Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
Intellectual Property
-
December 05, 2024
Judge Newman Brings Fight To End Her Suspension To DC Circ.
U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman asked the D.C. Circuit on Thursday to rule that a suspension her colleagues have imposed on her for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness to serve as a Federal Circuit judge violates the U.S. Constitution.
-
December 05, 2024
Investors Sue Pegasystems In Corporate Espionage Case
Business software developer Pegasystems Inc. has been hit with allegations that it misled an asset management firm by concealing its use of illegal and unethical tactics to misappropriate competitor Appian Corp.'s trade secrets, which led to a since-overturned $2 billion Virginia state court judgment for unjust enrichment.
-
December 05, 2024
Netgear Seeks Anti-Suit Injunction Over Huawei's Wi-Fi SEPs
Netgear is urging a California federal judge to block Chinese router-maker Huawei Technologies from seeking injunctions through Wi-Fi patent infringement actions the company pursued in foreign courts, arguing that Huawei is trying to impose excessive royalty rates and is avoiding its commitment to license its patents on reasonable terms.
-
December 05, 2024
Vidal Sends Nokia's Patent Challenges Back To PTAB, Again
The head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has again vacated a Patent Trial and Appeal Board refusal to hear three patent challenges by Nokia, saying the board needs to take a look at the case a third time.
-
December 05, 2024
DOJ Is Eyeing Foreign Patent Litigation Funding, GAO Says
The U.S. Department of Justice is examining the role foreign countries might be playing in funding patent litigation in the U.S., the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday exploring the benefits and pitfalls of the proliferation of third-party intellectual property litigation financing.
-
December 05, 2024
Gov't Efficiency Push Is A 'New Day,' House Speaker Says
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., spoke excitedly Thursday about the new government efficiency operation helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and touted the budding bipartisan lineup of a congressional caucus that will work with it.
-
December 05, 2024
Judge Snubs Bid For $1M Bond On $22M 'Comfy' IP Verdict
An Arizona federal judge on Wednesday rejected a retailer's bid to pay a $1 million bond while appealing a $22 million judgment against it for infringing the design patents of Cozy Comfort Co., the maker of the "Comfy" sweatshirt featured on "Shark Tank."
-
December 05, 2024
Sanctioned VLSI Patent Challenger Must ID Members In Va.
VLSI Technology LLC won a major victory Thursday in litigation where it's looking for compensation from a mysterious company that tried to extort it at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, with a Virginia federal judge ordering that company to disclose its members.
-
December 05, 2024
Infringing Phone Mounts Permanently Blocked In Patent Case
A Washington federal judge agreed on Thursday to block a maker of electronic device mounts from selling certain products that have infringed a patent owned by a rival.
-
December 05, 2024
Face-Swapping App Can't Ax Reality TV Star's Suit At 9th Circ.
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday refused to toss a reality TV star's proposed class action accusing a face-swapping app of misusing his likeness, finding his statutory right-of-publicity claim isn't preempted by the federal Copyright Act since the claim involves his likeness and "not a work of authorship."
-
December 05, 2024
NCAA's NIL Settlement 'Illegal' In Many States, Lawmakers Say
The National Collegiate Athletic Association's $2.78 billion settlement with athletes over name, image and likeness compensation, now awaiting final court approval, would be "illegal" in several states because of their current NIL laws, a group of current and former lawmakers said Thursday.
-
December 05, 2024
Fed. Circ. Unlikely To Help Realtek Pursue ITC Sanctions
A Federal Circuit panel seemed baffled Thursday as a K&L Gates attorney argued that the U.S. International Trade Commission wrongly stopped his client from pursuing sanctions, with the panel repeatedly noting that the semiconductor company wasn't even a party in the import dispute.
-
December 05, 2024
9th Circ. Skeptical Starz Ripped Off Play For Strip Club Drama
A Ninth Circuit panel appeared dubious Thursday of a playwright's bid to revive claims that Starz Entertainment copied her stage musical for the strip club drama series "P-Valley," with one of the appellate judges noting that the works "could not be more different."
