August 2024

By Andrew Karpan (August 30, 2024, 11:25 PM EDT) — A brand new lawsuit accuses a Miami gallery of promoting over $6 million in faux Andy Warhol work and stringing a household of beginner artwork collectors together with an elaborate ruse involving the lure of “below-market costs” and “fictitious” workers from the Warhol Foundation and […]

By Ryan Davis (August 30, 2024, 10:17 PM EDT) — A Federal Circuit ruling that Patent Trial and Appeal Board choices can render patent claims invalid in later U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proceedings is “opposite to the patent legal guidelines and congressional intent,” a patent proprietor mentioned Friday in search of rehearing in a

The time period “open innovation” was coined by University of California Berkeley professor Henry Chesbrough in his 2003 e-book Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology. However, there’s proof of open innovation practices within the twentieth century. For instance, Bell Labs, AT&T’s R&D subsidiary, is known for its in depth collaboration

By Lauraann Wood (August 30, 2024, 9:50 PM EDT) — As Hytera Communications mentioned Friday that its huge radio redesign was sufficient to point out it should not be held in contempt for allegedly persevering with to make use of stolen Motorola Solutions commerce secrets and techniques, an Illinois federal decide interrupted to ask why

By Katryna Perera (August 30, 2024, 9:51 PM EDT) — The Ninth Circuit on Friday affirmed a decrease court docket’s denial of a request by software program firm Proofpoint Inc. for exemplary damages that might have doubled its $13.5 million commerce secret theft verdict, ruling that any error the district court docket made in denying

By Bryan Koenig (August 30, 2024, 9:19 PM EDT) — A United Kingdom faculty software program firm is not dealing with antitrust scrutiny over alleged litigation threats towards colleges trying to change suppliers, however the agency continues to counsel that it could take motion towards the “misuse of its mental property” that it says complaints

By Dorothy Atkins (August 30, 2024, 8:59 PM EDT) — A proposed class of almost 1.45 million SmileDirectClub teeth-aligner patrons urged a California federal decide Thursday to preliminarily log off on Align Technologies Inc.’s $27.5 million money and coupon settlement to resolve antitrust claims alleging the corporate colluded with the now-bankrupt SmileDirecClub to illegally prohibit

By Jeff Overley (August 30, 2024, 9:06 PM EDT) — Appeals courts have woke up from summertime slumber and crammed their early autumn calendars with arguments of nationwide significance, which Law360 previews on this version of Wheeling & Appealing. We’re additionally recapping August’s prime appellate selections, exploring new polling about U.S. Supreme Court opinions and

By Rae Ann Varona (August 30, 2024, 7:41 PM EDT) — A Western District of Texas jury hit Cisco Systems with a $65.7 million verdict on Thursday for immediately infringing Paltalk’s patent associated to hybrid audio servers, discovering that Cisco infringed and didn’t show sure claims have been invalid…. Law360 is on it, so you’re, too.

Addressing invalidity resulting from obvious-type double patenting (ODP) based mostly on later-filed-related patents, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a district courtroom’s utility of In re Cellect (Fed. Cir. 2023) and held that the later-filed, earlier-expiring continuation patents weren’t obtainable as ODP references in opposition to the earlier-filed, later-expiring patent. Allergan