology, Inc., and awarded Taction $5,721,961,750 in damages.[1][10] It is reported to be the largest patent verdict in U.S. history, and Apple says it will…
Eighteen insurance brokers on Willis Towers Watson’s Northeast construction team resigned within a 44-minute window on August 19, 2026 — and every one of them landed at rival brokerage Lockton Companies. WTW responded with a 67-page lawsuit accusing Lockton of orchestrating what the complaint calls a “smash and grab” on its Boston office, its people,…