Analysis

Fed. Circ. 'Recalibrates' Analysis For Constitutional Standing

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit eased the line between constitutional and statutory standing last month when reviving A.L.M. Holding Co.'s infringement suit against Zydex Industries Private Ltd., in a decision attorneys say makes standing more accessible and clarifies how patent licensors can maintain their rights.

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Arbitrator Rules USPTO Violated Law By Ending Telework

By Ryan Davis

An arbitrator ruled Monday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office "committed a clear and patent breach" of agreements with the union representing some of its employees when the office eliminated telework arrangements last year at the urging of President Donald Trump.

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Google Gets New Chance To Defend IP In Sonos PTAB Dispute

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of claims in a pair of Google's voice command patents challenged by Sonos after the speaker company was accused of infringement.

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RICO Trade Secret Suit Can Survive In Texas, 5th Circ. Says

By Adam Lidgett

The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday reversed a lower court's decision dismissing a lawsuit against the head of an industrial cleaning services company over allegations that his business routinely steals employees from competitors, finding there was a plausible claim against him personally.

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9th Circ. Grants Rare Rehearing In Kat Von D Tattoo Fight

By Ivan Moreno

The Ninth Circuit agreed Tuesday to take the rare step of having a larger panel rehear a copyright dispute over Kat Von D's Miles Davis tattoo, vacating a ruling that upheld the celebrity tattoo artist's trial win.

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Meta AI Order Offers Novel Question For 9th Circ., Authors Say

By Bonnie Eslinger

A group of 13 bestselling authors suing Meta have asked a California federal judge for permission to appeal his decision holding that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its artificial intelligence system with their copyrighted material without consent, saying there's already been divergent rulings on the novel question.

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Anthropic, Other Tech Giants Get Authors' Copyright Suit Split

By Lauren Berg

A group of writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou, will have to pursue their claims of copyright infringement against Anthropic, Apple, Google, Perplexity AI, Nvidia and xAI in separate lawsuits, a California federal judge ruled, siding with the tech giants.

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House Clears Bill Letting President Approve Copyright Chief

By Elliot Weld

A bill that would alter how the director of the U.S. Copyright Office is selected by requiring Congress to recommend candidates and give the president the final say passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

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The Law360 400: A Look At The Top 100 Firms

By Xiumei Dong

The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.

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Amazon Settles Fight Over DivX Patent Ahead Of Trial

By Craig Clough

Video technology company DivX and Amazon told a Virginia federal judge Tuesday they reached a settlement in a suit accusing Amazon of infringing an encrypted video playback patent and asked the court to stay a jury trial set for later this month.

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PTAB Rules Micron Didn't Show Yangtze Patent Is Invalid

By Adam Lidgett

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Tuesday found that Micron Technology Inc. failed to prove a Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. integrated circuit patent was invalid, the latest episode in a patent fight between the companies spanning the board and federal court.

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ITC Judge Won't Let Everspin Out Of Memory Chip IP Case

By Elliot Weld

An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has denied Everspin Technologies' request to shut down a case brought by Avalanche Technology Inc. related to its memory chip patents, after Everspin alleged Avalanche had wrongly paid discounted fees meant for small businesses for years.

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Patent AI Co. DeepIP Acquires Munich-Based PatentMaker

By Matt Perez

DeepIP, a patent drafting tool that uses generative artificial intelligence, announced Tuesday that it would acquire the company PatentMaker, effectively expanding its reach across Germany and Europe.

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Fed. Circ. Upholds $37.5M Patent Verdict Against TP-Link

By Elliot Weld

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a $37.5 million patent infringement verdict against two companies selling TP-Link wireless network devices that were sued by patent licensing company Atlas Global Technologies LLC.

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Pop Mart Blocked From Selling Toys With Beanie Baby TMs

By Lauraann Wood

Labubu doll-maker Pop Mart cannot market figurines in the company's collectible "Pucky" series that allegedly infringe Beanie Baby-maker Ty Inc.'s trademarks while the companies' intellectual property dispute plays out in court, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.

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Toys R Us Seeks $11K In Atty Fees In Vape Shop TM Suit

By Mike Curley

Toys R Us is asking a Connecticut federal court to award it $11,442 in attorney fees following a trademark suit against vape store Vape R Us, saying it is entitled to reimbursement for its motions seeking to enforce a default judgment against the store.

