Analysis

​What's Left In VLSI-Intel's $3B Patent Litigation

By Dani Kass

Intel and VLSI are set to square off Thursday at the Federal Circuit ​i​n one arm of their high​-stakes fight over semiconductor patents, but questions over the state of $3 billion in verdicts, a potential license, fraud allegations and invalidations are still playing out in other cases. Here's where things stand.​

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USPTO's Squires Sees TMs As Key Tool Against AI Deepfakes

By Ivan Moreno

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires pitched trademarks as one of the most practical tools for combating artificial intelligence deepfakes, saying during a Wednesday webinar that name, image and likeness rights are "where the puck is going," peppering his remarks with pop culture references and sports metaphors.

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Squires Throws Out 23 Patent Challenges, Grants 12

By Theresa Schliep

The latest summary decision from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires denied 23 America Invents Act petitions and instituted 12 others, bringing his total number of patent challenges granted to 60.

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Fed. Circ. Backs Infringement Immunity For NASA Contractor

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday endorsed a California federal judge's decision that a NASA contractor doesn't have to face a patent infringement suit from a pair of California men, given that its allegedly infringing use was authorized by the federal government.

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Fed. Circ. Leans Toward Vacating $12.7M Copyright Award

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Federal Circuit appeared likely to vacate a $12.7 million copyright infringement award against the federal government on Wednesday, pressing attorneys for a software developer and the government to answer what instructions should be given to the claims court on remand.

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USPTO Scraps Interested Party Precedent After New Ruling

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has removed the precedential status of two 2019 decisions addressing the rule that patent challengers must identify all interested parties, saying they were at odds with a decision that was made precedential last year.

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Carnegie Mellon Avoids Alice Ax Of Patents In Calif. Suit

By Adam Lidgett

A California federal judge has shot down a bid by an indirect Broadcom Inc. subsidiary to invalidate claims in a pair of Carnegie Mellon University patents the company has been accused of infringing, saying they passed muster under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.

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Fla. Court Urged To Hold IP Atty Liable For Defamation

By David Minsky

An inventor alleging an intellectual property attorney defamed him in the press urged a Florida federal court Wednesday to hold the attorney accountable, arguing the allegation is well-founded.

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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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SPEX Urges Fed. Circ. To Revert Slashed $1 IP Win To $553M

By Dani Kass

SPEX Technologies Inc. is asking the Federal Circuit to reinstate the $553 million award it had won against Western Digital for patent infringement, after a California federal judge lowered it to a single dollar.

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'Careless Or Disingenuous': Judge Rips CareFirst Rethink Bid

By Hailey Konnath

A Virginia federal judge Wednesday refused to reconsider an order reversing course and throwing out key claims in CareFirst's suit against Johnson & Johnson over the immunosuppressive drug Stelara, calling CareFirst's arguments for doing so "either careless or disingenuous."

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Patent Settlement Blocks Fitness Tech ITC Case

By Jack McLoone

An Atlanta federal court said a U.S. fitness technology company can't go to the U.S. International Trade Commission to complain about an Australian rival's alleged patent-infringing bicycle training products because of a previous settlement agreement, ordering Wahoo to withdraw its ITC complaint.

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Packaging Co. Seeks Fees After Judge Kills Rival's Patents

By Rae Ann Varona

Plastic packaging manufacturer Lacerta Group Inc. on Wednesday moved for attorney fees after coming out on top of rival Inline Plastics Corp.'s patent infringement lawsuit, telling a Massachusetts federal court that the suit was "exceptional" and warranted the fee award due to Inline's pattern of unreasonable litigation conduct.

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GM Brings Design Patent Suits Over Alleged Car Part Copies

By Adam Lidgett

General Motors has launched a trio of lawsuits in both Michigan and Illinois federal courts, accusing a host of companies of infringing the auto giant's design patents by selling copies of its car parts.

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Teva Fights Class Cert. Bid In Effexor Antitrust Case

By George Woolston

Teva Pharmaceuticals urged a New Jersey federal judge Wednesday to reject a class certification bid by a group of direct buyers of the antidepressant drug Effexor XR and its generic versions, arguing that the proposed class failed to carry its burden showing that joinder is impracticable.

