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May 08, 2025
Fed. Circ. Questions Roku Bid To Undo ITC Patent Loss
Roku's effort to revive its U.S. International Trade Commission remote control patent case against Universal Electronics and others drew skepticism from the Federal Circuit on Thursday, with the judges questioning Roku's claim the patent was wrongly found invalid and that the company has a domestic industry.
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May 08, 2025
Fed. Circ. Weighs If Expert's Testimony Justifies Spine IP Loss
A Federal Circuit panel on Thursday considered how much an expert strayed from a lower court's claim construction in an inventor's patent infringement suit against DePuy Synthes, with one judge questioning if it was merely effective cross-examination that tripped the expert up, and not much more.
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May 08, 2025
Hikma Cuts $50M Deal To End Antitrust Claims In Xyrem MDL
A certified class of Xyrem buyers in 36 states have asked a California federal judge to preliminarily approve Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC's $50 million deal to resolve antitrust claims accusing Hikma of colluding with rival Jazz Pharmaceuticals to block generic rivals from competing with Jazz's narcolepsy drug.
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May 08, 2025
PTAB Labels Decision Ending Hulu Fights As Informative
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has designated as informative an April decision where the acting head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ended Hulu's challenges to a patent on inserting ads in media content.
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May 08, 2025
Instacart, Partiful Allegedly Infringed 'FIZZ' TM To Target Gen Z
Silicon Valley-based social media platform Fizz Social Corp. has accused Instacart and Partiful of ripping off its event planning platform's "FIZZ" trademark to launch a rival "Fizz app" that specifically targets the so-called Gen Z demographic, according to a trademark infringement and anti-cybersquatting lawsuit filed in California federal court.
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May 08, 2025
Ex-Fed. Circ. Judge Leaves Sullivan & Cromwell For Own Firm
Former Federal Circuit Judge Kathleen O'Malley has left Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and started her own consulting firm, she announced Thursday.
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May 08, 2025
TGI Fridays In-House Atty Rejoins Haynes Boone In Dallas
Haynes Boone announced Thursday that it has rehired an attorney who previously worked for the firm's trademark and advertising practice group, before leaving to do in-house work for Yum Brands and TGI Fridays, to enhance its brand strategy and management services.
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May 08, 2025
Fix For Roster Limits In NCAA's NIL Deal Awaits Judge's Nod
Current and prospective college athletes whose spots on their team rosters were jeopardized by the NCAA's settlement of a name, image and likeness antitrust class action will be allowed to play again, according to the latest version of the deal, which a California federal judge found last month needed a revision.
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May 07, 2025
Fed. Circ. Upholds Ioengine Loss While Limiting IPR Estoppel
The Federal Circuit held for the first time Wednesday that estoppel from inter partes reviews only applies to arguments based on printed publications, upholding a jury's invalidation of Ioengine LLC's flash drive patents for being publicly available.
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May 07, 2025
Perkins Coie's DQ Applies To MoFo Co-Counsel, IP Judge Told
FaceTec Inc. told a California federal judge it plans to seek to disqualify Morrison Foerster LLP from representing Jumio Corp. in patent infringement litigation involving facial recognition technology, arguing the law firm previously served as co-counsel with recently disqualified Perkins Coie LLP and therefore can't now replace Perkins Coie.
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May 07, 2025
USPTO Official Says 13% Of APJs Have Left Under Trump
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has lost about 30 administrative patent judges and 20 staff members as the Trump administration is providing incentives to leave the government, Chief Administrative Patent Judge Scott Boalick said Wednesday.
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May 07, 2025
Patent Examiners Tell GAO Quantity Beats Quality
Patent examiners at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office feel like they're pressured to sacrifice patent quality in the interest of getting more patents out the door, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Wednesday exploring what it called "persistent examination and quality challenges" at the agency.
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May 07, 2025
NexStep Wants High Court To Look At Comcast Patent Fight
NexStep Inc. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the standard for an expert's testimony under a doctrine allowing patent holders to claim infringement if an accused product is similar enough to the patented invention, the latest move in a dispute with Comcast.
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May 07, 2025
Fed. Circ. Clears Way For Sun Pharma Alopecia Drug
Incyte Corp. can't challenge a board ruling preserving claims in a Sun Pharmaceutical Industries patent covering an alopecia areata drug, the Federal Circuit said Wednesday, finding the company's plans to sell its own product weren't firm enough to give it standing.
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May 07, 2025
Teradata Is Infringing 4 Tech Patents, Suit Claims
Teradata Corp. is facing a suit in Delaware federal court alleging it infringes DataCloud Technologies LLC patents for data processing and management technology with various software systems, including in its website infrastructure.
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May 07, 2025
Insulet Pursues EOFlow's Finances After $60M Ruling
A Massachusetts federal judge has ordered a Korean wearable insulin patch maker to respond to discovery requests as Insulet Corp. looks to collect a nearly $60 million trade secrets judgment, including information concerning an ongoing arbitration with Medtronic PLC stemming from a nixed acquisition deal.
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May 07, 2025
Nike, 'Replica' Influencer Settle TM Suit Ahead Of Trial
Nike has resolved the remainder of its trademark infringement lawsuit against a social media influencer accused of posting and selling fake Nike shoes just days before trial, with a Florida federal judge on Wednesday signing off on the agreement that calls for the influencer to pay $1 million in damages.
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May 07, 2025
Politics, Tech Issues Top Concerns At Chicago Risk Event
Insurance and risk professionals around the country gathered in Chicago to discuss potential perils and opportunities for the future, with talks often centering on President Donald Trump's administration, technological developments and statutory reform of the legal system.
