Intellectual Property

  • November 05, 2024

    The Firms With An Inside Track To A New Trump Admin

    Law firms that have represented Donald Trump and the Republican Party on everything from personal legal woes to election-related lawsuits could see the risks of that work pay dividends as Trump is projected to secure a second term in office.

  • November 05, 2024

    Santos Wants 2nd Circ. To Revive Jimmy Kimmel Pranks Suit

    Former U.S. Rep. George Santos on Monday asked the Second Circuit to undo a New York federal court's decision throwing out his claims against ABC and Jimmy Kimmel over video clips the late-night host tricked the ex-congressman into making, arguing that the suit was prematurely tossed.

  • November 05, 2024

    Apple Stole Masimo Sensor IP, Calif. Judge Told At Trial's Start

    Masimo and Cercacor Laboratories' counsel told a California federal judge at the opening of a bench trial Tuesday that after Apple struggled to implement blood oxygen sensors in a watch, the tech giant poached their employees and stole their trade secrets to get this key health technology into the Apple Watch.

  • November 05, 2024

    Justices Urged To Take Up 9th Circ. Sesame Oil TM Decision

    The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to take up a Ninth Circuit ruling that disfavored an India-based sesame oil company, with the company arguing that the circuit court ignored high court precedent, resulting in "a constitutional error" in its trademark infringement case and causing a Lanham Act violation.

  • November 05, 2024

    Day Pitney Adds Trademark, Copyright Pro In Boston

    A former ArentFox Schiff LLP attorney has jumped to Day Pitney LLP's intellectual property law practice, bringing with her years of experience in Boston helping clients defend trademarks and register copyrights.

  • November 05, 2024

    USPTO Says Hyatt Forfeit Appeal Relies On Rejected Args

    A D.C. federal judge properly held inventor Gilbert Hyatt forfeited his rights to receive certain patents by delaying his applications for decades, and the inventor's claims otherwise rehash arguments the Federal Circuit has already rejected, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office told the circuit court.

  • November 05, 2024

    MLB, Inventor Spar Over Viability Of Digital Ticket Patent

    Major League Baseball's interactive division and the holder of a digital ticketing patent it is accused of infringing are both seeking sanctions against each other, amid the league's claim that the patent was abandoned during bankruptcy proceedings and cannot be asserted.

  • November 05, 2024

    Nokia Beats Patent Infringement Case Over Router Tech

    A Texas federal jury found Tuesday that a licensing company hasn't proved that certain Nokia internet protocol routers infringe a trio of patents related to technology for transmitting data, handing a win to the telecommunications giant.

  • November 05, 2024

    NJ Staffing Co. Says Rival Stole Employees And Trade Secrets

    Medical staffing agency Aequor Healthcare Services LLC alleged in New Jersey federal court that a rival startup poached three of its employees, and those employees stole confidential information on their way out the door, according to a lawsuit filed Monday.

  • November 05, 2024

    French Music Co. Hit With IP Suit Over Song Distributions

    A French digital music business has been hit with a $500 million suit in New York federal court that claims it has been ripping off copyrighted song recordings owned by companies such as Universal Music Group by distributing allegedly manipulated tracks to social media platforms.

  • November 05, 2024

    Google, Nvidia Push To Toss YouTuber's IP Class Actions

    Google and Nvidia have asked a California federal court to dismiss a YouTube creator's proposed class actions accusing them and OpenAI in three nearly identical suits of copying his videos to train large language models, arguing the plaintiff has not asserted any copyright claims.

  • November 05, 2024

    Warner Bros. Says New Series Is 'Entirely Different' From 'ER'

    Warner Bros. Discovery's television unit is urging a California state judge to throw out contract claims brought by the widow of "ER" creator Michael Crichton, saying its upcoming medical drama "The Pitt" shares only generic concepts with the 15-season hit series.

  • November 05, 2024

    McDermott Lands Pharma IP Attorney From DLA Piper In SF

    McDermott Will & Emery LLP has added to its intellectual property group a former DLA Piper attorney who, a firm leader said, will strengthen the firm's litigation efforts in the life sciences space.

