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  • July 07, 2026

    Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Dental Patent Claims In Align Feud

    The Federal Circuit on Tuesday said it won't bring back claims in a pair of dental arch image analysis patents their owner accused Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. of infringing, backing a lower court's finding that they were invalid.

  • July 06, 2026

    Ex-SVB Exec Recounts Pressure For 'More Yield' At FDIC Trial

    Silicon Valley Bank's ex-head of corporate investments and capital markets testified in a deposition shown during a California federal bench trial Monday over the FDIC's claims the bank's brass mismanaged its assets, saying that he felt pressure from the bank's then-chief financial officer to add riskier, higher-yielding assets to the bank's securities portfolio.

  • July 06, 2026

    Stability And Runway Trained AI On 100K Car Pics, Suit Says

    Stability AI, Runway AI and DeviantArt used at least 100,000 copyrighted car photos without permission to train their artificial intelligence image generators, according to a lawsuit lodged by automotive photography company Evox Productions in California federal court.

  • July 06, 2026

    CVS To Pay $36.5M To Settle States' Insulin FCA Suits

    CVS has agreed to shell out $36.5 million to put to rest a handful of False Claims Act suits from states and the federal government, which allege the pharmacy chain submitted fraudulent Medicaid claims after giving patients more insulin than they were prescribed and lying about refill timelines.

  • July 06, 2026

    3 Firms Guide Vertex's $10B Buy Of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP is advising Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. in its $10 billion acquisition of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is being represented by both Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and Morrison Foerster LLP, according to an announcement made Monday.

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