IP Atty, Patent Exec File Dueling Bids To End Defamation Case

By Madison Arnold

A patent licensing company executive and a Baker Botts LLP intellectual property litigator filed competing summary judgment motions in a defamation suit in Florida federal court.

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Apple Seeks To Overturn $634M Masimo Patent Verdict

By Craig Clough

Apple has urged a California federal judge to grant its combined motion for judgment or a new trial for its $634 million trial loss over a Masimo patient monitor patent, arguing that no reasonable jury could have reached the verdict and that the tech giant was "severely prejudiced" by erroneous court rulings.

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Adeia Resolves Disney Patent Claims With Long-Term License

By Elliot Weld

Adeia Technologies Inc. said Monday that it had reached a long-term intellectual property license agreement with Disney that will resolve patent claims it brought against the entertainment giant.

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Judge Again Axes MyPort's Apple Suit Under Alice

By Elliot Weld

A federal judge has dismissed a patent infringement suit brought by MyPort Technologies Inc. against Apple Inc., saying the patents it was asserting described unpatentable abstract ideas.

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Google Says 'Settled Expectations' Challenge Is Still Viable

By Theresa Schliep

Google LLC urged the Federal Circuit on Monday to pay no heed to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's arguments that failed challenges to the office's policy of denying patent reviews based on the owner's "settled expectations" should decide Google's own challenge, arguing its case is different.

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Fla. Judge Won't Block Taylor Swift In Poet's $25M IP Suit

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge denied a request Monday by a poet suing Taylor Swift for $25 million to block the pop superstar from allegedly infringing the poet's work in lyrics across four albums.

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LawFirms.com Beats LegalForce's TM Suit After Bench Trial

By Ivan Moreno

A California judge has concluded that a company that operates LawFirms.com did not infringe a law firm's trademarks for LegalForce, saying that during a four-day bench trial in October the court found "no one was actually confused or misled."

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Anthropic, Google, Meta Face More Writer Copyright Claims

By Hailey Konnath

A group of writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou, on Monday lobbed yet another copyright infringement suit at tech companies Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Perplexity, criticizing Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement in a similar class action as seeming to serve the companies, not creators.

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Fed. Circ. Urged To Preserve Novartis' Bench Trial Loss

By Theresa Schliep

MSN Pharmaceuticals has pushed back against Novartis' efforts to save its case accusing the generic-drug maker of infringing a patent covering the blockbuster cardiovascular drug Entresto, telling the Federal Circuit that the appeal "reveals no district court error, just Novartis' poor litigation strategy."

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Accent Translation Patent Claims Remain In Trade Secret Spat

By Ivan Moreno

A California federal judge has rejected a tech company's bid to dismiss patent claims from a competitor's trade secret lawsuit over accent translation technology, saying the motion was improper because it raised many of the same arguments it used in an unsuccessful attempt to dismiss other claims.

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Aritzia, J. Crew, Albertsons, More Sued Over Card Reader IP

By Hailey Konnath

The owner of a series of patents covering credit card reader technology has filed a slew of infringement suits against retailers, including Aritzia, J. Crew and Albertsons, claiming the companies infringed the patents with their payment processing systems.

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Authors Push For OpenAI Counsel Talks On Pirated Books

By Elliot Weld

A class of authors suing OpenAI over copyright infringement claims has asked a Manhattan federal judge to leave in place a magistrate judge's order for the artificial intelligence startup to turn over its in-house attorneys' communications regarding the deletion of a set of pirated books that were allegedly used to train ChatGPT.

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Mich. Festival Organizer Says Lions Stole Name

By David Steele

The producers of a Michigan music festival have gone to federal court to claim that the Detroit Lions used their slogan and logo without permission to promote a new "Motor City Muscle" football jersey design.

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Sports Tech Co. Sues Ex-Major Leaguer Over Failed App Deal

By Alex Lawson

A technology company has sued MLB Network host Harold Reynolds in New Jersey federal court, alleging that the former All-Star sabotaged their agreement to build a youth sports app and lured the company into sharing trade secrets with a competitor.

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Opinion

Judges Carry Onus To Screen Expert Opinions Before Juries

Recent Second Circuit arguments in Acetaminophen Products Liability Litigation implied a low bar for judicial gatekeeping of expert testimony, but under amended Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, judges must rigorously scrutinize expert opinions before allowing them to reach juries, says Lee Mickus at Evans Fears.

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Bonus Spotlight

Haynes Boone, Seward & Kissel Announce Year-End Bonuses

By Aebra Coe

Haynes Boone is handing its associates year-end and special bonuses in line with those offered by a significant portion of BigLaw this year, largely adhering to a bonus scale first put forward by Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP in November, a firm spokesperson confirmed Monday.

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Analysis

4 Legal Ethics Matters That Rocked 2025

By Emily Sawicki

This year, judges across the country grappled with attorneys' use and misuse of generative artificial intelligence, and prominent federal prosecutor battles dominated headlines in some of the top legal ethics matters of 2025.

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DOJ Challenges ABA's Standing In Law Firm Intimidation Suit

By Ryan Boysen

The Trump administration is not waging an intimidation campaign against U.S. law firms, the government said Friday, calling an American Bar Association lawsuit challenging its alleged "law firm intimidation policy" as total speculation that must be dismissed due to lack of standing.

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JPMorgan Rips Javice Attys' 'Absurd' Bills For Candy, Booze

By Dorothy Atkins

JPMorgan has unveiled new details in its ongoing legal fee fight with Charlie Javice, accusing the convicted financial aid startup founder's Quinn Emanuel defense counsel and other firms of billing for "absurd" and "outrageous" expenses, including specialty cocktails, cellulite butter, a Cookie Monster toy and $530 on gummy bears.

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Ex-CIA Director's Lawyers Accuse DOJ Of Judge Shopping

By Carolina Bolado

Former CIA Director John Brennan's attorneys asked the chief judge for the Southern District of Florida on Monday to block prosecutors from trying to steer any potential charges against him for investigating Russia's 2016 election interference to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon's courtroom.

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Analysis

2025 Was A Policy Year Like No Other For Immigration Attys

By Britain Eakin

This year brought nonstop immigration policy whiplash as the Trump administration ramped up enforcement, triggering panic among employers about I-9 compliance in a landscape of constantly shifting adjudication and work authorization policies. Here, Law360 looks at how policy shifted attorney practice in 2025.

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Calif. Atty Slams 'Protectionist' ABS Fee-Sharing Ban

By Emily Sawicki

A California attorney has pushed back on opposition from California's attorney general and the state's bar association amid his efforts to block enforcement of a ban on fee sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonattorneys, arguing the new state law is a "protectionist act, in defiance of the constitution."

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Schumer Pushes Senate To Sue Over Epstein File Release

By Courtney Bublé

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced a resolution on Monday that would direct the Senate to take legal action to force the Trump administration to fully comply with the law to release the files of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Analysis

As US Executions Decline, Florida Surges

By Brandon Lowrey

During Florida's 1994 gubernatorial race, Republican candidate Jeb Bush accused Democratic incumbent Lawton Chiles of being too soft on crime; Chiles' immediate predecessor, Bush pointed out, had signed almost 10 times as many death warrants as Chiles had.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's justices threw the Court of Chancery in reverse big time last week, rescinding a decision by the state's chancellor that last year effectively canceled tech tycoon Elon Musk's multi-year, then-$56 billion stock-based compensation package. It was a decision that lit up the court's relatively low-key, pre-holiday wind-up. It also highlighted the endless, 3D tug of war over Delaware-chartered companies and the interests of boards, officers, controllers, stockholders and the corporate bar.

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