Samsung Owes $191.4M In OLED Patent Case

By Adam Lidgett

A federal jury in Texas said Monday that Samsung owes $191.4 million after finding that the South Korean electronics giant's smartphones, computers and televisions infringed a pair of patents on organic light emitting diode, or OLED, technology owned by Pictiva Displays.

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Squires' First Orders Reject PTAB Petitions En Masse

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires, true to his word, rejected 13 petitions for inter partes review with no explanation, furthering the administration's controversial push toward narrowing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's place in patent litigation. 

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Squires Ends PTAB Challenge Over Claim Construction Flip

By Theresa Schliep

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires vacated a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision to take on a challenge to a Cerebrum Sensor Technologies Inc. tire sensor patent, faulting the patent challenger's diverging approaches to claim construction in a precedential decision released Monday. 

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Netflix Fights Uphill To Nix DivX's IP Claims In Streaming Row

By Craig Clough

A long-running patent battle between Netflix and software developer DivX landed back in court Monday, with a California federal judge issuing tentative orders rejecting at least some of the major streaming company's arguments that the asserted claims are too abstract under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.

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Trump Admin Seeks To Cancel Hearing In Union Case

By Adam Lidgett

The Trump administration is asking a District of Columbia federal judge to cancel an upcoming hearing over a bid to block an executive order ending the collective bargaining rights of two unions representing employees at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the National Weather Service.

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Academics Back IP Rights For Generated Art At High Court

By Ivan Moreno

A group of 14 academics and legal experts is backing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court from a computer scientist seeking a copyright for artwork created by a computer system he developed, telling the justices in an amicus brief that the work-for-hire doctrine should extend to such generated works.

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Expert Sues DC Atty For Allegedly Pirating $30K J6 Report

By Emily Sawicki

A Texas-based expert report author has accused a Washington, D.C., attorney and her firm of unlawfully copying and distributing a copyrighted report regarding jury pool attitudes toward cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol in at least three separate criminal cases, unlawfully bypassing a $30,000 licensing fee.

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Fed. Circ. Spurns Pornhub Parent Co.'s Stay Bid In IP Row

By Theresa Schliep

The Federal Circuit on Monday denied a request from Pornhub's parent company to pause a patent infringement suit against it while its U.S. Patent and Trademark Office validity challenge proceeds, citing an imminent Nov. 17 trial date, among other factors.

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PTAB Lets Stand Claims In Maxell Patent In Samsung Dispute

By Adam Lidgett

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board said Friday that Samsung wasn't able to prove that various claims in a Maxell Ltd. smart device patent were invalid, just a day after the board found some of the other claims unpatentable.

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AMD Accused Of Infringing 10 Adeia Semiconductor Patents

By Elliot Weld

Technology research company Adeia sued data center and artificial intelligence firm Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Monday, alleging infringement of 10 patents related to the manufacture of semiconductors.

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Nokia Accuses Warner Brothers Of Infringing Video Patents

By Jamie Lennox

Nokia has sued Warner Brothers in several jurisdictions for allegedly using its patents without permission, kicking off a fresh round of litigation for the Finnish outfit over its video technology.

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Squires Mandates Reexam Of Controversial Pokémon Patent

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Monday initiated an ex parte reexamination of a Pokémon patent whose issuance had caused upheaval in the video game industry.

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Coinbase Reaches Settlement In Password Co. IP Dispute

By Aislinn Keely

Coinbase has reached a settlement with password solutions company DynaPass Inc., ending the crypto exchange's suit over DynaPass' accusation that Coinbase infringed on a two-factor authentication method patented nearly 20 years ago.

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College Apparel Co. Denied New Trial In Penn State TM Suit

By Matthew Santoni

A Washington sportswear company can't get a new trial over its alleged infringement of Pennsylvania State University's trademarks on its print-on-demand merchandise, after the company was permanently barred from using the university's name or logos by a federal judge.

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Apparel Co. Demands Defense Coverage For Adidas TM Suit

By Ganesh Setty

Apparel brand Aviator Nation Inc. told a California federal court that its general liability carrier must defend an ongoing lawsuit from Adidas America Inc. alleging that Aviator Nation violated Adidas' famous "three-stripe" trademark, saying that even the potential for coverage triggers an insurer's duty to defend.

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Netflix Faces Copyright Suit Over Formula 1 'Senna' Series

By Elliot Weld

Netflix and a Brazilian production company were sued by a California filmmaker who claimed he showed them his material about the late Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna in confidence and his work was misappropriated in the making of a Netflix series about the legendary race car driver.

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Gym Co. Sues YouTuber Over 'Worst Product' Review Video

By Hayley Fowler

A Connecticut YouTuber who reviews home gym products is accused of violating federal trademark law and defaming a small business on his channel with false statements and gratuitous insults about a product, according to a newly filed North Carolina complaint.

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Intel Says Engineer Absconded With Top Secret Files

By Elliot Weld

Intel Corp. has accused a former engineer of stealing nearly 18,000 files, including some marked as "top secret," before his employment was terminated in July, according to a lawsuit filed in Washington federal court.

