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  Lenovo Makes $80M Play To Resolve InterDigital IP Dispute

  By Joanne Faulkner

  Lenovo offered to pay InterDigital a lump payment of $80 million on Friday to end a long-running battle over fai...(read more)

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  Justices Sink Vax-Or-Test Rule But Clear Health Care Mandate

  By Vin Gurrieri

  The U.S. Supreme Court slammed the brakes Thursday on a Biden administration vaccine-or-testing rule for private...(read more)

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• 4 Things To Know About Biden's Latest Fed Picks

  By Jon Hill

  The White House's latest nominees for the Federal Reserve Board include a Wall Street critic, an economist who has studied the effects of discrimination, and an economist who has written on poverty and employment. Here are four things to know as President Joe Biden moves to remake the nation's central bank.

• 5 Questions After High Court Smacks Down Vax-Or-Test Rule

  By Vin Gurrieri

  The U.S. Supreme Court effectively killed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine-or-testing rule, muddying the waters for how the agency and employers should respond to a pandemic that’s entering its third year. Here, experts tackle five questions employers are asking as the dust settles after the six-justice majority's ruling.

• Google Cut Secret Facebook Ad Deal, Unsealed Suit Claims

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A New York federal judge has unsealed formerly redacted portions of an antitrust suit filed by state enforcers led by Texas who accuse Google of monopolizing display advertising markets, revealing new details of allegations that the tech giant cut a secret anti-competitive deal with Facebook and manipulated ad exchanges to inflate prices.

• Ex-Obama Adviser Cops To Charter School Fraud

  By Lauren Berg

  A former education official in the Obama administration pled guilty Friday to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a charter school network he co-founded, purportedly to get a better deal on a mortgage for a Manhattan apartment.

• Judge Sets Early Mediation For Surfside Collapse Defendants

  By Nathan Hale

  A week after reluctantly agreeing to push back the trial date in the proposed class action brought by victims of the June collapse of a Surfside, Florida, condominium tower, a state judge took steps Friday to encourage an earlier resolution by setting mediation deadlines for the various defendants.

• J&J, New Mexico Ink $44M Opioid Settlement

  By Lauren Berg

  Johnson & Johnson on Friday said it will pay New Mexico $44 million to settle claims that it and its subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals fanned the flames of the opioid crisis in the state.

• Passengers Urge 11th Circ. To Revive Airline 'Exit Fee' Suit

  By Nathan Hale

  Two airline passengers appeared to gain traction Friday on convincing the Eleventh Circuit to revive their proposed class action claiming a Venezuelan airline breached ticket contracts by imposing a surprise "exit fee" before allowing them to depart Miami, despite last-minute debate whether the court could even consider the case.

• Farming Co. Says John Deere Is Monopolizing Repair Market

  By Celeste Bott

  John Deere has monopolized the market for repair and maintenance services of its agricultural equipment, preventing independent shops and farmers from accessing vital tools and software needed to repair newer generations of its machinery, according to a proposed class action in Illinois federal court.

• DC Circ. Wary Of Students' Bid For COVID Tuition Refunds

  By Khorri Atkinson

  The D.C. Circuit on Friday seemed poised to affirm two lower court rulings dismissing lawsuits by American University and George Washington University students seeking refunds over classes forced online due to COVID-19, as the judges said the schools had to go virtual or face criminal and civil penalties under the district's shutdown orders.

• Full Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Juno's $1.2B Cancer Patent Win

  By Dani Kass

  The full Federal Circuit said Friday that it will not review a panel decision wiping out Bristol-Myers Squibb subsidiary Juno Therapeutics' $1.2 billion patent infringement victory against Gilead's Kite Pharma Inc.

• Russia Arrests Ransomware Crew As Ukrainian Sites Hacked

  By Ben Kochman

  The Russian government said Friday that it had shut down a ransomware crew blamed for a July software vendor hack that led to breaches at 1,500 companies across the globe, as Ukrainian government websites were hacked amid tensions over Russia's massing of troops at the Ukraine border.

• POP Says Wire Payment Receipt Counts For IPR Fee Timing

  By Dani Kass

  Confirmation that inter partes review fees were sent through the Federal Reserve Fedwire System is sufficient to prove they were paid that day, even if they were not yet received by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the agency's precedent-setting panel said in its fifth-ever decision Friday.