Spencer Fane Gobbles Up DC Boutique Focused on IP Litigation
Spencer Fane LLP is merging with intellectual property boutique Global IP Counselors, the firms confirmed Friday.
Patent lawsuits involving some of the pharmaceutical industry’s most buzzworthy drugs and technologies—including the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy and the delivery technology behind Covid-19 vaccines—are set to go to trial in 2026.
The Federal Circuit upheld an order finding S.C. Johnson & Son Inc.'s Ziploc Endurables bags don’t infringe a patent covering silicon containers.
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI filed a federal lawsuit alleging a California law requiring AI companies to reveal their training data is an unconstitutional “trade-secrets-destroying disclosure regime” that threatens the industry.
The DC Circuit rejected Judge Pauline Newman’s request to rehear her appeal challenging her suspension from hearing new cases at the Federal Circuit.
Texas remains home to two of the federal district courts with the largest patent-lawsuit workloads, and jurors in the Lone Star State will be presented with a number of high-profile disputes in 2026.
Spencer Fane LLP is merging with intellectual property boutique Global IP Counselors, the firms confirmed Friday.
The Trump administration abandoned its appeal to a federal judge’s decision halting government staff cuts stemming from last year’s government shutdown.
The 2022 sequel “Top Gun: Maverick” didn’t infringe the copyright for the magazine article that inspired the original 1986 film, the Ninth Circuit affirmed.
A Ninth Circuit panel upheld celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D’s copyright win in a photographer’s suit brought over her use of his Miles Davis photograph, though two of the judges called on the circuit court to toss out its own test underpinning that result.
Denim company AG Jeans accused a clothing retailer of infringing its trademark by using the “AirLuxe” branding on its apparel.
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Pauline Newman, the nation’s oldest active federal judge, reiterated her argument the DC Circuit should revive the lawsuit challenging as unconstitutional her suspension from hearing cases at the Federal Circuit.
In this video, we explore how the copyright in a song – the musical composition – works. We look at what courts use to determine whether there was an infringement, and why these cases can be so complicated.
Latham & Watkins expects the brisk pace of deals work to continue in the new year after dethroning Kirkland & Ellis as Big Law’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser in 2025.
A California woman is dropping claims that IKEA North America Services LLC violated a California wiretap law by secretly tracking website visitors’ online activities and collecting personal information without consent.
There was perhaps no bigger story last year in the world of Big Law than President Donald Trump’s attacks on several of the nation’s largest law firms through punitive executive orders due to political affiliations and adversarial hires.
The Texas legislature passed more than 1,200 bills in 2025, then stepped aside while the judicial branch determined the legality of some.
State attorneys general have laid the groundwork for ramped-up privacy enforcement in 2026, putting companies across industries—from data brokers to location data collectors—on notice.
The PTAB said that challenged claims of Smith Interface Technologies LLC’s patent that relates to devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects with visual and/or haptic feedback aren’t unpatentable, in an inter partes review by Apple Inc. Apple Inc. v. Smith Interface Technologies LLC, P.T.A.B., IPR 2025-01085, 12/31/25
The court denied Steris Corporation’s motion to dismiss Automated Systems of Tacoma LLC’s action for trademark infringement and unfair competition related to the AST service mark, because Automated Systems sufficiently alleged a likelihood of confusion.
Automated Sys. of Tacoma LLC v. Steris Corp., 2025 BL 466066, W.D. Wash., C24-01028JLR, 12/30/25
The court denied Direct Components Inc. and a former employee’s cross-motions for summary judgment on this action against Microchip USA LLC and former employees for trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, tortious interference, and breach of duty of loyalty. Direct Components, Inc. v. Microchip USA, LLC, 2025 BL 465745, M.D. Fla., 8:23-cv-1617-VMC-SPF, 12/30/25
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