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Investors Seek Class Cert. In Antitrust Suit Over Securities IDs

By Gina Kim

Investment management firms urged a New York federal judge to certify their proposed class action against S&P Global and others over the use of identification numbers for financial instruments, arguing Monday there's common evidence showing the defendants maintained monopoly power through licensing terms.

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Lessons From Fed. Circ. On Expert Testimony In Patent Cases

Several recent decisions from the Federal Circuit are notable for their treatment of expert testimony, with relevance to the three pillars of every patent case — infringement, invalidity and damages — and offer lessons on ensuring that expert testimony is both admissible and sufficient to support the jury's verdict, say attorneys at Honigman.

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When Atty Ethics Violations Give Rise To Causes Of Action

Though the Model Rules of Professional Conduct make clear that a violation of the rules does not automatically create a cause of action, attorneys should beware of a few scenarios in which they could face lawsuits for ethical lapses, says Brian Faughnan at Faughnan Law.

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Dechert Requiring 4 Days In Office For Some Attys, All Staff

By Anna Sanders

Dechert LLP joined a growing list of BigLaw firms increasing their office attendance requirements, rolling out a new policy requiring rising second-year associates and all nonattorney business professionals to work in person four days a week beginning next year.   

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Winston & Strawn Fights 'Anti-Woke' Fintech $1.7B Crash Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

Winston & Strawn LLP is asking a Texas bankruptcy court to toss a lawsuit from the trustee of self-styled "anti-woke" financial technology startup GloriFi, saying that holding the law firm responsible for the company's failure would set "extraordinary and dangerous precedent."

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Bankruptcy Judge Taken Off GWG Case Amid Scandal Fallout

By Hailey Konnath

The federal judge overseeing GWG Holdings' bankruptcy case has been removed because of his professional relationship with embattled former U.S. Bankruptcy Judge David R. Jones, a decision the chief bankruptcy judge attributed not to the GWG judge's "own actions," but to Jones's "abuse" of judicial authority.

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DOJ Ignores Court Discovery Order In Letitia James Case

By Adrian Cruz

The U.S. Department of Justice has refused to provide New York Attorney General Letitia James access to documents related to her October indictment on mortgage fraud charges, arguing Tuesday that a Virginia federal judge was too early in making the discovery order.

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Confirmation Ends Dem-Appointed Judges' Lock On 1st Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 52-46 on Tuesday to confirm Joshua D. Dunlap, a partner at Pierce Atwood LLP, to the First Circuit.

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Ill. ICE Processing Facility Has 'Become A Prison,' Judge Says

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge said Tuesday that attorneys representing a proposed class of individuals detained at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in suburban Chicago had presented a "disturbing record" of the conditions at the facility that likely justifies a temporary restraining order in some form, but held off ruling until Wednesday.

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Dechert Tracks Significant Decline In U.S. Merger Probes

By Bryan Koenig

Dechert LLP's latest merger review report counted a dramatic decrease in the number of significant U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission tie-up investigations between July and September and year-to-date, coming in at just two-thirds of the average over the last 15 years.

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Hagens Berman Owes $2M Over Failed Suit, Tech Giants Say

By Rachel Riley

Amazon and Apple have told a Seattle federal judge that Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP should cover nearly $2 million in defense costs because of the firm's "misrepresentations" while litigating a lawsuit accusing the two companies of conspiring to limit device sales on the e-commerce platform.

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Approach The Bench: Justice McKenna On Earning Her Master's

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

Sabrina McKenna, acting chief justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court, had been on the bench for about three decades before she decided to go back to school to study the work of judging.

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Ignore Circuits, Follow Scalia, Justices Told In Deadlines Duel

By Jeff Overley

How can a U.S. Supreme Court advocate persuade the justices to spurn the near-universal views of circuit courts? One option appeared Tuesday at arguments over deadlines to vacate judgments, as a Williams & Connolly lawyer invoked Justice Antonin Scalia's influential methods — and seemingly found a receptive audience.

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Mass. Attys Split As Punitive Damages Rules Go To Top Court

By Chris Villani

A case before Massachusetts' top appellate court over whether more safeguards are needed to cap runaway punitive damage awards has divided attorneys, with some saying the big-dollar verdicts can be skewed by improper evidence and others calling the matter a solution in search of a problem.

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CFPB's Information Security 'No Longer Effective,' IG Says

By Sarah Jarvis

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's information security program has weakened under the Trump administration and is "no longer effective" amid staff departures and loss of contractor resources, according to a new inspector general report.

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End Payors Seek $66M In Atty Fees In Generic Drug MDL

By P.J. D'Annunzio

End payors in a generic drug price-fixing multidistrict litigation are seeking a Pennsylvania federal court's approval for a $66 million award of attorney fees, representing one-third of the $200 million settlement between the classes and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. and Taro Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.

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Squires Sets Precedent On Making AI Patent-Eligible

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Tuesday made precedential his September declaration that an invention shouldn't be deemed unpatentable just because it involves machine learning.

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BU Law Will Start Offering AI Certificate In Fall 2026

By Sarah Martinson

Boston University School of Law will begin offering a certificate in artificial intelligence for law practice in fall 2026 to prepare students for using the technology in their legal careers.

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