Intellectual Property

  • December 03, 2024

    No Standing In 'Threadbare' Voice Assistant Suit, Google Says

    Google wants a D.C. federal judge to toss a lawsuit accusing the tech giant of blocking rival voice assistant products from running on Android and other devices, contending that the complaint has failed to articulate an injury "with even a modicum of detail."

  • December 03, 2024

    Nike Drops $4M Damages Bid In Air Jordan Knockoff Suit

    Nike has dropped its bid for $4 million in damages from a small clothing company and its founder, who were blocked by a New Jersey federal judge last month from selling knockoffs of the brand's iconic Air Jordan 1 High sneakers.

  • December 02, 2024

    Fed. Circ. Questions Reynolds' Bid To Undo $95M Patent Loss

    The Federal Circuit probed R.J. Reynolds' challenge to a $95 million damages award against it for infringing Philip Morris' vape patents, questioning Monday the company's argument that the amount was not supported by the evidence.

  • December 02, 2024

    Judge Isn't Seeing 'Good Faith' Compliance In Probiotic Feud

    A Maryland federal judge said Monday that a drug company is, yet again, failing to make "good faith substantial compliance" with the terms of an injunction that followed a $15 million jury verdict in a dispute over a proprietary probiotic formula.

  • December 02, 2024

    PTAB Presses Play On Playrix's Challenge To Video Game IP

    A ruling from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director changing the meaning of a claim in a video game patent was enough for the agency's administrative board to now move forward with a challenge over patented software cited in a Texas lawsuit lodged against mobile game developer Playrix.

  • December 02, 2024

    Influencer Hasn't Shown She's 'Special' In IP Row, Rival Says

    An influencer hasn't backed up her claims that she's "unique" and "special" in her case accusing a competitor of copying her social media aesthetic, the rival told a Texas federal court, asking it to reject a magistrate judge's recommendations to keep much of the case alive.

  • December 02, 2024

    Filmmaker Says He Didn't Infringe IP With Beirut Documentary

    An independent filmmaker and his company have launched a suit in Ohio federal court seeking a declaration that they never infringed any copyright owned by a nonprofit while making a documentary about the 1983 U.S. Marine barracks bombings in Beirut.

  • December 02, 2024

    ByteDance Says Ex-Worker Can't Avoid Counterclaims

    TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, says a former engineer shouldn't be able to dodge its counterclaims in a dispute stemming from his termination, arguing that just because he wants to drop his allegations doesn't mean those counterclaims are moot.

  • December 02, 2024

    Nvidia, Microsoft Accused Of Delay Game In AI Chip Fight

    Nvidia and Microsoft have traded barbs with a startup over its bid to put a 2025 trial on the calendar in its patent infringement and antitrust suit against them, telling a Texas federal court that the startup is trying to "barrel through the case" and eliciting accusations that they're playing a delay game.

  • December 02, 2024

    Fed. Circ. Affirms PTAB's Ax Of Telecom Patent Claims

    Federal Circuit judges decided Monday to keep intact three patent board decisions that had knocked out claims in a patent issued to Dutch mobile telecom developer Koninklijke KPN NV that covered a way of regulating access to a telecommunications network.

  • December 02, 2024

    NY Knicks, Rangers Sue Over Counterfeit Merch Vendors

    The New York Knicks and Rangers asked a Manhattan federal judge Monday to order unknown sellers of counterfeit team merchandise to cease their bootlegging activity during basketball and hockey games at Madison Square Garden.

  • December 02, 2024

    Canadian News Orgs. Hit OpenAI With IP Litigation

    A group of Canadian news companies has followed other media organizations to launch litigation targeting OpenAI, with the latest lawsuit saying the ChatGPT developer is wrongfully profiting from of copyrighted content.

  • December 02, 2024

    Pot Co. Says Ex-Director Shared Secrets With Ex-Partner

    Cannabis cultivator Curaleaf Inc. and a subsidiary are suing a former director of operations, accusing him of sharing confidential information with a former business partner, among other alleged contract breaches.

  • December 02, 2024

    Miss America CEO Files $500M Suit Alleging Bankruptcy Fraud

    The producer of the Miss America pageant and its related entities have filed a $500 million racketeering suit in Florida accusing developer Glenn Straub of fraudulently pushing the organization into bankruptcy in an effort to take over its assets.

  • December 02, 2024

    Pool Co. Says Rival CEO Fled To China To Duck Paying $16M

    A bankrupt Chinese pool parts supplier has been accused by an American competitor of going to great lengths to skirt a $16 million false advertising and unfair business practices judgment in continued violation of court orders, including allegedly funneling assets and allowing its owner to flee to China.

  • November 27, 2024

    Starbucks, Baker Botts Partner Accused Of Defaming Inventor

    An executive for a patent-licensing company that's pursuing infringement litigation against numerous restaurants over a patent that lets customers place mobile orders using a real-time menu that can make personalized suggestions accused Starbucks and its Baker Botts LLP attorney in a lawsuit Wednesday of making defamatory statements about him.

  • November 27, 2024

    PTAB Finds Hormone Treatment Patent Claims Invalid

    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found Neurocrine Biosciences Inc. was able to show that all the claims in a patent owned by biotechnology company Spruce Biosciences Inc. relating to the treatment of a hormonal disorder were invalid.

