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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board is again considering who was first to invent the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology, this time hearing arguments Monday from Korean biotechnology company ToolGen Inc. that it was first to use the technology in plants and animals.

The Fifth Circuit has affirmed a Texas federal judge's signoff of a jury verdict awarding oil industry employment website Rigzone.com $3 million in damages after finding that its creator, David Kent, stole its trade secrets to launch a competing website, Oilpro.

Nearly three years after the Federal Circuit remanded two decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidating a Honeywell International Inc. air conditioning patent, the board has again found the claims unpatentable based upon Honeywell's failed bid to correct the priority chain.

Moderna filed a lawsuit Friday against Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech, alleging that its rivals “followed the trail Moderna blazed” years ago in developing the technology behind the mRNA platform at the heart of the COVID-19 vaccines the companies produced.

Moderna filed a lawsuit Friday against Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech, alleging that its rivals "followed the trail Moderna blazed" years ago in developing the technology behind the mRNA platform at the heart of the COVID-19 vaccines the companies produced.

Moderna filed a lawsuit Friday against Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech, alleging that its rivals "followed the trail Moderna blazed" years ago in developing the technology behind the mRNA platform at the heart of the COVID-19 vaccines the companies produced.

A company accused of abusing the inter partes review system has fired back at the allegations, saying it hasn't harassed or extorted VLSI Technology LLC while attempting to invalidate one of two patents at the heart of VLSI's $2 billion infringement verdict against Intel Corp.

The Biden administration has told the U.S. Supreme Court it should affirm a Second Circuit decision that Andy Warhol's artwork did not make fair use of a photo of music legend Prince, telling the justices that siding with Warhol "would dramatically expand" the fair-use doctrine.

The Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that invalidated 15 claims in a Kamstrup AS ultrasonic water meter patent challenged by Axioma Metering UAB, ruling that the board's decision is supported by substantial evidence.

The American Intellectual Property Law Association has urged the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to not adopt any new policies to handle abuse as the USPTO director looks into whether companies challenging two VLSI Technology Inc. patents at the heart of a $2 billion jury verdict engaged in unethical conduct.