Mickey Mouse’s next big adventure would be a journey into the public domain if Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) gets his way.

A supportive mentor can make all the difference in a lawyer’s career. In the seventh installment of our series, “Why Mentoring Matters,” we hear from two more Big Law attorneys—a partner in the nation’s capital and a partner in Denver—who share first-hand experiences on what makes mentorships work, including making sure trust is an integral part of the relationship.

US Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal should be allowed to reconsider an administrative patent tribunal’s decision that launched a Supreme Court case giving the director the power to overturn the board’s decisions, the agency told the Federal Circuit.

Dental Monitoring, a French developer of dental software driven by artificial intelligence, filed a lawsuit in a Delaware federal court alleging that Get-Grin Inc.’s devices and services for acquiring and analyzing images of a patient’s dental arches infringe two patents for its technology.

French fashion house Christian Dior Couture SA brought a trademark infringement lawsuit against an upscale casual restaurant in Kansas for allegedly using the “Dior” name, according to a new federal filing.

Miltenyi Biotec B.V. & Co. KG filed a lawsuit in a Delaware federal court alleging that RWD Life Science Inc.’s automatic tissue processing instrument, which can process animal tissue blocks into single-cell suspension, infringes a patent for the technology.

Roche Holding AG’s Spark Therapeutics Inc. and rival Bluebird Bio Inc. settled a trademark infringement suit over Bluebird’s use of “spark” in a campaign for gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease, according to a filing in federal court in Delaware.