The Georgia Court of Appeals has upheld a settlement offer rejection in an appeal that the defendant-appellants argued was hard to follow with the intent to trap them in a bad-faith failure to settle claim. In an unusually quick turnaround, however, the intermediate court ruled that it did not buy…

Irell & Manella, McKool Smith Secure $445M Verdict in Patent Trial | Texas Lawyer Page Printed From: https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2024/05/24/irell-manella-mckool-smith-secure-445m-verdict-in-patent-trial/ Credit: Olivier Le Moal/Adobe Stock The verdict marks the law firms’ second win on behalf of Netlist, following a recent $303 million patent infringement verdict against Samsung, McKool Smith announced. May 24,…

A Manhattan appellate court appears to have changed the law for maternity patients in New York, in allowing an emotional distress claim for the delivery of a baby that died after eight days due to medical malpractice. A 4-1 opinion on Thursday by Appellate Division, First Department Judge Julio Rodriguez…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit this week ditched what it called a rigid test for determining if design patents are obvious and therefore invalid in favor of a more flexible one,  a decision legal experts say may make it easier to sink design patents. “It’s a…

CoStar Group and six luxury hotel chains have filed a motion to dismiss a proposed antitrust class action that claimed the defendants colluded to hike hotel room prices through the shared use of data analytics. Smith Travel Research, which was acquired by real estate research firm CoStar in 2019, has provided benchmarking reports to the…

Social media influencer and co-founder of the energy drink company Prime Hydration, Logan Paul, has filed a defamation lawsuit against American professional boxer Ryan Garcia for his alleged claims that Prime products endanger children’s health. This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM’s source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in state…