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...
“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…
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 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 highest available dose. Pharmaceutical manufacturer Novo Nordisk, Inc. (Novo) was not entitled to preliminary injunctive relief to stop competitor Eli Lilly and Company and Lilly USA, LLC (collectively, Lilly) from engaging in certain comparative advertising about the…
When establishing interchange fees, the Fed “must sort the costs into those that are transaction-specific and those that are not. Not just pick a number and hope it is close enough for government work.” The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment vacating the Federal Reserve Board’s 21 cent debit card interchange fee cap and remanded the case for a new fee structure consistent with the Durbin Amendment. Applying Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo , 603 U.S. 369 (2024), the court…
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…
The events in the case began when a female student at Brownsville Veterans Memorial High School accused the coach’s son of filming and circulating an inappropriate video of her. A Texas coach and teacher, transferred to a position at another school in the Brownsville Independent School District after he refused to shake hands with several school board members and employees during a meeting to celebrate the successes of a team he coached, failed to state claims of violations of his and his…
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The 15-member County Council passed the regulation 11-4. Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County, which includes the City of Pittsburgh, will be the first county in the country to require employer-funded paid parental leave at the county ...
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California's Fair Employment and Housing Act (the "FEHA") proscribes various forms of employment discrimination, including discrimination based on religious beliefs. Among other things, the FEHA requires employers to provide a rea...
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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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The proposed rule establishes new requirements aligning advance payments of the premium tax credit and cost-sharing reductions eligibility with premium tax credit eligibility changes enacted under the Working Families Tax Cuts leg...
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Transplant centers and donor hospitals should take notice. HHS's Kidney Care National Plan (October 20, 2026) points the transplant system toward tougher accountability, new payment incentives and closer federal oversight. Organ p...
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Comments are due December 28, and amounts reported in two Schedule RC-O reciprocal-deposit items now receive a confidentiality exception. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Reserve Board, and Federal Depo...
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OFAC says blocked-property and rejected-transaction reports must be filed through its reporting system within 10 business days of the action, with supporting documents. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) updated 11 sancti...
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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...