Adam Taylor

1 week 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.

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.

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.

1 month ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Kyle Jahner |Adam Taylor |James Arkin

Months after a law governing Cuba-confiscated trademarks was enacted to address a dispute over an iconic rum brand, a fight over a beer trademark exposed uncertainty a federal judge is being pressed to clarify. The No Stolen Trademarks Honored in America Act, enacted in December, bars enforcement of any trademarks of companies taken over by the communist government after the 1959 revolution unless the original owner or a successor approves.

1 month ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Michael W. Shapiro |Adam Taylor

Houston-based patent attorney Bill Ramey was sanctioned Monday by a federal judge for his conduct in an unsuccessful infringement suit against Google LLC. Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York chastised Ramey and found him responsible for filing an exceptionally weak patent suit and then failing to dismiss it after being alerted to its deficiencies by lawyers for the tech titan.