A stunning April jury verdict of almost $390 million against Microsoft Corp. in a patent infringement case brought by an anti-piracy software maker has been overturned by a federal judge.
The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term Monday with a docket that includes two kinds of videos (one opposing Hillary Clinton and another featuring dogfights), a cross in the…
Greenberg Traurig and three of its former intellectual property partners are facing a $100 million malpractice suit that clams the firm failed to properly prosecute patents and committed discovery misconduct.
Confirming earlier news that former Yahoo Inc. vice president and associate general counsel of global patents Duane Valz would be joining Chadbourne & Parke, the law firm today announced his…
A federal appeals court has granted Microsoft’s emergency appeal of a Texas federal judge’s order that would have banned the computer Goliath from continuing to sell some Word software products…
Weil, Gotshal & Manges partner Matthew Douglas Powers defended his own trial conduct and raised questions about arguments by opposing counsel in a brief for Microsoft in the software giant’s…
A patent holding company has sued Foley & Lardner, claiming that the law firm disclosed confidential patent information learned during settlement talks.
Attorneys for Microsoft are presumably busy this weekend, following a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to grant the computer goliath’s request for an expedited…
After Microsoft lost two big jury verdicts in patent infringement cases this spring, many observers expressed doubt that the computer goliath would ever have to ante up.
A New York-based intellectual property boutique allegedly agreed that Raj Davé would be repaid the $92,000 in “working capital” he gave Darby & Darby while practicing there as a nonequity…
A three-lawyer group led by the former head of patent litigation in the Boston, Palo Alto, Calif., and Washington, D.C., offices of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom started work…
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