Business Law
Employment
Tenth Circuit Rules Forfeiture-for-Competition Not Subject to Non-Compete Reasonableness Test
In Lawson v. Spirit AeroSystems, Inc., U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, upheld the forfeiture of stock awards for violation of a covenant to not ...
Intelectual Property (IP)
Foley Hoag LLP: Reshaped IPR landscape: Narrower estoppel and fewer new cases
The IPR estoppel statute doesn’t prevent an unsuccessful IPR from using non-literature prior arts to defend themselves during infringement proceedings. This freedom to use prior ...
Employment
Supreme Court Decides Against Reinstating Wilcox as NLRB As They Rule on Her Termination – NLRB Remains without a Quorum
On the 22nd of May 2025, The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Gwynne Willcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), could not ...
Intelectual Property (IP)
Week Ending May 16, 2025
The Regents of University of California et al The Broad Institute, Inc., and others.0100 2022-1594, -1653 (Fed. Cir. (PTAB) May 12, 2025). Opinion by Reyna, ...
Intelectual Property (IP)
Hutchison PLLC
What is required to guide a business from an early investment to a large private equity transaction? In Founder Shares, a special live episode recorded ...
Employment
Justice
The The program “will utilize the False Claims Act to investigate and, as appropriate, pursue claims against any recipient of federal funds that knowingly violates ...
Intelectual Property (IP)
SAG-AFTRA says that Fortnite’s use of AI instead of actors is unfair
“Llama Productions has chosen to replace the human performers’ work with A.I. technology. The SAG-AFTRA filed the complaint against Llama Productions, wholly owned by Epic ...
Employment
Minneapolis Expands Workplace Protections for Civil Rights and Reasonable Accommodation Obligations
The amendments include new protected classes, expand the definition of race, familial status, and disability, and increase protections for pregnant workers and religious observance. With ...
Intelectual Property (IP)
The Wild West of AI and IP Rights
This Week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, I speak with Allison Gaul, who is the legal counsel at Boston Consulting Group. She is responsible for evaluating the ...