The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the federal government to weigh in on whether it should hear the pharmaceutical industry's challenge to Oregon's drug pricing transparency law, which drugmakers say forces them to justify pricing decisions and risks exposing trade secrets.
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Justices Seek Solicitor General's Views On Drug Pricing Law

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the federal government to weigh in on whether it should hear the pharmaceutical industry's challenge to Oregon's drug pricing transparency law, which drugmakers say forces them to justify pricing decisions and risks exposing trade secrets.

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EDTX Jury Says Verizon Wireless Owes $190M In Patent Trial

By Adam Lidgett

Verizon Wireless is on the hook for $190 million after a federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas found that it infringed a patent covering a way for cellphone calls to switch between Wi-Fi and cellular networks.

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High Court Won't Hear Dolby's PTAB Interested Party Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal in which Dolby sought to require Unified Patents to name the interested parties in an unsuccessful patent challenge, leaving intact a Federal Circuit decision that Dolby cannot appeal a validity decision in its favor.

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PATENTS

Chilisin Seeks To Undo Patent Judgments In Cyntec Case

By Adam Lidgett

Chilisin Electronics Corp. says that Cyntec Co.'s failure to disclose an agreement to license a pair of its patents to Apple should nullify judgments against Chilisin in a case where it was found to have infringed the patents.

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Gov't Says It Should Face Vax IP Claims, Not Moderna

By Tom Lotshaw

The U.S. Department of Justice has told the Federal Circuit that multibillion-dollar patent infringement litigation should be directed at the government, instead of Moderna, for the drugmaker's development and supply of COVID vaccines during the pandemic.

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US Silicon Co. Accuses Chinese Biz Of Copying Anode Tech

By Jack McLoone

A California company that claims to have created products allowing for more efficient lithium-ion batteries accused a Chinese company of infringing its patents, asking the U.S. International Trade Commission to block imports of the foreign company's products.

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COPYRIGHTS & TRADEMARKS

Xinuos Says Judge Wrongly Recast IBM Copyright Fight

By Elliot Weld

A software company told a Second Circuit panel Monday that a New York federal judge had wrongly used her own arguments to recharacterize its copyright infringement claim against IBM into a time-barred ownership claim and give IBM a win.

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Justices Decline To Hear 'More Than An Athlete' TM Fight

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Federal Circuit ruling that allowed a company affiliated with LeBron James to cancel a Maryland youth nonprofit's "I Am More Than An Athlete" trademark registration based on common law rights acquired during the dispute.

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Justices Decline Appeal Over Monster's $272M False Ad Win

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review former Vital Pharmaceuticals CEO and Bang Energy founder Jack Owoc's pro se bid to undo Monster Energy Co.'s roughly $272 million false advertising win over claims that Bang drinks contained super creatine.

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Del. Court Seeks Copyright Office Input In Cerence Suit

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal court has punted on Microsoft's request to dodge artificial intelligence company Cerence Inc.'s copyright infringement suit over text-to-speech technology, saying the Register of Copyrights needs to take a look at the question of copyright validity.

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Podcast Says LDS Church Has No IP Control Over 'Mormon'

By Lauren Berg

The host of the long-running "Mormon Stories" podcast asked a Utah federal judge Monday to toss the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit, saying the church has no legal right to control the term "Mormon" — a "ubiquitous and descriptive" religious and cultural reference.

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Pocketec Accuses Rival Of Copying Golf Glove Trademarks

By Elliot Weld

Glove maker Pocketec Inc. has sued former business partners alleging they conspired to misappropriate intellectual property and used it to sell golf gloves under the same or very similar marks. 

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Investor Ares Defends Use Of 'Marq Logistics' TM

By Max Austin

U.S. investment giant Ares has rejected claims it tried to profit from a London real estate business' success by using the "Marq Logistics" trademark, arguing that the U.K. company operates under a different logo.

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TRADE SECRETS

Contractor Says Ex-VP Used Secrets To Divert FAA Work

By Elaine Briseño

An information technology contractor accused its former vice president and his new company of scheming to recruit employees, steal trade secrets and withhold critical information to sabotage the company's Federal Aviation Administration data analytics contract.

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LICENSING

SeaWorld Wants Sesame Street Contract Suit Trimmed

By Adam Lidgett

SeaWorld has urged a New York federal court to throw out certain claims in a lawsuit accusing it of flouting obligations under a licensing deal for the Sesame Street brand and engaging in a "retaliation campaign," calling some of the case "baseless" and "absurd."