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May 07, 2025
Fed. Circ. Backs Denial Of 'US Space Force' Trademark
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday shot down an intellectual property attorney's appeal of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's denial of his bid to register a trademark for the term "US Space Force," refusing to undo a finding that it would suggest a false connection to the military branch.
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May 07, 2025
China Economic Official To Ask US For U-Turn On Tariffs
China's top economic official will ask the U.S. to reverse course on its tariffs while meeting with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer this weekend in Switzerland, China's Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday.
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May 07, 2025
Tesla Accused Of Infringing Vehicle Shift Patents
Bulletproof Property Management LLC has filed a lawsuit accusing Tesla of infringing its patents with a feature that allows its cars to automatically shift between drive and reverse.
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May 07, 2025
Judge Affirms $9.4M Verdict For American Airlines In IP Case
A Texas federal judge has finalized a $9.4 million judgment for American Airlines over airfare search engine Skiplagged Inc.'s unauthorized use of copyrighted booking content, while also upholding the jury's finding that Skiplagged's use of American's trademarks was fair and declining to revive the lawsuit's contractual claims.
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May 07, 2025
Samsung Gets PTAB To Ax Claims In 3 Broadphone Patents
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that Samsung was able to show that claims across a trio of patents covering a way to keep track of mobile devices were invalid, ruling they were obvious.
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May 07, 2025
World Cup Distributor Sues NY Bar, Claiming Illicit Broadcast
A company with exclusive distribution rights for World Cup qualifying matches sued a New York restaurant on Wednesday for copyright infringement after it allegedly publicly broadcast a match without securing a license.
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May 07, 2025
Chemours Pans 'Perplexing' Patent Claim In Distribution Row
The Chemours Co. FC LLC has ripped a competitor's amended antitrust suit against it and its distributor for adding a "perplexing claim" for a declaratory judgment that the chemical company does not have any patents on a refrigerant, arguing that patents are a matter of public record and that the suit should be tossed.
Expert Analysis
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Is AI Distillation By DeepSeek IP Theft?
A brewing controversy over whether Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek's distillation of outputs from OpenAI's ChatGPT violates copyright law raises questions about the legality and ethics of such practices, and will set important precedents for the future of AI development and intellectual property law, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.
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Pepperdine Case Highlights Shift In Collegiate IP Landscape
A complaint filed by Pepperdine University against Netflix and Warner Bros. two weeks ago alleges that a comedy series unlawfully copies the school's trademarks, and the decision could reshape the portrayal of collegiate athletics on screen and the legal tools schools use to defend their emblems, says Mindy Lewis at Michelman & Robinson.
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7 Tips For Associates To Thrive In Hybrid Work Environments
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As the vast majority of law firms have embraced some type of hybrid work policy, associates should consider a few strategies to get the most out of both their in-person and remote workdays, says James Argionis at Cozen O’Connor.
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Series
Playing Beach Volleyball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My commitment to beach volleyball has become integral to my performance as an attorney, with the sport continually reminding me that teamwork, perseverance, professionalism and stress management are essential to both undertakings, says Amy Drushal at Trenam.
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Patent Prosecution Length Has Surprising Impact On Invalidity
Though practitioners might hypothesize that patents with longer prosecution histories are less likely to have inherent validity problems, a statistical analysis of over 89,000 patents involved in litigation suggests otherwise, say attorneys at Baker Botts.
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Managing Anti-Corporate Juror Views Revealed By CEO Killing
After the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson laid bare deep-seated anti-corporate sentiments among the public, companies in numerous industries will have to navigate the influence of related juror biases on litigation dynamics, say Jorge Monroy and Keith Pounds at IMS Legal Strategies.
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Opinion
2 Errors Limit The Potential Influence Of AI Fair Use Case
The recent opinion in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence may have little predictive value for artificial intelligence litigation, because the decision failed to engage with an important line of case law on intermediate copying, and misapplied the concepts of commercial substitution and superseding use, says Brandon Butler at Jaszi Butler PLLC.
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How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic
The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.
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Patent Eligibility Insights From Fed. Circ.'s Drill Bit Ruling
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in US Synthetic Corp. v. ITC addresses critical issues in patent eligibility jurisprudence, especially regarding composition-of-matter claims and Section 101 challenges, says Daniel Yannuzzi at Sheppard Mullin.
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5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships
Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.
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What Reuters Ruling Means For AI Fair Use And Copyright
A Delaware federal court's recent decision in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence is not likely to have lasting effect in view of the avalanche of artificial intelligence decisions to come, but the court made two points that will resonate with copyright owners who are disputing technology companies' unlicensed use of copyright-protected materials to train generative AI models, says David Ben-Meir at Ben-Meir Law Group.
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Evidence Rule May Expand Use Of Out-Of-Court Statements
A proposed amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 801(d)(1)(A) would broaden the definition of nonhearsay, reflects a more pragmatic approach to regulating the admissibility of out-of-court statements by declarant-witnesses, and could help level the playing field between prosecutors and criminal defendants, say attorneys at Hangley Aronchick.
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Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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The Math Of Cross-Examination: Less Is More, More Is Less
When conducting cross-examination at trial, attorneys should remember that “less is more, and more is less” — limiting both the scope of questioning and the length of each query in order to control the witness’s testimony and keep the factfinders’ attention, says Thomas Innes at the Defender Association of Philadelphia.