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"The fact that a competitor copied the patentee's invention, rather than one within the public domain, is probative of nonobviousness because it suggests the competitor saw value in the invention that he could not achieve without copying."- CAFC
In two separate precedential decisions authored by Chief Judge Moore today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) delivered victory for Teleflex Innovations, S.À.R.L. when it upheld Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rulings that found Medtronic, Inc. had failed to prove Teleflex's patent claims for catheter technology used in interventional cardiology procedures unpatentable.

by Dennis Crouch

"The more one claims, the more one must enable."In a unanimous opinion delivered by Justice Gorsuch, the Supreme Court has affirmed the Federal Circuit's decision invalidating Amgen's functionally claimed genus of monoclonal antibodies.The Court held that Amgen's patent claims were invalid due to a lack of enablement, as they failed to provide adequate guidance for making and using the claimed antibodies.

Finjan LLC v. ESET LLC, - F.4th - ( Fed.Cir.2022)
Finjan's patents claim a system for checking downloadable files for security concerns.Back in 1996 when Finjan filed its original provisional application, the focus was on applets or other small downloadable programs.But downloadables today are much bulkier.

Joint development relationships are what allow larger tech companies to stay ahead.The hardware and software of these silent technology heroes makes its way into the tech we love through joint development relationships.When big tech engineers can't solve the problem themselves, they turn to joint development relationships with smaller companies that can.

More than three years after Hawthorne Race Course was authorized to add casino gambling, not a single card has been dealt nor a coin dropped in the slots.The $400 million combination horse racetrack and casino, or "racino," was supposed to have opened in 2021.Workers even started initial demolition work at the track, which shut down the grandstand.

Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday night that he wants to assure the public that the Supreme Court is committed to adhering to the highest standards of conduct, appearing to direct his remarks at critics of the high court amid recent ethics controversies.We are continuing to look at things we can do to give practical effect to that commitment, and I am confident that there are ways to do that that are consistent with our status as an independent branch of government under the separation of powers, Roberts told an audience gathered in Washington, DC, for an event hosted by the American Law Institute, where he received a medal honoring the late Judge Henry J. Friendly.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on Wednesday night that President Joe Biden has likely committed an impeachable offense.As evidence, Cruz cited the existence of an alleged document he has not seen or may not even exist.Earlier in the day, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting information about an alleged criminal scheme involving Biden and a foreign national.

Less than two weeks before the federal ComEd Four bribery conspiracy trial, prosecutors revealed in a court filing that a confidant of former Speaker Michael Madigan was interviewed twice by federal authorities before the probe became public about his use of code words to refer to the longtime House leader.

The former Archbishop of York has been told to step down from active ministry after a review found he failed to act on a victim's disclosure of historic child sex abuse by a priest.Lord Sentamu has stood back from his role as an honorary assistant bishop in the diocese of Newcastle until both the findings and his response can be explored further.

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have given Harlan Crow, a billionaire Republican donor, until May 22 to provide the panel with a full accounting of gifts and other valuable benefits provided to Justice Clarence Thomas or other members of the Supreme Court.In a letter sent on Monday, Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the chairman of the committee, led fellow Democrats in pressing Mr. Crow for documentation of gifts and travel provided to justices as well as any real estate transactions involving members of the court.

Social media influencers are among the most recognized and highly paid individuals in the world.Their prominence has been fueled by the explosive growth of TikTok, Twitch and OnlyFans; the continued growth of Instagram, YouTube and Snap; and the astonishing amounts of money flowing in and around those platforms.

"Placing the Office's finger on the scale is precisely what happens when a panel is expanded, and it is particularly concerning to learn that the practice was surreptitiously happening."- Gene Quinn
The Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) issued a decision on May 5 granting Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Administrative Patent Judge (APJ) Michael Fitzpatrick's request for corrective action with respect to alleged retaliatory personnel actions against him by senior management officials at the Department of Commerce and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

More than eight years after being ordered in federal court to forfeit nearly $700,000 for financial crimes, two close friends of Mayor Eric Adams have repaid only a fraction of that sum despite operating numerous lucrative businesses, court records show.The mayor's friends, Robert and Johnny Petrosyants, pleaded guilty in January 2014 to making false reports at a check-cashing business after a federal investigation into the laundering of proceeds of false and inflated insurance claims.

More than eight years after being ordered in federal court to forfeit nearly $700,000 for financial crimes, two close friends of Mayor Eric Adams have repaid only a fraction of that sum despite operating numerous lucrative businesses, court records show.The mayor's friends, Robert and Johnny Petrosyants, pleaded guilty in January 2014 to making false reports at a check-cashing business after a federal investigation into the laundering of proceeds of false and inflated insurance claims.

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore has apologized to the family of a former television executive who accused former CBS chief Leslie Moonves of sexual misconduct.The chief's apology came after disclosures that a former LAPD captain in 2017 shared information about Phyllis Golden-Gottlieb's allegations with CBS executives, including Moonves.

