/ip?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Intellectual Property Copyright 2025 °µÍø½ûÇø. en-US Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:55:06 +0000 /ip/articles/2348323?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348323 Accord Healthcare Inc. says the U.S. Supreme Court should reject bankrupt OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP's attempt to revive its legal effort to use patent laws to block the release of a competing, "crush-resistant" generic painkiller. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:29:25 +0000 /ip/articles/2348608?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348608 New York Yankees captain Aaron Judge and the Major League Baseball Players Association have asked the Federal Circuit to affirm a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision that blocked a Long Island man from registering trademarks for judicially themed slogans, such as "All Rise" and "Here Comes The Judge." Tue, 03 Jun 2025 17:23:58 +0000 /ip/articles/2348065?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348065 The Federal Circuit's recent decision in EcoFactor v. Google may affect the extent to which damages experts apply the market approach in patent infringement matters, and income approach techniques may assume greater importance, says Erin Crockett at Charles River Associates. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:54:13 +0000 /ip/articles/2348897?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348897 Texas lawmakers wrapped up the state's 89th legislative session this week, passing a number of bills on topics like artificial intelligence and social media, business law and the authorities granted to the attorney general. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:54:43 +0000 /ip/articles/2348771?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348771 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has hired a longtime official of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, who started her career at the agency in 1988 as a patent examiner and who joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a senior patent counsel, the firm said Tuesday. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:27:21 +0000 /ip/articles/2348695?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348695 A former senior account manager for a public and investor relations technology business emailed himself company secrets and tried to poach customers before he decamped for a competitor, according to a newly designated North Carolina Business Court complaint. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:25:07 +0000 /ip/articles/2348312?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348312 Radio frequency filter firm Akoustis Technologies has agreed to drop an appeal of a jury's $39 million patent infringement and trade secrets misappropriation verdict in favor of Qorvo Inc. that drove it to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:14:38 +0000 /ip/articles/2348551?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348551 The former head of the U.S. Copyright Office can't fast-track a lawsuit contesting her firing by President Donald Trump, a D.C. federal judge said Tuesday. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:00:31 +0000 /ip/articles/2345428?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2345428 A rebound in client work sent the nation’s largest law firms into growth mode last year, driving a wave of hiring, mergers, and strategic moves that reshaped the top tier of the °µÍø½ûÇø 400. Here's a preview of the 100 firms with the largest U.S. attorney headcounts. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:56:23 +0000 /ip/articles/2346619?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2346619 When I transitioned to private practice after government service — most recently as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia — I learned there are more similarities between the two jobs than many realize, with both disciplines requiring resourcefulness, zealous advocacy and foresight, says Zach Terwilliger at V&E. Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:01:28 +0000 /ip/articles/2347189?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2347189 Crowell & Moring LLP and Faber Daeufer & Itrato PC announced Tuesday they have combined, allowing Crowell & Moring to open an office in Boston that builds on Faber Daeufer's strong presence in the city's life sciences community. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:40:18 +0000 /ip/articles/2348172?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348172 A New York federal judge ruled Friday that J&J unit Ethicon Inc. owes a termination fee of $40 million plus intellectual property impairment damages in the neighborhood of $85 million to ChemImage Corp. after unilaterally ending their deal to develop in-surgery artificial intelligence imaging techniques. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:01:43 +0000 /ip/articles/2348015?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348015 The Federal Circuit set out Monday to determine whether an Ohio federal judge was right or wrong to throw out a $64 million jury verdict finding that Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. stole an inventor's ideas for self-inflating tires because the trade secrets were too vague to have gone to a jury. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:36:15 +0000 /ip/articles/2347955?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2347955 Shockwave Medical Inc. didn't find enthusiastic support at the Federal Circuit on Monday as its attorney argued that applicant admitted prior art had to be coupled with expert testimony at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:29:59 +0000 /ip/articles/2347410?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2347410 A Texas federal jury has concluded that Fortress Investment Group controls VLSI Technology, which could be a game-changing step in the patent company's multibillion-dollar patent fight with Intel. Here's how the jury's narrow finding could play into the widespread litigation. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:34:33 +0000 /ip/articles/2348152?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348152 Eminem's music publisher filed suit Friday to take a stand against Meta's alleged "rampant" infringement of the rapper's songs, telling a Detroit federal court that the social media giant has been storing, distributing and encouraging the use of Eminem's songs despite knowing it lacked a license to do so. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:10:52 +0000 /ip/articles/2347445?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2347445 Micron Technology Inc. is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block a Chinese semiconductor competitor from accessing paper copies of sensitive source code during patent infringement litigation, asserting in a petition that a lower court "ignored completely the national-security concerns tied up" in the dispute. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:50:02 +0000 /ip/articles/2348108?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348108 A Delaware federal judge has released two makers of generic bladder drugs from a stipulation that barred them from arguing patents held by rival Astellas Pharma Inc. are invalid for obviousness, since two other generic-drug makers targeted in the consolidated litigation could make the same argument at a bench trial later this year. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:31:42 +0000 /ip/articles/2347451?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2347451 A recent °µÍø½ûÇø guest article argued that courts should adopt stronger disclosure requirements for third-party litigation funding, but rather than enabling fairness or transparency, such measures would only undermine patent holders' access to capital and weaken their ability to assert valid patent rights, says Anup Misra at Curiam Capital. Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:25:27 +0000 /ip/articles/2348141?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /ip/articles/2348141 German software giant SAP on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to look at a Ninth Circuit decision that resuscitated tying claims brought by U.S. rival Teradata, saying the issue of antitrust liability badly needs the court's attention in matters relating to modern, technologically integrated products.