J&J Unit's $147M Catheter Antitrust Loss Tripled To $442M

By Cara Salvatore

Johnson & Johnson health tech unit Biosense Webster's bill in an antitrust trial was upped from $147 million to $442 million after a California federal jury found it stifled competition by conditioning the provision of cardiac mapping services on purchases of cardiac catheters.

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CVS Health Can't Dodge Blame In Omnicare False Claims Suit

By Mark Payne

A New York federal judge rebuffed an attempt from CVS Health Corp. to evade responsibility in a False Claims Act case, after a jury found that its subsidiary Omnicare bilked the federal government out of over $135 million in fraudulent drug claims. 

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Exelixis Escapes Cancer Drug Invalidity Bid At PTAB

By Adam Lidgett

Exelixis has beaten back a challenge to one of its patents covering the blockbuster drug Cabometyx after the Patent Trial and Appeal Board denied Azurity Pharmaceuticals' request to review the patent.

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Stewart Says PTAB Should 'Never' Cancel IP As A Sanction

By Dani Kass

The acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revived Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics LLC patent claims on Thursday that her predecessor had invalidated to punish Longhorn for misconduct.

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Justices Reject Eligibility Appeal On Telemedicine Patents

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Friday to review a decision that telemedicine patents asserted against the U.S. government are invalid for claiming only abstract ideas, in the court's latest refusal to reconsider the standard for determining if inventions are eligible for patents.

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Patent Office Leader Rejects IPRs Based On 12-Year Wait

By Dani Kass

Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart on Friday turned away a series of challenges to Welch Allyn Inc.'s heart monitor patents, determining petitioner iRhythm Technologies Inc. should have disputed them much earlier.

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Fed. Circ. Weighs Purview Over Acorda's $17M Arbitral Award

By Theresa Schliep

A Federal Circuit panel on Friday wrestled with its authority to consider arbitration appeals dealing with patent law, with at least one judge appearing skeptical that it could consider Acorda Therapeutics Inc.'s bid to increase a $16.6 million award in a fight with Alkermes PLC over a multiple sclerosis drug.

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Genentech Wants $18M Novartis Award Over Licenses OK'd

By Ali Sullivan

California-based biotech firm Genentech Inc. has asked a D.C. federal court to recognize a $17.8 million arbitral award against Novartis Pharma AG stemming from a dispute over a licensing agreement for an eye medication.

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Honeywell Says 'Patent Troll' Trying To Extort Settlement

By Hayley Fowler

Honeywell is taking aim at a Canadian company that has allegedly pursued nearly 200 infringement lawsuits against various businesses based on the same five patents, saying in a federal complaint that the company is trying to scheme its way into a settlement.

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Masimo Fights Ex-CEO's Bid To Ax Suit Over $450M Demand

By Bonnie Eslinger

Masimo Corp. fought back against founder Joe Kiani's motion to dismiss the company's Delaware Chancery Court suit seeking a declaration that he's not due a $450 million payout after his ouster as CEO, arguing that bid is an "improper attempt to evade" the Delaware court's jurisdiction.

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Pharma Co. Trade Secrets Case Stays In Fla. Despite HQ Move

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge on Friday denied a bid to toss a pharmaceutical company's lawsuit accusing a rival of stealing trade secrets because its headquarters moved to the Sunshine State after its initial complaint, saying there was "complete diversity at the time of filing of action."

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Rite Aid Emphasizes It Will Pay Rent To Objecting Landlords

By Emlyn Cameron

The twice-bankrupt drug store chain Rite Aid is seeking to reassure landlords who filed a spate of objections in recent days that it intends to continue meeting lease obligations despite its move to close some locations.

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Circle's Smash IPO Could Pave Way For More Crypto Listings

By Tom Zanki

Stablecoin issuer Circle's explosive debut will likely stimulate more crypto listings and possibly jolt the broader pipeline of initial public offerings, capital markets attorneys say.

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Mayer Brown Adds Partner To NY Corporate, Securities Team

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Aideen Brennan, a former mergers and acquisitions and private equity senior managing associate at Sidley Austin, has joined Mayer Brown's global corporate and securities practice as a partner in New York.

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Greenberg Traurig Adds Perkins Coie Tech Transactions Pro

By James Mills

Greenberg Traurig LLP is expanding its technology team, bringing in a Perkins Coie LLP transactions whiz as a shareholder in its San Diego office.

