The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director has initiated the reexamination of a Pokémon patent, a power that's only been used once in over a decade, leaving attorneys to question how this move fits into the agency's focus on settled expectations.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director has initiated the reexamination of a Pokémon patent, a power that's only been used once in over a decade, leaving attorneys to question how this move fits into the agency's focus on settled expectations.
An attorney for Masimo Corp. told a California federal jury during opening statements Wednesday that Apple Inc.'s smartwatch uses his client's groundbreaking patent in the device's feature that warns about an abnormal heart rate, and that Apple should pay up to $749 million for the infringement.
A Delaware federal judge has found Scale Biosciences Inc. did not flout patents held by Parse Biosciences Inc. with its cell analysis products, saying the processes described in the patent claims and the accused products do not give rise to a genuine fact dispute.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires rejected a Tesla Inc. patent challenge that his deputy director had referred to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for consideration, taking issue Wednesday with the company's "inconsistent claim construction" between the PTAB and federal court.
Authors who struck a landmark $1.5 billion settlement with Anthropic PBC to resolve their copyright infringement class action told a California federal judge Tuesday that an Arizona law firm is tricking class members into opting out of the deal through an "aggressive social media advertising campaign."
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has refused to invalidate claims in an image-capturing patent used in retail clothes shopping environments, finding that Google was unable to show the claims were obvious.
A Texas company has launched a complaint in Texas federal court that accuses Google of infringing five patents covering a range of technologies with products such as Android phones and a smart home device.
A man who was convicted of assisting in a scheme to smuggle as much as $200 million worth of counterfeit luxury goods into the U.S. has asked a California federal judge for a new trial, challenging the government's evidence that he knew what he was doing was illegal.
Two suits brought by a group of major Hollywood studios alleging artificial intelligence startup Midjourney used copyrighted material to train its video-generation model have been merged into a single case in California federal court.
A Utah federal judge has refused to block a former executive of a drone company from working with a competitor or to stop the competitor from making or selling any military drones for a year, the latest episode of a trade secret dispute.
Two former employees of Washington-based Helium Financial Group LLC stole trade secrets and used them to start their own wealth management firm after they were fired, allowing them to create "a 'clone' of Helium's business model in startup form," Helium claimed in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Seattle federal court
A tax assessment and accounting software company claims a Connecticut town gave a competing vendor access to a proprietary taxpayer database it created and the methods behind constructing and using it, improperly sharing trade secrets that the company said the product contains.
Palantir has reached a stipulated temporary restraining order with two former employees accused of misusing company information, requiring them to return data, carry out forensic imaging and avoid working for rival Percepta AI.
The founding bassist of the Grammy-nominated metal band Hatebreed has asked a Connecticut judge not to trim claims from a lawsuit over his sudden termination, saying a new version of the complaint will cure any legal defects identified by the group's vocalist and its business arm.
BakerHostetler continues expanding its West Coast team, announcing Wednesday it is bringing in three Knobbe Martens intellectual property attorneys as partners in its Los Angeles and Orange County offices.
Freshfields announced Wednesday that it has landed a Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP partner who represents some of the most sophisticated artificial intelligence labs and technology developers in the world as the new global co-head of its AI practice.
One hundred years after its establishment, the Hague System has grown into an important pillar of international design protection, offering a promising path toward even greater harmonization in design law as its geographic reach continues to expand, say attorneys at Sterne Kessler.
Civil litigators can use artificial intelligence tools to strengthen case assessment and aid in early strategy development, as long as they address the risks and ethical considerations that accompany these uses, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.
Two Republican lawmakers have asked Chief Justice John Roberts to rein in judges who've anonymously criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's flurry of "shadow docket" rulings, but a full-on investigation appears unlikely.
The embattled wind-down trustee for defunct life insurance bond seller GWG Holdings in a Houston Chapter 11 case has resigned from the role amid the fallout from her secret romance with a then-bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of Texas.
President Donald Trump has nominated Dan Burrows, a White House official and former chief deputy attorney general of Kansas, to be assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy.
A Maryland federal judge Thursday handed SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein a series of losses on pre-trial motions aimed at trimming the 22 federal tax charges he'll face at trial next year, ruling that many of the motions involved factual disputes fit for trial and keeping the government's case intact.
U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta said Thursday he is still playing catch-up from a period during which his time was spent with virtually nothing but the Google search case and the prosecution of Oath Keepers charged with sedition and other crimes from the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.
The brother of disgraced attorney Tom Girardi and the trustee for their now-defunct law firm, Girardi Keese, have reached an agreement resolving John Girardi's claim seeking legal fees for cases he worked on after leaving the firm, the trustee told the California bankruptcy court.
A Texas federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. marshals to put an attorney accused of cyberstalking other attorneys at BigLaw firms in jail until trial, saying the attorney has continued to make harassing online posts while on pretrial release and didn't attend mandatory mental health treatment.
A D.C. federal jury on Thursday found former U.S. Department of Justice employee Sean Dunn, who threw a Subway sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, not guilty of misdemeanor assault.
In a published opinion, the Second Circuit on Thursday ordered a federal district judge to take a fresh look at President Donald Trump's attempt to move his New York hush money conviction to federal court, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 presidential immunity ruling as grounds for reconsidering the case.
Consideration of judicial and U.S. attorney nominees for Mississippi has stalled in committee over tensions between senators that are unrelated to the nominations, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee chair's office.
