February 09, 2024
The Federal Circuit issued a precedential ruling on Friday that overturned a patent board finding that two claims in a patent owned a R.J. Reynolds subsidiary did not do what it described, a week after Reynolds' parent company privately settled its legal fight with Philip Morris over competing tobacco and vape products.
April 06, 2023
A Virginia federal judge denied a permanent injunction request from Philip Morris to bar R.J. Reynolds from selling vaping devices that a jury found infringe Philip Morris patents, ruling in an order unsealed on Tuesday that banning the devices could harm public health.
July 14, 2022
A federal judge in Los Angeles next week will hear lawyers for director Quentin Tarantino argue that a non-fungible token that recently sold for more than $1 million was based on his own handwritten screenplay for "Pulp Fiction" and doesn't belong to the movie studio that owns the copyright on his hit 1994 movie. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
June 15, 2022
An Eastern District of Virginia jury on Wednesday found that R.J. Reynolds infringed two Philip Morris patents on vaping technology, awarding $10.76 million in damages in a clash between the two tobacco giants.
April 09, 2020
A company that makes a patented smoking device that heats tobacco without burning it filed a lawsuit in Virginia federal court Thursday claiming tobacco giant Altria ripped off their design with its new IQOS tobacco products.