Patent owners may breathe a sigh of relief because the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has agreed to review a ruling from last year in a case about an alleged infringer’s right to sell a product based on a patent claim subsequently changed in a patent office action.

In a pair of rulings, the 1st U.S.

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has ruled that a Washington-based software industry trade group can keep the identity of an anonymous informant secret, denying enforcement of a subpoena by a company that claimed the John Doe defamed them.

Law school graduates will be allowed to count more credit hours from clinics, field placement courses and externships toward establishing their eligibility to take the New York bar exam under new curriculum requirements issued by the state Court of Appeals on Thursday.

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has found that under D.C. law, civil protection orders must be available to those who claim they’ve been stalked or sexually assaulted by a stranger, not just when the parties had been “intimate” partners or had been in an interpersonal or intrafamily relationship.