Intellectual Property

  • February 03, 2025

    DC Circ. Rejects Newman's Bid To Unseal Suspension Docs

    The D.C. Circuit on Monday denied U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to unseal documents about her suspension for refusing to participate in an investigation into her fitness, saying such documents are confidential unless both the judge under investigation and the chief judge agree to release them.

  • February 03, 2025

    GPS Maker Settles Patent Suit Over Car Tracker Technology

    A Texas company has dropped its claims that GPS tracking device maker Linxup LLC infringed its patent on a device that can monitor a car's operations data, according to a dismissal notice filed in North Carolina federal court.

  • February 03, 2025

    K&L Gates IP Pro Jumps To BakerHostetler's DC Office

    An attorney specializing in trademark and copyright matters has moved his practice to BakerHostetler's Washington, D.C., office after 11 years with K&L Gates LLP.

  • February 03, 2025

    NCAA Hit With New Suits As NIL Settlement Trudges Ahead

    At least 100 current and former college athletes filed a fresh round of lawsuits against the NCAA over its compensation restrictions as critics continue to pillory a proposed $2.78 billion class action settlement aimed at quelling many of the same concerns.

  • February 03, 2025

    Liberated Brands Files Ch. 11 After Losing Clothing Licenses

    Liberated Brands LLC, a retail company that sells clothes for brands like Volcom, RVCA and Billabong, filed for bankruptcy in Delaware with $226 million in debt to wind down and sell its operations after a retail lull pinched its liquidity and led a third-party brand owner to pull out of key license agreements.

  • February 03, 2025

    Paul Hastings Taps Ex-Fried Frank AI Expert For New Practice

    Paul Hastings announced Monday the hiring of a former partner at Fried Frank to lead its new technology transactions practice out of New York.

  • January 31, 2025

    NCAA Settles States' Suit Challenging NIL Restrictions

    The NCAA has reached a settlement with a coalition of states, led by Tennessee and Virginia, that's been challenging its ban on name, image and likeness compensation for student athletes being recruited by institutions, according to a notice filed Friday in Tennessee federal court, exactly one year after the suit was filed.

  • January 31, 2025

    Netlist Can't Get Injunction After $118M Win Against Samsung

    Marshall, Texas' U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap on Friday declined to issue an injunction blocking Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. from selling products that use chips tied to a patent infringement case where Netlist Inc. won a $118 million jury verdict. 

  • January 31, 2025

    Justices Implored To Consider Tipster Medical Device Row

    A nonprofit formed by Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor who has advocated against forced arbitration after suing the network's chairman for harassment, has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to consider a whistleblower's challenge to an arbitration award given to a medical device company in a trade secrets dispute.

  • January 31, 2025

    Perplexity AI Hit With TM Case From Software Co.

    Perplexity AI Inc. is facing a trademark infringement suit in California federal court from a software company that argues that the artificial intelligence-powered search engine "believes it is entitled to trample on the rights of a proverbial 'little guy' without consequence."

  • January 31, 2025

    Musi Loses Early Bid To Get Back On App Store

    A California federal judge has rejected a music streaming service's initial bid to be restored to Apple's App Store after it had been removed for alleged intellectual property infringement, saying that the tech giant has "broad discretion" to delete apps from its marketplace.

  • January 31, 2025

    Via Picks Up $1.4M Verdict In 'Virtual Bus Stop' Patent Fight

    A federal jury in Waco, Texas, said a Canadian ride-hailing software startup owed nearly $1.4 million to rival developer Via Transportation in a fight in which each side accused the other of patent infringement.

  • January 31, 2025

    9th Circ. Affirms Aerospace Co. Code Meets Fair Use Standard

    Aerospace contractor Astronics has convinced Ninth Circuit judges that the code used in its replacement parts is covered by the same fair use protections created by the U.S. Supreme Court's Google v. Oracle decision.

