WA Bar News

JUNE 12, 2025

623, 628 (2023) (calling for common style guides to require the terms “Tribal Nations,” “Tribes,” and “Tribal,” “when preceding an entity or noun connected to a Tribal government, … be capitalized”). Shucha, “‘Whatever Tribal Precedent There May Be’: The (Un) Availability of Tribal Law,” 106 L. Keith Richotte Jr., “The

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 10, 2022

In mid-November, consumer tech giant Apple filed a petition for writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Federal Circuit’s decision to dismiss Apple’s appeal of unsuccessful inter partes review (IPR) challenges to the validity of several patents owned by Qualcomm.

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E-Discovery LLC

JUNE 10, 2025

The Mia Aesthetics court cited precedent that a defendant must make a reasonable effort, assisted by a vendor, to recover or restore relevant and responsive ESI that was lost or deleted. The Mia Aesthetics court agreed with the EEOC that there was precedent supporting its request, but denied it. It asserted that Ms.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The Judicial Conference of the United States' Committee on Judicial Conduct (Conference) and Disability issued its decision today in Judge Pauline Newman’s appeal of the Judicial Council of the U.S. Court of Appeals’ (Council) September 2023 decision to suspend her from all cases.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 12, 2022

In one decision, the Supreme Court will wax poetically about the need to adhere to precedent, and citing stare decisis, and then overrule well-established, 30-year-old Supreme Court precedent. The whim and fancy – and intellectual dishonesty – of the Supreme Court knows no bounds when it comes to patent law.

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Legal Dive

JUNE 28, 2024

In a landmark ruling, the justices overturned a 40-year-old precedent and significantly reduced the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer.

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Insurance Journal

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Dartmouth men’s basketball team on Tuesday dropped its attempt to unionize, abruptly ending a push to become the first college athletes to bargain for a contract in order to avoid a potentially damaging precedent from a National Labor Relations …

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 29, 2025

Finding both that the TTABs inquiry properly aligned with Federal Circuit precedent on generic marks and that the TTABs finding was supported by substantial evidence, the appellate court rejected Medisafes challenges to the rejection of its trademark application claiming the color dark green for the surface of chloroprene examination gloves.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) under newly appointed Director, Kathi Vidal, and some exciting precedents set in the rapidly evolving area of inventions and art created by artificial intelligence machines, among other developments. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a flurry of activity from the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The CAFC said the district court erred in concluding at Alice step one that the claims were directed to an abstract idea and distinguished the case from its precedent in Yu v. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential opinion reversing a district court’s invalidation of patent claims challenged by GoPro, Inc.

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Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Johnson & Johnson’s third effort to end lawsuits claiming its baby powder caused thousands of women to get cancer should be dismissed because it violates US Supreme Court precedent and twists the purpose of the American bankruptcy system, holdout creditors …

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IP Watchdog

JULY 15, 2024

While obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) has a long history, Supreme Court precedent and common sense make it clear that the time has come to put ODP to rest. The original rationale for it has long passed, and it is a judicially-created exception to the patent statute that cannot stand.

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Insurance Journal

JULY 11, 2024

Bordman has more than a decade in commercial insurance, preceded by years in the U.S. Stacks Insurance Brokerage in Lighthouse Point, Florida, has named Kenny Bordman partner and president of commercial insurance. Army and law enforcement, Stacks said in a …

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Insurance Journal

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“Reconnaissance scanning is not an indication of compromise” but may precede malicious actions, … The Canadian government warned Friday that “a sophisticated state-sponsored threat actor from the People’s Republic of China” has been scanning the cyber defenses of important public entities.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 6, 2021

They don’t care whether the lawyer handled a precedent-setting appellate case. Clients say they choose lawyers based on the lawyer’s experience in the practice area, ability to communicate with them, and the fee structure. Rather, your daily work in the legal trenches handling this type of case is paramount.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Under Ninth Circuit precedent, web hosting services like Cloudflare can be held contributorily liable for assisting in the infringement under the material contribution theory. However, a recent district court decision misconstrued the case law to conclude otherwise in Mon Cheri v.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Attorneys are fierce factotum warriors armed with quivers of precedents and the ruthless blades of facts. You pay attention to lines of precedent, the evolution of IP law, trends in attorney-client relations, and the precision of your contract language. ” That is not too far off the mark. They are also wildly creative.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 25, 2023

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) violated Supreme Court precedent by ruling the patent application ineligible under the Alice/Mayo test. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed the ruling in August 2022. In the petition, Killian claims that the U.S.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 3, 2022

Zaxcom argued that the CAFC’s precedent in Fox Factory, Inc. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) for rehearing en banc after the court found its original patent claims unpatentable as obvious. SRAM LLC, 944 F.3d 3d 1366 (Fed. 2019), “confused the law” regarding a rebuttable presumption of nexus.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 16, 2023

patent eligibility law, which generally have to do with a lack of clarity, arguably fostered by many of the Court’s own precedents. The denials make it fairly clear that the High Court is not interested in helping to resolve the current problems with U.S.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 9, 2025

Preceding the CAFCs decision was an Initial Post-Hearing Brief submitted by the Office of Unfair Import Investigations (OUII) in the matter ofCertain Mobile Phones, Components Thereof, and Products Containing Same. Lenovo (United States), Inc.

