Analysis

5 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In July

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit's argument calendar this month includes Apple's bid to undo a ruling that caused a blood oxygen monitor feature to be pulled from the Apple Watch, and a challenge by Sonos to a decision that torpedoed its $32.5 million speaker patent verdict against Google.

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Apple Hit With $111M Patent Verdict In Delaware

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal jury has found that Apple owes more than $110.7 million for infringing a Spanish company's wireless communications systems patent with the tech giant's products, including mobile phones and tablets.

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$70M Verdict Boosts TriZetto's Trade Secrets Award To $370M

By Ivan Moreno

A New York federal jury has concluded that the TriZetto Group, a healthcare software company, is entitled to nearly $70 million in compensatory damages due to Syntel Inc.'s copyright infringement and trade secret theft, bringing the total award for TriZetto to $370 million following a damages retrial.

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Groups Urge Fed. Circ. To Stop USPTO Retroactive Denials

By Adam Lidgett

Advocacy groups in the communications, automotive and technology fields have thrown their support behind Motorola's challenge of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's decision to retroactively apply a decision withdrawing earlier guidance on when the Patent Trial and Appeal Board should not review patent challenges.

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Judge Tosses Teva Suit Over Generic Drug Patent Deal

By Elliot Weld

An Indiana federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by generic-drug maker Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. alleging Eli Lilly and Co. breached a settlement agreement over the osteoporosis drug Forteo, saying Eli Lilly's promise to waive exclusivity for Teva ended when its patents for the drug expired.

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Gilstrap Slams Carmakers And Patent Owner But Allows Stay

By Elliot Weld

U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap chided two automakers and a company suing over alleged patent infringement for what he said was strategic wasting of the court's resources in the timing of a request to pause the case, but still granted the motion.

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Calif. Panel Backs Warner Bros.' Win In Writer's Film Theft Suit

By Gina Kim

A California appeals court refused to revive a writer's lawsuit alleging Warner Bros.' film "Life of the Party" was a "cinematic clone" of her concept about a mother going to college with her daughter, ruling Monday the evidence shows the film was independently created without knowledge of the plaintiff's ideas.

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OpenAI Accused Of Using Pirated Works, 'Shadow Libraries'

By Bonnie Eslinger

Authors hit OpenAI and its investor Microsoft with a putative class action alleging that the artificial intelligence company used written works from "shadow libraries" to train its generative AI machines, saying the use of the pirated IP negates any claim of fair use.

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Axing Lit Funding Tax Bid Relieves Industry But Fears Remain

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders are breathing a sigh of relief after a provision to impose a 41% punitive tax on the $16 billion industry was stripped Tuesday from the massive federal spending bill, but many think the episode is just the prelude to further battles with corporate opponents.

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Analysis

Justices Face Busy Summer After Nixing Universal Injunctions

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to limit nationwide injunctions was one of its biggest rulings of the term — a finding the court is likely going to be dealing with all summer. Here, Law360 takes a look at the decision, how it and other cases on the emergency docket overshadowed much of the court's other work, and what it all means for the months to come.

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Analysis

The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

By Cara Bayles

The term's sharpest dissents often looked beyond perceived flaws in majority reasoning to raise existential concerns about the role and future of the court, with the justices accusing one another of rewarding executive branch lawlessness, harming faith in the judiciary and threatening democracy, sometimes on an emergency basis with little briefing or explanation.

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GM Can't Escape Obviousness Challenge To Fender Design IP

By Theresa Schliep

A company that got the Federal Circuit to set more flexible standards for assessing whether a design patent is obvious might have a shot at proving that two General Motors Co. design patents are indeed obvious under that new test, an Illinois federal judge ruled Monday.

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Alnylam Pharma Beats Inventorship Suit Tied To COVID-19 Jab

By Lauren Berg

A Delaware federal judge Tuesday tossed Acuitas Therapeutics' lawsuit seeking to have its scientists added as inventors on seven Alnylam Pharmaceuticals patents tied to mRNA technology, saying the complaint doesn't plausibly allege the scientists have a financial or reputational interest in the outcome of the litigation.

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Brief

Fed. Circ. Won't Revisit Jepson Claim Ruling In Xencor IP Case

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit won't rethink the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's decision rejecting Xencor's application for an antibody patent that used the so-called Jepson claim format.

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Brief

Full Fed. Circ. Rejects Mylan Rehearing Bid In Patent Case

By Adam Lidgett

The full Federal Circuit on Tuesday shot down Mylan's request for the court to reconsider a March ruling that the company's planned generic version of schizophrenia drug Invega Trinza would cause physicians to infringe a Janssen patent.

