Pinterest, Inc. has filed a new inter partes review petition, IPR2026-00365, at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on May 22, 2026. The proceeding puts another PTAB spotlight on the increasingly important area of platform recommendation and content-delivery technology—an area where social media, e-commerce, and advertising companies continue to face significant patent assertion risk.

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Appellee MIT has asked the First Circuit for summary disposition in appeal No. 26-1510, a procedural move designed to end the appeal without full merits briefing or oral argument. In practical terms, the motion argues that the appellant’s position is so clearly foreclosed—whether by settled law, lack of appellate jurisdiction, waiver, or obvious deficiencies on the record—that the court can…
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Eli Lilly’s constitutional challenge to the False Claims Act’s qui tam mechanism, preserving one of the government’s most potent civil fraud enforcement tools. The petition arose from litigation brought by whistleblower Ronald Streck, who accused Lilly of misconduct tied to Medicaid drug rebate reporting.

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A May 15 filing in Daitona Carter, Federal Circuit No. 26-1721, spotlights one of the most consequential forms of interim appellate relief: an emergency stay pending appeal. The motion, styled as a request under Rule 8/18, appears to ask the court to temporarily halt the effect of a lower-court or agency ruling while the appeal moves forward. In practical…
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