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PEOPLE

Cahill Gordon Brings On King & Spalding Patent Partner In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has hired a King & Spalding LLP lawyer who focuses his practice on patent litigation and counseling clients on related issues with technology-focused disputes, the firm announced Monday.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

LA Superior Court Gains Prominence With 'Nuclear' Verdicts

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Los Angeles County Superior Court was among the country's top sites for awarding big civil damages in recent years, according to a Lex Machina report.

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Office Snapshot: Summer Brings Move For Lathrop GPM In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Lathrop GPM LLP is set to move its office in the nation's capital this summer, leaving the Watergate complex near George Washington University for a smaller space in a building just blocks from the White House.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Lawyers are generally happy being lawyers, but nonequity partners and associates told Law360 Pulse that several aspects of their job leave them feeling dissatisfied. Explore our analysis of these and other findings in the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction survey.

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Texas, DOJ Get Judge To End Biden Immigration Rule In 1 Day

By Ganesh Setty

A Texas federal court has approved a deal between Texas and the Trump administration to vacate a Biden-era rule allowing immigration courts to temporarily close cases, the same day Texas filed a lawsuit alleging the policy had created a "de facto amnesty program."

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Clifford Chance Adds Ex-V&E Debt Finance Atty In Houston

By Matt Perez

Clifford Chance LLP announced on Monday the hiring of a former Vinson & Elkins LLP attorney as a finance and derivatives partner in its Houston office.

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NY Rule Rewrite Drops 30-Day Pause For Atty Soliciting

By Emily Sawicki

New York's Appellate Division has adopted new rules of professional conduct on attorney advertising and solicitation, deleting a ban on soliciting clients less than 30 days after an incident.

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NC Becomes First State To Ban Outside Funding Of Civil Suits

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina has become the first state in the country to ban outside investors from funding civil litigation, after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law a bill that outlaws third parties from footing the bill for civil suits in exchange for a cut of the payout at the finish line.

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Judge Who Denied Goldstein Retrial Says It Wasn't Close Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A Maryland federal judge has elaborated on her decision to deny SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, saying that the evidence presented at trial either supersedes or invalidates his claims of issues with jury instructions and insufficient or excluded evidence.

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Judicial Noms Still Say Biden Won In 2020 — Technically

By Courtney Bublé

A group of judicial nominees, who earlier this month were the first of the Trump administration's nominees to say President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, reiterated in follow-up statements that Biden won the election "as a matter of law" — doubling down on what critics say is an equivocation on the election's outcome.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Arnold & Porter

Ashby & Geddes

Boies Schiller

Cahill Gordon

Clifford Chance

Consovoy McCarthy

Crowell & Moring

Dordick Law

Dorsey & Whitney

Duane Morris

Faegre Drinker

Findlay Craft

Foley & Lardner

Goodwin Procter

Greenberg Gross

Haynes Boone

Hodgson Russ

Hogan Lovells

Hueston Hennigan

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kasowitz LLP

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lathrop GPM

Miles & Stockbridge

Mishcon de Reya

Munger Tolles

Noroozi PC

O'Melveny & Myers

Parris Law Firm

Parry Law PLLC

Pirkey Barber

Potomac Law Group

Ryan L. Jones Law

Sheppard Mullin

Stark & Stark

Troutman

Vinson & Elkins

White & Case

Williams & Connolly

Wilson Sonsini

Winston Taylor

Womble Bond

Young Conaway

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Ahern Rentals Inc.

American Bar Association

American Intellectual Property Law Association

American Tort Reform Association

Apple Inc.

Arbutus Biopharma Corp.

Ares Management Corp.

Audi AG

Cerence Inc.

Claremont McKenna College

Dolby Laboratories Inc.

Fordham University

George Washington University

HTC Corporation

Hay Adams Hotel LP

International Business Machines Corp.

Johnson & Johnson

Lex Machina Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Microsoft Corp.

Moderna Inc.

Monster Beverage Corp.

National Association of Manufacturers

New York State Bar Association

North Carolina Justice Center

Nuance Communications Inc.

Obie

Panasonic Corp.

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America

RELX PLC

Red Hat Inc.

SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment Inc.

Sesame Workshop

Starbucks Corp.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Verizon Communications Inc.

Vital Pharmaceuticals

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Aviation Administration

Food and Drug Administration

Internal Revenue Service

International Trade Commission

New York State Unified Court System

North Carolina General Assembly

Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services

Oregon Department of Justice

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office

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

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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

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

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

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 Texas

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

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the District of Utah