Michelle Morgante

January 29, 2025 | The Recorder

Partner Kevin Wheeler led Latham teams in separate offensive litigation cases before the ITC to protect the IP of wireless networking giant Netgear and Serendia, an Orange County-based medical devices company.

By Michelle Morgante

6 minute read

January 28, 2025 | The Recorder

A three-judge appellate panel affirmed a lower court’s ruling that Nunes and his family failed to prove their reputations were damaged by a 2018 Esquire story alleging their farm hired undocumented laborers.

By Michelle Morgante

6 minute read

January 27, 2025 | The Recorder

A lawsuit filed in Northern California alleges Nubela and its U.S.-based subsidiary, Proxycurl, create fake accounts faster than LinkedIn can block them and unlawfully scrape data from millions of LinkedIn profiles that is then sold to third parties.

By Michelle Morgante

5 minute read

January 24, 2025 | The Recorder

In a case that was remanded back by the Supreme Court, a U.S. district court found the toy was a parody that did not infringe on Jack Daniel's trademark, but still tarnished the whiskey brand, noting “human consumption and canine excrement do not mix.”

By Michelle Morgante

4 minute read

January 17, 2025 | The Recorder

"Each of the plaintiffs has suffered mental and emotional trauma from being exposed to depraved content in service of Scale AI’s various projects." said Glenn Danas, lead counsel for the plaintiffs.

By Michelle Morgante

5 minute read

January 15, 2025 | The Recorder

Mark Lemley said he could not “in good conscience” represent Mark Zuckerberg given recent decisions to "encourage disinformation and hate speech" on his company's platforms. A suit pending in Northern California alleges Meta infringed the copyrights of several authors by using their works to train its generative AI program.

By Michelle Morgante

6 minute read

January 10, 2025 | The Recorder

The 2025 California Legal Awards have moved to mid-summer. Nominations are now being accepted. Questions? Plan to attend our Jan. 23 Q&A call.

By Michelle Morgante

2 minute read

January 07, 2025 | The Recorder

An appellate panel last week rejected the beer giant’s challenge of a 2022 jury verdict in favor of San Diego County’s Stone Brewing. Lead counsel Noah Hagey says the decision is a road map for future “reverse confusion” cases.

By Michelle Morgante

8 minute read

January 03, 2025 | The Recorder

An agreement signed in the U.S. District Court of Northern California requires Anthropic to use “guardrails” to protect copyrighted lyrics allegedly used to train its premier AI product, Claude. The case filed by a group of music publishers remains in motion.

By Michelle Morgante

5 minute read

December 31, 2024 | The Recorder

Wonderbow, the independent German company behind the board game Kelp, learned the hard way that counterfeiters were tough competitors when it came to stealing IP and marketing fake products on e-commerce sites.

By Michelle Morgante

8 minute read