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5 days ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Michael W. Shapiro |James Arkin |Adam Taylor
Three appeals in federal patent-infringement lawsuits center on the legality of an East Texas judge’s unconventional choice to have juries answer a single yes-or-no question on whether defendants copied multiple patents rather than deciding separately whether each individual patent was infringed. In each case, District Judge Rodney Gilstrap rejected requests for separate, more specific verdict questions, and juries assessed tens or hundreds of millions in damages.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Lauren Castle |Adam Taylor
Intel Corp. convinced a Texas jury that VLSI Technology LLC is controlled by Fortress Investment Group, setting up a potential escape from more than $3 billion in patent-infringement verdicts against the chipmaker in the lengthy dispute. Fortress controls both VLSI and Finjan Inc., an Austin, Texas, jury determined Thursday .
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Michael W. Shapiro |Adam Taylor |Kartikay Mehrotra
The next battleground in President Donald Trump’s tariff push is a technocratic federal appeals court that spends most of its time resolving intellectual property disputes. The US Court of International Trade on Wednesday ruled a 1977 law doesn’t give the president authority “to impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world.” The Trump administration immediately took steps to appeal the case to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Lauren Castle |Adam Taylor |Kartikay Mehrotra
Fortress Investment Group’s connection to patent monetizer VLSI Technology LLC will be at the heart of a three-day trial starting Tuesday that could upend infringement verdicts against Intel Corp. totaling more than $3 billion. An Austin, Texas, jury is set to decide whether plaintiff VLSI and Finjan Inc. are both under Fortress’ control. Intel argues a 2012 licensing agreement with Finjan, which also covers patents owned by “affiliates,” blocks the chipmaker from infringement liability.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Michael W. Shapiro |James Arkin |Adam Taylor
A favorable appeals court ruling repositioned a coalition of universities and Nobel laureates to win credit for inventing a breakthrough CRISPR gene-editing technology and lucrative rights to a US patent that’s been contested for more than a decade.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Aruni Soni |Adam Taylor
The US Supreme Court summarily affirmed a lower court’s ruling clearing journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, Oprah Winfrey, and a host of companies of plagiarism, after five justices recused themselves from the decision.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Kyle Jahner |Kartikay Mehrotra |Adam Taylor
President Donald Trump’s unprecedented removal of the US Copyright Office chief is on shaky legal ground, as the position isn’t presidentially appointed, and threatens to compound the administration’s ongoing battles over federal workforce firings. Democratic lawmakers have led a chorus of admonitions against the May 10 removal of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, which came two days after Trump also fired her boss, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Adam Taylor |Kartikay Mehrotra
Merck & Co.‘s planned debut this fall of an injectable form of its breakthrough cancer treatment Keytruda will simplify care, expand access, and save more lives, the company says. But by shifting patients to a version protected by newer patents, it will also extend Merck’s control over the world’s best-selling drug. Merck is performing a sleight-of-hand known as a “product hop” by tweaking how the drug is delivered.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Aruni Soni |Adam Taylor |Kartikay Mehrotra
Publishing groups and law professors defended authors suing Meta Platforms Inc. over its generative AI training process, in a number of friend-of-the-court briefs. In separate amicus curiae briefs filed April 11, copyright law professors; the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers; Copyright Alliance; and Association of American Publishers said Meta’s use of thousands of pirated books can’t qualify as fair use under copyright law.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Lauren Castle |Adam Taylor
T-Mobile US Inc. defeated General Access Solutions Ltd.’s patent-infringement lawsuit over 4G and 5G network technology. T-Mobile didn’t infringe US Patent Nos. 6,947,477 and 7,099,383, according to a jury verdict filed Friday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The jury also determined, though, that T-Mobile didn’t prove the patents are invalid. A T-Mobile spokesperson said in an email the company is pleased with the jury’s verdict.
