The California Institute of Technology asked a Texas federal judge on Tuesday to let it amend its suit against Samsung over data transmission patents to add a claim for willful infringement, saying "sheer luck" uncovered "astonishing omissions" that show Samsung knew of the patents years before it claims it did.
A California federal judge granted Thursday a request from the federal government to decide who should get the proceeds from a private jet that convicted attorney Michael Avenatti bought with stolen money, including a victim who never received most of her $3 million settlement.
An Australian music publishing company on Thursday was awarded nearly $771,000 by a California federal jury that found an American music publishing company and a composer breached their contracts by failing to indemnify the Australian company from New Zealand court rulings that determined a political party infringed an Eminem song's copyright.
An attorney for Masimo on Wednesday told a California federal jury during closing arguments of the company's high-stakes intellectual property case over Apple's smartwatch that internal Apple emails show the tech giant's theft of Masimo's trade secrets was "intentional and malicious" while Apple's attorney said no theft occurred.
Apple rested its defense on Tuesday in a trial over Masimo Corp.'s $3.1 billion Apple Watch intellectual property claims with its final witness, an IP expert who trashed Masimo's damages theory and said the money sought over alleged theft of trade secrets is wildly overestimated.