Intel and VLSI are set to square off Thursday at the Federal Circuit ​i​n one arm of their high​-stakes fight over semiconductor patents, but questions over the state of $3 billion in verdicts, a potential license, fraud allegations and invalidations are still playing out in other cases. Here's where things stand.​
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​What's Left In VLSI-Intel's $3B Patent Litigation

By Dani Kass

Intel and VLSI are set to square off Thursday at the Federal Circuit ​i​n one arm of their high​-stakes fight over semiconductor patents, but questions over the state of $3 billion in verdicts, a potential license, fraud allegations and invalidations are still playing out in other cases. Here's where things stand.​

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Mayweather Sues Showtime Over Missing Earnings

By Tom Lotshaw

Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. hit Showtime Networks Inc. with a lawsuit accusing the company of helping a former manager defraud him, with at least $340 million of fight earnings misappropriated or unaccounted for.

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NBA Star Tells Of Fury Over Ex-Morgan Stanley Pal's Fraud

By Stewart Bishop

A former Houston Rockets player on Wednesday testified that he and his former Morgan Stanley investment adviser were the best of friends before he learned of what prosecutors say was a scheme to bilk NBA clients for millions of dollars, and taunted his former financial guru in anger after learning of his arrest.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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LEGAL ETHICS & MALPRACTICE

Fla. Court Affirms Win For Law Firm In $10M Malpractice Case

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida appeals court Wednesday affirmed a win for Conrad & Scherer LLP in a suit accusing the law firm of improperly withdrawing at a critical point in a lawsuit against its clients' business partner over the acquisition of a hotel.

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REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT

FTC Defends Case Over Zillow-Redfin Rental Ads Pact

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission is defending its antitrust case challenging a partnership between Zillow Group Inc. and Redfin Corp., telling a Virginia federal court the pact is a clear agreement between the companies to not compete for rental housing advertisements.

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INSURANCE

Insurer Seeks Exit From Ga. Cemetery Misplaced Body Row

By Gianna Ferrarin

An insurer said it has no duty to defend an Atlanta cemetery from a suit by a woman alleging the cemetery failed to bury her husband in the proper plot, telling a Georgia federal court that notice of the incident was untimely.

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PRIVACY & CONSUMER PROTECTION

TMX Wants $52M Penalty From Pa. Banking Regulators Axed

By Katryna Perera

A TitleMax affiliate urged a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court panel on Wednesday to strike down a $52 million penalty that state banking regulators have lodged against it over alleged usury law violations, arguing that the disputed loans it provided to state residents were neither negotiated nor made in the Keystone State.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

IBM Seeks Texas Enforcement Of $24M UK Contract Ruling

By José Luis Martínez

A British subsidiary of IBM asked a Texas federal court to enforce a $24.6 million English judgment against Houston-based software entrepreneur John Jay Moores, seeking to collect court-ordered litigation costs awarded after Moores was found to have breached IBM software licenses.

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Fed. Circ. Backs Infringement Immunity For NASA Contractor

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday endorsed a California federal judge's decision that a NASA contractor doesn't have to face a patent infringement suit from a pair of California men, given that its allegedly infringing use was authorized by the federal government.

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CREXi Fights Bid To Disqualify Quinn Emanuel In CoStar IP Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Commercial real estate platform CREXi has urged a California federal judge to let it keep Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP as its counsel as it fights CoStar's accusations of copyright infringement, saying CoStar is only now raising conflict of interest concerns to gain a "tactical advantage."

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MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

Gospel Singer Pleads To Drop Track Amid 'Messy' Label Fight

By Chart Riggall

A Grammy Award-winning gospel singer locked in a contract fight with his record label urged a Georgia federal judge Tuesday to reject the label's attempt to shut down the impending release of a solo track, arguing that halting his work could allow his career to "die on the vine."

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EMPLOYMENT

Fertility Clinic Says Doctors Lured Staff To New Practice

By Julie Manganis

The owners of a Massachusetts fertility clinic say three doctors left to start their own practice and repeatedly violated a non-solicitation agreement to "raid" its staff, according to a complaint filed in state court.

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SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR

Split NC Panel Rules Adviser Can't Arbitrate Fee Fight

By Hayley Fowler

An investment adviser who was fired can't arbitrate a fee fight with the company he hired to scrub his termination from public databases, a split North Carolina appeals court ruled Wednesday, finding the arbitration clause in his contract doesn't cover the company's claim for nonpayment.

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COMPETITION

Hartford HealthCare Must Provide Docs On $86M Takeovers

By Brian Steele

Hartford HealthCare Corp. must hand over internal documents detailing its $86.1 million acquisitions of two hospitals from bankrupt Prospect Medical to a group of plaintiffs who accuse the health system of trying to create a monopoly for inpatient hospital services, a Connecticut state court judge has ruled.

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CANNABIS

THC Acid Company Sues Hemp Grower Over Contract Breach

By Mike Curley

A Colorado tetrahydrocannabinolic acid product maker is suing its hemp-growing business partner, saying the grower breached their agreement by starting its own manufacturing and storage facility and blocked it from participating in $270 million federal litigation.

