First up this week are Yar Chaikovsky, Philip Ou, Jordan Coyle and their team at White & Case, who scored a significant turnaround at the U.S. International Trade Commission for client Voltage in a patent dispute with Shoals Technologies Group over solar panel technology. The full ITC this week found no violation of Section 337 by Voltage, reversing an earlier decision by an administrative law judge who had found Voltage infringed upon the sole remaining patent at issue in the case. Shoals’ share price dipped by more than 20% the day after the ITC’s decision. The White & Case team includes partner Bruce Yen and associates Yolanda Xu, Sojung Yun, Brady Schoenlein and Radhesh Devendran.

A Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher team led by partners Eugene Scalia, Jonathan Bond and Nick Harper secured a precedential opinion for Coinbase at the Third Circuit this week. The ruling forces the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to explain its denial of Coinbase’s petition asking the agency to clarify how and when the federal securities laws apply to digital assets. The appellate court found that the SEC’s one-paragraph explanation of the denial was “conclusory and insufficiently reasoned, and thus arbitrary and capricious,” but stopped short of forcing the agency to engage in rulemaking proceedings as Coinbase requested. The Gibson Dunn team included associate Zach Young.