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The backlog of asylum cases has surpassed 800,000 for the first time, while the overall backlog of pending immigration court cases has likewise reached an all-time high of nearly 2.1 million, according to new data released Wednesday.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested Tuesday that the court ought to clarify when federal appellate courts have the authority to review Board of Immigration Appeals decisions in a case involving a Guatemalan woman facing deportation.

The Biden administration's new border policies threaten to shut the most vulnerable people fleeing persecution out of the asylum system altogether, while making it a pathway available only to those with the means to fly into a U.S. airport, immigration advocates said Friday.

The Biden administration's proposal to significantly raise employment visa fees to fill revenue shortfalls will likely act as a detriment to businesses in need of foreign labor while failing to address inefficiencies in visa processing.

The Biden administration's final rule protecting some young immigrants from deportation "suffers the same flaws" as its Obama-era predecessor that courts have found unlawful, Texas told a federal judge as part of its bid to strike down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Copyright and trademark attorneys this year will be keeping an eye on intellectual property agencies' joint study on non-fungible tokens, developments involving artificial intelligence, as well as a Trademark Modernization Act provision that could speed up the trademark registration process. Here, Law360 looks at the top copyright and trademark policy issues to track in 2023.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted a request from Republican officials in 19 states to block Title 42 from being lifted, agreeing to consider their challenge to a lower court's decision to end the use of the public health law to rapidly expel migrants arriving during the pandemic.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal on Thursday dismissed OpenSky Industries LLC and Patent Quality Assurance LLC from their respective challenges to two VLSI patents involved in a $2.2 billion jury verdict against Intel, issuing a fresh round of sanctions in the matter.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal wasted no time this year leaving her mark on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, issuing key guidance on discretionary denials and taking a hands-on approach to director reviews. Here, Law360 looks back at how Vidal has shaped the PTAB in 2022.

A week after the Federal Circuit declined to shut down a probe by Delaware's chief judge into who is funding a patent owner's infringement litigation, two additional patent owners decried the judge's probe into their own litigation funders on Tuesday.