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  • June 26, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Pushed To Rethink Part Of Samsung Win In IP Row

    The owner of a patent on stylus detection technology wants the Federal Circuit to rethink part of a May panel decision handing Samsung a win in a challenge to the patent, saying the court should instead affirm part of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board in its favor.

  • June 26, 2025

    Marketing Co. Fights For TM Case As X Corp. Seeks Sanctions

    Legal marketing firm X Social Media LLC told a Florida federal judge that its claims that Elon Musk's decision to rebrand the social media platform he owns from Twitter to X poses a risk of consumer confusion should be left to a jury, while Musk's company accused the marketing firm of case delays worthy of sanctions.

  • June 26, 2025

    Craft Co. Brings IP, Defamation Suit After Facebook Comment

    A Wisconsin crafting company filed infringement claims against a competing firm over three patents on magnetic hoops used to hold fabric taut while it is being embroidered and accused its owner of defamation after he allegedly told people those patents had not actually been granted.

  • June 25, 2025

    Stewart, APJ Leader Discretionarily Deny 33 More Petitions

    The acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director rejected 21 petitions for Patent Trial and Appeal Board reviews on Wednesday, and the board's acting deputy chief judge denied another 12 where the acting director recused herself for the first time.

  • June 25, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Keeps Qualcomm, Apple IP Suit In Texas

    The Federal Circuit rejected a petition from Qualcomm and Apple challenging U.S. District Judge Alan Albright's refusal to transfer patent litigation against the two tech giants from Texas to California, saying the companies hadn't met the "demanding standard" to show a "clear abuse" of discretion by the judge.

  • June 25, 2025

    Full Fed. Circ. Won't Review ITC Marketing Decision

    The full Federal Circuit on Wednesday rejected the U.S. International Trade Commission's call to reconsider a panel's holding that sales, marketing and similar expenditures can satisfy domestic industry requirements.

  • June 25, 2025

    Cigna Says Bristol-Myers Delayed Cancer Drug Generic

    Cigna has launched an antitrust suit in New York federal court accusing Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and its Celgene subsidiary of fraudulently obtaining patents, filing sham litigation and paying off generic-drug makers to maintain a monopoly on their blockbuster blood-cancer drug Pomalyst.

  • June 25, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Backs HP Unit's Alice Win In California

    The Federal Circuit refused to revive a lawsuit accusing HP unit Polycom of infringing a multimedia communication patent, backing a California federal judge's finding that the patent wasn't valid to begin with.

  • June 25, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Inventor's Patent Suit Against Google

    The Federal Circuit on Wednesday denied a bid to revive a patent infringement case from a man who says Google's products use aspects of his threat-detection technology.

  • June 25, 2025

    Copyright Office Won't Collapse Sans Perlmutter, Trump Says

    The Trump administration has said the fired leader of the U.S. Copyright Office has not shown that the agency's operations "will grind to a halt" if she is not immediately reinstated and asked a D.C. federal judge to reject her motion for a preliminary injunction.

  • June 25, 2025

    Meta Beats 'Half-Hearted' Harm Args In AI Fair Use Suit

    A California federal judge concluded Wednesday that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its Llama large language models with 13 bestselling authors' copyrighted material without their permission, calling their arguments that the tech giant's use of their works would harm the market for their books "half-hearted."

  • June 25, 2025

    Ex-Google Engineer Nixes Evidence Over Miranda Violation

    A California federal judge has ordered that statements a former Google engineer made to federal agents investigating him for espionage and trade secret theft must be suppressed because they violated the Chinese national's Miranda rights.

  • June 25, 2025

    Stroller Maker Can't Escape Rival's Patent Suit

    A Massachusetts federal judge has denied a bid from a baby products company to escape patent infringement claims from a rival, saying the eight years of inaction between the case being filed and when the parties last corresponded about the patent was not enough to reasonably assume that the patent wouldn't be enforced.

