The Illusion of More

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Songwriters, including Frank Zappa, John Denver, and Dee Snider testified in Senate hearings to oppose the […] The post Court Demolishes Texas Book “Rating” Law appeared first on The Illusion of More.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 17, 2024

A Texas federal jury on Wednesday said Samsung owes G+ Communications LLC $142 million for infringing two 5G wireless network patents, a huge win on retrial for G+, which was originally awarded less than half of that.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 5, 2024

A Texas appeals court revived a suit brought by an information technology consulting company against its former worker, ruling that the company had shown enough evidence to go forward with the case and the trial court abused its discretion in granting a no-evidence summary judgment motion.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 27, 2023

BigLaw firm Lewis Brisbois has called on a Texas federal court to compel certain testimony from a lawyer accused of taking part in a conspiracy to infringe the firm's trademark, saying he improperly refused to answer various deposition questions based on attorney-client privilege.

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IP Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s ruling that affirmed a Texas court’s dismissal of copyright claims over Texas A&M’s unauthorized reproduction of portions of his manuscript filed a reply brief Monday, arguing that the opposition provides “no escape hatch… for states’ particularly egregious intellectual property violations.”

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IP Law 360

APRIL 5, 2024

Intel brought its effort to secure a ruling that it has a license to VLSI chip patents in a multibillion-dollar dispute to a Texas court Friday, after a California judge unsealed a dismissal order holding that contract language barred her from deciding the issue.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Texas patent litigation monthly update for January 2023 summarizes one patent decision that issued from the Western District of Texas. This decision is one of the first Rule 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss granted in a patent proceeding in recent years in the Western District of Texas. By: Fish & Richardson

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

This post reviews developments from the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas in December 2023. . By: Fish & Richardson

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Texas-based ImberaTek LLC is claiming Apple Inc. used its patented processes to create hardware widely used in the company's electronics, saying in a suit filed in Texas federal court on Monday that the tech giant recklessly disregarded the company's patent rights.

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 16, 2024

” The establishment of a Limited Liability Company (LLC) in Texas can be a strategic maneuver for entrepreneurs and businesses aiming to leverage the benefits of limited liability and operational adaptability. states do actually provide more anonymity to LLC owners than Texas. Tax Code §171.001. A handful of U.S.

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IP Law 360

MARCH 21, 2024

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday urged the chief judge of the Northern District of Texas to quickly implement the Judicial Conference of the United States' updated policy that looks to prevent litigants from judge shopping, arguing that the district's current practices are "dangerous."

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IP Law 360

MARCH 6, 2024

A pair of rulings from an administrative board has gutted the language in a patent covering antenna technology that had been at issue in a web of dismissed lawsuits in Texas.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Texas law provides a mechanism for service of process of non-Texas-residents who engage in business in Texas, but without a regular place of business or a designated agent. This substitute service process is that the Texas Secretary of State will serve as the designated agent. And, therefore, that the service was proper.

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IP Law 360

APRIL 1, 2024

Jurors in Texas federal court ordered a Chinese phone manufacturer Monday to pay more than $10 million to Korean entity Pantech, in a patent dispute over technology used to comply with 5G wireless standards

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JD Supra Law

APRIL 19, 2023

March's Texas Patent Litigation Monthly Wrap-Up covers decisions addressing post-verdict JMOL, the point at which cases become exceptional, and the standard for amending invalidity contentions, among other issues. By: Fish & Richardson

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JD Supra Law

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Texas Patent Litigation Monthly Wrap-Up for October 2023 covers three decisions addressing the scope of the work-product and attorney-client privileges, limits on the use of a defendant’s use of its own patents during trial, and indefiniteness determinations during claim construction. By: Fish & Richardson

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 31, 2024

A Texas company says Colorado-based cybersecurity company Acronis SCS Inc. has made and sold multiple products that infringe a pair of its patents relating to information tracking, according to a suit filed Wednesday in Colorado federal court.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

San Francisco software company Cloudflare did not infringe a router patent owned by Sable Networks, a Texas federal jury determined Thursday, while also finding that Sable's asserted claim is invalid.

