Most patent lawyers I know disdain the Supreme Court. Monday in a pair of unanimous decisions reversing the Federal Circuit, the Supreme Court made it clear the contempt is mutual.
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Read More »Most patent lawyers I know disdain the Supreme Court. Monday in a pair of unanimous decisions reversing the Federal Circuit, the Supreme Court made it clear the contempt is mutual.
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Read More »A divided U.S. Supreme Court strengthened the rules against the execution of mentally disabled people, striking down a Florida law that imposed a strict cutoff based on the results of an intelligence test.
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Read More »A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a closely-watched copyright case involving a classic Hollywood film may have dealt a knockout punch to a commonly used affirmative defense in a much broader range of cases, including patent litigation.
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Read More »The attorneys arguing in U.S. v. Wurie and Riley v. California urged the court to draw a bright line with respect to the ability of police to search the contents of arrestees’ cellphones.
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Read More »The standard for awarding attorneys’ fees for prevailing defendants in patent cases is “unduly rigid,” the U.S. Supreme Court found in a decision announced Tuesday that involved a manufacturer represented by a team of Missouri attorneys.
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Read More »The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed to cast some constitutional doubt on a state statute that prohibits making false statements about political candidates during oral arguments last Tuesday.
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court’s support of Michigan’s ban on race-based affirmative action in university admissions may spur colleges to find new ways to achieve diversity without using racial preferences.
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Read More »People convicted of possessing child pornography must pay victims a share of the economic losses they endured, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a decision that tossed out a $3.4 million award and drew dissents from both directions.
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to affirmative action, upholding a voter-approved ban on racial preferences at Michigan’s state-run universities in a decision that may spur similar initiatives elsewhere.
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Read More »U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned the legality of Aereo Inc., the Barry Diller-backed startup aiming to upend the broadcast industry’s decades-old business model by selling live television programming over the Internet.
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Read More »The U.S. Supreme Court refused to order tougher judicial scrutiny of suspected terrorists’ detentions at Guantanamo Bay, turning away an appeal by a Yemeni man held there for the past 11 years.
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