We have passed the midpoint of 2025, and the landscape of intellectual property law continues to evolve at a rapid pace, shaped by emerging technologies, and shifting judicial interpretations. From pivotal Supreme Court…
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U.S. International Trade Commission; Limited Exclusion Order; Investigation No. 337-TA-1276; Certain Light-Based Physiological Measurement Devices and Components Thereof (Aug. 1, 2025) -
Parties that believe their U.S…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade
Eicher Motors Limited v. Partnerships & Unincorporated Ass’ns Identified on Schedule “A”, No. 25cv02937 (N.D. Ill. Aug. 8, 2025) -
For years, the Northern District of Illinois has served as the hub for “Schedule A” cases—mass…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
Propel c. Phillips 66, No. 22CV007197 (Cal. Super. Ct. July 30, 2025) -
What went wrong is plain from the record. Phillips 66 courted Propel, obtained deep access to Propel’s models and strategy during diligence, and…
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/ Business Torts, Commercial Law & Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
Trump v. CASA, Inc., 145 S. Ct. 2540 (2025)
In patent cases, successful patent owners can obtain an injunction against an infringer to prevent the infringer from making, using, and selling the infringing product in the…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
The USPTO must reject a patent application if the applicant’s claim covers what the prior art already disclosed, and patent applicants may respond to such rejections with arguments that what they claimed was different…
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Optis Cellular Tech., LLC v. Apple Inc., No. 22-1925 (Fed. Cir. June 16, 2025) -
Over a decade ago, the U.S. Supreme Court arguably made it easier to invalidate a patent for claiming nonpatentable abstract ideas when it…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
In 1984, acclaimed composer Jay Livingston assigned his interests in numerous musical compositions, including the classics “Silver Bells” and “Que Sera, Sera” to a publishing company called Jay Livingston Music (“JLM”). In…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
Bartz et al. v. Anthropic PBC, No. C 24-05417 (N.D. Cal. 2025) -
In Bartz et al. v. Anthropic, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California considered whether Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books—many…
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R Corp. v. P’ships & Unincorporated Ass’ns Identified in Schedule A, Case No. 1:25-cv-06337 (N.D. Ill. June 9, 2025) -
The Northern District of Illinois (“NDIL”) has been a hotbed for “Schedule A” litigation—a legal tactic…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
iRhythm Technologies, Inc., v. Welch Allyn, Inc., IPR2025-00363, IPR2025-00374, IPR2025-00376, IPR2025-00377, IPR2025-00378 (P.T.A.B. June 6, 2025) -
On June 6, 2025, United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) Acting…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property
When prosecuting a patent with similar language across various claims make sure your claim terms have different meanings, otherwise, during litigation you may lose the strategic opportunity to keep some claims valid if others…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On May 21, 2025, the Federal Circuit en banc banished the notion that the reliability of an expert’s methodology under Federal Rule of Evidence 702 (“Rule 702”) is a question of weight, not admissibility. The en banc Court…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
Regents of the Univ. of California v. Broad Inst., Inc., No. 2022-1594, 2025 WL 1363125 (Fed. Cir. May 12, 2025) -
On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated the Patent Trial and Appeals…
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Semiconductor Components Indus., LLC v. Greenthread LLC, IPR2023-01242, -01243, -01244 (USPTO Apr. 30, 2025) -
The USPTO Director’s recent decision in Semiconductor Components v. Greenthread squarely addresses a recurring…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