-
December 05, 2024
PrizePicks Faces Second Claim Of Fantasy Platform Ripoff
Atlanta-based sports betting platform PrizePicks has been hit with a second lawsuit in as many years from business-to-business sports tech company Vetnos, claiming Wednesday that PrizePicks ripped off its concept of daily fantasy betting games with the help of a former Vetnos employee.
-
December 05, 2024
Skadden Adds A&O Shearman IP Litigator In Silicon Valley
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP continues expanding its technology team, announcing Thursday it has brought in an Allen Overy Shearman Sterling intellectual property litigator as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.
-
December 05, 2024
Fed. Circ. Backs Mixed PTAB Ruling In Circuit Patent Fight
The Federal Circuit on Thursday affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's finding that Dutch semiconductor maker NXP was able to show that some claims in a pair of Bell Semiconductor circuit patents were invalid but was unable to prove other claims were unpatentable.
-
December 05, 2024
Insulet Wins $452M In Trade Secret Theft Trial
A Massachusetts federal jury has awarded Insulet Corp. $452 million after concluding that a South Korean company stole its trade secrets for a wearable insulin patch pump, marking one of the largest trade secrets verdicts of the decade.
-
December 04, 2024
Withers IP Partners Hop To Sullivan & Worcester
Sullivan & Worcester LLP has said the Boston firm picked up a team of five intellectual property lawyers, including two partners, from Withers who have expertise in filing patents and working on deals for biotech startups.
-
December 04, 2024
Intel, VLSI Agree To Pause Del. IP Fight Ahead Of Texas Trial
Prodded by a federal judge in Delaware, Intel Corp. and VLSI Technology LLC agreed Wednesday to stay motions to dismiss or transfer an Intel Corp. suit over claims that it already holds licenses to patents that VLSI asserts it controls, as a similar patent battle moves forward in Texas.
-
December 04, 2024
Fed. Circ. Sinks Patent Fight Over Intel's CPU Chips
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday rubber-stamped a ruling out of Delaware federal court that cleared Intel of allegations that the chipmaker infringed patents by a University of Maryland professor who purportedly developed an important idea in the world of "parallel computing" in 2006.
-
December 04, 2024
Novartis Fails To Stop Generic Drug Release At Fed. Circ.
Novartis could not persuade Federal Circuit judges to grant an injunction Wednesday protecting its blockbuster heart failure medication from facing generic competition, with the appeals court backing a Delaware federal judge's opinion that it was unlikely that one of the generic drug's ingredients is "amorphous."
-
December 04, 2024
JSR Wins As Fed. Circ. Axes Cytiva Antibody Isolation Patents
In a precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit held Wednesday that all the claims that JSR Corp. challenged in three Cytiva Bioprocess antibody isolation patents are invalid as obvious, backing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of many claims while reversing its decision to uphold others.
-
December 04, 2024
Meta Persuades PTAB To Ax 2 Earphone Patents
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that Meta was able to show that every claim in a pair of earphone patents owned by Eight kHz is invalid, holding they are obvious.
-
December 04, 2024
Fed. Circ. Sends UC System LED Patent Claims Back To PTAB
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday found that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has to partially rethink its finding that claims in a filament LED light bulb patent owned by the University of California system were too obvious to warrant patent protection.
-
December 04, 2024
Penn State Eyes Ban, Atty Fees After Trial Win Against Retailer
The Pennsylvania State University has asked a federal court in the Keystone State to permanently block an online retailer and its owner from selling merchandise that a jury found infringed the university's trademarks, and said it is entitled to attorney fees from the "serial infringers."
Expert Analysis
-
Series
Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer — and a better person — because it taught me I can conquer difficult goals when I leave my comfort zone, focus on the demands of the moment and commit to honing my skills, says Ivy Cadle at Baker Donelson.
-
9th Circ.'s High Bar May Limit Keyword Confusion TM Claims
A recent Ninth Circuit ruling that a law firm did not infringe upon a competitor’s trademarks by paying Google to promote its website when users searched for the rival’s name signals that plaintiffs likely can no longer win infringement suits by claiming competitive keyword advertising confuses internet-savvy consumers, say attorneys at Mitchell Silberberg.
