Andrew Karpan

Administrative patent judges have agreed to wipe out three mobile video game software patents asserted against game developer Playrix but split on prior art arguments challenging two claims in a related fourth patent.

Telling a California federal court that he was an "elderly man now without vast resources," one of the co-writers of a minor 1989 hit is pointing to his modest means in fighting off $186,000 in legal fines surrounding a poorly argued motion from his failed copyright case against Mariah Carey.

A New York federal judge has held that it is only fitting that she rule twice on a motion to dismiss a $450 million patent lawsuit against AT&T over so-called twinning phone technology, deciding yet again that the patent is not inventive enough to be worth anything.

The U.S. International Trade Commission issued a limited order barring a Chinese company from importing parts used in molding machines that make plastic bottles, following an infringement case from a Canadian rival — though the trade agency split in its decision not to issue a cease-and-desist order targeting imported parts that already made it into the U.S. 

Music rights heavyweight Ross Charap is moving from his longtime perch at ArentFox Schiff LLP to Barton LLP, bringing with him clients like The Rolling Stones and the estate of international opera star Jessye Norman.

The owner of a Las Vegas-based promotional website has agreed to settle its copyright dispute with a food photo licensing company that was previously criticized for so-called "copyright trolling."

Samsung has persuaded the majority of a patent board panel to investigate the validity of a wireless tech patent issued to Airgo Networks co-founder Greg Raleigh, even though Raleigh's company is scheduled to assert the patent at trial in federal court in Marshall, Texas, about six months before the board will reach its decision.

A federal judge in Utah has ordered a MasterCard unit to cough up over $2.8 million in legal fees for "aggressively" litigating an "objectively specious" trade secrets suit against two McKinsey consultants who went on to found one of MasterCard's only serious rivals in a corner of the business analytics software market.

A federal judge in Utah has ordered a MasterCard unit to cough up over $2.8 million in legal fees for "aggressively" litigating an "objectively specious" trade secrets suit against two McKinsey consultants who went on to found one of MasterCard's only serious rivals in a corner of the business analytics software market.

Two ad tech companies say they have reached a deal to end a lawsuit in Arizona federal court over alleged infringement of a patent covering a purportedly novel way of loading advertisements on websites.