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When Michelle Replogle of Sheppard and Nitika Gupta Fiorella of Fish & Richardson PC were opponents in a patent case, Fiorella said, Replogle stood out for her expertise and respect, which she showed to everyone regardless of their experience or whom they represented in the litigation.
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May 20, 2026
The parent of video game company Big Fish Games has sued an Armenian game developer in Washington state court, alleging that when it took ownership of Big Fish, it discovered source code missing from materials returned by the Armenian firm that it has not been able to recover.
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May 20, 2026
A special panel of three Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges has found that a regular review tribunal of the board wrongly invalidated some claims of an animal management patent, reviving those claims.
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May 20, 2026
Intellia Therapeutics Inc. has agreed to drop a set of claims it asserted in a Delaware federal suit brought by BlueAllele, which accused it of infringing three gene-editing patents to bring in $100 million in a deal with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.
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May 20, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Tuesday granted five requests for review of patents under the America Invents Act while turning down seven other petitions.
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May 20, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has disagreed with a lower judge who declined to issue an injunction against an engineer accused of stealing trade secrets just before he left his old company for a rival, saying the facts "clearly weigh in favor of granting injunctive relief."
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May 20, 2026
Anna's Archive will have to pay $19.5 million after failing to respond to claims from 13 major book publishers that the alleged "shadow library" illegally distributes pirated books and research papers, a New York federal judge has ruled.
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May 19, 2026
VLSI Technology LLC urged the Federal Circuit Tuesday to unseal at least part of an anonymous whistleblower report that allegedly shows a connection between Intel Corp. and Patent Quality Assurance LLC, now that a copy has become public though the Freedom of Information Act.
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May 19, 2026
Sisvel's patent pool has reached a deal with Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus to license its standard essential pool of Wi-Fi multimode patents, resolving litigation that includes a case between one pool member and an Asus unit in which the pool was seeking a rare request for a permanent injunction on standard essential patents.
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May 19, 2026
A man who found himself on the wrong side of a more than $15 million default judgment for pirating movies through his virtual private network provider and then filed for bankruptcy urged a Florida federal court to continue its stay on enforcing the judgment.
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May 19, 2026
A Utah gaming company has once again lobbed patent infringement claims at Amazon's streaming platform unit, Twitch, claiming that Twitch is infringing four patents covering video game streaming, synchronizing, and related technologies.
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May 19, 2026
California urged a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday to find a Golden State law that bans drugmakers from cutting deals out of state that pay to delay generics competition doesn't violate the U.S. Constitution, arguing that ruling otherwise could jeopardize many longstanding state laws that regulate out-of-state conduct.
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May 19, 2026
Latham & Watkins LLP announced Tuesday that it has landed a first-chair trial lawyer from Gibson Dunn who is skilled in high-stakes intellectual property litigation across the technology sector.
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May 19, 2026
A Colorado aerospace company claimed The Boeing Co. has failed to disclose numerous witnesses and records through discovery in the company's lawsuit accusing Boeing of stealing its patented technology to use on NASA's Artemis moon exploration program, according to a motion to compel filed in Washington federal court Monday.
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May 19, 2026
Technology industry groups and an organization that often files patent challenges have thrown their support behind Apple's fight against a Federal Circuit panel's finding that the U.S. International Trade Commission properly banned imports of Apple Watches with blood oxygen-monitoring features.
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May 19, 2026
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has tossed a pair of challenges to mercury removal patents owned by Birchtech Corp., saying the challengers were prioritizing separate bids to invalidate the same patents.
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May 19, 2026
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board will no longer conduct an inter partes review into the validity of an Omni MedSci wearable device patent, now that there will be a separate post-grant review.
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May 19, 2026
The Federal Circuit has been asked to have another look at a decision that largely reversed a California federal jury verdict that awarded $18.3 million to International Medical Devices Inc. in a trade secret case related to penile implants.
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May 19, 2026
U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap on Monday rebuffed Collision Communications Inc.'s bid for an injunction blocking Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. from selling products that a jury said were infringing in a $445 million verdict in a case that the federal government used to argue for broader use of injunctions in patent suits.
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May 19, 2026
Chief District Judge Richard Seeborg is expected to conclude his time as the top judge for the Northern District of California in July, according to a spokesperson for the judiciary, to be succeeded by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
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May 19, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday reinstated a pair of patent infringement suits from patent owners that licensed their intellectual property to other parties, finding that the companies met the minimum constitutional requirements to show they had standing to sue.
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May 19, 2026
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has announced it grew its intellectual property group in San Francisco with a new partner from Winston & Strawn LLP who has a computer engineering background.
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May 19, 2026
Silicon Valley chipmaker Groq has reached a settlement to end a trademark infringement case it brought in New York federal court against an endocrinologist with a similarly named company.
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May 18, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data indicates the office mistakenly kept hundreds of thousands of records of patent ownership transfers from becoming public for years, according to researchers who analyzed the files, an error that experts say could cause complications for anyone who relied on the incomplete data.
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May 18, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that a Russian state-owned company fighting with U.S.-based distributors over the trademark rights to Stolichnaya vodka cannot stop the distributors from repeating arguments that had been rejected by Dutch and Russian courts.
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May 18, 2026
The leaders of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Monday asked intellectual property experts to wade into debates over the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, focusing in part on whether switching to a stricter burden of proof would address disparate outcomes between the board and district court.