  • November 27, 2024

    'Vanderpump Rules' Star Neglecting Her TM Case, Judge Says

    A California federal judge says Bravo TV star Lala Kent missed a deadline for moving forward with a trademark case against a cosmetics consultant accused of running the "Give Them Lala" brand without her permission.

  • November 27, 2024

    Full Fed. Circ. Urged To Set Tighter Rules On Patent Damages

    Numerous major companies and industry groups have asked the full Federal Circuit to rule that district judges must carefully scrutinize expert testimony seeking large damages in patent cases and exclude unreliable opinions, rather than allowing juries to decide how much weight to give them.

  • November 27, 2024

    Comcast Foe Warns Fed. Circ. About Patent Testimony Ruling

    A small California tech company is arguing that a Federal Circuit panel created a "rigid new rule" when a panel majority upheld a decision rejecting so-called "because I said so" trial testimony from the company's expert in patent infringement litigation against Comcast's Xfinity app.

  • November 27, 2024

    Deloitte Posed As Consultant To Steal Vax Software, Suit Says

    An inventor has accused Deloitte Consulting LLP in New York federal court of stealing her proprietary vaccination management system and securing a multimillion-dollar government contract for rolling out COVID-19 vaccines, saying the firm colluded with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to pilfer the technology.

  • November 27, 2024

    Citi Gets TRO On Banker Accused Of Poaching Atty Clients

    A California federal judge on Tuesday granted Citibank NA's request for a temporary restraining order against one of its former bankers who it alleges jumped to a rival with confidential information on law firm and attorney clients, but denied the request regarding a second banker as "too speculative."

  • November 27, 2024

    AI Co. Seeks To Dismiss Actors' Class Action Over Voice Use

    A startup that makes software to create voice-over narrations has asked a Manhattan federal judge to dismiss an amended class action that accuses the company of using actors' voices without permission, saying the updated complaint takes a "kitchen-sink approach" by adding several claims but "very few new relevant facts."

  • November 27, 2024

    Miss America Ch. 11 Dismissal Hearing To Wait For Event

    A hearing on a motion to dismiss the Chapter 11 case of an entity tied to the Miss America pageant will wait until after the competition wraps up in January, a Florida bankruptcy judge ruled Wednesday, allowing for discovery among two parties disputing the proper ownership of the organization.

  • November 27, 2024

    Vidal Lays Out Reasoning For Reviving Lighting IP Challenge

    Binding Luminex International Co. Ltd. to one of its customers in a way that would block the company from challenging a Signify Holdings BV lighting patent at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board could lead to situations of patent owners launching infringement suits to dodge certain patent challenges, the head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has found.

Expert Analysis

  • 3 Ways To Train Junior Lawyers In 30 Minutes Or Less

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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.

  • The Bar Needs More Clarity On The Discovery Objection Rule

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    Almost 10 years after Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34 was amended, attorneys still seem confused about what they should include in objections to discovery requests, and until the rules committee provides additional clarity, practitioners must beware the steep costs of noncompliance, says Tristan Ellis at Shanies Law Office.

  • TM Suit Over Google AI Name Points To New Branding Issues

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    Gemini Data’s recent lawsuit in California federal court alleging Google’s rebranded artificial intelligence chatbot stole its name may have broader implications for the scope of trademark rights for AI-related products and highlights that an evolving marketplace may force companies to recalibrate how they protect their brands, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.

  • Presidential Campaign Errors Provide Lessons For Trial Attys

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    Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign employed numerous strategies that evidently didn’t land, and trial attorneys should take note, because voters and jurors are both decision-makers who are listening for how one’s case presentation would affect them personally, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • How Patent Landscape Analysis Drives Business Growth

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    Keegan Caldwell at Caldwell Law explores how patent landscape analysis serves as a key driver of sustainable growth — examining how its components, strategic advantages and implementation best practices are reshaping innovation leadership.

  • Marching In On Orange Book Drugs May Have Limited Effect

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    Statistical analysis shows that marching in on Orange Book drug patent holders to require additional licensees would have a relatively minimal impact on drug prices, and should be weighed against the harms it could have on pharmaceutical innovation, say researchers at Competition Dynamics.

  • Series

    Being A Navy Reservist Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Serving this country in uniform has not only been one of the greatest honors of my life, but it has also provided me with opportunities to broaden my legal acumen and interpersonal skills in ways that have indelibly contributed to my civilian practice, says Phillip Smith at Weinberg Wheeler.

  • Navigating DOJ's Patchwork Whistleblower Regime

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    In the past few months, the U.S. Department of Justice and several individual U.S. attorney’s offices have issued different pilot programs aimed at incentivizing individuals to blow the whistle on misconduct, but this piecemeal approach may create confusion and suboptimal outcomes, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • So You Want To Move Your Law Practice To Canada, Eh?

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    Google searches for how to move to Canada have surged in the wake of the U.S. presidential election, and if you’re an attorney considering a move to the Great White North, you’ll need to understand how the practice of law differs across the border, says David Postel at Henein Hutchison.

  • When Arbitration Is Effective For Employment And IP Cases

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    Widespread adoption of arbitration has revolutionized conflict resolution in employment law, and the benefits of speed, expertise and confidentiality make it an increasingly attractive alternative for resolving patent conflicts — but arbitration is not a silver bullet, say Brandon Miller at Fisher Phillips and Camilla Bykhovsky at Turner Boyd.

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