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  Stewart Leaving USPTO This Week For Private Sector Job

  By Ryan Davis

  Deputy U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart will leave the office this week to return t...(read more)

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  Freshfields-Led Drug Co. To Buy Forte Biosciences For $2.2B

  By Dawood Fakhir

  Belgian-Dutch pharma company Argenx SE said Monday that it has agreed to acquire Forte Biosciences Inc. for appr...(read more)

• 7th Circ. Revives Suit Over Chobani's 'Sugar Free' Labeling

  By Hailey Konnath

  The Seventh Circuit Monday resurrected a proposed class action claiming Chobani misled customers by labeling its yogurt as "sugar free," ruling that the naturally occurring sweetener in the yogurt constitutes a sugar under federal regulation and thus the customers have plausibly alleged consumer deception.

• Albertsons Opioid Trial Told Of Needles, ODs In Library

  By Ben Adlin

  A witness in Washington's case accusing Albertsons Cos. Inc. of fueling the state's opioid crisis testified at a bench trial Monday that problem drug use was evident in a city library system she's led for nearly a decade, pointing to syringes scattered across the facility and multiple instances of overdoses.

• Meta Left Users In Dark About Danger, Tenn. AG Tells Jury

  By Cara Salvatore

  Tennessee's attorney general went to trial Monday against Meta over claims the social media giant concealed teen mental health harms, telling a jury that despite the revelations employees saw from its systematic research program, the public "warning never came."

• ABA Says Feds' Susman Godfrey DQ Bid Is More Intimidation

  By Lauren Berg

  The American Bar Association on Monday urged the D.C. federal judge overseeing its lawsuit challenging 2025 executive orders targeting law firms to reject the Trump administration's bid to have Susman Godfrey LLP disqualified as plaintiffs' counsel, calling it the latest "effort to intimidate" the American legal profession.

• Speech Concerns Could Sink Maine Lobster Fishers' Suit

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  A panel of First Circuit judges Monday closely scrutinized the Maine lobster industry's lawsuit over a sustainable seafood report that told consumers to avoid lobster, raising doubts that the lobster fishers can overcome a bar on group defamation claims. 

• Fed. Circ. Clears Boston Scientific In $49M Stent Patent Case

  By Ryan Davis

  The Federal Circuit on Monday overturned a $49.4 million patent judgment against Boston Scientific, ruling that the company's drug-eluting coronary stents did not infringe a patent owned by the University of Texas System and that the patent is invalid.

• Clean-Energy Projects Face Scrutiny After Tax Credit Rush

  By Keith Goldberg

  Clean-energy developers' rush to start project construction in order to remain eligible for expiring tax credits has investors and buyers questioning whether their work actually qualifies, complicating efforts to meet future project completion deadlines.

• Chobani Can't Escape Danone's Coffee TM Suit

  By Adam Lidgett

  A New York federal judge on Monday refused to toss Danone's unregistered trademark infringement suit against Chobani over use of the phrase "Bright & Mellow," saying Danone plausibly backed up its argument that the mark was not simply generic.

• Pepsi, Frito-Lay Accuse Sugar Companies Of Price Fixing

  By Susan Smiley

  Prominent food and beverage companies including Pepsi, Quaker Oats, Bimbo Bakeries and Frito-Lay filed an antitrust lawsuit in Minnesota federal court Friday alleging that major sugar refineries and producers have been involved in a price-fixing scheme since 2019.

• DC Circ. Overturns Its Own Holocaust Art Ruling

  By Caroline Simson

  The D.C. Circuit has substantially vacated its ruling ending long-running litigation brought by the descendants of a Hungarian Jewish art collector seeking the return of a priceless art collection looted by the Nazis, citing the passage of a new law.

• Google Can't Get 2nd Try At Eliminating Network-1 Patent

  By Elliot Weld

  A New York federal judge has denied Google's request for a second attempt at invalidating a patent asserted by a patent licensing company, rejecting its arguments that a Federal Circuit decision from last month made another try necessary.

• Simpson Thacher Atty Says Patriot Nat'l Founder Sank Co.

  By Madison Arnold

  A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner wrapped up her testimony Monday in a Florida state malpractice trial brought by the founder of Patriot National Inc., telling the jury that the founder was willing to forgo establishing a floor on the value of so-called Series B warrants, which he says contributed to the company's demise.