China-based BGI Genomics must pay Illumina Inc. $8 million for infringing gene-sequencing patents, a federal jury in California said.

The father-son duo who founded Amgine Technologies (US) Inc. must face allegations that they combined the cloud computing business with its Canadian sister company on self-dealing terms and wrongly reassigned valuable patents to themselves, a Delaware judge ruled.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis asks President Joe Biden in letter to withdraw nomination of Gigi Sohn to seat on Federal Communications Commission, calling her “an anti-copyright activist.”

A federal court’s ruling tossing out a $308.5 million patent-infringement verdict against Apple Inc. was an “atomic bomb” remedy that should be overturned, a group supporting the patent owner told the Federal Circuit.

LinkedIn Corp. didn’t show patents related to contact aggregation and user notification technology cover unpatentable subject matter, a magistrate judge said in recommending an infringement suit against the social network move forward.

Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter has postponed the formal setup of a small claims copyright tribunal until 2022.

The Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday will consider the nominations of Kathi Vidal to lead the patent office and Judge Leonard Stark to join the Federal Circuit, the nation’s top patent court.