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September 08, 2025
Pokémon Go Maker Gets Judge To 'Avada Kedavra' Patents
A federal judge on Monday said he cast the so-called unforgivable avada kedavra curse from Harry Potter to kill three ImagineAR Inc. video game patents in its lawsuit against Pokémon Go maker Niantic Inc., saying the patents were all abstract and lacked any inventive concept.
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September 08, 2025
Ex-Franchisee: College Biz Suit A 'Play For Leverage'
A lawsuit accusing a college consultant of breaching a contract with a former franchising company is nothing more than a "play for leverage" in an ongoing legal battle crossing state lines, consultant Gurpartap "Sunny" Grewal told a North Carolina federal court Friday.
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September 08, 2025
Atty In Judge Newman Suspension Feud Moves To DOJ
An attorney who has been representing Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman in the legal battle over her suspension has jumped from the New Civil Liberties Alliance to work at the U.S. Department of Justice.
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September 08, 2025
WIPO Leader Sees 'Clouds On The Horizon' For IP In US
World Ƶ Organization Director General Daren Tang said Monday that more governments around the world are recognizing the importance of IP, but "there are some clouds on the horizon" for the space in the U.S., traditionally an innovation leader.
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September 08, 2025
Oura Domestic Labor Investment Won Import Ban, ITC Says
The U.S. International Trade Commission has found that Ouraring Inc.'s commitments in the U.S. to producing its smart ring warranted the agency's decision to block Ultrahuman and RingConn from importing products it held infringed a wearable computing device patent.
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September 08, 2025
Playboy Secures $81M Arbitration Win Over Ex-Licensee
Playboy Inc. said Monday it has been awarded damages of approximately $81 million by an international arbitration tribunal against a former Chinese licensee.
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September 08, 2025
Pac-12 Schools Reach Deal With Apparel Cos. In TM Suit
Schools in the NCAA's Pac-12 Conference have reached a tentative deal with two apparel companies that allegedly used university logos and other trademarks without authorization, telling a Washington state federal judge to expect details of the agreement in coming weeks.
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September 08, 2025
FisherBroyles Can't Nix Stem Cell Patent Malpractice Claim
A California judge on Monday denied FisherBroyles LLP's motion to toss a claim in a $10 million malpractice suit brought against it by a stem cell treatment center, ruling the firm missed a deadline to file the motion.
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September 08, 2025
9th Circ. Upholds Dismissal Of 'Penny Dreadful' IP Suit
The Ninth Circuit on Monday affirmed a lower court's decision to dismiss a suit brought by a woman who claimed her writings on an online role-playing forum were used to create a character in the Showtime series "Penny Dreadful," saying the resemblance between her characters and Showtime's wasn't obvious enough to preclude coincidence.
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September 08, 2025
Phillips 66 Faces Retrial After 'Improper' Infringement Theory
The Federal Circuit on Monday ordered a new trial over allegations that Phillips 66 infringed Magēmā Technology's oil refinery patents, saying in a precedential opinion that a Texas federal court wrongfully concluded that Phillips' noninfringement theory was harmless, as it had also found the theory "improper and prejudicial."
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September 08, 2025
Longtime USPTO Rocky Mountain Director Leaves Agency
The leader of the regional U.S. Patent and Trademark Office covering Colorado, Nebraska and several other states has announced that she is no longer working at the agency.
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September 08, 2025
Nintendo Inks $2M Deal In Switch Piracy Suit
Nintendo has reached a settlement with a man it accused of selling modified Nintendo Switch consoles and methods of playing pirated games, with the defendant agreeing to pay $2 million and be permanently enjoined from further distributing unauthorized materials or devices used for digital piracy.
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September 08, 2025
Fla. Judge May Sever Claims In Ex-NRA Lobbyist's Suit
A Florida federal judge said he may proceed with severing a contract breach claim in a former lobbyist's lawsuit against the National Rifle Association and order it refiled in Virginia after ruling that the nonprofit could enforce a valid forum selection clause.
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September 08, 2025
9th Circ. Denies CoStar's Bid To Rehear Antitrust Ruling
A Ninth Circuit panel rejected a call to revisit the court's June decision reviving claims alleging that real estate information service CoStar monopolizes several commercial real estate listing markets through exclusive deals with brokers and technological barriers for competitors.
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September 08, 2025
Morgan Lewis Brings On 3 More Knobbe Martens IP Attys
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has continued expanding its intellectual property team, announcing Monday it is bringing in another team of IP litigators from Knobbe Martens as partners in its West Coast offices in Seattle and Orange County, California.
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September 08, 2025
5th Circ. Reinstates $2.4M Award In Hair Product Co.'s IP Suit
The Fifth Circuit has restored a $2.4 million jury award to a hair product company in its trademark infringement trial win over a rival, ruling a district court judge was wrong to throw out the verdict and the company had shown evidence the infringement hurt its business.
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September 08, 2025
Attys Accused Of Filing Fake Docs In Miss America Dispute
A real estate developer, his associates and his current and past attorneys submitted fake contracts as evidence of their ownership of the company that runs the Miss America pageant in a $500 million lawsuit and should face sanctions, the plaintiffs — who allege they're the rightful owners — told a Florida federal judge Saturday.
