Fed. Circ. Doubts It Can Hear T-Mobile Settlement Scuffle

By Theresa Schliep

A Federal Circuit panel on Tuesday appeared skeptical that it can weigh an appeal stemming from a settlement agreement between T-Mobile and a company that accused it of infringing a Wi-Fi calling patent, even though both sides argued there were grounds for jurisdiction.

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Apple Urges Full Fed. Circ. To Undo Original Watch Import Ban

By Dani Kass

A Federal Circuit panel erred when finding the U.S. International Trade Commission properly banned imports of Apple Watches with blood oxygen-monitoring features, the tech giant behind the devices said in a plea for rehearing by the full court.

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3 Suits Say Meta, Anthropic Pirating Books In AI 'Arms Race'

By Ivan Moreno

Book publishers and legal novelist Scott Turow hit Meta Platforms Inc. with a proposed class action in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing it of training its Llama large language models on millions of copyrighted books and articles from pirate sites instead of licensing the material.

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Fed. Circ. Sides With Google In Mobile Device Patent Suit

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit Tuesday backed a California federal judge's decision to throw out a lawsuit accusing Google of infringing a patent covering a way to pause phone notifications, agreeing the patent was invalid in the first place.

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4th Circ. Says USPTO Doesn't Have To Cough Up PTAB Docs

By Adam Lidgett

The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday said it won't force the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to hand over certain information requested by a nonprofit volunteer about drafts of a decision in a Patent Trial and Appeal Board hearing involving a cybersecurity patent.

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11th Circ. Revives Annie Leibovitz 'Star Wars' Photo IP Dispute

By Gina Kim

The Eleventh Circuit vacated an early win handed to a digital outlet accused of impermissibly using renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz's images taken on the set of a new "Star Wars" film that were featured in Vanity Fair, ruling on Tuesday the lower court's "understanding of copyright law was not quite right."

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Va. Judge Clears Amazon On 4 Of 5 DivX Video Patents

By Adam Lidgett

A Virginia federal judge has trimmed much of the remainder of a lawsuit accusing Amazon of infringing video processing patents owned by California-based video technology company DivX, but let one of the patents remain at play.

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Democrat Calls Squires' Board Of Peace Answers 'Incoherent'

By Ivan Moreno

The ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday had more probing questions for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires about his decision to file trademark applications for U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace," telling Squires that his answers under oath at a March oversight hearing were "incoherent."

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DJ Khalil Hit 'Dead End' With Ye Over Song Use, LA Jury Told

By Rae Ann Varona

DJ Khalil testified Tuesday in a California copyright infringement suit that he was initially excited Ye was using his instrumental track for what became the rapper's Grammy-winning song "Hurricane," but ultimately sought help from an artists rights company when he hit a "dead end" seeking payment from the rapper.

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Musk Sought Control Of OpenAI To Fund Mars City, Jury Told

By Dorothy Atkins

OpenAI President Greg Brockman defended OpenAI's for-profit conversion during a California federal jury trial Tuesday and accused Elon Musk of demanding "unilateral absolute control" over OpenAI to fund his plans for a city on Mars, while acknowledging under examination that Musk proposed his stake would "change quickly" with additional investors.

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Sanofi Unit Gets Backup In Fed. Circ. Double Patenting Appeal

By Dani Kass

Canon, Sonos and several other tech and biopharma companies have thrown their weight behind a Sanofi subsidiary's appeal challenging how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board handles obviousness-type double patenting.

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Bike Trainer Co. Accuses Rival Of 'Hallucinations' In Brief

By Elliot Weld

A maker of bike trainers has alleged that a rival included "hallucinations" while reciting the language of claims from a patent in a Georgia federal suit seeking to toss a complaint before the U.S. International Trade Commission.

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Apple Says Webcam IP, Antitrust Suit Belongs In Calif.

By Bonnie Eslinger

Apple Inc. has urged a New Jersey federal court to transfer a British software company's antitrust and patent infringement case over iPhone camera technology, arguing that the developer signed a license agreement consenting to litigate disputes with the tech giant in the Northern District of California.

