The following are personnel changes and other news recently announced by prominent intellectual property law firms and other IP-related organizations:

Google LLC won a challenge to a Virentem Ventures LLC patent on video playback technology, building on a series of recent victories at a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tribunal.

The Federal Circuit’s approach to evaluating patents will undermine incentives Congress created for developing innovative medications unless the U.S. Supreme Court steps in, a health policy organization told the high court in an amicus brief.

The University of Kentucky thwarted an attorney seeking a sports apparel trademark referencing an aspirational 2013 preseason quote by its basketball coach.

Anker Innovations, a Chinese company that started selling mobile-phone chargers on Amazon and grew into a global brand worth almost $10 billion, was accused of infringing four patents related to USB charging adapters for mobile devices that originally belonged to BlackBerry.

Siemens Corp. faces a patent infringement lawsuit in a federal court in Texas by a company that says the electronic and electrical products giant infringed a patent through the promotion of an outdoor circuit breaker for renewable energy generation.

Hayley Paige Gutman, who designed luxury wedding dresses for the popular Hayley Paige brand, is barred from using or accessing the @misshayleypaige Instagram account, which has more than 1.1 million followers, during an ongoing dispute with JLM Couture Inc., the company that owns the label, a federal judge in New York ruled.