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December 16, 2024
Knicks Blame Raptors Arbitration Delay On Silver 'Conflict'
The New York Knicks reiterated their claim that National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver is biased against the franchise and incapable of arbitrating their data-theft dispute with the Toronto Raptors, accusing Silver of a "clear conflict of interest.''
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December 16, 2024
High Court Bar's Future: Latham's Roman Martinez
Roman Martinez of Latham & Watkins LLP approaches oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court as if they were just another dinner with family or friends — people he's argued with since he was a kid.
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December 16, 2024
Chipmaker Arm Settles UPC, US IP Litigation With Rival
The Unified Patent Court has granted two computer chip companies permission to pull out of their litigation in Europe after the pair inked an agreement ending their parallel U.S. feud.
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December 16, 2024
Gibson Dunn Guides Vera Wang In Sale Of IP To WHP Global
New York-based brand management firm WHP Global, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Pryor Cashman LLP, on Monday announced that it has agreed to buy all the intellectual property of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP-advised luxury designer brand Vera Wang.
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December 13, 2024
NCAA, Pac-12, USC Say Reggie Bush Filed NIL Suit Too Late
The NCAA, the University of Southern California and the Pac-12 Conference urged a Los Angeles state court to toss former USC star running back Reggie Bush's lawsuit accusing them of profiting off his fame without compensating him, saying Bush waited "far too long" to sue.
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December 13, 2024
Prindle Goetz Says Attys Took Trade Secrets To Rival Firm
Prindle Goetz Barnes & Reinholtz LLP sued two former nonequity partners in California state court Thursday, accusing them of taking its confidential billing, compensation and client listing information with them in late 2022 before jumping to a rival law firm launched by a former equity owner at the law firm.
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December 13, 2024
Liner Co. Seeks PTAB Sanctions For Alleged False Testimony
After receiving the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's green light Friday, Omega Liner Co. quickly requested sanctions against German packaging company Buergofol GmbH, whose liner patent Omega is challenging, accusing Buergofol's counsel of knowingly submitting false testimony to the board.
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December 13, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen a group of franchise operators hit Vodafone with a £120 million ($151 million) claim for allegedly imposing commission cuts, green energy tycoon Dale Vince pursue another libel action against the publisher of the Daily Mail, and parcel delivery giant Yodel face a claim by an investor that helped save it from collapse earlier in the year.
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December 13, 2024
Judge Finds Wireless Patent Claim Indefinite In Samsung Feud
A Delaware federal magistrate judge has sided with Samsung on how to interpret a key claim in a wireless communications patent it was accused of infringing, finding the term was indefinite.
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December 13, 2024
Tesla Gets PTAB To Cut Some Claims In 2 AI Vehicle Patents
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that most of the challenged claims across two patents related to the use of artificial intelligence in self-driving vehicles are invalid, handing a win to challenger Tesla.
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December 13, 2024
ITC To Review Design Patent Case Over Blue-Soled Shoes
The U.S. International Trade Commission has agreed to investigate whether a New York-based company and a group of overseas entities are importing women's flats that infringe design patents belonging to the maker of Tieks shoes.
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December 13, 2024
ByteDance Ex-Coder Perjured Himself In Suit, Judge Finds
A California federal judge imposed terminating sanctions against a former engineer at TikTok's parent company, finding he committed perjury in a suit alleging he was wrongly fired and ordered the dispute to arbitration.
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December 13, 2024
'Copycat' Nantucket Wine Event Ordered To Issue Retraction
A Massachusetts liquor distributor was ordered Friday by a federal judge to post a bold-type correction and issue press releases retracting claims that it had acquired and "re-branded" a long-running Nantucket wine and food festival.
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December 13, 2024
What's Left In $400M Skinny Label Row? A Lot, Court Says
A number of key issues remain live in the $400 million fight between Teva Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline over whether the generic-drug maker induced healthcare providers to infringe the brand-name company's heart drug patent, including the availability of a new trial, a Delaware federal judge has said.
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December 13, 2024
Ex-Judges, Atty Group Back Newman In Suspension Lawsuit
U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman has received more support at the D.C. Circuit in her case over the suspension her colleagues imposed on her for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness to serve as a Federal Circuit judge, this time from a group of former federal judges and the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.
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December 13, 2024
Off The Bench: PE Buys In On NFL, WWE Abuse Suit Back On
In this week's Off The Bench, two teams usher in a new era for the NFL by bringing in private equity investors, a suit accusing the WWE and Vince McMahon of sexual abuse and trafficking picks back up while a federal investigation continues, and a private equity giant and NHL owner passes away.
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December 12, 2024
Moderna Fires Back With Counterclaims In GSK RSV Vax Suit
Moderna Inc. on Thursday lodged counterclaims in Delaware federal court accusing GlaxoSmithKline of failing to develop its own vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, and then "resorting to the courtroom" and GSK's "manipulation of the United States patent system" to go after Moderna.
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December 12, 2024
WGA Urges Major Studios To Take Legal Action Over AI 'Theft'
The Writers Guild of America on Wednesday called on several major entertainment studios to swiftly take legal action against technology companies they assert are stealing writers' works to train artificial intelligence systems and making billions of dollars from the "wholesale theft."
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December 12, 2024
Vidal Reflects On USPTO Achievements As She Leaves Office
Kathi Vidal will serve her last day as U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director on Friday and rejoin her former firm, Winston & Strawn LLP, on Monday. She talked to Law360 as she prepared her exit from the agency, with internal changes top of mind as she looked back on her tenure.
