Specialty Group: Intellectual Property, Information Technology & Cybersecurity

On August 4, 2026, the Ninth Circuit vacated the district court’s permanent injunction barring VIP Products from selling its “Bad Spaniels” dog toy and directed entry of judgment for VIP on Jack Daniel’s claim fo ...

Every patent application filed in Australia must clear a deceptively simple hurdle: the invention must be a ‘manner of manufacture’ within the meaning of the Statute of Monopolies.[1] The long-running litigation of ...

Authors: Scott Hall, Phil Wiese, and Leeza Arbatman The California Court of Appeal recently handed businesses that use automated license plate recognition (ALPR) technology an important victory, holding that a plaintif ...

The International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (‘UPOV Convention’) provides the international framework for plant variety protection and underlies the Plant Breeder’s Rights Act 1994 (Ct ...