  • November 05, 2024

    Nixon Peabody Taps Leader For New Fintech Group

    A former mechanical engineering researcher who for years worked as a research assistant for his alma mater, Yale University, is moving his intellectual property and financial services practice from Duane Morris LLP to lead a recently launched Nixon Peabody LLP group, the firm announced Monday.

  • November 05, 2024

    On The Ground: How Attorneys Safeguarded The Election

    Attorneys worked tirelessly Tuesday to support citizens and election workers on the final day of voting in one of history's most contentious presidential contests.

  • November 04, 2024

    NYT Says Discovery In OpenAI Suit Isn't Going 'Smoothly'

    The newspapers suing OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. over allegedly using copyright-protected news stories to train ChatGPT say they now have a "fundamental disagreement" with the tech companies "about who is responsible" for identifying which of their news stories were allegedly used by the artificial intelligence software.

  • November 04, 2024

    Firm Says 3D Printer Biz Owes $7.2M For Patent Trial Win

    Less than a year after obtaining a $17.3 million verdict from a Delaware federal jury in a patent case over 3D printing technology, one of the firms behind the win says its erstwhile client hasn't paid it over $7 million in legal fees.

  • November 04, 2024

    Startup Beats $460M Cancer Trade Secrets Case In Delaware

    In front of a federal jury in Delaware, a California biotech startup has defeated a nearly $460 million trade secrets case from a rival that claimed the startup's co-founder helped himself to confidential information regarding cancer treatment antibodies while employed as an expert in an unrelated international arbitration proceeding.

  • November 04, 2024

    Judge 'Sorry' Before IP Retrial: 'My Mind Has Been Elsewhere'

    A New York federal judge has apologized for not being prepared at a pretrial conference ahead of a damages retrial between lighting fixture company Lutron Electronics and the company whose window shade patent it was found to infringe, GeigTech East Bay.

  • November 04, 2024

    Boeing Agrees To End Virgin Galactic Secrets, Contract Fight

    Boeing has agreed to end a breach of contract and trade secrets lawsuit it launched against Virgin Galactic stemming from a deal for a Boeing subsidiary to develop certain aircraft used to launch commercial spaceships.

  • November 04, 2024

    Finance Cos. Can't Prove Trade Secret Theft, Conn. Court Told

    A Connecticut financial adviser denied stealing trade secrets from his former firm and improperly accessing its computer systems after he resigned to run his own company, telling a state court that his onetime employer and its affiliates cannot prove the allegations in a lawsuit they brought against him.

  • November 04, 2024

    Ericsson Settles Cell Site Patent Case On Eve Of Texas Trial

    Ericsson reached a settlement over cellular infrastructure patents on Friday, allowing Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile to avoid a looming trial in Texas federal court over their use of the technology.

  • November 04, 2024

    Patent Co. Looks To Combine Antitrust Case With Consumers

    Patent-holding company VoIP-Pal.com is asking a D.C. federal judge to consolidate, at least for pre-trial purposes, its own Wi-Fi calling antitrust suit against Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile with a proposed class action it launched making many of the same claims.

  • November 04, 2024

    Pa. Jury Finds Fastener Co.'s Ads Infringing, But Charts OK

    A Philadelphia jury has delivered a mixed verdict in an industrial fastener manufacturer's intellectual property lawsuit against its competitor, finding that Peninsula Components Inc. improperly used Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp.'s "PEM" trademark in its online ads, but deciding that the mark's appearance on specification comparison charts was fair use.

  • November 04, 2024

    NJ Judge Blocks Sun Pharma From Launching Hair Loss Drug

    A New Jersey federal judge has blocked for now Sun Pharmaceutical Industries from launching a product meant to treat hair loss in the U.S., handing Incyte a win in its patent infringement lawsuit against the India-based company.

Expert Analysis

  • Series

    Home Canning Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Making my own pickles and jams requires seeing a process through from start to finish, as does representing clients from the start of a dispute at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board through any appeals to the Federal Circuit, says attorney Kevin McNish.

