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The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a patent licensee’s unpaid royalty and sublicensing fee obligations were extinguished by a release the patent holder gave in exchange for a cut of the licensee’s settlement money from litigation ...

A federal magistrate judge in Virginia lacked jurisdiction to issue a warrant to deploy a computer hacking tool that enabled the government to identify a Massachusetts man as a user of an online child-pornography site, a Massachusetts federal judge has ...

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In a trial-lawyer Utopia, no attorneys would ever have to deliver an opening statement in front of a jury they don’t know as well as their own siblings. But in the real world, expanding caseloads and shrinking resources dictate strict ...