Genentech Inc. wrapped a California federal trial Wednesday over claims that Biogen MA Inc. wrongly withheld $122 million in royalties for supplies of Biogen's multiple sclerosis drug, reminding jurors that Biogen's own internal projections showed it owing royalty payments in the years after the main patent expired in December 2018.
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Genentech's $122M IP Fight Against Biogen In Jury's Hands

By Bonnie Eslinger

Genentech Inc. wrapped a California federal trial Wednesday over claims that Biogen MA Inc. wrongly withheld $122 million in royalties for supplies of Biogen's multiple sclerosis drug, reminding jurors that Biogen's own internal projections showed it owing royalty payments in the years after the main patent expired in December 2018.

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Wisconsin High Court Narrowly Blocks 1849 Abortion Ban

By Dan McKay

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday narrowly struck down an 1849 statute criminalizing abortion, finding that the law has been effectively replaced by more modern legislation regulating the procedure.

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DOJ, HHS Form New False Claims Act Enforcement Group

By Gianna Ferrarin

Lead attorneys at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Justice Department will head a working group focused on enforcement of the False Claims Act, government officials announced Wednesday.

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Analysis

High Court Case Tops List of Securities Appeals To Watch

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up at least one shareholder's lawsuit when it reopens its doors in October, and securities attorneys from both the plaintiff and defense bars will be watching that appeal and several others as the year moves forward.

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Analysis

Top Product Liability News In H1 2025

By Y. Peter Kang

There was no shortage of big rulings, verdicts and happenings in the product liability sphere in the first half of 2025. Here, Law360 looks at the most significant news cross-referenced with the articles that garnered the most page views.

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SUPREME COURT

Feature

The Funniest Moments Of The Supreme Court's Term

By Jeff Overley

After justices and oral advocates spent much of an argument pummeling a lower court's writing talents, one attorney suggested it might be time to move on — only to be told the drubbing had barely begun. Here, Law360 showcases the standout jests and wisecracks from the 2024-25 U.S. Supreme Court term.

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POLICY & REGULATION

GOP Reps. Want Probe Of RI Judge Blocking Funding Freeze

By Jack Karp

Two Republican U.S. House members have asked the First Circuit to investigate a Rhode Island federal judge who blocked a Trump administration spending freeze, claiming the judge's link to a funding recipient constitutes a conflict of interest, one of those congressmen's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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ENFORCEMENT & COMPLIANCE

Supply Co. Owner Charged In $5.4M Medicaid Fraud Scheme

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia woman has been indicted for allegedly organizing a scheme to defraud the state's Medicaid program out of more than $5.4 million, according to Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr.

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LITIGATION

Judge Revives Supplement Patent Claims Jury Found Invalid

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal judge Wednesday allowed HQ Specialty Pharma Corp. to correct an injectable calcium supplement patent it accused Fresenius Kabi of infringing and found the claims were no longer invalid as a result.

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Ex-Employees Of NJ Medical Co. Must Face Trade Secrets Suit

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal judge let a medical communications agency pursue contract and trade secret claims against three former employees it accused of launching a rival firm while still on the payroll, but dismissed all claims against PharmaEssentia and its former executive.

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2nd Circ. Affirms NY Court Can't Nix Swiss Arbitration Loss

By Caroline Simson

The Second Circuit on Wednesday affirmed that an arbitral award issued by a Swiss tribunal to a Singapore company in a dispute over a medical imaging joint venture cannot be vacated in New York, concluding in a published opinion that the court lacks the power to do so.

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Vax Maker Ends Appeal After Stewart Halts Patent Ax Sanction

By Ryan Davis

After the acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last month undid her predecessor's decision canceling all the claims of five Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics LLC patents as a sanction for misconduct, the company dropped its appeal in the case Wednesday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Opinion

Subject Matter Eligibility Test Should Return To Preemption

Subject matter eligibility has posed challenges for patentees due to courts' arbitrary and confusing reasoning, but adopting a two-part preemption test could align the applicant, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the courts, says Manav Das at McDonnell Boehnen.

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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work

Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Legal Sector Jobs Continue To Climb, Nearing All-Time High

By Aebra Coe

The U.S. legal industry added 2,800 jobs in June, marking four months in a row of job growth in the sector, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Analysis

Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Target's board faces a shareholder derivative suit that accuses the retail giant of damaging the company by implementing an LGBTQ+ Pride-themed marketing campaign, despite knowing the risk of "public backlash." Meanwhile, SolarWinds and the SEC are close to resolving a novel case that alleges the software developer hid faulty cybersecurity practices before a major breach. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Analysis

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

By Jack Karp

The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term.

