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  Justices Skeptical About Trump's Emergency Tariff Authority

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• Crypto Thief Or 'Scapegoat'? Jury To Decide Ex-CFO's Fate

  By Rachel Riley

  Prosecutors urged a Washington federal jury Wednesday to convict a software startup's ex-executive for pumping $35 million from company coffers into his fledgling cryptocurrency project, while defense counsel accused the government of pursuing a baseless case because the company needed someone to "scapegoat" for an investment loss.

• Squires' Revival Of Long-Dormant Reexam Frustrates Attys

  By Dani Kass

  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director has initiated the reexamination of a Pokémon patent, a power no director has used since the first George W. Bush administration, leaving attorneys to question how this move fits into the agency's focus on settled expectations.

• 1st Circ. Questions Trump Admin On NIH Indirect Cost Cuts

  By Mark Payne

  A First Circuit panel seemed poised on Wednesday to uphold a district court decision finding that the Trump administration lacks the authority to cap indirect costs for research grants at the National Institutes of Health. 

• Masimo Tells Jury It's Owed $749M In Apple Watch IP Fight

  By Craig Clough

  An attorney for Masimo Corp. told a California federal jury during opening statements Wednesday that Apple Inc.'s smartwatch uses his client's groundbreaking patent in the device's feature that warns about an abnormal heart rate, and that Apple should pay up to $749 million for the infringement.

• Squires Spurns Tesla PTAB Challenge Referred By Stewart

  By Theresa Schliep

  U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires rejected a Tesla Inc. patent challenge that his deputy director had referred to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for consideration, taking issue Wednesday with the company's "inconsistent claim construction" between the PTAB and federal court.

• Virgin Galactic Investors Push For Approval Of $8.5M Deal

  By Rae Ann Varona

  Virgin Galactic agreed to pay $8.5 million to resolve a proposed class of investors' accusations that the space tourism company failed to disclose safety issues from two test flights, according to a motion to approve the deal filed Tuesday in New York federal court.

• Ethiopian Air Crash Warrants Substantial Award, Jury Hears

  By Lauraann Wood

  The estate of a United Nations environmental worker who died in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash should be awarded substantial damages for her experience in the flight and how the crash affected her husband, both Boeing and the estate told Illinois federal jurors Wednesday.

• Panama Triumphs Over Sacyr In $2.36B Treaty Arbitration

  By Joyce Hanson

  The Republic of Panama has won a favorable award under the arbitration rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law in a $2.36 billion dispute initiated by Spain-based construction company Sacyr SA over a Panama Canal expansion project, the country said.

• Chancery Won't Let Pfizer Block $10B Novo Bid For Metsera

  By Jarek Rutz

  A Delaware vice chancellor Wednesday refused Pfizer Inc.'s emergency bid for a temporary restraining order to block Metsera Inc. from closing a now $10 billion competing bid by Novo Nordisk for the GLP-1 weight-loss drugmaker, saying Pfizer hasn't demonstrated Metsera's board acted in bad faith or that the company would suffer immediate irreparable harm.

• Del. Justices Hear Early Challenge To Corp. Law Amendments

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Delaware's corporate litigation elites squared off before the state's Supreme Court on Wednesday over arguments that state lawmakers either righted — or subverted — the Court of Chancery's equity powers in amending the state's General Corporation Law earlier this year.

• Amazon Sues Perplexity Over Shopper-Impersonating AI Tool

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Global retailer Amazon.com slapped Perplexity AI with a federal lawsuit that claims the San Francisco startup's use of an AI-powered "personal assistant" Comet to make purchases on the Amazon platform goes against its terms of service and is creating a security risk.

• Philip Morris Damages Guardrail Bid Meets Skeptical Justices

  By Chris Villani

  Massachusetts' top court appeared unreceptive Wednesday to arguments made by Philip Morris USA Inc. that a since-reduced $1 billion verdict issued by a state court jury means more guidelines are needed to curtail massive awards.