Jessica Tarlov dismantled key conservative talking points regarding Twitter's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story from 2020, and asked what it was that then-President Donald Trump wanted removed from Twitter.On Friday, Twitter CEO Elon Musk teased and presumably facilitated the release of internal emails via journalist Matt Taibbi, who agreed to tweet the materials in accordance with conditions that he did not specify.

"Resignation is the only course of action that remains to undo the damage you have done," wrote CREW.Move On demonstrators are seen in front of the Supreme Court ahead of the delivery of a petition demanding the impeachment of Justice Clarence Thomas on July 28, 2022 in Washington, D.C.Nathan Posner / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A government ethics watchdog is demanding that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas resign in the wake of numerous accounts of corruption and seeming right-wing conspiracies involving the justice unveiled by investigative reports in recent weeks.

The Supreme Court is looking less like a bench and more like an auction house, said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Virginia Thomas, conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, leaves a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill on September 29, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Ginni Thomas are under fresh scrutiny as yet another revelation, this one reported by the Washington Post on Thursday evening shows Ginni received tens of thousands of dollars in off-the-book compensation from a powerful right-wing nonprofit shortly before the group "soon would have an interest before the court" - a pivotal voting rights case.

The revelation comes as John Roberts has rejected a request to testify in front of Congress on Supreme Court ethics.Jane Sullivan Roberts (L), wife of Supreme Court Chief Justice Nominee John Roberts (R), wipes lipstick from Roberts's cheek after giving him a kiss at the end of the judge's testimony during confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee September 15, 2005 in Washington, D.C.Mark Wilson / Getty Images Just two years after John Roberts was confirmed as Supreme Court chief justice, his wife Jane Roberts began a career as a law recruiter - a move which netted the couple millions of dollars, a new report has revealed.

Jemal Countess/Getty Images for People's Rally Finally, somebody has taken a try at writing a Supreme Court ethics code, though not the court itself.The justices reportedly have discussed the subject but apparently have not reached any agreement on what, if anything, to do about it.Now, however, two groups have written what they call a model code of conduct for the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice John Roberts has declined to directly respond to a congressional request for his testimony at a Supreme Court ethics hearing next month about Justice Clarence Thomas' alleged ethical lapses.Roberts instead referred the request from Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin to the Judicial Conference, which serves as the policy-making body of the federal courts.

A phony AI-generated attack ad from the Republican National Committee (RNC) offered Congress a glimpse into how the tech could be used in next year's election cycle.Now, Democrats are readying their response.On Tuesday, Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY) introduced a new bill to require disclosures of AI-generated content in political ads.

The US Federal Trade Commission warned companies on Wednesday it could sue companies for building generative AI tools used to scam consumers, even if their tools were not intended to be abused.The potential for deception and fraud from AI is increasing as the technology continues to advance.Commercial software makes it easy for people to generate fake images, text, videos, and voices, and these tools can, and will, be used for illegal activities.

Researchers at Drexel and Vanderbilt universities investigated adolescent Instagram users' experiences on the social media platform to ensure they receive requested support.The researchers analyzed direct messages between users who requested help in their conversations on Instagram, focusing on how they initiate peer-support dialogues, the topics for which they require support, and the support they received.

Bosses of the childcare firm at the centre of a Rishi Sunak conflict of interest row attended a Downing Street reception just hours after he was pressed by MPs over his links with the provider, the Guardian has learned.Koru Kids, which lists the prime minister's wife, Akshata Murty, as a shareholder and is expected to benefit from changes announced in the budget, is understood to have been present at a No 11 reception for the education sector on Wednesday evening.

The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) and 42 affiliated state banking associations are calling on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to approve language that allows community banks to test out different consumer construction and construction-to-permanent loan disclosures, which the group describes as "a core offering of community banks in many local communities."

Rishi Sunak's wife is a shareholder in a childcare agency that will benefit from a major new policy announced in Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's Budget.The Prime Minister did not mention Akshata Murthy's links to Koru Kids while he was quizzed by MPs over why the financial announcement favoured private firms.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Dominic Cummings' time in Downing Street was a nightmare, Rishi Sunak appeared to tell Matt Hancock, according to the latest set of leaked WhatsApp messages.

The Prince of Wales has kept quiet about a string of explosive claims by his brother the Duke of Sussex for the good of his family and the country, friends have said.William will not retaliate because he is dignified and incredibly loyal, one close friend of the pair reportedly told the Sunday Times.

Rishi Sunak has defended the royal family as an institution to be proud of, despite a string of revelations from the Duke of Sussex.The disclosures, which include claims that the Prince of Wales physically attacked his brother Harry, come from the duke's memoir, Spare, which is due to be published on Tuesday.

