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November 04, 2026
Seventh Circuit judges grappled Wednesday with whether a federal anti-trafficking law allows a former Chinese prisoner to sue Milwaukee Tool over allegations it sold gloves made with forced prison labor in China, questioning the international consequences of allowing private lawsuits over foreign conduct and probing whether the company's alleged profits from that labor in the United States are sufficient to keep the case alive.
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November 04, 2026
Cisco Systems says the U.S. Supreme Court shouldn't reinstate Centripetal Networks LLC's $2.6 billion patent infringement case, saying a lower court was correct to grant Cisco a win because Centripetal had adequate time to respond to Cisco's interpretation of the asserted patent.
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November 04, 2026
The NCAA's adoption of the five-to-five eligibility rule has resulted in a genuinely fractured landscape, with the qualification for members of the class of 2022 essentially dependent upon the location of the athlete and the institution rather than on the underlying facts of the case, says Andrew Hope at Buchanan Ingersoll.
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November 04, 2026
The full Federal Circuit on Wednesday declined to review a decision turning down an inventor's attempt to revive her computer-locating patents that were invalidated by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board after being challenged by Google and Microsoft.
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November 04, 2026
The First-tier Tribunal erred in deciding that HM Revenue & Customs could not deny Liverpool's port operator tax allowances on £57.1 million ($76.9 million) spent building part of a deep-water container terminal, the Upper Tribunal found Wednesday.
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