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SW&L Attorneys Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

10(8) to suspend you for one of the following: For 91 days “if the operator’s record shows the individual has not violated section 39-08-01 or equivalent ordinance within the seven years preceding the last violation.” The length of the possible suspension depends on the result of the chemical test and on your driving record. N.D.C.C. §

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in asserting that it had substantially exclusive use of the mark GALPERTI in the five years preceding its registration. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) on Friday, November 12, vacated and remanded a decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) that had found Galperti S.r.l

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Civil Litigation Brief

APRIL 28, 2025

Today we are looking at a case where the court considered the impact of The Third Party (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 in detail. The court decided that the insurer was not liable to indemnify a claimant who had been.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2022

Now, Zaxcom has petitioned the court for rehearing en banc, arguing that the CAFC’s precedent in Fox Factory, Inc. 9,336,307 for Engineering Emmy® and technical OSCAR award-winning wireless microphone technology were unpatentable as obvious, but upheld the substitute claims Zaxcom had proposed. SRAM LLC, 944 F.3d 3d 1366 (Fed.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I love the smell of precedent in the morning.) Smokeball has an unusual name, to be sure; but, it actually comes from a famous legal case , which just about every substantive law-loving attorney can appreciate. (I Smokeball was founded in 2010 and has been adding useful features for law firms ever since.

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WA Bar News

JULY 10, 2024

Five votes will create a precedent that binds all the courts in our state—and may even bind future iterations of the Washington Supreme Court itself. 11 This forward-looking statement of a legal rule makes sense only if the dissenting justices believed the lead opinion (perhaps together with the concurrence) created binding precedent.

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IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) accusing the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and its management of facilitating the appearance of bias at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) in favor of Apple, Inc., Apple has now filed its opposition to that motion.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2023

A little over halfway through 2023, and nearing the end of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) fiscal year, we can take stock of an administrative body that is settling into a decade of precedent while big changes still loom.

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Lawmatics

JANUARY 23, 2024

Legal analytics: AI-driven legal analytics tools provide insights into trends, precedents, and the behavior of judges. The practice of law involves not only the application of legal rules and precedents but also requires complex human skills such as judgment, empathy, ethical reasoning, and strategic thinking.

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 8, 2022

The customer-service mindset comes in the way you communicate that your partner is relying on overturned precedent. When it comes to the law, the partner may not always be right because they haven’t done the most recent research or review of case law.

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Attorney at Work

DECEMBER 8, 2021

For the top chefs, their reputations precede them. A very small number of the world’s greatest chefs, such as Grant Achatz of Chicago’s famed Alinea restaurant, can offer a single, unalterable tasting menu for an astronomical price and pack the house every night. For the other 99.9%

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Law Sites

APRIL 10, 2024

Automatically extract relevant precedents, deal points, and insights on opposing counsel from their documents, including seeing what a counterparty’s counsel has agreed to in the past. Make it easy for lawyers to find deal precedents comparable to current deals and, unlike manual databases, ensure the data is always up to date.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Depending on your firm’s level of modernization or existing technology, certain solutions should take precedence to help you develop a solid foundation and make the most out of your investment in the shortest time. Legal technology programs aren’t one-size-fits-all. Many, in fact, target specific practice pain points.

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IP Watchdog

JANUARY 15, 2023

Those familiar with recent Patent Office history will recall that Commissioners immediately preceding Hirshfeld included Bob Stoll, Peggy Focarino, John Doll and Nick Godici.

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Complex Discovery

AUGUST 6, 2024

This milestone decision by Judge Amit Mehta not only underscores Google’s extensive market dominance but also sets a significant precedent for future antitrust cases against major technology firms. Despite this, the initial ruling sets a critical precedent and may lead to significant changes in how Google operates.

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SW&L Attorneys Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Conclusion This new landmark decision marks a significant shift in administrative law, emphasizing judicial independence in statutory interpretation and ending a long-standing precedent that had shaped regulatory practices for decades.

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