U.S. District Judge Elaine E. Bucklo denied a motion to dismiss by 14 defendants in Laika LLC’s copyright infringement lawsuit, ruling that common questions of law and fact justify keeping the group in a single suit under Federal Rule 20.
A federal judge in Delaware vacated a jury’s finding of willful infringement in Express Mobile’s patent lawsuit against GoDaddy, but upheld the $170 million damages award for the web-hosting company’s Website Builder product.
A federal judge in Chicago denied Hytera Communications’ motion for summary judgment of non-infringement in Motorola Solutions’ patent lawsuit, ruling that genuine disputes of material fact remain regarding whether Hytera’s i-Series and H-Series radio devic...
A federal magistrate judge in Northern California reinstated a $25.7 million jury verdict in favor of EchoSpan, rejecting Medallia’s attempt to overturn the damages award after the Ninth Circuit ruled the jury had a reasonable basis for its findings.
A federal judge in the Northern District of California invalidated a key GoPro patent claim as obvious, vacating a $8.2 million damages award against the camera maker.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that an individual artist’s third-party claims against Universal Music Group were not frivolous, denying the company’s request for legal fees after the claims were dismissed as time-barred.
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled that a former corporate officer who built a pet-supplement company into a multimillion-dollar business holds no ownership rights to the brand, granting in part a preliminary injunction for the company he helped dissolve.
A federal judge in New York granted NASCAR a preliminary injunction and asset freeze against unidentified sellers of infringing merchandise, vacating relief for one defendant who challenged jurisdiction.
A federal judge in Massachusetts denied a motion to dismiss counterclaims alleging that a restaurant software company used patent threats to coerce an acquisition.
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled that state-law contract and unjust-enrichment claims regarding unpaid royalties for sound recordings are not preempted by federal copyright law, allowing key counts in a royalty dispute to proceed.
A federal judge in Phoenix ruled that the CEOs of MiMedx and Surgenex possess relevant first-hand knowledge, allowing their depositions despite their high-ranking positions, but capped the sessions at two and four hours respectively.
A federal judge in the Eastern District of California granted an ex parte temporary restraining order against a former account manager who allegedly downloaded 3.5 gigabytes of proprietary data before joining a direct competitor.
A Northern District of California judge denied Deckers Outdoor Corp.’s motion to exclude Last Brand Inc.’s late-produced patent apostilles and rejected the defendant’s bid to shield its CEO from trial testimony, clearing the way for both witnesses to appear...
A federal judge in Virginia threw out a patent declaratory judgment suit by Kuraray America, ruling that Sekisui Chemical’s foreign enforcement actions and a warning letter did not create a live controversy in the United States.
A federal judge in the Northern District of California has restricted semiconductor company Mattson Technology’s discovery scope in its trade secret lawsuit against Applied Materials, ruling that the plaintiff cannot pursue claims related to unpleaded techn...
AbbVie’s trade secret suit against BeiGene survives a motion to dismiss, with the court finding the complaint plausibly alleged the company took reasonable measures to protect its cancer drug designs and described them with sufficient specificity.
A federal judge in San Jose denied a preliminary injunction to the creator of the Wildfire Aware app, ruling that the term "AWARE" is too weak and crowded to support a trademark infringement claim against a government-focused competitor.
A federal judge in Arizona ordered GoDaddy to transfer two disputed domain names to BTQ Technologies and enjoined former employee Nicolas Roussy Newton from using the company's trade secrets, extending a temporary restraining order through June 12.
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division emphasized that intellectual property protections must balance rewarding innovators with enabling competition in the concentrated seed market, filing a statement of interest in a Delaware case involving Corteva an...
A Georgia-based canine semen bank is subject to personal jurisdiction in Oregon because its website expressly targeted an Oregon plaintiff and caused harm state, a federal judge ruled.