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Patent Applicant Can’t Overturn Fee Order
An Alexandria U.S. District Court rejects a patent applicant’s latest effort to avoid paying the court-ordered sum of $36,320.49 for expenses, including attorney’s fees, of the Patent and Trademark Office […]
Patent Applicant Seeks Patent-Term Credit
An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s motion for partial dismissal of plaintiff ’s claim that he should be awarded credit for time attributable to […]
Collateral Estoppel No Bar to Standing Defense
In plaintiff company’s challenge to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decision rejecting the patentability of inventions claims in plaintiff ’s ‘161 application, the PTO’s defense of lack of standing […]
No Patent for Computer Claim’s ‘Abstract Idea’
Plaintiffs’ claims that defendant’s ‘432 patent, relating to a method for centralized identification and authentication of users and their transactions to increase security in e-commerce, are invalid because they are […]
Court Rules on Dueling Drug Company Experts
In a pharmaceutical company’s Lanham Act suit alleging defendant pharmaceutical company cut into plaintiff’s profits by listing in industry databases a proposed generic equivalent to plaintiff’s Donnatal drug for irritable […]
Court Reverses $16M Royalty Award
In this royalty dispute over the use of nuclear technology, the Supreme Court of Virginia reverses a judgment for plaintiff Areva NP Inc. against Babcock & Wilcox and affiliated companies […]
No Patent Term Extension for Drug Company
In this Administrative Procedure Act case, the Alexandria U.S. District Court upholds defendant Patent and Trademark Office’s denial of a patent term extension for plaintiff pharmaceutical company’s ‘447 patent. In […]
Lawyer Faces Reciprocal Discipline by PTO
A Missouri lawyer whose law license was suspended indefinitely by the Supreme Court of Missouri cannot overturn an order of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office imposing identical reciprocal discipline […]
Defending trade secrets
The world’s most famous trade secret, the vigilantly guarded recipe for Coca-Cola, is kept in a purpose-built vault in the company’s Atlanta headquarters. Most trade secrets, however, are kept on […]
Sub Did Not Breach Non-Disclosure Agreement
In this dispute between a government contractor and companies that were pursuing subcontracts under a Teaming Agreement with the prime contractor, the Supreme Court of Virginia reverses a $1.25 million […]
Court Reduces Jury’s Trade Secret Award
In this dispute over development of an anti-abuse product for Internet domain names and a jury award of $10 million to plaintiff for trade secret misappropriation, conversion and civil conspiracy, […]
Unfair Competition Claim for Drug-Name Use
In this Lanham Act case asserting unfair competition in the use of the “Flanax” trademark for pain medication sold in the U.S. and in Mexico, the 4th Circuit says Bayer […]
Legal Tech
- Gemini Legal launches DraftEngine for civil litigation forms
- Lawyers continue to grapple with AI ethical issues
- Are AI prompts privileged? Time will tell
Verdicts & Settlements
- Medical Malpractice – Death from cancer followed stomach pain misdiagnosis
- Workers’ Compensation – Seasonal worker paralyzed in tobacco baler accident
- Medical Malpractice – Jurors side with doctor in suit over rescue surgery
- Motor Vehicle Negligence – Unicycle rider dies after being hit by car
- Premises Liability – Delivery driver injured by porch decking collapse
Opinion Digests
- Criminal – Allen charge wasn’t abuse of discretion
- Evidence – Expert’s exclusion from trial deemed harmless
- Parent and child – Mother held in contempt for violating visitation order
- Criminal – Court refuses to continue trial despite missing witness
- Criminal – Meth defendant wasn’t entitled to sentencing safety valve
- Tort – Comments about plaintiff were protected opinions
- Real Property – Condo unit owner challenges expansion plans