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Microsoft Looks To Ax 3D Artist's Copyright Info AI Suit

By Ben Adlin

Microsoft Corp. urged a Washington federal court to throw out a Los Angeles-based 3D artist's proposed class action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the artist failed to allege that the company ever removed copyright information from his content or shared his copyright-protected works.

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Nightclub Urges Court To Toss Models' Suit Over Ad Photos

By Rachel Konieczny

A Denver nightclub is urging a Colorado federal judge to toss a lawsuit from nine models who claim it used their photos for advertising without their consent, arguing that they failed to identify themselves in the images at issue and that some of their claims are time-barred.

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Biopharma Founder's Nonsolicit Clause Void Under Calif. Law

By Abigail Harrison

A biopharmaceutical company's co-founder prevailed Monday in convincing North Carolina's business court that nonsolicitation restrictions in his contract were void after they were deemed unenforceable under California law.

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Agensys Sues Biopharmas For Alleged Trade Secret Theft

By Bonnie Eslinger

Agensys Inc. filed a trade secret misappropriation suit in California federal court Tuesday against a U.S.-based cancer research firm and two alleged Chinese affiliates, claiming they stole confidential information for oncology antibodies developed at Agensys and that the theft was "willful and malicious."

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Atty Looks For Early Win In Defamation Row With Pot Co.

By Jonathan Capriel

A Montana intellectual property attorney and his wife are looking to end a cannabis cultivator's defamation lawsuit accusing them of posting falsehoods on social media about the business and making false tips to Michigan cannabis authorities, telling a federal judge that they never said anything that was untrue.

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Morrison Foerster Brings On Sidley Patent Litigation Duo

By Hailey Konnath

A pair of Sidley Austin LLP patent and trade secrets litigators, including the firm's co-leader of its global intellectual property practice, have departed for Morrison Foerster LLP, according to an announcement made Tuesday.

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Lowenstein Sandler IP Atty Joins Buchalter In San Francisco

By Adrian Cruz

Buchalter PC announced Monday that an experienced intellectual property attorney with a background in electrical and computer engineering has joined the firm's San Francisco office as a partner from Lowenstein Sandler LLP.

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High Court's Hikma Decision Reshapes 'Skinny Label' Suits

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Hikma v. Amarin marks a significant victory for generic drug manufacturers, but rather than putting an end to so-called skinny label inducement claims, it narrows and refocuses them, say attorneys at Sterne Kessler.

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Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

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Susman Godfrey Beats, Seward & Kissel Matches Milbank Pay

By Tracey Read

At least four more firms have joined the associate pay raise bandwagon, with Seward & Kissel LLP matching the salary scale recently set by Milbank LLP, and Susman Godfrey LLP exceeding it.

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Judicial Noms Say Biden Won, But Critics Fault Their Caveats

By Courtney Bublé

Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.

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Camp Mystic Fights Sanctions Over 'Burn In Hell' Atty Remark

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic and parents of a girl killed in flooding there last summer faced off Wednesday over whether the camp should be sanctioned because its attorney said a plaintiff's lawyer would "burn in hell" and for other alleged misconduct in litigation over flooding deaths at the Texas camp.

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Ga. Federal Judge Faces 2nd Set Of Impeachment Articles

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia congressman has filed articles of impeachment against a federal judge who was reprimanded for having sex with a police officer in her Atlanta chambers within earshot of staff, the second lawmaker this week to do so. 

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Unions Rally As 5 Shops Approach Contract Deadline

By Andrea Keckley

Legal service providers across New York City gathered in City Hall Park on Wednesday afternoon as five unions represented by the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys approach their deadlines for a new contract at the end of the month.

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'Anti-ICE Vigilantes': DOJ Says Law Clerks Aided Noncitzens

By Lauren Berg

Two state court clerks in Utah are facing criminal charges after federal prosecutors say they acted as "self-appointed anti-ICE vigilantes" by helping noncitizens leave the courthouse by a back door to evade arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the newly unsealed case.

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Morgan & Morgan Atty Again Blocked From Harvard Suit

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts judge rebuffed a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney's second attempt to appear in a lawsuit over the theft of body parts from a Harvard Medical School morgue, saying he would not reconsider his earlier decision to bar the attorney over an incident in a separate court involving fake AI-generated case citations.

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