May 27, 2021
Finjan and Cisco have agreed to drop a patent fight in California federal court over anti-malware systems, days before a much-delayed trial was scheduled to take place.
December 16, 2020
A California federal judge on Wednesday again delayed Finjan's patent infringement suit against Cisco amid the coronavirus pandemic, moving the scheduled start of the trial from January to June.
October 09, 2020
In this round of intellectual property updates tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, Moderna said it would hold off on enforcing certain patents and Ed Sheeran said getting to the U.S. for a copyright trial may be impossible, among many other litigation updates.
October 05, 2020
A California federal judge on Friday again delayed Finjan's patent infringement suit against Cisco from October until November amid the coronavirus pandemic but declined to push it to January as Cisco requested.
October 02, 2020
In this round of intellectual property updates tied to the ongoing pandemic, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's director, federal judges and in-house patent counsel discussed the pandemic, while trial dates continued to get moved around across the country.
September 29, 2020
Cisco asked a California federal judge Tuesday to again delay a trial in Finjan's patent infringement suit from October until January because of the coronavirus pandemic, saying the case is "purely about money" and doesn't justify risking the health of everyone involved.
May 29, 2020
The novel coronavirus pandemic has continued to cause delays and waivers in the patent and trademark worlds, and also has led to questions about who owns the rights to a key antiviral drug and whether Zoom should be concerned about its trademark.
May 26, 2020
A California federal judge on Tuesday delayed a trial in Finjan's patent infringement suit against Cisco from June until October because of the coronavirus pandemic, saying she had "high hopes" it would be the first civil jury trial in the district, but the court's "enormous backlog" of criminal cases takes priority.
May 22, 2020
Intellectual property proceedings impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic have been pressing along on different timelines throughout the country, with live oral arguments resumed for a case in Michigan, trials further delayed in California and witnesses allowed to stay home in New York. The Federal Circuit, taking the state-by-state unpredictability into account, has called off in-person arguments indefinitely.
May 01, 2020
The copyright and patent offices have pushed back certain deadlines as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, while at least one intellectual property bench trial is about to proceed over video. Here, Law360 pulls together all the updates you might have missed, including victories for 3M in its trademark campaign and a new suit by comedian Jeff Dunham seeking to protect his image.