August 09, 2023
Meta Platforms and a Boston-based artificial intelligence company told a Massachusetts federal judge Tuesday they've settled a dispute accusing the social media giant of poaching the startup's employee to steal a code that helps scientists run complex mathematical operations without specialized computer equipment, a month before trial was to begin.
March 07, 2023
A federal judge in Boston has decided Facebook's parent company will have to go to a jury trial later this year to fight allegations that an open-source code the social media platform released to make artificial intelligence programs move faster was stolen from a startup whose top researcher it poached — and a jury can hear expert testimony arguing Meta owes as much as $766 million.
December 16, 2021
Gilead Sciences will ask a Delaware federal judge next week to block the federal government from deposing the pharmaceutical company's CEO in a high-profile patent case over allegations Gilead made billions by selling HIV medications using research funded by taxpayers. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
August 19, 2021
Ferring Pharmaceuticals will argue next week that Jones Day should be sanctioned for sparking a patent trial that never should have happened. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
February 24, 2021
A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday denied Facebook Inc.'s request to halt all discovery in a startup's trade secrets suit, ordering the companies back to the negotiating table to hash out disagreements with a warning not to come back empty-handed.
June 18, 2020
Facebook and one of its top engineers are seeking "to have their cake and eat it too" in arguments to scale back claims from a trade secrets lawsuit, a Massachusetts startup told a federal judge Thursday.
May 29, 2020
An artificial intelligence startup has failed to prove that its first employee ran off with the company's trade secrets when he took a job at Facebook, a Massachusetts federal judge said, denying the firm's request to block the former worker's ongoing research at the social media giant.
March 05, 2020
Facebook poached an employee of a Massachusetts artificial intelligence startup, got him to hand over the startup's trade secrets, then turned around and released the proprietary information to the world as open-source code, according to a federal lawsuit filed late Wednesday.