  • January 31, 2025

    Up, Up And Away Again: New 'Superman' IP Suit Takes Flight

    The heirs of "Superman" co-creator Joseph Shuster on Friday launched another intellectual property fight, this time alleging that DC Comics has continued to exploit the foreign copyrights to the original character and story even though, in a handful of countries, those rights automatically reverted to his estate years ago.

  • January 31, 2025

    Supreme Court Eyes Its 'Next Frontier' In FCC Delegation Case

    A case about broadband subsidies will give the U.S. Supreme Court the chance to revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle that attorneys say could upend regulations in numerous industries and trigger a power shift that would make last term's shake-up of federal agency authority pale in comparison. And a majority of the court already appears to support its resurrection.

  • January 31, 2025

    Off The Bench: NIL Deal Skeptics, Padres Feud, Rozier Probe

    In this week's Off The Bench, critics get their knives out for the NCAA's $2.78 billion class action settlement with college athletes over name, image and likeness rights, the family feud over ownership of the San Diego Padres intensifies, and a federal gambling probe ensnares Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier.

  • February 13, 2025

    Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2025 Editorial Boards

    Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2025 editorial advisory boards.

  • January 31, 2025

    Goldstein Case Raises The Stakes For A DOJ Office In Tumult

    The bombshell tax-crimes case of U.S. Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein landed at a U.S. Department of Justice outpost in Maryland that has been plagued in recent years by botched cases and internal strife — pitting a beleaguered U.S. attorney against a pair of former Donald Trump attorneys itching for a fight.

  • January 31, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen another claim by Woodford investors against Hargreaves Lansdown in the widening £200 million ($248 million) dispute over the fund's collapse, a solicitor barred for his role in a suspected advance fee fraud face action by a Swiss wholesaler, and The Resort Group, which markets investments in luxury hotel resorts, hit with a claim by a group of investors. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • January 31, 2025

    Trump's DEI Cuts Threaten USPTO Innovation Goals

    President Donald Trump's recent actions to purge diversity programs from the federal government and private sector could undermine one of the top objectives of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in recent years: expanding access to innovation.

  • January 31, 2025

    Construction Co. Denies Infringing UK Biz's 'Briticom' TM

    A construction business has denied infringing a U.K. company's "Briticom" trademark on counterfeit supplies for a building project in Benin, telling a court that it did not procure any goods unlawfully bearing the brand.

  • January 30, 2025

    Pharmacy Says Its Ex-GC Destroyed Trade Secrets Evidence

    Texas-based Empower Pharmacy on Thursday pressed for sanctions against its former general counsel — who also happens to be a former assistant district attorney in San Antonio — claiming that the lawyer intentionally destroyed a hard drive that contained evidence relevant to Empower's trade secrets suit against a rival pharmacy.

  • January 30, 2025

    Calif. Panel Counsels Female Attys Seeking The First Chair

    Female lawyers seeking to become first-chair trial attorneys must advocate for themselves just as they would for a client, a federal judge said during a Federal Bar Association panel Thursday in San Francisco.

  • January 30, 2025

    Telecom Giants Must Face March Trial In 4G LTE Patent Fight

    A Minnesota federal judge on Thursday refused to hand a group of telecommunications companies a summary judgment win in the University of Minnesota's patent suit over wireless communications technology used in 4G LTE network services, determining that the dispute must be decided by a jury in an upcoming March trial.

  • January 30, 2025

    House Rep. Introduces Bill To Create New Piracy Sites Laws

    Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who represents Silicon Valley in the U.S. House of Representatives, introduced a bill that seeks to create new site-blocking laws that require U.S. internet service providers to make "a good faith effort" to disable access to pirate websites and seek relief in federal court.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Fixing Up Cars Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    From problem-solving to patience and adaptability to organization, the skills developed working under the hood of a car directly translate to being a more effective lawyer, says Christopher Mdeway at Kaufman Dolowich.

