Mon.Nov 13, 2023

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Fraudulent Trademark Ownership Claims Lead to Near $4 Million Punitive Damages Verdict

IP Watchdog

On November 8, a Central California jury entered a verdict awarding $3.9 million in punitive damages against Internet financial platform ConsumerDirect. The verdict comes weeks after U.S. District Judge James Selna granted a motion for sanctions after finding that ConsumerDirect fraudulently represented its ownership of unregistered trademarks while obtaining a preliminary injunction in U.S. district court against Array.

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Hitting Immunity Out of the Park  

The Barrister

On November 1, the Texas Rangers dominated the Arizona Diamondbacks to win the 2023 World Series in a 4-1 victory. While the season ends in celebration for one franchise, antitrust litigation is warming up against the laws governing Major League Baseball (MLB). Microsoft, stock images. Since 1922, the MLB has been protected from antitrust scrutiny.

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Google Escapes $20 Million Judgment as SCOTUS Denies Petition on CAFC Reissue Standard

IP Watchdog

Just a few weeks after Google waived its right to respond, the Supreme Court denied a petition challenging a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) decision that held a Texas district court erred in ruling against the search engine and tech behemoth. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found the inventors of a method for protecting computers from malware—Alfonso Cioffi and Allen Rozman (the patent is now assigned to Melanie, Megan and Morgan Rozman)—had proven

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This Week in Washington IP: IPWatchdog Hosts SEP Masters, the State of Veteran Entrepreneurship, Rule Changes at the PTAB

IP Watchdog

This week in Washington IP news, the Senate Committee on Small Business hears from entrepreneurs who served in the U.S. military, and the House Subcommittee on Communications discusses the implications of AI technology on U.S. communications. Elsewhere, the USPTO evaluates how women can be empowered to become entrepreneurs and holds a webinar to explain proposed rule changes at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

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Trellis Launches Trellis AI to Streamline Trial Court Litigation

Trellis AI leverages the largest repository of state trial court data to help litigators evaluate cases, automate brief drafting, suggest winning strategies, and more. Key components: Draft Arguments — Uses similar/successful motions in the Trellis database to generate arguments/citations for your motions seeking dismissal, summary judgment, etc. Case Assessment — Predict the likely outcomes of a case at any stage to help you decide to accept it, guide motion practice, make settlement offers, an