U.S. law enforcement’s pursuit of global cybercrime is hampered by reliance on politically charged treaties governing extradition of suspected hackers.

The Justice Department said it’s developing a new policy that would alter a 2019 Trump administration stance on patents on industry standards developed so products can work together and is seeking public comments through Jan. 5 on the issue.

The U.S. International Trade Commission said it will take a closer look at a judge’s findings that Stanley Black & Decker isn’t violating patent rights owned by a small California company for electronic stud finders, the agency said in a notice posted on its website.

Magellan Midstream Partners must pay $12.2 million in damages to a unit of Energy Transfer Partners over three patents for injecting butane into gasoline, according to jury verdict issued Monday in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware.

Netflix Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of unlawfully releasing a dubbed version of a hit South Korean film, wiping out the potential theatrical audience for producers who claim to have the rights to an English-language version of the movie.

Unified Patents LLC lost its challenge to a patent essential to a video coding standard, although a patent review board said it didn’t have to decide whether Unified members should have been named as interested parties.

Stan Lee’s daughter and her attorney will avoid paying $1 million in sanctions for filing a suit claiming the comic book artist’s business partners defrauded him late in life, because the suit was legally reasonable, the Ninth Circuit said Monday.