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Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay [...]
Building Orgs Deny Flouting Architectural Firm's Copyright
Several building organizations have denied they infringed the copyright of an architectural company over drawings for a proposed project, telling a court that they had [...]
Dewberry Oral Arguments Focus on Discretion to Craft Profits Award Under Just Sum Provision
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dewberry Group, Inc. v. Dewberry Engineers Inc., which asks the Court to determine whether an award [...]
AADI Enlists NY Court To Enforce Cancer Drug Award
California-based AADI Bioscience Inc. is asking a New York federal court to enforce an arbitral award rejecting a more than $15 million claim asserted by [...]
High Court Urged To Take Up Web Scraping Trade Secret Spat
An insurance agent is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up his challenge to an Eleventh Circuit ruling reviving software company Compulife's copyright claim [...]
Metals Co. Gets $1.1M Verdict In Fireproofing IP, Transfer Feud
A Washington federal jury has awarded a company with nearly $786,000 in damages after finding that an ex-employee and another business willfully induced customers to [...]
Justices Question Affiliates' Liability In $47M TM Judgment
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned why lower courts ordered affiliates of a real estate company to pay a $47 million trademark infringement judgment [...]
High Court Bar's Future: Haynes Boone's Daniel Geyser
Daniel L. Geyser of Haynes and Boone LLP is an unconventional U.S. Supreme Court advocate in every respect, from the path he forged to become one [...]
More Facts Needed In RJ Reynolds Tax Row, Mich. Court Says
More facts are needed on whether part of a $4.9 billion sale of trademarks by R.J. Reynolds to a Japanese company should be taxable in [...]
Justices Are Asked To Reject Roku Petition Challenging ITC
There's no reason the U.S. Supreme Court should review the "unremarkable" decision backing up the U.S. International Trade Commission's power to ban the import of [...]
Movie Producer Asks 11th Circ. To Reverse YouTube's IP Win
A movie producer urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to revive his copyright claims against YouTube, arguing that the platform has a duty under the [...]
WordPress Parent Must Restore WP Engine's Access
A California federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday restoring WP Engine's access to WordPress while the web hosting company pursues its antitrust allegations [...]
A Court’s Inherent Authority is Not to Be a Broad Reservoir of Power
On December 6, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential opinion in PS Products Inc. v. Panther Trading Co. [...]
Fed. Circ. OKs Intel's Partial PTAB Loss
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday shot down Intel's appeal of a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that found the company failed to show that [...]
7th Circ. Ruling Muddies Split On Trade Secret Damages
The Seventh Circuit's recent endorsement in Motorola v. Hytera of a Second Circuit limit on avoided-cost damages under the Defend Trade Secrets Act contradicts even [...]
6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School
Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and [...]
Understanding IP Matters: Ex-War Photographer Helps Remove the Source Mystery from Images and Content
Transparency of source or “provenance” of digital content like images is becoming essential for credibility and, to some extent, the future of artificial intelligence (AI). [...]
Bristol Myers Accused Of Reneging $450M Milestone Promise
Former securityholders of a biotechnology company Bristol Myers Squibb acquired in 2016 hauled the pharmaceutical giant into Delaware's Court of Chancery on Monday, accusing it [...]
Judge Won't Cull EpiPen Antitrust Action Against Mylan
Mylan Pharmaceuticals didn't get the early exit it sought from litigation accusing it of working with Pfizer to inflate the price of the latter's popular auto-injecting [...]
PTAB Grapples With MRNA History In COVID Vax Dispute
Attorneys for Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna squared off at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Tuesday, disputing whether experts would have found mRNA-based vaccines [...]
Trump Picks for Commerce and DOJ Are at Odds with Rumored Pick for USPTO
Last week President-elect Trump announced that he would nominate Gail Slater as Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Meanwhile, [...]
Fed. Circ. Backs PTAB Ruling That Wireless Tech IP Is Invalid
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday backed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board finding that a mobile communications patent owned by a unit of European patent-licensing [...]
CAFC Says Letter Sent to Colorado Address Triggers On-Sale Bar
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Tuesday, December 10, in its sixth precedential patent opinion of the last week, reversed [...]
Nutraceutical Patent Do's And Don'ts As Market Heats Up
Companies entering the expanding nutraceutical market and seeking patents to protect their innovations should evaluate successful nutraceutical claim language and common patent challenges in this [...]
