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U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap has agreed to let a patent licensing company drop its claims against Samsung Electronics over semiconductor and circuit technology initially held by Intel, greenlighting an agreement between the parties that ends infringement allegations against accused products like smartphones.

Kleinfeld Kaplan & Becker LLP as well as Michael Best & Friedrich LLP have deepened their health care and life sciences benches with a pair of attorneys who have years of experience advising clients on federal regulations, while biopharmaceutical maker Creyon Bio has enlisted the founder of a therapeutics company to serve as its general counsel, highlighting Law360's latest roundup of personnel moves in health care and life sciences.

An Illinois federal judge has rejected DataCamp Ltd.'s bid to throw out a copyright suit it's facing from satellite television giant Dish Network LLC, ruling Friday that DataCamp could still be liable for infringement even if it just delivers stolen streaming content for third-party piracy services.

A group of allegedly fraudulent legal services diluted a high-profile intellectual property boutique's brand by falsely claiming an affiliation with its internet law practice chair, according to a trademark suit the law firm filed in California federal court.

The owner of a floating grill device shown on the TV show "Shark Tank" could not persuade the Federal Circuit Wednesday to revive its bid for a reissued patent, failing to show that the reissue claims were sufficiently directed toward the original invention.

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday refused to revive claims in four mapping patents that Google sought to have reexamined after being hit with federal infringement litigation over a decade ago, backing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's obviousness findings that were made on remand from the appellate court.

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP has deepened the strength of its intellectual property bench with the addition of a former director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a former Federal Circuit judge, adding a wealth of experience to teams on both the East and West coasts.

Stand-up comedian Sarah Silverman and a duo of authors have slapped artificial intelligence makers OpenAI and Meta Platforms with copyright suits in California federal court over their AI products ChatGPT and LLaMA, respectively, adding to a flurry of recent infringement litigation over AI's use of protected works.

A California federal judge has rebuffed a bid by Costco and other big-box retailers to toss a fabric company's copyright suit over a purportedly poached floral print, finding that the fabric designer had adequately pled infringement at this stage of litigation.

In a precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit has upheld the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision to invalidate part of a Medytox patent on a treatment for smoothing out wrinkles, supporting claim construction determinations and disagreeing that the board violated Medytox's due process rights under an amendment-related pilot program.