Analysis

Can Trade Secret Law Protect Indigenous Knowledge?

By Ivan Moreno

As the U.S. and other countries struggle to agree on new international protections for Indigenous knowledge, trade secret law is drawing renewed attention as a possible solution for material that communities actually keep confidential.

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Squires Grants 4 PTAB Petitions, Rejects 3 In New Drop

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted four new America Invents Act reviews at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and turned down three in his newest mass order.

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Atty With False AI Citation Filings Ordered To Pay $39K

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New York federal judge who imposed case-terminating sanctions on an attorney who submitted filings with false citations generated by artificial intelligence ordered him on Friday to pay nearly $39,000 to lawyers who uncovered the problematic AI use, noting he had given them the "runaround" when they tried to collect directly.

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Microsoft Gets Azure Cloud Computing Patent Suit Narrowed

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal judge has trimmed a suit by a patent-holding company accusing Microsoft of infringing patents covering improvements in virtualization and cloud monitoring, tossing allegations of infringement that occurred before the company obtained the patents.

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Gene Therapy Patent Suit Against Sarepta Comes To Close

By Adam Lidgett

Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. no longer has to face a lawsuit accusing it of infringing a University of Pennsylvania gene therapy patent licensed by clinical-stage biotechnology company Regenxbio Inc. after the parties told a Delaware federal judge they agreed to end the case.

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Activision Gets PTAB To Invalidate IP From Gaming Fight

By Adam Lidgett

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has thrown out more than a dozen claims in a Milestone Entertainment gaming patent that the company accused Activision Blizzard Inc. of infringing with Candy Crush Saga and other games in a California federal court lawsuit.

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Taiwanese Tech Co. Asks To Toss Device Update Patent Suit

By Elliot Weld

Taiwanese technology-maker Getac Holdings Corp. has asked a Texas federal judge to dismiss a patent infringement suit brought by Media Key LLC over a patent covering methods of remotely updating smart device applications, saying the suit was nothing more than a threadbare pleading that didn't connect Getac to the patent.

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Amazon Wants Out Of Website Patent Suit, Citing EBay Ruling

By Adam Lidgett

Amazon said Thursday it shouldn't have to face a lawsuit accusing it of infringing a pair of patents on customizing access to websites, telling a Washington federal court that not only are the patents expired, the inventions were not patent eligible in the first place.

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Brief

Pictiva, Samsung Resolve LED Television Patent Cases

By Elliot Weld

Samsung and Irish patent licensing company Pictiva Displays have resolved two cases accusing Samsung of infringing patents covering light-emitting diodes after the patent board knocked out one of Pictiva's patents tied to a $191.4 million verdict.

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Shein Accused Of Using Unlicensed Music In Sponsored Ads

By Susan Smiley

Fast-fashion retailer Shein was hit with a federal copyright infringement lawsuit in Michigan on Friday from music publishing company Music L.A.A. Inc., which accused the retailer of using its registered beats without permission in sponsored social media campaigns.

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DJ Says Ex-Managers Betrayed Her With Co-Ownership Claim

By Hanna Vioque

A DJ and record producer has pushed back against her former managers' claims that she owes £200,000 ($265,000) in commission, arguing that she ended their deal only after they improperly tried to obtain copyright ownership of her label.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen PrivatBank sue its former oligarch owner, building materials provider Kingspan face a €100 million ($112 million) claim over Grenfell Tower cladding and energy giants VaroPreem and Viaro Energy become embroiled in an intellectual property row.

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Squire Patton, Holland & Knight Report Data Breaches

By Jake Maher

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Holland & Knight LLP were hit with cyberattacks exposing sensitive information, according to disclosures filed this week.

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Up Next At High Court: Criminal Sentences & Video Privacy

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its October sitting by hearing oral arguments in two cases that ask what level of deference federal district courts should give to commentary interpreting the federal sentencing guidelines, and what purchases are protected under a video consumer privacy statute.

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DOJ Aims To 'Attack Fraud From All Angles' Via New Division

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division has issued fresh guidance on its prosecution methodology, with the division's head directing prosecutors to seize assets before indictments and pursue upward variances in sentencing guidelines in some cases as part of a stated push to use the division's "full arsenal of criminal statutes" in combating fraud.

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Ill. Judge Lays Out Doc Demands For DOJ Misconduct Probe

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge asked the government Friday to turn over six months of communications and certain other records as she investigates in-court inaccuracies Chicago prosecutors offered while prosecuting six anti-immigration protesters, rejecting its request to seal a filing in the process.

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Grassley Attacks Dems' Claims Of Rule-Breaking Over Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, clapped back at Democrats for their accusations that Republicans broke Senate rules during a hearing last week at which former special counsel Jack Smith appeared.

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Calif. Jurists' Atty Tips: 'Emulate Lincoln,' 'Don't Be Boring'

By Bonnie Eslinger

Three current and former Northern California federal judges and one Morrison Foerster LLP partner during a Federal Bar Association panel discussion Thursday gave attorneys tips on "courtroom persuasion," including knowing the judges, keeping things interesting and, like the nation's 16th president, getting quickly to the winning point.

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Brief

Legal Services NYC Gets $2.5M To Build Novel Resource Hub

By Tracey Read

Legal Services NYC announced Friday that it has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the New York State Interest on Lawyer Account Fund to create a first-of-its-kind statewide knowledge-sharing platform to help legal advocates spend more time seeking justice for low-income clients.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The new federal fraud division is threatening faster action and broader targets under a new enforcement policy announced recently. And the SEC warned shareholder advocacy groups that join forces could face legal scrutiny in the future. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Alston & Bird LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Sixth Circuit overturned a pivotal decision in multidistrict opioid litigation that had dramatically expanded claims against the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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