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What FCA Liability Looks Like In The Cybersecurity Realm

​Two recent settlements highlight how whistleblowers and the U.S. Department of Justice have been utilizing the False Claims Act to allege fraud predicated on violations of cybersecurity standards — timely lessons given new bipartisan legislation introducing potential FCA liability for artificial intelligence use, say​ attorneys Rachel Rose and Julie Bracker.

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Foreign Sovereign Entities Should Heed 9th Circ. IP Ruling

After the Ninth Circuit recently held that four Chinese state-controlled companies were not immune from criminal indictment for alleged economic espionage, foreign sovereign-controlled entities should assess whether their operations and affiliation with their parent states qualify for sovereign immunity under the common law, say attorneys at Cleary.

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Parsing A Lack Of Antitrust Info-Sharing Enforcement Clarity

Information sharing among competing firms has recently faced dramatic changes in antitrust agency guidance, while courts grapple with the permissible scope of pricing algorithms, leaving companies in limbo, but potential Trump administration changes could offer some reprieve, say attorneys at Axinn.

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How Attorneys Can Become Change Agents For Racial Equity

As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Law School.

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Legal Sector Jobs Ticked Up In May Amid Uncertain Economy

By Alison Knezevich

The U.S. legal industry added 1,100 jobs in May, holding steady in the midst of economic uncertainty, according to preliminary data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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High Court Says Software Glitch Led To Early Order List Drop

By Hailey Konnath

An "apparent software malfunction" caused the U.S. Supreme Court's order list to be issued early Friday, orders in which the justices granted certiorari in four cases and refused to take up a long list of other ones, including cases centered on Pennsylvania's election system and the Obama Presidential Center.

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Ex-SDNY Prosecutor Exits Paul Weiss For Jenner & Block

By Alison Knezevich

Just months after rejoining Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York is leaving the firm to join Jenner & Block LLP.

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Split DC Circ. Reinstates AP's White House Press Pool Ban

By Dorothy Atkins

A split D.C. Circuit panel reinstated the White House's decision to ban the Associated Press from the press pool covering the Oval Office, Air Force One and Mar-a-Lago on Friday, while a dissenting judge criticized her colleagues' rationale as being nonsensical and upending longstanding First Amendment precedent and generations of tradition.

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Atty Gets Prison For Conn. Law Firm Parking Lot Shooting

By Aaron Keller

A onetime Cramer & Anderson LLP partner was sentenced Friday to a seven-year prison term after being convicted of first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting an attacker in the parking lot of his rural Litchfield, Connecticut, law firm, although his incarceration will be suspended after 2½ years.

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Fox Rothschild Settles Suit Over $3M Real Estate Deal

By Ryan Harroff

Fox Rothschild LLP has settled a Colorado real estate investor's legal malpractice lawsuit over a $3 million development deal that went wrong, according to a new order filed in state court directing the parties to file for dismissal within a month.

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Calif. Bar Hires Investigator To Review Exam Snafu

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California's board of trustees voted to approve a $185,000 contract with a nonprofit to review "exam scoring irregularities and testing accommodations" from its fraught February 2025 bar exam.

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Flaws Remain In Bar Fitness Queries, Summit Panelists Say

By Aebra Coe

Many current state bar character and fitness tests fail to identify bad actors, and at the same time, certain aspects of the queries can hurt efforts to increase diversity in the profession, according to panelists at the American Bar Association's 2025 Virtual Equity Summit on Friday.

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Seeger Weiss Aims To Protect Bench With Duke Law Donation

By Madison Arnold

New Jersey-based Seeger Weiss LLP is seeking to help protect judges with a $500,000 donation to an institute at Duke Law School that is named in honor of the murdered son of a federal judge in the Garden State.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

In corporate legal news from the past week,​ in-house lawyers' use of alternative legal service providers remains low, and the top Justice Department merger official said that the Trump administration welcomes "fix-it-first proposals," where merging companies arrange to sell off overlapping business lines.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The University of Virginia School of Law Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and attorney Edward Gilbert lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Sixth Circuit's ruling that plaintiffs claiming anti-heterosexual workplace discrimination need to provide extra "background circumstances" evidence.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Lieff Cabraser's Michael Sobol

By Kevin Penton

Michael Sobol has won significant settlements recently, including a $115 million deal over Oracle's allegedly unlawful sale of internet users' electronic profiles and a $62 million deal with Google over allegations it illegally stored and tracked the private location information of smartphone users, earning him a place among Law360's 2025 Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar.

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