  • 2024's Most Notable FTC Actions Against Dark Patterns And AI

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    In 2024 the Federal Trade Commission ramped up enforcement actions related to dark patterns, loudly signaling its concern that advertisers will use AI to manipulate consumer habits and its intention to curb businesses' use and marketing of AI to prevent alleged consumer deception, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • Making The Pitch To Grow Your Company's Legal Team

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    In a compressed economy, convincing the C-suite to invest in additional legal talent can be a herculean task, but a convincing pitch — supported by metrics and cost analyses — may help in-house counsel justify the growth of their team, say Elizabeth Smith and Roger Garceau at Major Lindsey.

  • 4 Trade Secret Pointers From 2024's Key IP Law Developments

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    Four significant 2024 developments in trade secret law yield practical tips about defending trade secrets overseas, proving unjust enrichment claims, forcing compliance with posttrial orders and using restrictive covenants to prevent employee leaks of confidential intellectual property, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

  • Trends In Section 101 Motions 6 Years After Berkheimer

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    A half-dozen years after the Federal Circuit's landmark patent eligibility ruling in Berkheimer, empirical data offers practitioners some noteworthy insights on Section 101 motions, both nationally and across four exemplary jurisdictions, says Alexa Reed at Fisch Sigler.

  • Opinion

    1 Year After Rule 702 Changes, Courts Have Made Progress

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    In the year since amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence went into effect, many federal judges have applied the new expert witness standard correctly, excluding unreliable testimony from their courts — but now state courts need to update their own rules accordingly, says Lee Mickus at Evans Fears.

  • Using Contracts As Evidence Of Trade Secret Protection

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    Recent federal and U.S. International Trade Commission decisions demonstrate an interesting trend of judges recognizing that contracts and confidentiality provisions can serve as important evidence of the reasonable secrecy measures companies must take to prove the existence of protected trade secrets, say attorneys at Finnegan.

  • Unwrapping Retailer AI Risks Amid Holiday Shopping Season

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    While generative artificial intelligence tools can catalyze game-changing results for retailers looking to stay ahead of the competition during the holiday season, and year-round, it can also bring certain legal risks, including product liability concerns, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • An Underutilized Tool To Dismiss Meritless Claims In Texas

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    In Texas, special appearances provide a useful but often overlooked tool for out-of-state defendants to escape meritless claims early in litigation, thus limiting discovery and creating a pathway for immediate appellate review, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.

  • The Implications Of 2024's AI Rules And Regs For Patent Attys

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    Christina Huang, John Smith and Devin Stein at Faegre Drinker review this year's new rules and regulations on the development and use of artificial intelligence — from the Biden administration, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the American Bar Association and various states — as they apply to patent attorneys.

  • When US Privilege Law Applies To Docs Made Outside The US

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    As globalization manifests itself in disputes over foreign-created documents, a California federal court’s recent trademark decision illustrates nuances of both U.S. privilege frameworks and foreign evidentiary protections that attorneys must increasingly bear in mind, say attorneys at Hunton.

  • Looking For Patterns In Pharmaceuticals' Use Of AI Patents

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    Merging data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's artificial intelligence patent dataset and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Orange Book sheds light on pharmaceutical patents involving AI technology, as well as trends in the industry's use of this technology, says Kiefer Ahn at NERA.

  • Notable 2024 Trademark Cases And What To Watch In 2025

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    Emerging disputes between established tech giants and smaller trademark holders promise to test the boundaries of trademark protection in 2025, following a 2024 marked with disputes in areas ranging from cybersquatting to geographic marks, says Danner Kline at Bradley Arant.

  • How A 9th Circ. Identicality Ruling Could Affect AI Cos.

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    If the Ninth Circuit agrees to settle a district court split over whether the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires a copy to be identical to an original to support an actionable claim for removing copyright management information, the decision could have important ramifications for artificial intelligence businesses, says Maria Sinatra at Venable.

  • The State Of USPTO Rulemaking At The End Of Vidal's Term

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    As U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director, Kathi Vidal placed a particular emphasis on formal rulemaking — so as she returns to private practice this week, attorneys at Irell take stock of which of her proposals made it across the finish line, and where the rest stand on the cusp of a new administration.

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