  • June 25, 2025

    Atty's Ex-Wife Tells NC Justices She's Owed Half Firm's Worth

    The ex-wife of an intellectual property lawyer in North Carolina has asked the state's highest court to affirm an order awarding her half the value of his law firm in their divorce, arguing the practice's goodwill is marital property subject to equal distribution.

  • June 25, 2025

    Feds Remark On Injunction Bid In IP Suit Against Samsung

    Nonpracticing entities are allowed to get preliminary injunctions in patent cases in situations where a patent owner can show that it would be irreversibly harmed without one, the federal government has said in an infringement case against Samsung.

  • June 25, 2025

    Farm Products Co. Sues Ex-Owner Over Trade Secrets Theft

    Agricultural products company AgXplore sued a former owner claiming that after a $100 million buyout he continued to compete with the company and misappropriated its trade secrets.

  • June 24, 2025

    Wash. Smoke Shop Settles Store Name TM Suit

    A Washington smoke chain has agreed to end claims against several rivals it accused of trademark infringement after they allegedly engaged in unauthorized use of its name, Smoke City, so they could trade on the goodwill it had developed with customers.

  • June 24, 2025

    Anthropic Copyright Ruling May Spur More AI Licensing Deals

    The first federal court decision on the fairness of taking copyrighted material to train generative artificial intelligence is a mixed outcome for tech companies and content creators that could prompt both parties to seek coexistence, according to attorneys, with the judge concluding that while the technology is "spectacularly" transformative, using pirated material is inexcusable.

  • June 24, 2025

    Motorola Fights Fintiv Memo Withdrawal At Fed. Circ.

    Motorola is urging the Federal Circuit to reverse the decision of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's acting leader to not have the Patent Trial and Appeal Board review the company's challenges to a series of Stellar Inc. patents on glasses equipped with cameras.

  • June 24, 2025

    Sirius XM Fee Suit Undermined By Site Changes, Judge Hints

    A Washington federal judge suggested Tuesday that a proposed class action in which consumers are accusing Sirius XM of charging a misleading "royalty fee" has potentially been undercut by the satellite radio provider's decision in 2024 to change disclosures on its website to reflect music plan pricing in lump sums.

  • June 24, 2025

    Calif. AG Asks 9th Circ. To Undo Limits On Pay-For-Delay Ban

    California enforcers on Monday asked the Ninth Circuit to overturn a district court's decision that a state law restricting "reverse payment" settlements between brand-name and generic-drug makers cannot be used to regulate deals that were struck outside the Golden State.

  • June 24, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Adds Groombridge Wu Partner To Advisory Council

    The Federal Circuit said Tuesday that it will add Jennifer Wu, a founding partner at Groombridge Wu Baughman & Stone, to an advisory council that studies and makes recommendations to the court's rules and operating procedures.

  • June 24, 2025

    US Chamber Says Copyright Infringement Costing Billions

    A report released Tuesday from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said copyright infringement is costing the U.S. economy billions of dollars each year and resulting in hundreds of thousands of lost jobs.

  • June 24, 2025

    Greenberg Traurig Adds Hogan Lovells Tech Litigator In SF

    Greenberg Traurig LLP is boosting its intellectual property team, announcing Tuesday that a technology litigator from Hogan Lovells is joining its San Francisco office as a shareholder.

  • June 24, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Backs Unified Patents' PTAB Win Over Streaming IP

    The Federal Circuit refused to revive a pair of claims in a DivX streaming patent, backing a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that said challenger Unified Patents was able to show the claims were invalid.

Expert Analysis

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    Playing Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Poker is a master class in psychology, risk management and strategic thinking, and I’m a better attorney because it has taught me to read my opponents, adapt when I’m dealt the unexpected and stay patient until I'm ready to reveal my hand, says Casey Kingsley at McCreadyLaw.

