July 13, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge has faulted a software company's "lack of diligence" in submitting proper paperwork to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and notifying the court its trademark was canceled as the judge denied the company's request to amend its lawsuit against a European rival.
April 18, 2025
The Fourth Circuit has pressed pause on an upcoming trademark trial between rival software companies while the defendant and its counsel at Womble Bond Dickinson appeal a contempt order over misrepresentations they allegedly made in a foreign tribunal.
March 06, 2025
A Dutch software company can't push back a copyright trial after one of its attorneys from Womble Bond Dickinson was held in contempt and was temporarily kicked off the case, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, finding the predicament "entirely of counsel's own making."
February 05, 2025
An attorney being kicked off a bitter copyright case over source code shouldn't delay the fast-approaching trial, a U.S. software company told a North Carolina federal judge, arguing that its Dutch rival is trying to use the loss of its preferred counsel as a stalling tactic.
January 21, 2025
A Womble Bond Dickinson partner is appealing a North Carolina federal judge's December ruling holding him in contempt of court for failing to correct misrepresentations he allegedly made to a Dutch tribunal in parallel litigation involving a software developer and its former Dutch partner.
December 20, 2024
A North Carolina federal judge on Friday temporarily suspended the admission of a Womble Bond Dickinson partner to practice in his district after finding the attorney failed to correct misrepresentations to a Dutch tribunal in parallel litigation involving a software developer and its former Dutch partner.
January 18, 2024
A Dutch software company is demanding Blank Rome LLP turn over documents pertaining to copyright applications the firm filed on behalf of a rival technology company, saying they aren't entitled to attorney-client privilege given the alleged falsehoods contained in those applications.
September 15, 2023
Software developer Dmarcian Inc. is calling for sanctions in an ongoing copyright battle, saying its former Dutch partner has refused to correct the record in parallel litigation in the Netherlands in defiance of a North Carolina federal judge's order.
August 14, 2023
Software developer Dmarcian Inc. has opposed dissolving an injunction blocking its former Dutch partner from making certain sales, saying a U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting the bounds of federal trademark law to domestic infringement doesn't doom the order altogether.
July 24, 2023
A Dutch software company asked a North Carolina federal court Monday to force a former business partner to answer questions and produce documents in an intellectual property dispute, arguing that the stalling is holding up the company's defense strategy.