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September 08, 2025
NC High Court Snapshot: Pot Smell Test, Atty's Divorce Feud
North Carolina's top court will return from its summer hiatus in September to address whether law enforcement can rely on the smell of marijuana alone in the age of legalized hemp to justify a warrantless search. Here are some highlights of the high court's September lineup.
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September 08, 2025
Fish & Richardson Names Standard Essential Patents Leaders
Intellectual property law firm Fish & Richardson PC announced Monday that it has tapped principals in Houston and Boston to lead its new standard-essential patents practice.
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September 08, 2025
Tracking The Copyright Fights Between Creators And AI Cos.
In the three years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, artificial intelligence developers like OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic have faced dozens of lawsuits accusing them of infringing the intellectual property of authors, artists, news organizations and the like.
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September 07, 2025
Stewart Says New Patent Policies Aim To Bring Stability
Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart said Sunday that new patent review policies the office has implemented are aimed at making the patent system more stable, saying that in her view, repeated patent challenges can result in "the antithesis of stability."
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September 05, 2025
Apple Using Pirated Books To Train AI Models, Authors Allege
Apple is using unlicensed copyrighted works, including books from a controversial data set, in building its artificial intelligence models, two authors alleged in a proposed class action filed Friday in California federal court, warning that Apple's AI system will inevitably begin competing with real writers.
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September 05, 2025
Stewart Tackles Markets, Injunctions In Newest PTAB Reviews
Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart released 14 institution decisions in the last week, providing more insight on the scope of settled expectations and the impact of a district court preliminary injunction.
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September 05, 2025
Temu Hit With $2M Penalty In FTC's 1st INFORM Act Case
The operator of Chinese e-commerce platform Temu has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's inaugural enforcement action under the INFORM Consumers Act, which requires online marketplaces to provide customers with certain information and tools to combat counterfeit goods offered by high-volume third-party sellers.
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September 05, 2025
Federal Agencies Push To Toss Masimo's Apple Watch Suit
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. International Trade Commission have again urged a federal judge to throw out Masimo's suit seeking to block a decision allowing imports of redesigned Apple Watches, saying Congress barred court review of such findings.
Expert Analysis
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Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan
President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Rebuttal
BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation
A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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How Big Pharma Has Responded To FTC Delisting Demands
Looking at some statistics concerning how pharmaceutical companies have responded to the Federal Trade Commission's recent challenges to Orange Book listings raises several possible hypotheses about the FTC's strategy and effectiveness, say Ratib Ali and Celia Lu at Competition Dynamics.
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5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust
Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.
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How To Successfully Challenge Jurors For Cause In 5 Steps
To effectively challenge a potential juror for cause, attorneys should follow a multistep framework rather than skipping straight to the final qualification question, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.
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USPTO's AI Tool Redefines Design Patent Landscape
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's newly introduced DesignVision tool for artificial intelligence-powered image searching represents a dramatic shift in how design patent applications are examined, necessitating new strategies for patent practitioners, says Matthew Epstein at Dinsmore.
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Series
Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.
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6 Tips On Drafting Machine Learning Patents Post-Recentive
While the Federal Circuit's decision in Recentive v. Fox narrows the scope of patent-eligible machine learning applications, there are several drafting and prosecution strategies that may help practitioners navigate Section 101 challenges, say attorneys at BCLP.
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What US-India Trade Deal Will Mean For Indian Pharma
Complicated by newly imposed tariffs from the U.S., the outcome of the U.S.-India trade talks is poised to reshape not just trade policy, but also the strategic alignment of the two countries' pharmaceutical ecosystems, says Jashaswi Ghosh at Holon Law Partners.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills
I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.
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Opinion
Bar Exam Reform Must Expand Beyond A Single Updated Test
Recently released information about the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ new NextGen Uniform Bar Exam highlights why a single test is not ideal for measuring newly licensed lawyers’ competency, demonstrating the need for collaborative development, implementation and reform processes, says Gregory Bordelon at Suffolk University.
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The Patent Eligibility Eras Tour: 11 Years Of Post-Alice Tumult
A survey of recent twists and turns in patent eligibility law highlights the confusion created by the U.S. Supreme Court's 2014 Alice decision and reveals that the continually shifting standards have begun to diverge in fundamental ways between the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, says Michael Shepherd at Fish & Richardson.
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Export Misconduct Resolutions Emphasize BIS, DOJ Priorities
The U.S. Department of Justice's and Bureau of Industry and Security's recently resolved parallel enforcement actions against semiconductor technology company Cadence Design demonstrate the agencies' prioritization of penalties for export control violations involving China, as well as the importance of voluntary self-disclosure, say attorneys at Fenwick.
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Disney Art Suit Will Test Recent AI Fair Use Boundaries
While the first U.S. rulings to address the issue recently held that it's fair use for generative artificial intelligence models to train on certain copyrighted books without permission, Disney v. Midjourney, filed in June, will test the limits of the fair use framework in a visual art context, says Rob Rosenberg at Moses & Singer.
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A Simple Way Courts Can Help Attys Avoid AI Hallucinations
As attorneys increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence for legal research, courts should consider expanding online quality control programs to flag potential hallucinations — permitting counsel to correct mistakes and sparing judges the burden of imposing sanctions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl and Connors.