Intellectual Property

  • February 13, 2025

    ASUSTeK Hit With $10.5M Verdict In Chip Patent Case

    A jury in the Eastern District of Texas on Thursday found that Taipei-based laptop maker ASUSTeK infringed electronic component patents by a fellow Taiwanese rival and owed $10.5 million.

  • February 13, 2025

    After Winning $18M, ASUSTek Foe Asks For New Patent Trial

    A patent litigation company that obtained a nearly $18 million award from a federal jury in Waco, Texas, against Taiwanese computer manufacturer ASUSTeK says it wants to try winning some more money at a new trial, though the company admitted it "recognizes the extraordinary nature of the relief it is requesting."

  • February 13, 2025

    PQA Loses Bid To Fight VLSI's Extortion Claims In Fed. Court

    Patent Quality Assurance LLC must return to state court to face a suit claiming it had extortionary intent when challenging VLSI Technology's chip patent, a Virginia federal judge held Thursday.

  • February 13, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Revives Drill Bit Patent ITC Found Abstract

    The U.S. International Trade Commission erred when invalidating US Synthetic Corp.'s patent for a compound used in diamond drill bits for not meeting eligibility standards, the Federal Circuit said Thursday.

  • February 13, 2025

    Mallinckrodt Fails To Halt Airgas' Generic Nitric Oxide Drug

    A Delaware federal judge has rejected Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals' attempt to block French industrial gas company Airgas Healthcare from selling a generic version of its inhaled nitric oxide treatment, saying Mallinckrodt didn't show enough evidence that Airgas infringed its patents or that it would suffer irreparable harm.

  • February 13, 2025

    Artists, AI Image Cos. At Odds Over Scale Of Depositions

    Artists in a proposed artificial intelligence copyright infringement class action against four companies that make or distribute software creating images with text prompts are at odds with the defendants over how many of their witnesses they should be allowed to depose, according to a filing in California federal court.

  • February 13, 2025

    NC Biz Court Bulletin: Defaulted Notes, EB-5 Investor Fraud

    The North Carolina Business Court has been handed in the first half of February a receivership case involving a defaulted $17.5 million promissory note, a fraud suit by Chinese EB-5 investors and a request to depose the chief legal officer of Smithfield Foods Inc.

  • February 13, 2025

    Jury Clears Cisco In IP Trial Over Routers, Axes Patent

    A patent licensing company has failed for a third time to land a successful infringement lawsuit in the Western District of Texas, after a jury rejected its $19.3 million case against Cisco.

  • February 13, 2025

    Mass. Auto Telematics Data Law Not Preempted, Judge Says

    A Boston federal judge's dismissal of an auto industry group's challenge to a Massachusetts vehicle telematics data law centered on a limited interpretation of the statute's reach and the lack of a clear conflict with federal laws, according to an order unsealed Thursday explaining the decision.

  • February 13, 2025

    Punchbowl Inc. Drops Appeal In Punchbowl News TM Feud

    Massachusetts-based greeting card and event planning business Punchbowl Inc. has dropped its Ninth Circuit appeal of a California federal judge's August decision tossing the trademark infringement claims it leveled against the publication Punchbowl News.

  • February 13, 2025

    Conde Nast, Politico Are Latest To Bring AI Copyright Fight

    Conde Nast, Politico LLC and other publishers and news organizations on Thursday hit artificial intelligence company Cohere Inc. with a copyright infringement lawsuit in New York federal court, the latest salvo in the high-stakes battle over AI companies' use of published materials to train their models.

  • February 13, 2025

    Sidley Adds White & Case Litigators In Chicago

    Sidley Austin LLP has grown its litigation offerings in Chicago with the addition of two former White & Case LLP partners, one of whom served as the leader of that firm's Windy City office.

  • February 13, 2025

    Goldstein Freed As Judge Doubts Feds' Crypto Claims

    A Maryland federal magistrate judge on Thursday ordered Tom Goldstein released from jail after expressing skepticism toward federal prosecutors' claims that the SCOTUSblog publisher and U.S. Supreme Court advocate secretly made millions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency transactions in recent days.

  • February 12, 2025

    Judge Finds No Infringement In Alcon's Eye Drop Patent Suit

    Alcon Inc. has failed to persuade a Delaware federal court to block the release of a generic glaucoma treatment that would compete with a brand of eye drops the company sells.

  • February 12, 2025

    Bausch Health Beats Suit Over 'Faking' Financial Stability

    Pharmaceutical company Bausch Health Cos. Inc. and its top brass have beaten, for now, a proposed class action accusing them of misleading shareholders about threats to the company's financial stability, with a New Jersey federal judge finding Wednesday that most of the challenged statements in the complaint are inactionable.

  • February 12, 2025

    Labcorp Can't Score New Trial After $384M Patent Loss

    Clinical lab giant Labcorp has failed to land a new trial in front of U.S. District Judge Alan Albright after a $384.4 million patent infringement judgment against it in a case over a method for testing for genetic disorders during pregnancy.

  • February 12, 2025

    ITC To Review If Voltage Infringes Shoals' Solar Patents

    About a month after Shoals Technologies Group filed a patent infringement complaint against North Carolina solar provider Voltage LLC and a Chinese manufacturing company, the U.S. International Trade Commission voted Tuesday to investigate the entities' importation and sale of accused photovoltaic trunk bus cable assemblies and their components.

