by Christine Stackhouse | Jul 7, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) recent settlement of the Synopsys/Ansys merger and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s (“DOJ”) settlement of the Keysight/Spirent merger are signs that, under the new Trump administration, the agencies are interested...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jul 1, 2025
Inventions claimed in a patent must meet a threshold subject matter eligibility (SME) requirement imposed by the U.S. patent laws.[1] The Supreme Court’s two-step Alice test provides a framework for analyzing whether a claimed invention passes the SME threshold.[2] If...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jun 30, 2025
On June 23, 2025, U.S. District Judge Alsup of the Northern District of California issued a decision in the high-profile lawsuit brought by several authors against Anthropic, the AI developer of the Claude chatbot. The authors accused Anthropic of copyright...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jun 26, 2025
Two recent developments signal an increase of False Claims Act (“FCA”), 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a) et seq., risk to importers and manufacturers. On June 23, 2025, the Ninth Circuit upheld a verdict of over $24 million against Sigma Corporation (“Sigma”), an importer of...
by Christine Stackhouse | Jun 20, 2025
On June 6, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken approved a proposed settlement agreement between the National Collegiate Athletics Association (“NCAA”), the Power Five Conferences and student athletes, effectively paving the way for name, likeness, and image (“NIL”)...
