January 27, 2023
Garage door company Overhead Door Corp. owes Chamberlain Group $43.4 million — which comprises damages as well as a running royalty — for selling garage door products that infringe one of Chamberlain's patents, according to a verdict returned by a Texas federal jury on Friday.
January 19, 2023
Pfizer is set to tell a Connecticut federal court next week that communications between its lawyers and the FBI shouldn't be disclosed in its trade secrets suit accusing former executives of stealing diabetes and cancer medication research. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
September 08, 2022
The D.C. Circuit next week will consider a long-simmering constitutional challenge to parts of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation call "a draconian federal statute that directly restricts [the] ability to speak." Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
March 31, 2022
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap has ordered a partial new trial after a jury cleared garage door company Overhead Door Corp. of allegations that it ripped off patents owned by Blackstone's recently purchased Chamberlain Group, also fining Overhead more than $1.1 million.
March 14, 2022
A jury in Texas has cleared a Dallas garage door company of allegations that it owed almost $63 million for ripping off three patents owned by Blackstone's recently purchased Chamberlain Group, in a scorching verdict that also found that claims in two of the patents were invalid.
March 03, 2022
Microsoft and Google are heading to the Federal Circuit next week to challenge rulings by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that partially upheld voice technology patents that are connected to Apple’s Siri brand and now owned by a Wi-LAN subsidiary. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.