Chief Judge McMahon, in deciding the defendant’s motion to compel arbitration, ruled the arbitration clause did not prevent Jedi from accessing the federal district court [...]

Novel and non-obvious can be easily used to describe the events of 2020, both here in the United States and around the world. Despite all [...]

On December 28, Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chair of the Senate IP Subcommittee, and Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), Ranking Member of the Senate IP Subcommittee, [...]

Earlier today, Judge Rodney Gilstrap of the United States Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a temporary restraining order against Samsung [...]

If you’re looking for some positive patent news from 2020, count the heightened civic awareness of our intellectual-property/innovation policies, as a result of the global [...]

The week before Christmas brought the biggest post-grant review (PGR) bulk filing to date, with 10 matters all stemming from a pharmaceutical dispute between Allergan [...]

In Part I of this series, the authors reviewed the law behind subsequent patent applications. In Part II, we reviewed the different types of subsequent [...]

As we get ready to usher in the new year this week (hopefully in smaller groups than usual), it is once again time to look [...]

While China is becoming an increasingly attractive patent filing destination for foreign companies, foreign counsels are often confused by the country’s inventive step requirement. Indeed, [...]

It’s Christmastime yet again and we return to a holiday feature made popular in recent years by IPWatchdog Founder Gene Quinn: a roundup of patents [...]

Christmastime is here again, and IPWatchdog is back with the 2020 edition of our Christmas list for patent attorneys. If you have a patent attorney [...]

While the intellectual property space saw its share of pandemic-related discussion this year, some of the most-read articles written by Law360 guest experts also dug [...]

Popular 2020 legal industry guest articles included commentary on white privilege in BigLaw, the pandemic's outsize impact on female lawyers, and business development in a [...]

Notable trial topics guest experts discussed in 2020 include pandemic-era cross-examination and witness-preparation challenges, the need for female trial lawyers in courtrooms, and Kobe Bryant's [...]

The Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday that General Electric has standing to appeal a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that it hadn't proven a Raytheon [...]

In a previous piece, we covered the top five patent developments of the year in Europe. Here, we review some of the key cases and [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court needs to get rid of the current inter partes review system and have Congress decide what comes next, since the Federal [...]

IBM and Airbnb announced Wednesday that they arrived at an agreement to end litigation raised in Delaware federal court by IBM alleging that Airbnb infringed [...]

A New Jersey federal judge ordered millions of dollars held by an e-cigarette company to be temporarily frozen Tuesday after the company — which is [...]

AbbVie and other pharmaceutical companies are urging the Seventh Circuit to uphold their antitrust win in Humira buyers' suit over the drug's alleged "patent thicket," [...]

Mayer Brown has picked up a digital music litigation veteran from Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP for its intellectual property practice in New York. [...]

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday denied Micron Technology Inc.'s mandamus petition seeking to disqualify Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP from representing a Japanese sovereign [...]

Some businesses, as a result of the pandemic, have been pressed to discontinue manufacture or sale of products or have otherwise limited the scope of [...]

Nestled in the vast COVID-19 relief and spending bill recently passed by Congress is the Trademark Modernization Act, which creates two new procedures for taking [...]