  • February 12, 2025

    Ex-Schwab Employee Enjoined From Using Client Info

    A Texas federal judge on Wednesday barred a former Charles Schwab employee from using the brokerage firm's allegedly stolen client information, requiring him to return all records and submit any devices with relevant materials for forensic examination.

  • February 12, 2025

    Copyright Office's Economist Report Chimes In On AI Debate

    A report released Wednesday by a group of economists convened by the U.S. Copyright Office explores the complicated — and sometimes fraught — economic considerations at the heart of the debate over copyright policy and artificial intelligence.

  • February 12, 2025

    USPTO Ends Fast Exams Of Patents Targeting Climate Change

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has suspended a program that sped up examination of patent applications for inventions that are intended to mitigate climate change, saying any future petitions to participate in the program will not be granted.

  • February 12, 2025

    Western Digital Told To Pay $553M Sooner Rather Than Later

    Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital now has less than seven days to put up over half a billion dollars to satisfy a patent judgment after a California federal judge said he "has concerns about potential corporate restructuring."

  • February 12, 2025

    Albertsons To Face Reduced Claims Over Tech Theft

    A Washington federal judge has cleared software company Replenium Inc. to pursue trade secret and promissory estoppel claims against Albertsons, finding it plausibly alleged the grocer misused confidential information from their software partnership to build a competing auto-replenishment platform.

  • February 12, 2025

    Fried Frank Faces Sanctions Bid Over RICO Suit

    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP and its client, Tristar Products Inc., are facing a sanctions bid for bringing a RICO lawsuit against Telebrands Corp., with the defendant saying the complaint makes the company and its attorney seem like "alleged criminal masterminds."

  • February 11, 2025

    Trump Tells Agencies To Plan 'Large-Scale' Cuts With Musk

    President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that directs agencies to prepare for "large-scale" cuts to the federal workforce and gives Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency the authority to approve the future hiring of career officials.

  • February 11, 2025

    Medtronic, Axonics Agree To End Bladder Control Patent Fight

    A California federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently dismiss Medtronic's long-running dispute accusing Axonics of infringing its patents related to its bladder and bowel control device, three months after Medtronic sought a new trial in the case following a verdict where a federal jury found no infringement by Axonics.

Expert Analysis

  • Takeaways From Oral Argument In High Court Trademark Case

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    Unpacking oral arguments from Dewberry Group v. Dewberry Engineers, which the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on this year, sheds light on the ways in which the decision could significantly affect trademark infringement plaintiffs' ability to receive monetary damages, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.

  • In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege

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    Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.

  • Improving Comms Between Trial Attys And Tech Witnesses

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    In major litigation involving complex technology, attorneys should employ certain strategies to collaborate with companies' technical personnel more effectively to enhance both the attorney's understanding of the subject matter and the expert's ability to provide effective testimony in court, say attorneys at Buchalter.

  • Navigating Title IX Compliance In The NIL Era

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    As universities push to move more name, image and likeness activity in-house, it's unclear how the NCAA and its members will square implementation of the House settlement with Title IX requirements, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll.

  • Series

    Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.

  • DeepSeek AI Investigation Could Lead To IP Law Precedents

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    The investigation by OpenAI and Microsoft into DeepSeek's artificial intelligence model raises interesting legal concerns involving intellectual property and contract law, including potential trade secret appropriation and fair use questions, say Saishruti Mutneja and Raghav Gurbaxani.

  • Opinion

    New DOJ Leaders Should Curb Ill-Conceived Prosecutions

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    First-of-their-kind cases have seemingly led to a string of overly aggressive prosecutions in recent years, so newly sworn-in leaders of the U.S. Department of Justice should consider creating reporting channels to stop unwise prosecutions before they snowball, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.

  • Opinion

    Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay

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    Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.

  • A Look At Drug Price Negotiation Program's Ongoing Impact

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    More than two years after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act and the rapid implementation of the drug price negotiation program, attorneys at Ropes & Gray discuss how the IRA has influenced licensing strategies, and how maximum fair prices under the law have economically affected certain drugs.

  • Opinion

    Congress Must Consider Accurate Data About Patent Thickets

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    If Congress revisits a controversial bill this year aimed at limiting the number of patents pharmaceutical manufacturers could assert, it must make sure to act based on accurate reports — such as a recent U.S. Patent and Trademark Office study that found no evidence of patent thicketing, says David Kappos at the Council for Innovation Promotion.

  • Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example

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    Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

  • Opinion

    DOGE Should Address Inefficiency In The Patent Marketplace

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    Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is well positioned to identify to Congress the necessary variability needed among individual patent rights, ensuring that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's current inefficiencies do not impede promising inventions from reaching the market, says John Powers at Powers IP.

  • Perspectives

    Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines

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    KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.

  • AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex

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    Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.

  • IP, Licensing, M&A Trends To Watch In Life Sciences This Year

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    2025 promises to continue an exciting trajectory for the life sciences industry, with major trends ranging from global harmonization of intellectual property to cross-border licensing activity and an increase of nontraditional financial participants in the mergers and acquisition space, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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