Judiciary Adopts New Financial Disclosure Rules for Free Trips
Justices and judges must now disclose the value of free trips like those taken by Justice Clarence Thomas at the expense of a billionaire benefactor.
The US judiciary’s policy arm issued guidance to courts encouraging federal judges to assign all civil cases in a way that limits judge-shopping.
Two men who pitched in on an idea for a container used to transport natural gas will get credit on a resulting 2016 patent after more than 4 years of legal tussling.
The Federal Trade Commission is probing Reddit’s plans to license user-generated content to other firms to train artificial intelligence models, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday, the week before its planned initial public offering.
Coachella Music Festival LLC alleged a neighboring brewery’s “Coachella Valley Brewing” marketing of amounted to “a brazen attempt” to associate itself with the annual event in a trademark lawsuit in California federal court.
A New York federal jury found lighting and window-shade company Lutron Electronics Co. infringed all six patent claims asserted by Geigtech East Bay LLC and owes $34.6 million in damages.
Justices and judges must now disclose the value of free trips like those taken by Justice Clarence Thomas at the expense of a billionaire benefactor.
The Andy Warhol Foundation agreed to pay photographer Lynn Goldsmith more than $21,000 to resolve a closely watched copyright case that went before the Supreme Court last year.
Mattias Luukkonen and Michael Gorbak have joined K&L Gates as partners in its corporate practice, the firm said Monday.
Sonos Inc. convinced an administrative tribunal to cancel all challenged claims of a
Online lottery company Jackpocket Inc. failed to convince the Second Circuit to overturn a bench trial verdict deciding that “Jackpot.com” didn’t infringe its trademark.
Could America's intellectual property laws spell doom for the burgeoning field of generative AI? This video explores the brewing battle over copyright and artificial intelligence.
A landmark federal settlement resolving an Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act case could lead to more companies taking their cases to trial, lawyers said.
Illinois lawmakers are working to curb potential damages under the state’s biometric privacy law for companies that don’t secure written permission first to collect fingerprints, face scans, and other data.
Paul Weiss attorneys say an executive order limiting transfer of personal data to countries of concern will align security with previous expectations of investors, and that companies should assess their risk.
Manatt’s Nathaniel Bach says celebrities, politicians, and private individuals should carefully strategize their legal defense against malicious deepfakes when their own likeness has been manipulated.
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Justices and judges must now disclose the value of free trips like those taken by Justice Clarence Thomas at the expense of a billionaire benefactor.
The court denied Apple Inc.'s petition for a writ of mandamus to direct a federal district court to transfer to a California court Carbyne Biometrics LLC’s action for infringement of patents for authentication and fraud reduction.
In re Apple Inc., 2024 BL 89074, Fed. Cir., 2024 -111, nonprecedential, 3/18/24
The court denied DISH Network Corporation, DISH Network LLC, and DISH Network Service LLLC’s motion to transfer to a Colorado court Freedom Patents LLC’s action for infringement of patents for methods of selecting antennas and beams in MIMO wireless LANs. Freedom Pats. LLC v. DISH Network Corp., 2024 BL 87958, E.D. Tex., 4:23-cv-00303, 3/15/24
The court denied VLSI Technology LLC’s petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to reverse a federal district court’s order allowing Intel Corporation to amend its answer to VLSI’s patent infringement action, raising an affirmative defense. In re VLSI Technology LLC, 2024 BL 89089, Fed. Cir., 2024 -116, nonprecedential, 3/18/24
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