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PEOPLE

Eversheds Sutherland Hires Paul Hastings Trial Pro

By Grace Dixon

Eversheds Sutherland announced that it has added a partner to its litigation practice group, who joins the firm from Paul Hastings LLP fresh off the heels of guiding Prologis Inc. through a three-month jury trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Resilience

Resilience is a skill acquired through daily practices that focus on learning from missteps, recovering quickly without internalizing defeat and moving forward with intention, says Nicholas Meza at Quarles & Brady.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Paul Weiss' Karp Steps Back After Epstein Email Revelations

By Hailey Konnath and Aebra Coe

Longtime Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP chair Brad S. Karp has resigned from his leadership role, the firm announced Wednesday, a move that comes after the U.S. Department of Justice released numerous emails between Karp and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Baker McKenzie To Downsize Business Professional Jobs

By Tracey Read

Baker McKenzie, which has a legal services hub in Tampa, Florida, is in the process of downsizing business professionals' jobs, a firm spokesperson confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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Ex-DLA Piper Partner Aims To Toss Claim He Raped Associate

By Jack Karp

Allegations that an ex-DLA Piper partner raped a former Boston-based associate in Delaware in 2022 should be tossed since the Massachusetts state court the case was filed in has no jurisdiction over the Delaware claim, according to the accused former partner.

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Goldstein Accountant Admits Tax Return Errors

By Jared Foretek

A star government witness and the top outside accountant for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm admitted to making mistakes on Goldstein's tax returns and offering the grand jury erroneous testimony, under cross-examination in the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's tax fraud trial Wednesday.

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Analysis

Clemency Was 'Broken' Long Before Trump. Can It Be Fixed?

By Phillip Bantz

President Donald Trump has transformed what has historically been a bureaucratic process for seeking federal pardons and commutations into a more freewheeling affair with few clear rules — and no easy solutions for reform, experts say.

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Wachtel Missry Settles Liability In $26M Atty Malpractice Case

By Emily Sawicki

A dispute over who is liable for a former Wachtel Missry LLP partner's alleged exploitation of an elderly client has been settled on the eve of trial, while the Brooklyn federal judge declined to consider recusing himself despite "inadvertently" meeting with the firm's founding partner before the matter was fully put to rest.

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Ex-Fox News Host Decries Judge Pick's Arbitration Stance

By Courtney Buble

Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor and a leading advocate for ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, has come out against a federal judicial nominee for Louisiana for her past comments on the issue.

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Trump Bid To Move NY Appeal Faces 'Fatal' Error, Judge Says

By Frank G. Runyeon

A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday repeatedly aired doubts that President Donald Trump can upend the pending New York state appeal of his hush-money conviction by moving the case to federal court.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ankner & Levy

Ashby & Geddes

Baker McKenzie

Barnes & Thornburg

Bloch & White

Bradley Arant

Broderick Law Group

Chartwell Law

Ciardi Ciardi

Cleary Gottlieb

Cole Scott & Kissane

Conrad & Scherer

Cranfill Sumner

Cravath Swaine

DLA Piper

Danya Perry Law

Eversheds Sutherland

Fairmark Partners LLP

Freeman Mathis

Gibson Dunn

Goldstein & Russell

Hamilton Lincoln

Hamilton Stephens Steele & Martin

Latham & Watkins

Lehotsky Keller

Libby Hoopes

Mancini Shenk

McDermott Will & Schulte

Miller & Chevalier

MoloLamken

Mulliken Weiner

Munger Tolles

Nelson Mullins

Parsons Lee

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perlman Bajandas

Pollard PLLC

Pryor Cashman

Quarles & Brady

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Rosenberg Freedman

Samini Block

Scott&Scott

Seyfarth Shaw

Shah Litigation

Shapiro Arato

Sheppard Mullin

Shinder Cantor

Shipman & Goodwin

Sullivan & Cromwell

Troutman

Wachtel Missry

Whiteford Taylor

Wiley Rein

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AeroVironment Inc.

Apollo Global Management LLC

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Boston IVF

Cash America International, Inc.

Chamber of Progress

CoStar Group Inc.

Dallas Mavericks Inc.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

Finjan Holdings Inc.

Fortress Investment Group LLC

Google LLC

Hartford HealthCare Corp.

Intel Corp.

International Business Machines Corp.

LinkedIn Corp.

Major League Baseball Inc.

Memphis Grizzlies

Morgan Stanley

National Basketball Association Inc.

New York University

Parabellum Capital LLC

Portland Trail Blazers

Prologis Inc.

Prospect Medical Holdings Inc.

RentPath LLC

Showtime Networks Inc.

TMX Finance Family of Cos.

The New York Times Co.

TitleMax

Yale New Haven Health

Zillow Group Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alaska Department of Law

Arizona Attorney General's Office

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Connecticut Attorney General's Office

Executive Office of the President

Federal Election Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

Los Angeles Superior Court

Manhattan District Attorney's Office

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

New York Attorney General's Office

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Superior Court of Massachusetts

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

Virginia Attorney General's Office

Washington Attorney General's Office