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December 12, 2024
Align Tech's $27.5M Antitrust Deal Hits Nerve With Judge
A California federal judge said Thursday that a proposed $27.5 million deal for teeth-aligner buyers to resolve antitrust claims alleging Align Technologies Inc. colluded with the now-bankrupt SmileDirectClub to illegally restrict competition might be "inherently improper" due to a coupon component that "would bring additional business to the monopolist."
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December 12, 2024
Carlisle Cleared In Patent Trial Over Spray Guns
Jurors cleared Carlisle's construction materials company on Thursday from allegations in Delaware federal court that the Pennsylvania company was infringing a single claim in a rival's patent that covered a spray gun marketed to construction workers.
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December 12, 2024
T-Mobile Says Split On TM Use Must Be Resolved By Justices
T-Mobile is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fourth Circuit panel's revival of a prepaid cellphone company's trademark infringement suit, telling the justices in a new petition this week that trademarks should have to be in continuous use for their holders to be able to protect them.
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December 12, 2024
Coke Zero Sweetener Co. Asks Justices To Hear Patent Feud
The company that developed the artificial sweetener used in Coke Zero wants to keep patents that were filed at the patent office after the drinks went on sale, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that Federal Circuit judges who thought otherwise were prioritizing their "own decisions over Congress's judgment."
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December 12, 2024
Calif. Judge Kills Software Patent Suit Under Alice
A California federal judge on Thursday threw out a patent infringement lawsuit by a bankrupt startup against one of Salesforce's brands, saying the claims in the patents didn't pass muster under the test laid out in the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice decision.
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December 12, 2024
Medicare Could Lose Billions From 'Patent Abuse,' Group Says
The $6 billion a year Medicare is supposed to save by negotiating drug prices under the Inflation Reduction Act is close to the billions of dollars the government could lose due to "patent abuse" by drugmakers, according to a new report by a consumer interest group.
Expert Analysis
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Copyright Questions Surround AI Music Platform Suits
If recent lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against two artificial intelligence music platform developers — who maintain that use of copyrighted works to train AI models constitutes fair use — go to trial, this novel issue will make for potentially precedent-setting decisions, says intellectual property lawyer Eric Lane.
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Patent Marking Steps After Fed. Circ. Opens Lanham Act Door
Following the Federal Circuit’s recent ruling in Crocs v. Effervescent, which seemingly revives private actors’ ability to bring false patent marking claims under the Lanham Act, marketing and legal teams should be careful to avoid advertisement language that implies nonexistent patent rights, says Jeffrey Ratinoff at Spencer Fane.
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Litigation Strategies In View Of New Double Patenting Rulings
Recent Federal Circuit decisions, including in Allergan v. MSN, raise several issues that patent owners should understand and consider addressing proactively regarding obviousness-type double patenting, at least in their prosecution strategies, say attorneys at Dentons.
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Promoting Diversity In The Selection Of ADR Neutrals
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Choosing neutrals from diverse backgrounds is an important step in promoting inclusion in the legal profession, and it can enhance the legitimacy and public perception of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Series
Playing Ultimate Makes Us Better Lawyers
In addition to being fun, ultimate Frisbee has improved our legal careers by emphasizing the importance of professionalism, teamwork, perseverance, enthusiasm and vulnerability, say Arunabha Bhoumik and Adam Bernstein at Regeneron.
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Tracking The Slow Movement Of AI Copyright Cases
The tech community may be expecting a prompt resolution on whether products generated by artificial intelligence are a fair use of copyrighted works, but legal history shows that a response to this question — at the heart of over 30 pending cases — will take years, say attorneys at White & Case.
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The EU Design System Changes US Cos. Need To Know About
With a number of major reforms to the European Union's design protection system set to take effect in the first half of 2025, U.S. companies need to stay informed about specific details to maintain effective intellectual property management in the EU market, say lawyers at Finnegan.
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Curious Case Of FTC's Amicus Brief In Teva Fed. Circ. Appeal
Attorneys at BCLP explore the Federal Trade Commission's backing of Amneal's Orange Book-delisting efforts on Teva ahead of a key Federal Circuit hearing in a case between the two pharmaceutical companies, and wonder if the FTC amicus brief indicates a future trend, especially in the next administration.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Metadata
Several recent rulings reflect the competing considerations that arise when parties dispute the form of production for electronically stored information, underscoring that counsel must carefully consider how to produce and request reasonably usable data, say attorneys at Sidley.
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When 'Patented' Goes Beyond Inventorship In False Ad Cases
The Federal Circuit's recent false advertising holding in Crocs v. Effervescent is significant because it offers a nuanced yet realistic understanding of what false claims about a product's status as "patented" can mean, say attorneys at McDermott.
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The Fed. Circ. In October: Aetna And License-Term Review
The Federal Circuit's recent decision that Aetna's credit card licensing agreement with AlexSam did not give the insurer immunity from patent infringement claims serves to warn licensees to read their contracts carefully, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.
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Opinion
PREVAIL Bill Is Another Misguided Attempt To Restrict PTAB
The decade-long campaign against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board — currently focused on the PREVAIL Act that's slated for markup in the Senate — is not really about procedural issues, and it is not aimed at securing more accurate patentability decisions, says Clear IP's Joseph Matal, former acting director at the USPTO.
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Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being
As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.
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Fleetwood Facts: Art Imitating Life, Or Infringing Copyright?
A new lawsuit in New York federal court over Broadway's "Stereophonic" play tests copyright's limits, as copyright law poses significant hurdles when it comes to real-life stories, and the line between fact and fiction isn't always clear-cut, says Aaron Moss at Greenberg Glusker.
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Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes
Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.