July 16, 2025
A Chicago federal judge has declined to disqualify intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson PC from representing General Motors Co. in a suit over patents for fender designs, rejecting arguments that the firm sought to target a paralegal who had previously handled the case for opposing counsel.
July 01, 2025
A company that got the Federal Circuit to set more flexible standards for assessing whether a design patent is obvious might have a shot at proving that two General Motors Co. design patents are indeed obvious under that new test, an Illinois federal judge ruled Monday.