  • Opinion

    Counterfeiting Cases Could Alter TM Law, Hurt Resale Market

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    Trademark infringement litigation brought by Nike and Chanel against resale platforms could reshape the first-sale doctrine, with the future of the $49 billion luxury fashion resale market at stake, says attorney Charles Meyer.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Becoming A Firmwide MVP

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    Though lawyers don't have a neat metric like baseball players for measuring the value they contribute to their organizations, the sooner new attorneys learn skills frequently skipped in law school — like networking, marketing, client development and case evaluation — the more valuable, and less replaceable, they will be, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

  • 9th Circ. Ruling Clarifies Derivative Suit Representation Test

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    The Ninth Circuit's recent ruling in Bigfoot Ventures v. Knighton clarifies the test used to assess the adequacy of a plaintiff's representation in a shareholder derivative action, and will likely prove useful to litigants by ensuring that courts can fully examine all relevant circumstances, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • Patenting AI And Machine Learning In The Wake Of Recentive

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    Though the Federal Circuit's recent decision in Recentive Analytics v. Fox Corp. initially appears to doom patents related to artificial intelligence and machine learning, a closer look shows that strategies for successfully drafting and prosecuting such patents offer hope despite increased pushback from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, say attorneys at Banner Witcoff.

  • Trade Secrets Would Likely See Court Protection From GenAI

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    The advent of generative artificial intelligence has given rise to debate about how this technology will affect intellectual property rights and trade secret protections in particular, but courts to date have protected owners when technological advances have facilitated new means for trade secret theft, say attorneys at Kilpatrick Townsend.

  • 5 Tribunals' Rules To Help Patent Litigators Avoid AI Disasters

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    Tech-savvy patent litigators are uniquely poised to stay current on the latest developments in artificial intelligence, such that courts may have even higher expectations for their compliance with AI rules, including the standing orders of several patent-heavy fora, say attorneys at Finnegan.

  • Unpacking Copyright Office's AI Report Amid Admin Shakeups

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    Though recent firings have thrown the U.S. Copyright Office into turmoil, the latest entry in its report on artificial intelligence can serve as a road map for litigants, persuasive authority for courts and input on the legislative process, say attorneys at Epstein Becker.

  • Bid Protest Spotlight: Size, Supply Schedules, SINs

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    In this month's bid protest roundup, Alissandra McCann at MoFo examines three recent decisions, two of which offer helpful reminders for U.S. General Services Administration schedule holders drafting blanket purchase agreement proposals, and one for small-business joint ventures to avoid running afoul of the U.S. Small Business Administration's two-year rule.

  • $38M Law Firm Settlement Highlights 'Unworthy Client' Perils

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    A recent settlement of claims against law firm Eckert Seamans for allegedly abetting a Ponzi scheme underscores the continuing threat of clients who seek to exploit their lawyers in perpetrating fraud, and the critical importance of preemptive measures to avoid these clients, say attorneys at Lockton Companies.

  • Maintaining Legal Compliance For GenAI In Life Sciences

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    As companies continue to implement generative artificial intelligence to enhance all phases of drug discovery, they must remain mindful of legal, regulatory and practical considerations as best practices in this space emerge and evolve, say attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell.

  • Trending At The PTAB: The Influence Of Litigation Arguments

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    Recent decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board shed light on the varying extent to which the board considers patent owners' district court arguments, particularly with respect to the meaning of claim terms, say attorneys at Finnegan.

  • Series

    Teaching Business Law Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Teaching business law to college students has rekindled my sense of purpose as a lawyer — I am more mindful of the importance of the rule of law and the benefits of our common law system, which helps me maintain a clearer perspective on work, says David Feldman at Feldman Legal Advisors.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Discovery

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    The discovery process and the rules that govern it are often absent from law school curricula, but developing a solid grasp of the particulars can give any new attorney a leg up in their practice, says Jordan Davies at Knowles Gallant.

  • Patent Takeaways In Fed. Circ.'s 1st Machine Learning Ruling

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    The Federal Circuit’s recent decision in Recentive Analytics v. Fox, a case of first impression affirming the invalidity of patents that applied general machine learning methods to conventional tasks, serves as a cautionary guide for patent practitioners navigating the complexities of machine learning inventions, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

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