Fed. Circ. Judge To Intel IP Atty: Your View Is 'Unreasonable'

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit's chief judge on Thursday reprimanded an attorney representing Intel for his "truly unreasonable" claim that a contract with VLSI Technology to streamline patent litigation should only count toward damages, not infringement.

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Fed. Circ. Supports No Infringement Ruling In Ladder IP Case

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Thursday refused to revive a Little Giant Ladder Systems lawsuit accusing a rival of infringing a patent on a ladder with a locking mechanism, agreeing with a lower court's rejection of the patent owner's two infringement theories.

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State Bar Of Texas Declines To Open Grievance On Ramey

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of Texas has declined to open a grievance against patent litigator William P. Ramey III after a San Francisco federal court sanctioned him and his firm, Ramey LLP, for practicing law in California without a license.

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Judge Says AI Errors Show Atty Can't 'Learn' From Mistakes

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal judge concluded that an attorney who repeatedly submitted filings with false AI-generated citations must be punished with case-terminating sanctions against a client he was defending in a trademark lawsuit, saying Thursday that the lawyer "has not, and apparently cannot, learn from his mistakes."

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Fla. Judge Recommends Axing Some Claims Against IP Atty

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge Thursday recommended tossing several claims in a lawsuit alleging a patent attorney defamed an inventor in the press, saying the claims are unsupported.

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OpenAI Rips Bid For Exec's Personal Journal In IP Litigation

By Dorothy Atkins

OpenAI urged a New York federal judge Wednesday to reject a demand by authors and newspapers for the OpenAI president's "personal journal" in their copyright litigation, arguing the request is unwarranted and a "severe invasion of privacy," even if excerpts were recently revealed in OpenAI's separate litigation with Elon Musk.

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Judge Caps Off 'Beer Law' Trademark Case

By Elliot Weld

A federal judge has dismissed a trademark lawsuit from a North Carolina law firm that brands itself as the "Beer Law Center" against a Colorado firm that calls itself the "Beer Law HQ," finding the latter company lacked sufficient connections to North Carolina for the court to hear the case.

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Trump Admin Finalizes Rule Facilitating Federal Worker Firings

By Tim Ryan

The Trump administration Thursday announced a final rule to create a new category of federal workers who would have fewer job protections and be easier to fire, implementing an executive order from early last year that could affect 50,000 employees at federal agencies.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Walmart Alice Win In Content Patent Suit Backed By Fed. Circ.

By Theresa Schliep

The Federal Circuit on Thursday agreed with U.S. District Judge Alan Albright's conclusion that a trio of content sharing patents asserted against Walmart are invalid for covering an abstract idea, rejecting the owner's arguments that certain claim limitations save the patents.

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Jury Hands DuraSystems $905K In Kitchen Duct Patent Trial

By Elliot Weld

An Illinois federal jury on Thursday said Van-Packer Co. and Jeremias Inc. owed $905,000 in reasonable royalties for infringing sales, after an earlier finding by the court that they had infringed DuraSystems Barriers Inc.'s patent covering kitchen ducts for preventing fires and dangerous gases.

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Gilstrap Sends Tesla Patent Case From Texas To Calif.

By Lauren Berg

A Texas federal judge refused to change his mind — again — about transferring to California a patent infringement suit against Tesla related to technology used in self-driving cars, according to a Jan. 29 order unsealed Thursday.

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Lenovo Strikes Deal To End Patent Suit On The Eve Of Trial

By Gina Kim

Lenovo Group and Universal Connectivity Technologies on Wednesday issued a notice stating that they have settled their years-long patent infringement dispute covering power delivery technology, just days before a jury trial was set to begin in Texas federal court.

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David Protein Gets Ingredient Supply Antitrust Claims Tossed

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court dismissed a lawsuit from several low-calorie food producers accusing protein bar-maker David Protein of refusing to sell them a fat replacement ingredient after it purchased the ingredient's only supplier.

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Full Fed. Circ. Won't Rethink Heart Monitor Patent Claim Ax

By Adam Lidgett

The full Federal Circuit won't rethink a panel's refusal to revive claims in a wireless heart rate monitor patent owned by Finnish sports tech company Polar Electro Oy that a lower court found were invalid.

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Squires Won't Review PTAB Ax Of Greenthread Patents

By Adam Lidgett

The head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has declined requests by chipmaker Greenthread to review Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions invalidating claims in its semiconductor patents.

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Gospel Singer's Contested Song Gets Judge's Blessing

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge said Thursday that she will allow a Grammy-award winning gospel artist to release new music Friday over the objections of his label, which tried to block the release with a court order over claims that it would violate his record deal.

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Mariah Carey Wants $1M After Winning 'Frivolous' Xmas Suit

By Ivan Moreno

Mariah Carey and co-defendants who beat accusations that her holiday hit "All I Want for Christmas Is You" copied an earlier song of the same name have asked a California federal judge to order the plaintiffs to pay nearly $1 million in legal fees, arguing their complaint was frivolous from the start.

