Jury Trial, Summary Judgment, Reversal

Ninth Circuit Revives Copyright Suit Over Sam Smith’s “Dancing with a Stranger” and Reaffirms the Jury’s Role

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 5/7/2025

On April 29, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals revived the copyright infringement case filed by Sound and Color, LLC against Sam Smith, Normani, and related parties (collectively, “Defendants”) concerning the hit song...more

Reversal on Reverse Doctrine of Equivalents

Knobbe Martens on 2/7/2025

Conflicting expert testimony constituted substantial evidence supporting the jury’s rejection of a reverse doctrine of equivalents argument....more

Paying Workers' Compensation Benefits Does Not Absolve Employer of FMLA Obligations

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 4/12/2021

Many employers that attempt to manage workers’ compensation claims and expenses offer temporary light duty work to employees whose injuries prevent them from performing their regular job functions. The Department of Labor has...more

Key California Employment Law Cases: January 2020

Payne & Fears on 2/12/2020

Ridgeway v. Wal-Mart, Inc., 946 F.3d 1066 (9th Cir. 2020) - The employer must pay minimum wages to employees for time spent on mandated layovers where the employer’s policy imposes constraints on employees’ movements...more

Federal Circuit Alters Landscape for Design Patent Litigation

White & Case LLP on 2/10/2020

White & Case Technology Newsflash - Intellectual property litigants may be increasingly addressing design patents. Design patent litigation may be getting lengthier, and this may result in the filing of more design patent...more

Federal Circuit Review - April 2019

Knobbe Martens on 5/10/2019

Just Because Something May Result From a Prior Art Teaching Does Not Make it Inherent in that Teaching - In Personal Web Technologies, LLC v. Apple, Inc., Appeal No. 2018-1599, the Federal Circuit clarified that the mere...more