The Federal Circuit signed off on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision to allow a tech company's lawyers to throw new arguments into a petition even if they join the case late, drawing a complaint Thursday from an attorney for the losing side that the precedential ruling means there are "no rules for IPR petitioners."
The U.S. International Trade Commission and California medical tech company Masimo have panned Apple's efforts to delay a ban on imports of some of its much-litigated lines of Apple Watches, with the agency saying Apple's "weak and unconvincing" arguments are mere requests for "permission to continue infringing."
A trade secrets lawsuit filed Thursday in New York federal court claims that the former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed used his later post at The New York Times to pen "a series of hit pieces" that destroyed a rival in the media landscape and that he stole ideas from the rival on how to sell news.
A federal judge in California has decided to tear up some of the allegations in VLSI's $900 million lawsuit against Intel, deciding in advance of a trial next year that there isn't any way Intel's microchips in the U.S. do what's described in one of the licensing company's patents, and that a second patent is indefinite.
A small biotech business plans to use the web of settlement agreements it has landed since netting a blockbuster jury verdict last year to ask jurors to award it $410 million early next year, though the bid is opening the company up to arguments that nobody wanted to buy its patents before getting dragged into court.