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  • April 03, 2026

    Squires Facing Congressional Rebuke? That Sounds Familiar.

    U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires ​may look like he's running the agency quite differently from predecessor Kathi Vidal​, with near opposite policies on patent reviews, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers last month gave Squires the same chastising about exceeding the director's authority that it had given Vidal years before.

  • April 03, 2026

    Amazon Says Audible Intervenor Wants Info For Her Own Suit

    Amazon urged a Seattle federal judge to deny a woman's motion to intervene in a putative class action accusing the retailer of wrongfully auto-enrolling customers in its Audible e-book service, arguing the woman should not be able to obtain discovery in the case to buttress her own recently dismissed complaint.

  • April 03, 2026

    Prosecution Laches Case At High Court Gets Groups' Backing

    Inventor groups and practitioner associations got behind a man's U.S. Supreme Court case challenging a doctrine that can nullify a patent if an owner delayed prosecution, with one brief saying Friday the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office "created its own misery" when reviewing the man's claims.

  • April 03, 2026

    States Warn Of Executive Overreach In $100K H-1B Fee Fight

    A group of 20 states challenging the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on H-1B visa petitions slammed its position that the policy isn't reviewable, telling a Massachusetts federal court the government would essentially have a blank check to usurp congressional authority under its rationale.

  • April 03, 2026

    Hisense Says Claims In QLED False Ad Suit Are Fuzzy

    Hisense USA Corp. is urging a California federal court to throw out a proposed class action alleging that its high-definition televisions don't have QLED technology as advertised, saying the articles the complaint cites are ambiguous at best, and in some cases actively contradict the claims.

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