The inventor could enforce the assigned design patent without being named as its inventor, and the settlement agreement did not require the manufacturer to correct inventorship. A treadmill manufacturer prevailed in a longstanding dispute with an inventor who claimed the company appropriated his curved, non-motorized treadmill design and later breached a settlement agreement by refusing to recognize him as an inventor. The federal district court in New Yor...
A jury’s separate verdicts favoring both the driver and the manufacturer on strict liability and negligent design, respectively, were irreconcilable as both claims rested on the same design and eviden...
“The FLSA’s silence does not resolve the issue.” A public official may not invoke qualified immunity in an FLSA retaliation suit, the Fifth Circuit held in a matter of first impression. The common law did not immunize malicious retaliation when Congress authorized private FLSA retaliation suits, and the policies underlying qualified immunity do not justify extending the defense to such claims, the federal appeals court found. The underlying case involved an academic advisor at Texas A&M…
NASAA says the proposed framework lacks retail-investor safeguards and exceeds the SEC’s authority to preempt state registration and qualification requirements. A NASAA comment letter to the SEC urges it to withdraw proposed Regulation Crypto Assets and repropose exemptions with stronger retail-investor protections. In its letter, NASAA said the framework would remove key disclosure, filing, and resale protections and exceed the SEC’s authority to preempt state securities regulation. According…
The use of its AI (artificial intelligence) products for cyber attacks could undermine its “reputation and brand, business, financial condition, and results of operations,” Anthropic warned yesterday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. “While our AI models are designed to comply with our AI safety and usage guidelines and be broadly safe, ethical, and helpful, and while we have implemented safety measures intended to anticipate, identify, and mitigate potential harmful uses, such…
The drugmaker’s attempt to rely on a corrected FDA approval letter failed because the original approval triggered the statutory 60-day filing period, leaving its patent term extension applications one day late. A pharmaceutical company lost its bid to extend two patents associated with a cancer drug after a federal district court in New Jersey has upheld the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) rejection of its applications as untimely. The court held that the 60-day filing period under…
The plaintiffs also seek to stop FinCEN from deleting previously collected beneficial-ownership data. Oregon and 20 other plaintiff jurisdictions have sued to vacate the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) 2025 interim and 2026 final beneficial-ownership reporting exemptions, alleging the agency exceeded its authority by excluding almost all companies covered by the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). They also seek an injunction and an Administrative Procedure…
Owners of the lyrics to 274 Elvis songs accuse the AI company of copyright infringement and DMCA violations. Anthropic unlawfully reproduced the lyrics of nearly 300 Elvis Presley songs when it ingested them to train its popular AI model Claude, a new federal lawsuit contends. The estimated $41 million lawsuit, filed on the eve of the AI company’s formal announcement of its long-awaited initial public offering, also alleges that Claude continues to infringe their rights to those songs when it…
Dollar General views the complaint as "unreasonable demands for redress using assumptions and methodology the Company believes are unsupported and materially overstate any alleged consumer harm." The FTC, joined by the attorneys general and other enforcement officials of 20 states, has filed a complaint against Dollar General Corporation in a federal district court in Nashville, Tennessee, according to the agency. The complaint alleges that the prices Dollar General actually charges its…
Expert evidence proceeded apart from unsupported opinions that two space heaters were defective, and the synagogue’s failure to preserve the fire scene evidence warranted a spoliation inference. In an action brought against the seller of two space heaters by a rabbi alleging that the heaters’ defects caused a fire at a synagogue, the federal district court in New Jersey granted the seller’s motion for spoliation sanctions in part and denied it in part. The seller’s motion to exclude the…
“Defendants’ argument that Article II bars Congress from regulating the removal of AUSAs flies in the face of nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent, rooted in the text of the appointments Clause, holding that Congress may generally restrict the removal of ‘inferior officers.’” Maurene Comey’s removal from her role as Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York was unlawful, a federal court in New…
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Election Day is almost here. What implications does that have for employers? Employers are required to post the official "Time Off to Vote" notice no later than October 24 to be in time for the November 3 general election. The not...
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The plaintiff’s complaint alleges that an AI transcript of a meeting she left included remarks by her superiors describing the “ideal person” for her former position as a “relatively strapping young man.” Does this situation sound...
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Responding to a request from Sumisho Air Lease Corp., the Commission allowed certain voluntary reporting periods to count toward Form S-3 eligibility. In a no-action letter dated October 26 , the SEC’s Division of Corporation Fina...
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The use of its AI (artificial intelligence) products for cyber attacks could undermine its “reputation and brand, business, financial condition, and results of operations,” Anthropic warned yesterday in a Securities and Exchange C...
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Meta Platforms, Inc., should reverse plans to update its terms of service to require businesses to allow Meta to harvest commercial data, according to Sen. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.). “These revised terms require any entity using yo...
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A carve-out in copyright law that enables “good-faith” cybersecurity research should be renewed, the U.S. Copyright Office recommends in a Federal Register notice due to be published tomorrow. “Multiple organizations and security ...
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Highlights The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent warning letters to 24 of the nation's largest healthcare services companies stating that providers are expected to give patients timely, accurate and complete pricing information ...
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The court ordered another six-month stay extension in litigation about a pertussis FOIA request, but it also ordered the parties to prepare a joint status report with a proposed FDA schedule for fulfilling the request. The FDA sat...
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The CFPB closed 1,327 of 1,552 open Supervisory Actions and 66 of 80 reassessed examinations as it redirected oversight toward new priorities. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s semiannual report covering January through J...
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Two FOMC members opposed the monetary policy action because they preferred a 1/4-percentage-point increase in the federal funds target range at the meeting. The Federal Open Market Committee has approved a statement by a 10–2 vote...
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A physician sufficiently alleged that her former research assistant misused confidential botulism research, while a book author failed to secure dismissal of related claims. A physician’s copyright infringement and trade secret mi...
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The creators of Steal a Brainrot failed to identify the online sellers they sought to restrain and faced additional questions about jurisdiction and irreparable harm. A federal district court in New York has denied, without prejud...
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The court mainly found Novo failed to show irreparable harm, and it conceded no actual Lilly misrepresentation, but it also had unclean hands because it engaged in similar advertising against Lilly that did not acknowledge the hig...
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The issuing court's familiarity with the case and the risk of inconsistent rulings provided reason enough to transfer the motion. The federal district court in Minneapolis, Minnesota transferred a non-party debt collector's motion...
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The court found that Washington law applied to the case and that the state’s highest court disapproves of punitive damages. A federal district court in Washington granted the requests of two airplane manufacturers to dismiss punit...
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The panel would include tire manufacturers, automakers, safety organizations, research institutions, and engineering associations. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to establish a negotiated rulemaking advis...