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Meta Latest To Be Accused Of YouTube Data Scraping For AI

By Elliot Weld

Three YouTube personalities have filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc., accusing it of circumventing YouTube's technological protections to bulk-download video content to be used in training artificial intelligence.

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Toys R Us Seeks Contempt, Sanctions In Smoke Shop TM Suit

By Mike Curley

The company behind Toys R Us is asking a Connecticut federal court to find smoke shop Vape R Us Inc. and its owner in contempt for violating a default judgment and injunction blocking it from continuing to operate under that name.

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Deel Loses Bid To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Trade Secrets Fight

By Lauren Berg

Payroll and human resources company Deel Inc. cannot have Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP disqualified from representing its competitor Rippling in a trade secrets fight, a Delaware judge ruled Thursday, saying there is no "clear conflict" that would require booting the BigLaw firm.

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NC Biz Court Bulletin: Dual Representation DQ, Biting Censure

By Hayley Fowler

The North Carolina Business Court kicked off 2026 with a flurry of rulings and a few rebukes from the bench, including partially disqualifying counsel in a restaurant mismanagement melee and censuring a solo attorney who sought to circumvent the specialized superior court's rules.

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Nicklaus Golf Co. Gets $50M Baseline Bid For Licensing Biz

By Rick Archer

A $50 million offer from brand manager Iconix International will be the baseline bid for a Chapter 11 auction of licensing rights for golf legend Jack Nicklaus' name, rights holder GBI Services has told a Delaware bankruptcy judge.

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Patent Co., AI Research Firm Join Forces In $150M Deal

By Adam Lidgett

Patent monetization venture SIM IP has announced a merger valued at $150 million with artificial intelligence research firm Garden Intel, a deal the companies said would create a first-of-its-kind platform.

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Alston & Bird Hires Ex-Baker McKenzie Tech, Privacy Pro

By Kevin Penton

Alston & Bird LLP has added a technology and privacy specialist previously with Baker McKenzie as a partner in its Silicon Valley office, the firm announced Thursday.

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Utilizing The ITC To Combat 'Gray Market' IP Infringement

As technological developments intensify trademark owners' need to respond swiftly to "gray market" sales of international goods imported into the U.S. without the trademark owner's consent, litigating at the U.S. International Trade Commission offers an underutilized enforcement option, say attorneys at MoFo.

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Teaching Logic Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Teaching middle and high school students the skills to untangle complicated arguments and identify faulty reasoning has made me reacquaint myself with the defined structure of thought, reminding me why logic should remain foundational in the practice of law, says Tom Barrow at Woods Rogers.

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Meet New Paul Weiss Chairman Scott Barshay

By Anna Sanders

New Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Scott Barshay is a rainmaker who most recently led the corporate department, guiding clients through some of the largest transactions in recent history after joining the firm's New York office a decade ago.

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Judge Who Resigned To Criticize Trump Had Faced Inquiry

By Chris Villani

Former Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf was the subject of an inquiry into potential misconduct when he announced his November resignation, a decision he said at the time was motivated by a desire to speak out against the Trump administration, according to a source familiar with the matter.

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NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

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Texas Atty Must Explain AI 'Misuse' In Employment Case

By Lauren Berg

A prominent civil rights attorney representing a University of Texas at Austin nurse in an employment discrimination case must explain why he shouldn't be sanctioned "for his apparent misuse of artificial intelligence" to research and write a brief, a Texas federal judge ruled.

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Ex-Alex Jones Atty Asks Conn. Justices To Nix Suspension

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case has asked the state's highest court to consider whether it was proper for a judge to suspend his law license for violating a protective order governing Sandy Hook families' personal information.

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Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

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Fake Case Pulled From Toshiba Malicious Prosecution Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A former printer toner salesman is trying to salvage his lawsuit against Toshiba after the company flagged nonexistent citations, apologizing to the California federal court in a corrected brief Thursday defending claims that the electronics company manufactured a criminal case against him and others to maintain an illegal monopoly.

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McCarter & English Wants To Torpedo $22M Malpractice Suit

By Aaron Keller

McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.

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Trump's Seattle US Atty Stays On For Now Via Title Swap

By Rachel Riley

Trump administration appointee Charles Neil Floyd will continue to be the Western District of Washington's top federal prosecutor for now, under the new title of "First Assistant U.S. Attorney," after the deadline passed Wednesday for the U.S. Senate to confirm the interim appointment.

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Klobuchar Alarmed By Exodus Of Prosecutors In Minnesota

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., on Thursday said she was alarmed by the surge of resignations by federal prosecutors in her state following the shooting deaths of two Minnesotans by immigration agents.

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Judiciary Backs Bill To Let Judges Carry Concealed Guns

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary has come out in support of a Republican-led bill to allow judges and prosecutors to carry concealed firearms across state lines, according to a letter obtained by Law360.

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Ex-Prosecutors Call For Independent Probes Of ICE Killings

By Rose Krebs

A coalition of former federal prosecutors and civil rights attorneys is urging U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice allows for "transparent, unbiased and impartial" investigations into the killings in Minneapolis last month of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal immigration enforcement agents.

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