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The House of Representatives on Friday passed two bills largely along party lines that would protect abortion rights after the U.S. Supreme Court last month erased nearly 50 years of precedent guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade.

NortonLifeLock Inc. and Columbia University filed a flurry of responses and oppositions Friday after the university won $185 million in May over two anti-malware patents, with the cybersecurity company opposing Columbia's motion for attorney fees and enhanced damages, and the university fighting Norton's bid for a new trial, among other things.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Tuesday that the agency will do everything it can within the confines of federal law to ensure that women continue to have access to safe abortion care after the U.S. Supreme Court erased the constitutional right to it.

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday declined a petition from Vizio Inc. to review a panel decision from March that reversed a California federal judge's determination that claims of VDPP LLC's optical illusion patents were invalid as indefinite.

Guidance issued earlier this week clarifying how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board should apply the controversial Fintiv precedent was intended to memorialize the PTAB's current practice around the policy while the agency prepares for formal rulemaking, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal told Law360 in an exclusive interview Friday.

America arrived at its current crossroads for abortion rights after a 50-year odyssey of unrelenting litigation shaped by lawyers from all walks of legal life. With U.S. Supreme Court conservatives poised to curtail those rights, Law360 looks at attorneys whose arguments during the past half-century changed the course of a profound cultural debate.

Qualcomm's chief intellectual property counsel told members of the Senate Judiciary's IP subcommittee during a hearing Wednesday that efforts to reform the Patent Trial and Appeal Board will fall short unless the burden of proof is aligned with the standard used in district courts.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday overruled a Sixth Circuit decision reviving dialysis provider DaVita Inc.'s suit against an Ohio hospital's health plan for skimping on treatment reimbursements, holding that the health plan isn't discriminatory.

The full Federal Circuit on Friday denied a petition from Apple to rehear a February panel decision holding that the use of applicant-admitted prior art in Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenges is limited and can't be used as a basis for invalidating a patent.

A Federal Circuit panel pressed a Click-to-Call Technologies LP attorney Thursday about how a recent decision from the court applies to his argument that estoppel should have barred Thryv Inc.'s invalidity theory in a long-running patent infringement fight over anonymous phone call technology.