  • 5 Considerations For Obviousness-Type Double Patenting

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent denial of certiorari for In re: Cellect highlights the current state of obviousness-type double patenting based on that case and another recent Federal Circuit decision, including that ODP is not fatal, that divisional applications are protected from ODP and more, says Fabian Koenigbauer at Ice Miller.

  • Patent Lessons From 7 Federal Circuit Reversals In August

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    The Federal Circuit’s seven vacated or reversed cases from August provide helpful clarity on obviousness-type double patenting, written description and indefiniteness, and suggest improved practices for petitioners and patent owners in inter partes review, say Denise De Mory and Li Guo at Bunsow De Mory.

  • Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys

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    Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.

  • Opinion

    Congress Can And Must Enact A Supreme Court Ethics Code

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    As public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court dips to historic lows following reports raising conflict of interest concerns, Congress must exercise its constitutional power to enact a mandatory and enforceable code of ethics for the high court, says Muhammad Faridi, president of the New York City Bar Association.

  • Perspectives

    Pop Culture Docket: Justice Lebovits On Gilbert And Sullivan

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    Characters in the 19th century comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan break the rules of good lawyering by shamelessly throwing responsible critical thought to the wind, providing hilarious lessons for lawyers and judges on how to avoid a surfeit of traps and tribulations, say acting New York Supreme Court Justice Gerald Lebovits and law student Tara Scown.

  • ​​​​​​​Trending At The PTAB: Evolution Of Granting Stays Post-AIA

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    Kara Specht and Guanshi Li at Finnegan take a look at the evolving trends in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's authority to grant stays in parallel reexamination and reissue proceedings under the America Invents Act since 2019, showing that it has become exceedingly difficult to successfully argue against a stay in most cases.

  • 2nd Circ. American Girl Ruling Alters Test Purchase Norms

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    The Second Circuit's recent ruling in American Girl v. Zembrka overturns years of precedent that required completed test purchase shipments to establish jurisdiction in infringement cases, but litigators shouldn't abandon the strategy entirely, say Robert Wasnofski and Sara Gates at Dentons.

  • State Of The States' AI Legal Ethics Landscape

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    Over the past year, several state bar associations, as well as the American Bar Association, have released guidance on the ethical use of artificial intelligence in legal practice, all of which share overarching themes and some nuanced differences, say Eric Pacifici and Kevin Henderson at SMB Law Group.

  • The Shifting Role Of Patent Attorneys In The Age Of AI

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    The integration of artificial intelligence into patent drafting represents a significant change in how legal work is performed, and patent attorneys must shift from manual drafting to a strategy-oriented approach, says Ian Schick at Draft Builders.

  • 8 Childhood Lessons That Can Help You Be A Better Attorney

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    A new school year is underway, marking a fitting time for attorneys to reflect on some fundamental life lessons from early childhood that offer a framework for problems that no legal textbook can solve, say Chris Gismondi and Chris Campbell at DLA Piper.

  • 2nd Circ. Provides NY Pathway For Fighting Foreign Infringers

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    A recent decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit provides a road map for expeditiously obtaining personal jurisdiction in New York against foreign trademark infringers based on a single purchase of counterfeit goods, meaning the Second Circuit could now be the preferred venue for combating foreign infringement, says Jeffrey Ratinoff at Spencer Fane.

  • Opinion

    This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Consider Best Legal Practices For Commissioning Public Art

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    Commissioning public art for real estate projects can provide many benefits to real estate developers and the public, but it's important to understand the unique legal and contracting aspects of the process to ensure that projects are completed on time and on budget, says Sarah Conley Odenkirk at ArtConverge.

  • A Look At The PTAB's Assessment Of Prior Art Exceptions

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    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board's approach over the last 10 years to assessing Section 102(b) prior art exceptions reveals a few trends, including that evidence of common ownership may have a higher likelihood of successfully disqualifying prior art under Section 102(b)(2)(C) at the institution stage, say Louis Panzica and David Holman at Sterne Kessler.

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