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Sportswear Co. Seeks To Flunk Schools' Trademark Win Bid

By Chart Riggall

Print-on-demand retailer Vintage Brand urged a Georgia federal judge to deny a host of universities an early win in their trademark infringement suit against the company over its sports merchandise, arguing that their motion rests on the disputed premise that their imagery is covered by the Lanham Act.

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X, Startup Clash Over Fate Of Twitter Brand

By Jarek Rutz

X Corp. and Operation Bluebird Inc. are urging a Delaware federal judge to take sharply different views of what happened to the Twitter brand after Elon Musk renamed the social media platform X, with X saying the famous name remains protected and Bluebird saying the company gave it up.

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ABKCO, Behr Settle 'Paint It Black' Ad Copyright Suit

By Elliot Weld

Record company ABKCO Music & Records Inc. has settled a case with paint-maker Behr Paint Co. over Behr's use of the song "Paint It Black" in an advertisement without a license.

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4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In April

By Julie Manganis

Judges in Suffolk County Superior Court's business litigation session in Massachusetts sent two cases to arbitration and weighed in on disputes over trade secrets and tradespeople in recent rulings.

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Santander Says Ex-Adviser Poached Lion's Share Of Clients

By Emilie Ruscoe

Santander Bank and its investment adviser unit have sued a former employee, alleging that he improperly wooed away the vast majority of his clients when he decamped for a competitor.

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NCAA Insists Athletes Must Arbitrate NIL Deal, Not 'Rewrite' It

By David Steele

College athletes' attempt to go through the courts to exempt certain revenue streams from NCAA oversight is an end-run around the resolution they reached in last year's $2.78 billion class action settlement, the association has told a California federal judge.

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9th Circ. Upholds Chip Injunction In Google Contract Case

By Elliot Weld

The Ninth Circuit refused to lift an injunction against Point Financial Inc. barring it from interfering with Google's license to manufacture certain computer chips while a case plays out over Google's contract with a chipmaker that went out of business.

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Duane Morris Integrates Gambling, Sports Industry Groups

By James Boyle

The growing popularity of betting in sports has prompted Duane Morris LLP to respond to the meshing of the two sectors by integrating its sports and gambling law groups.

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Building Codes Ruling May Inform AI Copyright Arguments

The Third Circuit's recent decision in ASTM v. UpCodes, finding that republication of copyrighted building codes incorporated into binding law likely constitutes fair use, may help shape intellectual property strategy for standards organizations, rights holders and potentially even AI stakeholders, says Mitesh Patel at Reed Smith.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Make Your Voice Heard

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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DOJ Atty Faces Possible Discipline Over DHS 'Lack Of Candor'

By Lauren Berg

A Rhode Island federal judge, whom the U.S. Department of Homeland Security criticized for releasing a noncitizen with an alleged overseas warrant for homicide, on Tuesday said she is referring an assistant U.S. attorney for disciplinary proceedings for not disclosing the warrant to her beforehand.

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Approach The Bench: Justice Bacon On School Accreditation

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

State high courts are responsible for regulating the legal profession in their jurisdictions, and so New Mexico Supreme Court Justice C. Shannon Bacon thinks it's only right that justices reevaluate the principles behind law school accreditation.

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Ga. Justices Sanction Asst. DA For AI Errors In Murder Case

By Lauren Berg

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday sanctioned a Clayton County assistant district attorney for filing briefs that contained nonexistent case citations generated by artificial intelligence in a murder defendant's bid for a new trial, saying the prosecutor's misconduct has "sidetracked" the justices from delving into the merits of the appeal.

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High Court Clarity On Subpoenas Creates Murky Path For AGs

By Carla Baranauckas

The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision that the New Jersey Attorney General's Office infringed free speech by asking an anti-abortion nonprofit to release donor names gives nonprofits and companies more leverage for challenging subpoenas at the outset, although the question remains if and how attorneys general and other enforcers can ultimately obtain sought-after information following a constitutional affront.

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FCC Chair Carr Promotes 6 In Key Legal, Policy Roles

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's staff are playing musical chairs, and it means high-level promotions for a half-dozen legal aides of agency chief Brendan Carr.

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SEC Lifts NY Atty's Lifetime Practice Ban

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday lifted a lifetime ban preventing a New York attorney from practicing before the agency, following an attempt to leverage a client's testimony before the SEC.

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