A former Disney executive testified Monday in Rearden's $400 million copyright trial against Disney that he never saw a 2013 letter from the digital effects company's Morrison Foerster LLP attorney — who demanded that a Rearden engineer return stolen software — before Disney used it for the 2017 "Beauty and the Beast" remake.
A Disney in-house attorney testified Tuesday in a $400 million trial over claims Disney ripped off Rearden's special-effects software for the "Beauty and the Beast" remake that he was "absolutely stunned" when Rearden's counsel accused him during openings of "doing nothing" to stop alleged infringement, saying Rearden never even deposed him.
Law professors and practicing attorneys speaking at the Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute on Thursday agreed artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important tool in the industry and quickly replacing work typically done by early-career attorneys, while cautioning that law firms must disclose their use of the technology to clients and courts.
The president of the Court of Appeal for the European Union's new Unified Patent Court spoke at the Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute on Thursday, saying 135 cases have been filed since the UPC opened in June, allaying concerns that the court would be overwhelmed by a flood of litigation.
Digital-effects company Rearden LLC's counsel told a California federal jury during opening arguments Wednesday that Disney owes up to $400 million for allegedly using its copyrighted special-effects software for the 2017 remake of "Beauty and the Beast" while Disney's counsel said it respects copyright law and "did nothing wrong."
California Supreme Court justices doubted Tuesday Chrysler's arguments that a consumer who traded her lemon vehicle with a third party must deduct its trade-in value from restitution she's entitled to under the Song-Beverly Act, noting Chrysler repeatedly refused to buy back her Jeep, with one justice asking, "What's the consumer to do?"
The Ninth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a woman's sexual assault suit against soccer megastar Cristiano Ronaldo, finding that the lower court got it right in finding that the woman's counsel acted in bad faith by relying on privileged documents that were leaked after Ronaldo's former counsel's computers were hacked.
A California federal judge appeared skeptical Tuesday of keeping alive a proposed securities class action alleging Robinhood Markets Inc. hid how a "meme stock" and crypto trading frenzy overstated its financial outlook in the lead-up to its $2.1 billion initial public offering, saying those trends "were no secret" at the time.
Consumers urged a California federal judge Friday to keep alive their proposed antitrust class action alleging Google and Apple conspired not to compete in the search engine market, arguing that the companies were "forced to admit" Google shared its revenues with Apple and that's a categorical violation of antitrust law.
An Arizona federal jury convicted two former Backpage.com executives of multiple criminal charges while acquitting two others and finding Backpage's co-founder guilty of one count of money laundering, ending a monthslong retrial in a sprawling criminal case over charges they facilitated the now-defunct classifieds website's $500 million prostitution scheme.