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Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending July 11, 2025
Egenera, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc., No. 2023-1428 (Fed. Cir. (D. Mass.) July 7, 2025). Opinion by Stark, joined by Prost and Taranto. Egenera owns a patent related to improved systems and methods for deploying and reconfiguring server systems by use of a digitalized “processing platform” that enables virtual management in lieu of physical rewiring.…
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AI Under the Spotlight: Key Insights Ahead of the White House Action Plan
It’s July, and the White House Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) Action Plan (“Action Plan” or “the plan”) is almost here….By: Epstein Becker & Green
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Left on the Sidelines: The Canadian Patent Appeal Board Rules that Artificial Intelligence Cannot Hold Inventorship Status
Whether AI can be an “inventor” was the key issue in an important recent ruling of the Canadian Patent Appeal Board (the “PAB”). In Thaler, Stephen L. (Re), 2025 CACP 8, the PAB had to decide whether Canadian Patent Application No. 3,137,161, which identified as the sole inventor of its two underlying inventions “Device for the…
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Comprehensive Guide to Dog Bite Laws in California
In California, there is a “strict liability” law in place for dog bites. This means that the owner will not be able to escape responsibility for the injuries his or her dog inflicts on people or pets. The belief that the dog would not act aggressively will not be an excuse for the dog’s owner…
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Syria Declares Cease-Fire After a Week of Upheaval
Sectarian-tinged clashes left hundreds dead and attracted Israeli military intervention. A U.S. envoy said Israel and Syria had agreed to a truce.
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Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.
Defying demolition orders, a Chinese man turned his home into a rickety 11-story tower. Now tourists are coming.
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At Least 28 Dead After Tourist Boat Capsizes in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay
The boat, carrying 48 passengers and five crew members, was on a sightseeing tour of Ha Long Bay when a sudden storm caused it to overturn, state media said. At least 10 people were rescued.
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South Korea Pulls Report Into Jeju Air Crash After Victims’ Families Protest
Relatives of the Jeju Air disaster victims objected to the report in a stormy scene at a news conference, complaining that it blamed the pilots prematurely.
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They Vanished in Syria’s Long Occupation of Lebanon. Now Their Families Want Answers.
Thousands went missing during Syria’s decades-long intervention in Lebanon. Months after the fall of the Syrian regime, families are still clinging to hope.
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How a Sequoia Capital Partner’s Mamdani Posts Dragged the Firm Into Politics
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.