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Judge OKs Perplexity 'Comet' Browser Launch Amid TM Fight

By Theresa Schliep

Perplexity AI can go forward with launching a search engine called "Comet" amid a trademark infringement challenge by Comet ML Inc., but the artificial intelligence giant can't encroach on the other company's market territory, a California federal judge said Monday.

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Pool Co. Can Sell Off Inventory On Amazon Despite Sales Ban

By Hayley Fowler

A bankrupt swimming pool equipment company can sell off its remaining inventory on Amazon notwithstanding a contempt order that largely bans its Chinese parent company from selling products in the United States, a North Carolina federal judge has ruled.

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Apple Says Ex-Engineer Stole Vision Pro IP To Take To Snap

By Bonnie Eslinger

Apple has accused a former senior engineer of stealing trade secrets for its Vision Pro headset computer before starting a new job at Snap Inc. working on that company's augmented reality glasses.

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Brief

Fantasy Sports Site Drops IP Suit Against DraftKings Director

By Kelcey Caulder

Fantasy sports platform PrizePicks has agreed to drop a trade secret suit accusing its former social media director of using his personal ChatGPT account to smuggle out company secrets when he took a new position at DraftKings.

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1st Female Harlem Globetrotter Sues Team Over Apparel Sales

By Alex Lawson

Lynette Woodard, the first woman to ever play for the Harlem Globetrotters, has sued the famed exhibition basketball team over sales of merchandise bearing her name, telling a New York federal court that the club sold the goods without her permission and without compensating her.

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Weil Patent Pro Jumps To WilmerHale In Silicon Valley

By James Mills

WilmerHale is expanding its intellectual property team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing on a longtime Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP patent expert as a partner in its Silicon Valley office.

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Google Damages Ruling Offers Lessons For Testifying Experts

The Federal Circuit's recent decision in EcoFactor v. Google represents a shift in how courts evaluate expert testimony in patent cases, offering a practical guide for how litigators and testifying experts can refine their work, says Adam Rhoten at Secretariat.

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Breaking Down Part 3 Of The Copyright Office's AI Report

On May 9, the U.S. Copyright Office published a prepublication version of the third and final part of its three-part report on artificial intelligence, offering key insights on the unauthorized use of copyrighted material by AI systems, says Courtney Sarnow at CM Law.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients

Law school curricula often overlook client communication procedures, and those who actively teach this crucial facet of the practice can create exceptional client satisfaction and success, says Patrick Hanson at Wiggam Law.

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Supreme Court Taps Latham Atty In Campaign Spending Case

By Carolyn Muyskens

The U.S. Supreme Court has turned to Latham & Watkins LLP's Roman Martinez to defend caps on coordinated campaign spending as amicus counsel in a case on tap for next term.

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Senate Passes Budget Bill, Rebuking National Injunctions

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-50 on Tuesday to pass the budget reconciliation bill, including various provisions that seek to greatly restrict the use of nationwide injunctions, which Republicans heavily criticized after district courts repeatedly stalled parts of President Donald Trump's agenda with the legal maneuver.

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US Attorney Picks Include Alina Habba And Senator's Son

By Courtney Bublé

The president sent 14 U.S. attorney nominations to the Senate on Tuesday, including Alina Habba, the president's former counselor and personal attorney, for the District of New Jersey and Arch Moore Capito, the son of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W. Va., for the Southern District of West Virginia.

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Legal Aid Attys Can't Sever Union Ties Over Its Mideast Views

By Emily Brill

A New York federal judge tossed two New York City public defenders' lawsuit against their union, saying the attorneys can't leverage the U.S. Supreme Court's Janus ruling to stop paying the union because they disagree with its stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Yale Law's 1st Woman Dean To Leave Post 2 Years Early

By Hailey Konnath

Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken, the first woman named to the position, is leaving Yale to lead the Ford Foundation two years before her term was set to expire, according to a recent announcement.

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Apple Backers Raise Price, Privilege Concerns At 9th Circ.

By Bryan Koenig

Trade groups and advocacy organizations have raised a series of concerns with the Ninth Circuit about a federal district court mandate blocking Apple from charging commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its systems, arguing an Epic Games Inc. injunction redux improperly compels speech, imperils price-setting autonomy and threatens legal privilege.

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Analysis

Top Personal Injury, Med Mal News: 2025 Midyear Report

By Y. Peter Kang

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling over whether personal injury claims can be brought under a RICO statute and a $7.4 billion settlement reached with the Sackler family and Purdue Pharma are among Law360's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases from the first six months of 2025.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice reached the agency's first three merger settlements of the second Trump administration, clearing deals in the technology and aerospace sectors after divestitures, while the Federal Trade Commission put conditions on an advertising merger. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from June.

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The Top In-House Hires Of June

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires over the past month included high-profile appointments at Microsoft, Guess and U.S. Steel. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from June.

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