March 30, 2023
A Texas federal judge who does significant patent work will be stepping down, drug companies sparring over patents at the U.S. Supreme Court found themselves again going toe-to-toe over a different area of law, California judges provided trial tips throughout March, and the integrity of popular snacks was brought into question in Illinois. Here's what intellectual property attorneys should know about these issues and others outside their practice.
March 03, 2023
An Illinois federal judge on Friday tossed, for now, a proposed class action alleging that General Mills' Totino's Pizza Rolls are made with fake cheese, finding that cheese isn't a characterizing ingredient in the product and that none of the plaintiff's proffered "dictionary definitions" say pizza contains a certain amount of real cheese.
March 24, 2022
A proposed class of customers claims in Illinois federal court that General Mills uses misleading packaging on its Totino's brand pizza rolls by omitting that the product contains mostly imitation cheese.