covid-19

  • Technology giants Amazon, Facebook, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., IBM, Microsoft and Sandia National Laboratories have joined other prominent institutions in pledging to refrain from enforcing patent protections for uses of their intellectual property aimed at combating the COVID-19 pandemic… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The Federal Circuit ruled Thursday that Microsoft Corp. can’t challenge the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision in February to deny the technology giant’s petitions for review of several patents, saying the grounds for the denials are not appealable… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Former New York lawmaker Dean Skelos contracted COVID-19 and will likely be released soon from the prison where he’s serving time for a corruption conviction, attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice said in a Wednesday letter to a Manhattan federal judge… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A Washington federal judge shot down a Seattle-based music festival production company’s request to pause a case accusing it of misusing a partner company’s $2 million advance payment, pointing to technological workarounds for obstacles created by the COVID-19 pandemic… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A New York federal judge shot down a coronavirus-related compassionate release bid lodged by a former top deputy to notorious Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, saying Tuesday that the convict had to go through U.S. Bureau of Prisons channels first… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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