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Music Labels Win On Most Counts In Classic Rock Videos Suit

By Elliot Weld

Music labels suing a British filmmaker and his former company over a set of videos that made unauthorized use of songs by several classic rock artists were granted a win on a substantial portion of the case Wednesday by a Manhattan federal judge who found the videos did not contain enough legitimate commentary to be considered documentaries.

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Whoop Nabs Block On Chinese Co.'s Health-Tracker Products

By Elliot Weld

A Massachusetts federal judge has blocked a Chinese company from selling in the U.S. its health-tracking products that were alleged by health band maker Whoop Inc. to be infringing its trade dress.

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CREXi Fights Bid To Disqualify Quinn Emanuel In CoStar IP Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Commercial real estate platform CREXi has urged a California federal judge to let it keep Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as its counsel as it fights CoStar's accusations of copyright infringement, saying CoStar is only now raising conflict of interest concerns to gain a "tactical advantage."

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Gospel Singer Pleads To Drop Track Amid 'Messy' Label Fight

By Chart Riggall

A Grammy Award-winning gospel singer locked in a contract fight with his record label urged a Georgia federal judge Tuesday to reject the label's attempt to shut down the impending release of a solo track, arguing that halting his work could allow his career to "die on the vine."

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IBM Seeks Texas Enforcement Of $24M UK Contract Ruling

By José Luis Martínez

A British subsidiary of IBM asked a Texas federal court to enforce a $24.6 million English judgment against Houston-based software entrepreneur John Jay Moores, seeking to collect court-ordered litigation costs awarded after Moores was found to have breached IBM software licenses.

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Davis Polk Picks Up IP Ace From Debevoise & Plimpton

By Gina Kim

Preeminent intellectual property attorney John "Jay" Neukom, who has a storied track record prevailing on behalf of major companies in high-profile legal battles across the country, has joined Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in Northern California, after spending nearly four years with Debevoise & Plimpton LLC, according to an announcement made Monday.

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From IPR To EPR: The Rapid Rise Of Ex Parte Reexamination

With the current administration's dramatic shifts in policy rendering inter partes reviews essentially unavailable for the majority of patents being asserted in litigation, IPR filing rates have plunged, and ex parte reexamination requests have surged to the average rate of IPR petitions in 2024, say attorneys at McKool Smith.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

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Paul Weiss' Karp Steps Back After Epstein Email Revelations

By Hailey Konnath and Aebra Coe

Longtime Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Brad S. Karp has resigned from his leadership role, the firm announced Wednesday, a move that comes after the U.S. Department of Justice released numerous emails between Karp and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Baker McKenzie To Downsize Business Professional Jobs

By Tracey Read

Baker McKenzie, which has a legal services hub in Tampa, Florida, is in the process of downsizing business professionals' jobs, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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Ex-DLA Piper Partner Aims To Toss Claim He Raped Associate

By Jack Karp

Allegations that an ex-DLA Piper partner raped a former Boston-based associate in Delaware in 2022 should be tossed since the Massachusetts state court the case was filed in has no jurisdiction over the Delaware claim, according to the accused former partner.

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Goldstein Accountant Admits Tax Return Errors

By Jared Foretek

A star government witness and the top outside accountant for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm admitted to making mistakes on Goldstein's tax returns and offering the grand jury erroneous testimony, under cross-examination in the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's tax fraud trial Wednesday.

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Analysis

Clemency Was 'Broken' Long Before Trump. Can It Be Fixed?

By Phillip Bantz

President Donald Trump has transformed what has historically been a bureaucratic process for seeking federal pardons and commutations into a more freewheeling affair with few clear rules — and no easy solutions for reform, experts say.

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Wachtel Missry Settles Liability In $26M Atty Malpractice Case

By Emily Sawicki

A dispute over who is liable for a former Wachtel Missry LLP partner's alleged exploitation of an elderly client has been settled on the eve of trial, while the Brooklyn federal judge declined to consider recusing himself despite "inadvertently" meeting with the firm's founding partner before the matter was fully put to rest.

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Ex-Fox News Host Decries Judge Pick's Arbitration Stance

By Courtney Buble

Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor and a leading advocate for ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, has come out against a federal judicial nominee for Louisiana for her past comments on the issue.

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Trump Bid To Move NY Appeal Faces 'Fatal' Error, Judge Says

By Frank G. Runyeon

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday repeatedly aired doubts that President Donald Trump can upend the pending New York state appeal of his hush-money conviction by moving the case to federal court.

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