-
Trump Patent Policy May Be Headed In Unexpected Direction
While commentators have assumed that the patent policy of President-elect Donald Trump's second administration will largely mirror the pro-patent policy of his first, these predictions fail to take into account the likely oversized influence of Elon Musk, says Jorge Contreras at the University of Utah.
-
Best Practices For Influencer Trademark Protection
Though the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board recently decided that an influencer couldn't qualify for a retail services trademark registration for posting affiliate links to a third-party website, there are other trademark protections that influencers can pursue for their branding and marketing services, say attorneys at Nixon Peabody.
-
What Trump's Next Term May Mean For Biz Immigration
Leonard D'Arrigo at Harris Beach discusses the employment-based immigration policies businesses can potentially expect during President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, based on policies enacted during his first administration, statements made during his campaign and proposals in Project 2025.
-
Racing Patents To The Fed. Circ.: Collateral Estoppel Lessons
As more and more parties find themselves in two different forums addressing the same issues and then competing in a race to the Federal Circuit, certain strategies can help despite unanswered questions on when Patent Trial and Appeal Board determinations trigger collateral estoppel, say attorneys at Akin.
-
Series
Circus Arts Make Me A Better Lawyer
Performing circus arts has strengthened my ability to be more thoughtful, confident and grounded, all of which has enhanced my legal practice and allowed me to serve clients in a more meaningful way, says Bailey McGowan at Stinson.
-
Purse-Case Scenarios: 'MetaBirkin' Appeal Tests TM Rights
A federal court's finding that "MetaBirkin" nonfungible tokens infringed on Hermes' iconic Birkin bag imagery is now on appeal in the Second Circuit, and the order will have a lasting effect on how courts balance trademark rights and the First Amendment, say attorneys at Venable.
-
OpenAI's Patent Pledge Is Not All It Seems
A recent statement that OpenAI won't assert its own patents is more of an aspiration than an obligation, and should prompt practitioners to think deeply about the underlying legal mechanisms of patent and contract law when determining the effectiveness of similar nonassertion pledges, say attorneys at McDonnell Boehnen.
-
3 Ways To Train Junior Lawyers In 30 Minutes Or Less
Today’s junior lawyers are experiencing a skills gap due to pandemic-era disruptions, but firms can help bring them up to speed by offering high-impact skill building content in bite-sized, interactive training sessions, say Stacey Schwartz at Katten, Diane Costigan at Winston & Strawn and Lauren Tierney at Freshfields.
-
8 Tech Tips For Stress-Free Remote Depositions
Court reporter Kelly D’Amico shares practical strategies for attorneys to conduct remote depositions with ease and troubleshoot any issues that arise, as it seems deposition-by-Zoom is here to stay after the pandemic.
-
How AstraZeneca Ruling Could Change Dosage Patent Claims
If affirmed on appeal, the rationale employed by the Delaware federal court in Wyeth v. AstraZeneca to find "unit dosage"-related patent claims invalid could lead to a significant paradigm shift in how active-ingredient-focused patent applications are drafted and litigated, say Matthew Zapadka and John Schneible at Arnall Golden.
-
Bid Protest Spotlight: Unclear Criteria, Data Rights, Conflicts
Liam Bowers at MoFo examines three recent decisions from the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims examining the use of unstated evaluation criteria, an agency's investigation of its own data rights and unequal access to information about an organizational conflict of interest.
-
Failed W.Va. Patent Challenge Reveals Secret Prior Art's Risks
A West Virginia federal court's recent ruling — that references used by a patent challenger to establish an ordinarily skilled artisan's existing knowledge must be published before a patent's filing — may discourage claim construction challenges based on secret prior art and steer drafters away from externally defined terms, says Brianna Potter at Baker Botts.
-
4 Ways Attorneys Can Emotionally Prepare For Trial
In the course of litigation, trial lawyers face a number of scenarios that can incite an emotional response, but formulating a mental game plan in advance of trial can help attorneys stay cool, calm and collected in the moment, says Rachel Lary at Lightfoot Franklin.