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Analysis

What Judges Might Ponder In Judicial Safety Law Challenge

By Carla Baranauckas

A Third Circuit panel set to examine the constitutionality of a judicial safety law born out of the murder of a New Jersey federal judge's son is tasked with what experts are viewing as a lesser-of-two-evils choice: chilling free speech or chilling public service.

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Ex-Treasury Official Joins Covington's Nat'l Security Practice

By Madeline Lyskawa

Covington & Burling LLP has boosted its national security practice with the hire of the former head of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence under former President Barack Obama's administration as of counsel.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Maryland school district burdened parents' religious rights when it declined to provide opt-outs from a policy that introduced LGBTQ-themed storybooks into its K-12 English curriculum.

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Spectrum, Border, Injunction Changes Included In Mega Bill

By Courtney Bublé

The House voted 218-214, almost along party lines, on Thursday on the reconciliation budget package, which includes a range of policy provisions on nationwide injunctions, spectrum and immigration and now goes to President Donald Trump's desk ahead of the decided Fourth of July deadline.

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Orrick Adds Nixon Peabody Public Finance Atty In LA

By James Mills

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is boosting its finance team, bringing in a Nixon Peabody LLP public finance pro as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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Analysis

The Moments That Shaped The Universal Injunction Case

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them.

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Justices Extend Due Process Pause To South Sudan Removals

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court clarified Thursday that its recent order allowing the Trump administration to send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to with little notice or chance to object extends to a group of men the government plans to send to South Sudan.

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Analysis

Circuit-By-Circuit Recap: Justices Send Message To Outliers

By Jeff Overley

It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Bankers Association

Apple Inc.

Association of Corporate Counsel

BDO LLP

BDO USA LLP

Bayer AG

Biogen Inc.

Biosensors International Group Ltd.

Boehringer Ingelheim Corp.

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc.

CTIA

City of Hope National Medical Center

Comcast Corp.

Competitive Carriers Association

Danner Inc.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

Drummond

Equifax Inc.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

FirstEnergy Corp.

Fox Corp.

Fresenius Kabi AG

Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA

Genentech Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Human Rights First

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Jetson Electric Bikes LLC

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Medtronic PLC

Monsanto Co.

NVIDIA Corp.

Nestle Purina PetCare Co.

Oracle Corp.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

PacifiCorp

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Planned Parenthood Federation

Pro Bono Institute

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

RELX PLC

Slack Technologies Inc.

Smith & Wesson Brands Inc.

SolarWinds Corp.

Spectrum Management Holding Co.

Stanford University

Starbucks Corp.

Supervalu Inc.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

The Boeing Co.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Wireless Infrastructure Association

Thomson Reuters Corp.

TikTok Inc.

United States Telecom Association

University of California Davis

University of the Pacific

Valve Corp.

Walmart Inc.

Werner Enterprises Inc.

Zillow Group Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

AFN Law PLLC

Agnifilo Intrater

Arnold & Itkin

Arnold & Porter

Baker Botts

Ballard Spahr

Bartlit Beck

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Buchanan Ingersoll

Bucher Law PLLC

Bunsow De Mory

Clement & Murphy

Cohen Milstein

Constangy Brooks

Covington & Burling

Critchley Kinum

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Farnan LLP

FisherBroyles

Gibbons PC

Gibson Dunn

Goody Law Group

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Greenberg Traurig

Greenspoon Marder

Gupta Wessler

Hanotiau & van den Berg

Haun Mena

Hausfeld LLP

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Holwell Shuster

Jones Day

Keller Postman

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Klein Thomas

Kline & Specter

Korein Tillery

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Lavin Cedrone

Lewis Brisbois

Lomurro Munson

Lowenstein Sandler

Manatt Phelps

Mandelbaum Barrett

McDermott Will & Emery

McDonnell Boehnen

McElroy Deutsch

McManis Faulkner

Milbank LLP

Morgan & Morgan

Morris Nichols

Morrison Foerster

Nixon Peabody

Orrick Herrington

Pashman Stein

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Quinn Emanuel

RKW LLC

Raj Ferber

Rakoczy Molino

Riker Danzig

Rothwell Figg

Seyfarth Shaw

Shapiro Arato

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Skaggs Faucette

Slarskey LLC

Stinson LLP

Stoel Rives

Sullivan & Cromwell

Thompson Hine

Troutman

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Wood Smith

Wright Close & Barger

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arkansas Teacher Retirement System

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives

Bureau of Labor Statistics

California State Treasurer's Office

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Reserve System

Food and Drug Administration

Government of Mexico

Internal Revenue Service

New Jersey Legislature

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the District of Wyoming

Wisconsin Department of Justice

Wisconsin Supreme Court