Patent Pulse

Signals for owners, counsel,
funders & brokers.

A running digest of newly filed patent cases, Federal Circuit and district court opinions, and monetization signals for patent owners, counsel, funders, and brokers — curated and published periodically by K2K Law.

Issue No. 3 · August 28, 2026

Nine new filings and campaigns, a marking requirement that reaches licensees, and a dismissal for lack of standing

Headwater sues Google over Google Cloud; Takeda brings a BPCIA action against Polpharma Biologics over a vedolizumab biosimilar; QuickVault asserts six patents against IBM Guardium; Outleads sues Salesforce on seven patents in a case the docket miscodes as declaratory judgment; Malikie asserts BlackBerry-derived patents against Sercomm and Fenix; and Convergence, Storage Vectors and InnoMemory each file multi-defendant campaigns in the Eastern District of Texas. At the Federal Circuit, VDPP v. Volkswagen ties pre-suit damages to a patentee’s licensees’ compliance with §287(a), and US Inventor v. Squires affirms dismissal of an APA challenge to the patent grant language for lack of standing.

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Issue No. 2 · August 14, 2026

Three spatial-audio suits, two mirror-image filings, and a narrower route to provisional-dated prior art

Boomcloud 360 sues Apple, Google and Samsung over spatial-audio patents, eight days after Apple filed for a declaratory judgment on three different patents; Micron and Netlist file against each other the same day in Delaware and California; the Federal Circuit holds that AIA prior art dated to a provisional application requires §112(a) written description support, and denies rehearing en banc on the design patent infringement test; plus the Netlist–Samsung settlement and the UK Supreme Court on Avanci and FRAND.

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Issue No. 1 · July 20, 2026

Four campaigns filed, and three decisions from the Federal Circuit

Crestone IP sues Samsung, HP and Apple over the same four patents; VB Assets sues IBM in Delaware over eight; the Federal Circuit rules on an IPR remand, a preliminary injunction, and the limits of the “book of wisdom” in damages; plus litigation funding, PERA, reexamination practice, and a $229M flash-memory verdict.

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