MPs will debate proposed changes to their code of conduct, as recommended by a Commons committee.The Government is expected to back most of the new code of conduct recommendations, after it issued its full response in September to the proposals put forward by the Committee on Standards.Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt recently told MPs that ministers will take action to bolster MPs' standards, with a proposed ban on MPs working as parliamentary advisers or consultants one of the key recommendations.

U.S. accounting standards may be overhauled to specifically factor in crypto accounting, establishing a fair-value approach that would demand certain digital assets be measured at what they'd go for in the markets, according to a change proposed this week by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).

Japan has reportedly urged other countries, including the U.S., to regulate crypto exchanges like they do banks.A top official at the Financial Services Agency explained that the recent FTX implosion wasn't brought on by crypto technology but by loose governance, lax internal controls, and the absence of regulation and supervision.

In modern communications, emails can be the digital equivalents of scribbled notes all lower case and poor punctuation or pedantic official documents, depending on context and recipients.But the key thing is that the prose is always deathless.That's a rule that Tucker Carlson, a major Donald Trump supporter, is probably reckoning with at the moment.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google agreed to pay $23 million to resolve a long-running lawsuit brought by consumers who claimed its search engine shared their queries with advertisers or other third parties without their permission.The proposed settlement also requires Google to provide added disclosures to consumers about the sharing of search terms.

In the past 24 hours, the world has learned of serious breaches hitting chat service Slack and software testing and delivery company CircleCI, though giving the companies' opaque wording-"security issue" and "security incident," respectively-you'd be forgiven for thinking these events were minor.

The police said Monday that they had discovered the body of Nicola Bulley, a 45-year-old woman whose Jan. 27 disappearance had attracted feverish attention in Britain and focused scrutiny on the conduct of the local police force.Officials pulled her body Sunday from a river in the village of St. Michael's on Wyre, about 45 miles northwest of Manchester.

| By Tim Peterson



Pity the privacy compliance officers.This year companies have to adapt to five new state-level privacy laws in the U.S., which means companies' privacy and legal teams have to figure out how to comply with the various laws and their varying requirements for how people's personal information can be collected and used for advertising purposes and otherwise.

Seyfarth Synopsis: As we blogged about previously, California passed a landmark pay transparency law in September 2022.As promised, the Labor Commissioner's office has issued FAQs addressing big employer questions regarding who is covered, information required to be disclosed, and details on remote job postings.

Tech and biotech companies have begun to reveal plans for multiple rounds of job cuts in the Bay Area, disquieting disclosures that suggest the current layoff surges will be ongoing.The unsettling news came to light after Microsoft reported it would cut 62 jobs in Mountain View, layoffs that were effective on Feb. 9 and marked the second time the tech titan filed layoff notices with the state's labor agency.

Twitter has decided to chop nearly 900 jobs in the Bay Area and nearly 1,000 in California, Elon Musk-ordered layoffs that affect workers in San Jose and San Francisco, official state filings show.The disclosures to the state's labor agency are the first official notices that reveal the scope of the mammoth employment cutbacks that are being orchestrated by Musk, who stated he has no choice but to engineer the huge layoffs to help Twitter climb out of a lake of red ink.

It's an early marker of DOJ's position as Republicans pledge to probe President Joe Biden's administration over a laundry list of issues, including with a select subpanel that has a broad mandate to investigate the federal government.Conservatives have hinted they would use that panel to try to look into certain ongoing law enforcement investigations.

cagkansayin/Getty Images/iStockphoto If you're shopping for a mortgage to buy or considering refinancing a home, you've probably wondered why the advertised interest rate won't be the same as the loan's annual percentage rate (APR).That's because the two phrases are similar, but not interchangeable.

After a landmark privacy settlement between Google and dozens of states, some say location-tracking will continue facing scrutiny - and maybe more legal battles - as the industry comes increasingly under the microscope.On Monday, Google and 40 state attorneys general announced a $392 million agreement - the tech giant's largest legal payout to date - to various states while also requiring additional changes to its data-collection practices disclosures.

Relevant Group's Grant King and Andrew Shayne with the Thompson Hotel at 1541 Wilcox Avenue (Relevant Group's, Google Maps, Getty) Relevant Group is about to lose control of two of its key Hollywood hotels, The Real Deal has learned.Machine Investment Group, a mezzanine lender on the properties, initiated a UCC foreclosure on the 190-key Thompson hotel and the 212-key Tommie hotel in Hollywood, according to Eastdil Secured marketing materials for the auction obtained by TRD.

Comment Much of the IT community has been willing to tolerate - even encourage - magical thinking about cloud, and plenty of us believed.I did for a moment a couple of weeks ago when I saw what appeared to be a brilliant demo of drag-and-drop hybrid cloud storage management: from a screen that depicted on-prem and cloud volumes, a couple of clicks and a tug on the mouse shifted petabytes into a cloud, associated the data with applications in both environments, and ported security policy for good measure.