Intellectual property law

Intellectual property law

Nintendo of America is suing the US government, including the Department of Treasury, Department of Homeland Security and US Customs & Border Protection, over its tariff policy. The video game giant already raised prices on the Nintendo Switch in August 2025 in response to "market conditions" but has so far left the price of the newer Switch 2 console unchanged.

A UK High Court judge ruled on 4 March that there is an "arguable case" for the court order, which was filed by McPartlin and Donnelly in August 2025. It centres on a relationship between the duo and an unidentified art consultant, only referred to in the filing as 'X'. The anonymous party handled the pair's purchase of six Banksy prints for a combined £550,000 from the art dealer, Andrew Lilley.

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Today represents the first real acknowledgement that team and those scientists have gotten that their technology was instrumental in Covid-19 vaccines, or at least the Moderna vaccine as we're announcing today with this settlement. This settlement validates the scientific contributions made by the researchers at Arbutus and Genevant in developing the lipid nanoparticle delivery system.

Five contractors who worked on various OpenAI projects told Business Insider that Handshake suspended their accounts without warning between the end of December and January, and four of those contractors were not paid for their work. The workers said they went to log in to work and learned their accounts had been suspended.

Much has been written about the differing strategies that Kagan and Jackson have adopted in their roles as members of the court's liberal minority: While Kagan takes a more institutionalist approach aimed at moderating the conservative majority, Jackson keeps pulling the fire alarm to warn the public about what she sees as the court's failure to rein in the current administration.

The court concluded that Spain had effectively waived its immunity from enforcement proceedings by signing up to the ICSID Convention, which obliges member states to recognise and enforce arbitration awards issued under the framework.

Effective discovery requires more than compliance - it requires strategy. Litigators can balance expansive discovery rights and privacy concerns without slowing cases down through practical, results-focused approaches that consider proportionality, electronically stored information management, and the specific discovery rules applicable to their jurisdiction.

The settlement resolves all U.S. and international patent litigation concerning the unauthorized use of Genevant's and Arbutus' lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery technology in Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines. The agreement came just days before a highly anticipated jury trial was scheduled to begin in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

The CAFC affirmed as to anticipation but reversed as to obviousness, holding that the Board relied on the wrong legal standard in finding no motivation to combine. The court emphasized that KSR v. Teleflex explicitly eschews such a rigid approach to obviousness, indicating the PTAB failed to properly apply flexible, common-sense reasoning when evaluating whether combining prior art references would have been obvious to one skilled in the art.

Shelton rejects the romanticized notion of invention as unconstrained creativity. He explains that he is not a fan of "blue sky" brainstorming sessions detached from operational constraints. In his view, unconstrained ideation often produces shallow ideas that collapse under real-world scrutiny. Instead, he deliberately over-constrains the problem. Technical constraints. Regulatory constraints. Cost constraints. Operational bottlenecks. Competitive barriers. Existing prior art. All of it goes into the box.

For patents to be born strong, and the public to have confidence that they are, we must ensure strict adherence to USPTO's ethical standards and avoid (real or apparent) conflicts of interest.

The legal profession rewards endurance, precision and control. It also quietly normalizes stress, isolation and overextension. For patent practitioners and other IP lawyers, the pressures are uniquely acute: compressed prosecution deadlines, high-stakes litigation exposure, often unrealistic client-driven budget constraints, regulatory whiplash at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and increasingly complex technologies layered with global filing and prosecution strategy.

The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC)-an agency with the extraordinary power to block imports and, in turn, influence the direction of American technology policy-has drifted out of that balance. To align with the Trump Administration's intellectual property priorities and pro-investment agenda, the ITC is in urgent need of reform.