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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office should strengthen its ethical rules in response to allegations by VLSI Technology LLC that challenges to patents at the heart of a $2.18 billion jury verdict against Intel Corp. are abusive, attorneys said Tuesday.

Former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu on Monday added to a chorus of criticism and heated reactions to a Biden administration draft policy statement that would limit injunctions in cases involving standard-essential patents, calling it part of a "systematic attack" on the U.S. patent system.

Three intellectual property boutiques picked up the most work at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board over the last three years, with attorneys from the firms saying their patent-specific focus makes them a go-to for PTAB matters over general practice firms.

Filings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board dropped slightly in 2021, while Federal Circuit appeals of board decisions dove by 40%, declines that lawyers attributed to the board's use of discretion to deny patent challenges and the deferential standard of review at the appeals court.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of Premier Rehab Keller PLLC, holding that emotional distress damages are not available for discrimination under various federal civil rights laws, like the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act.

The Federal Circuit on Friday slashed triple damages and dismantled other parts of an Illinois federal judge's decision that U.S. Venture owed $6 million for infringing four Sunoco butane blending patents, vacating infringement findings on two of the patents and remanding on some claims in the other two.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled in favor of Premier Rehab Keller PLLC, holding that emotional distress damages are not available for discrimination under various federal civil rights laws, like the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act.

A Patent Trial and Appeal Board panel lobbed question after question at an attorney for Peloton Wednesday in its effort to knock out one claim in a home exercise equipment patent it's been accused of infringing by the company that makes NordicTrack exercise products.

The third infringement trial in a multibillion-dollar dispute over patents owned by VLSI kicked off Monday in Austin, Texas, with an attorney for Intel saying its allegedly infringing chip products are the result of its own hard work and innovation, not infringement.

The third infringement trial in a multibillion-dollar dispute over patents owned by VLSI kicked off Monday in Austin, Texas, with an attorney for Intel saying its allegedly infringing chip products are the result of its own hard work and innovation, not infringement.