In September, we predicted a ruling upholding the Immigration and Nationality Act’s incorporation of the definition of “crime ...

Let’s dive into the data from last year to see what lessons we can learn about the state high court.

A recent testy interchange between Justices Anthony Kennedy and Sonia Sotomayor highlighted a tension between the ubiquity of ...

Earlier this year, the federal court in Los Angeles entered an order which had the effect of blocking the city from enforcing ...

If fighting for your fees is going to trigger a lawsuit you might lose, it's best to settle than fight for a full recovery.

Although a busy time for individual tax filers, it's been a relatively quiet month in the exempt organizations legal space, th...

Without adequate foresight, a client may find that control of the privilege is now in the hands of the successor corporation.

When confronted by an elderly transferor, every competent estate attorney must reflexively obtain a California certificate of ...

There are good reasons for the California Legislature to revisit the "party aggrieved" standard when it comes to class action ...

Laws like this will give defendants in funded cases an advantage over plaintiffs by revealing at the outset of the case when t...

When the world changes as dramatically as it has over the past few decades, not only the rules need to change: the way we inve...

The Supreme Court has not approved of any such standard. Even in the 9th Circuit, the award must be "completely irrational."

Currently, no agency has classified acrylamide as a “known” carcinogen. Yet, according to this new ruling, coffee sold in Cali...

The plain fact is that high-net-worth individuals need to protect their financial interests before marriage.

In the years since the America Invents Act took effect in 2012, what have we learned, and where are we likely heading?

A new series of Federal Circuit decisions indicates concern that the pendulum has swung too far, and discourages early patent-...

We have entered a time when documented photographic or video evidence is not unassailable proof; it is not uniformly authentic...

The frequency with which the U.S. Supreme Court has, in recent years, been changing patent law is dizzying, and the court ofte...

Following the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's denial of an application to register a single-color trade dress for yellow Ch...

The ground-breaking Defend Trade Secrets Act became law in May 2016. As we approach the two-year anniversary we consider four ...

The rapid staking of cryptocurrency patent territory has challenged the notion of what is allowable subject matter and what is...

Some people think open source and patents go together like oil and water. When it comes to blockchain technology, it's more li...

The advent of artificially intelligent entities capable of making new discoveries raises intriguing ethical issues surroundin...

Until a recent Federal Circuit ruling, the practical application of these duties and burdens in litigation was hotly disputed,...

The Music Modernization Act is the product of broad consensus adopted by both the music business and its historic combatants.

A recent split panel of the Federal Circuit upheld the right of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to participate in an appe...

At first glance, the January decision appears to turn a decade of patent damages jurisprudence on its head.

A recent Federal Circuit decision is another example of how to reason through whether the written description is satisfied.

The online retail giant's success in obtaining two patents has raised fundamental legal and even constitutional questions abou...

6,000 breweries means 6,000 brewery names, only some of which are registered as a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark...