A Pizza Hut franchisee facing a proposed privacy class action in Illinois over its collection of employee biometric information has moved the state case to federal court.

Koninklijke Philips N.V. saw an administrative tribunal gut two more patent in its wireless technology portfolio amid district court litigation in which Philips asserted the patents against companies including Quectel Wireless Solutions Co. Ltd.

A female Asian Amazon.com Inc. shift manager failed to back her claims that she was subjected to sexual and other harassment, sex and race bias, and retaliation while working for the company, including at a Delaware warehouse.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. has dropped its lawsuit against two Israeli data harvesting companies in exchange for a settlement payment and their pledge to abide by an injunction ending most of their “scraping” practices, according to a federal court filing Friday in San Francisco.

Former employees accusing Bangalore-based IT consultant Wipro Ltd. of favoring South Asian and Indian workers can pursue their class and most of their individual intentional discrimination claims.

Jennifer Meyer Chagnon, who served as lead administrative patent judge at the US Patent and Trademark Office, has joined Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox in Washington, D.C., as counsel in its electronics practice group, the firm said Thursday.