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IP Law 360

JANUARY 23, 2024

Two rulings from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board have deleted language in patents covering mobile payment technology that were asserted in settled lawsuits against companies like Apple, Google and Visa in the Western District of Texas.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A Texas law firm says it has standing to bring trademark claims against a legal referral outfit that operated an alleged "click-to-call" scheme that pilfered clients and business from the firm, asking a Texas federal court Thursday not to dismiss claims against the referral company.

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IP Law 360

OCTOBER 11, 2023

IP Buds LLC has filed a lawsuit in Texas federal court accusing Samsung of infringing a wireless headset patent.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A federal magistrate judge in Waco, Texas, says he doesn't think "some copy-and-paste errors" are enough to hook a prolific litigator of patent lawsuits to paying legal fees in a shell company's latest failed campaign against Salesforce.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A former Texas state representative pushed back on allegations that he defamed the ex-leader of an anti-vaccination mandate organization with gossip about whether she stole funds from the group, telling a Lone Star State appeals panel on Tuesday that the suit was a "gotcha lawsuit."

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2022

Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted the emergency application to restore the injunction against HB 20, Texas’ social media censorship law. “At issue is a ground-breaking Texas law that addresses the power of dominant social media corporations to shape public discussion of the important issues of the day.”

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IP Law 360

APRIL 2, 2024

A California-based bong maker says a Texas company used its registered trademarks on phony water pipes, telling a federal court M 100 13770 0 13770 0 0 369k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 373k onday that the counterfeit marks leave customers confused and are causing the brand's reputation to go up in smoke.

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IP Law 360

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has denied a petition by biotechnology company Microbiotica seeking post-grant review of a cancer treatment patent held by the University of Texas System.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 1, 2023

District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas sent one of the lawsuits to the Northern District of California, but months after he decided to keep the second in Waco.

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IP Law 360

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A Western District of Texas jury has found that European microchip maker STMicroelectronics infringed a patent covering semiconductor technology held by the trustees of Purdue University and awarded the trustees $32.5 million in damages.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

District Court for the Western District of Texas dismissed a challenge to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) over the controversial Medicare Drug Price “Negotiation” (yes, in quotes) Program passed under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). A domino has fallen, but the question remains whether there are more to come.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 28, 2024

— A copy of the complaint, filed yesterday at the District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas, is available here (pdf) From: TF , for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Plaintiffs CAN’T WAIT to sue Internet services using the Texas social media censorship law. They sued Facebook in Northern District of Texas. ” However, the law doesn’t dictate Texas venue, and Texas law also favors freedom of parties to set contractual terms to govern their relationship. But surprise!

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IP Law 360

AUGUST 25, 2023

The failure of two Texas bar owners to answer a complaint that accused the establishment of hosting an unauthorized showing of the 2019 boxing match between Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and Sergey Kovalev resulted in a $21,800 default victory Friday for the event's license holder.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

An insurance adjuster who hijacked the good name of British underwriting giant Lloyd's of London after blaming it for lost compensation agreed in Texas federal court to shut down businesses he opened in its name.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MAY 19, 2022

Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved the existing injunction against Texas HB 20, the so-called social media censorship law, in a one-sentence order. He requested that Texas file a response brief, which it filed yesterday. Texas’ Reply Brief. Amicus briefs in support of Texas. Texas’ Appellant Brief.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Connecting Neighbors to High-Speed Internet Service in Rural Texas September 25, 2023 KCPullen@doc.gov Mon, 09/25/2023 - 11:52 Infrastructure By: Kevin Gallagher, Senior Advisor to the Secretary In August, I had the pleasure of visiting Totelcom’s offices and training facilities in De Leon, Texas.

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IP Law 360

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A Western District of Texas jury has cleared Samsung of infringing two semiconductor patents, following a trial in which the patent owner sought a record damages award of more than $4 billion.

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Patently-O

JUNE 7, 2023

2023) , the Federal Circuit once again granted a writ of mandamus , ordering a patent infringement case to be transferred out of Judge Albright’s courtroom in the Western District of Texas (WDTX). states, including Texas, is no stranger to litigation in the Lone Star state. This decision was made under the provisions of 28 U.S.C.

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