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Patent activity in quantum computing is accelerating as the sector moves toward commercial products. Recent PTAB rulings reveal that many quantum‑related applications encounter the same eligibility and claim‑drafting hurdles seen in software patents, but amplified by the field’s reliance on advanced mathematics and physics. Companies filing hastily often miss critical nuances that can jeopardize patent enforceability. The article offers practical guidance drawn from these decisions to help innovators protect their quantum inventions effectively.
Ubisoft abruptly shut down the online servers for The Crew, leaving owners with a non‑functional game. French consumer watchdog UFC‑Que Choisir filed a lawsuit in the Creteil Judicial Court, accusing Ubisoft of misleading buyers about the permanence of their purchase...
Top Washington lobbyist Brian Ballard testified that he severed ties with former Congressman David Rivera after learning Rivera secured a $50 million contract with Venezuela’s government in 2020. Ballard, a key witness alongside Senator Marco Rubio, detailed text messages and emails showing his growing...
Colorado legislators are reviewing SB26, a bipartisan bill that would create the nation’s first Artists Corporation (A‑Corp), a specialized limited‑liability entity exclusively for artists. The proposal aims to simplify incorporation, lower formation costs, and eventually grant group health‑insurance access for...
West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey signed HB 4965, a law that lets members of the state workers’ health plan switch to an alternative, medically appropriate treatment of equal or lesser cost without filing a new prior‑authorization request. The change affects roughly...
The IRS’s civil fraud penalty, codified at IRC §6663, imposes a 75% surcharge on any underpayment proven to stem from intentional tax evasion. Examiners rely on “badges of fraud” – patterns such as unexplained income spikes, missing records, and contradictory statements...
Digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services demanding transparency for the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, which automates Medicare prior‑authorization decisions. The suit argues the model violates...
On March 12 2026 the CFTC published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (APNR) seeking input on event‑contract derivatives traded on prediction markets. The agency signals intent to assert exclusive jurisdiction, potentially overriding state gambling regimes, and classifies these contracts as swaps...
The Trump administration’s September executive order raised the H‑1B petition fee from roughly $3,500 to $100,000, targeting specialty‑occupation visas used by hospitals for physicians, nurses and technicians. The American Hospital Association (AHA) warns that the fee will deepen the current...
Harris County civil judge Nathan Milliron, whose courtroom outburst was captured in a viral video, is now facing financial penalties from the Texas Ethics Commission. The commission cited delinquent filings, imposing a $1,000 civil penalty for missed campaign‑finance reports and...
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand has revoked the capital‑market auditor licence of a Deloitte‑affiliated professional and imposed a six‑year ban after uncovering systemic audit failures at Stark Corp. The regulator also filed a criminal complaint with the Department...
On 17 December 2025 Hong Kong launched a public consultation to overhaul its Registered Designs Ordinance, first enacted in 1997. The review proposes broader definitions of “design” and “article,” removal of the industrial‑process requirement, and inclusion of colours and virtual designs. It...
The Justice Department, under President Trump, has concluded that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional, arguing it overreaches congressional power. The administration plans to retain official documents rather than automatically turn them over to the National Archives after the 2029...
Twenty states and the District of Columbia have filed an amicus brief opposing Monsanto in the Supreme Court case that questions whether the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) preempts state failure‑to‑warn lawsuits over Roundup. Monsanto, a Bayer subsidiary,...
The White House released a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence urging Congress to preempt fragmented state AI laws and adopt a uniform, minimally burdensome national standard. It recommends creating regulatory sandboxes for innovation, using existing agencies rather than a...
The Supreme Court of Canada’s spring session will hear 14 appeals, including ten criminal matters, before moving temporarily to a new address for a decade‑long courthouse renovation. Highlights include a language‑rights challenge against St. John’s International Airport Authority under the Official...
The House Ways and Means Committee unanimously approved five bipartisan tax bills targeting sexual‑assault survivors, disaster victims, early‑childhood educators, taxpayers, and whistleblowers. The Survivor Justice Tax Prevention Act removes compensatory damages for assault from taxable income, while the Disaster Tax...
A federal judge dismissed the civil‑rights lawsuit filed by the parents of Manuel Paez Terán, the 26‑year‑old protester shot dead by Georgia State Patrol troopers during the Jan. 18, 2023 "Cop City" demonstration. The ruling held the officers' use of pepper balls and...
The FDA has issued a nationwide warning against using any drug products intended to be sterile that were compounded by North American Custom Laboratories LLC, operating as FarmaKeio Superior Custom Compounding. After an inspection uncovered conditions that could lead to...
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of Space Commerce has issued a proposal for a voluntary “Space Commerce Certification” that would create a unified, light‑touch mission‑authorization pathway for novel commercial space activities such as in‑space manufacturing, satellite servicing and lunar...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit on March 31 against Exel Inc., operating as DHL Supply Chain, alleging violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The case centers on Jessica Grier, a temporary worker with sickle‑cell disease who was...
April 1, 2026 marked the original deadline for the CFPB’s Section 1033 open‑banking mandate, but a federal injunction froze enforcement, leaving the rule in legal limbo. Major banks have nevertheless accelerated API partnerships with aggregators such as Plaid to meet consumer demand and...
A federal magistrate judge dismissed the wrongful‑termination lawsuit filed by Attaullah Baig, WhatsApp’s former head of security, citing insufficient evidence of retaliation. Baig alleged that Meta allowed thousands of employees to access sensitive user data and ignored his proposals to...
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is being sued in federal court for allegedly terminating a Haitian line cook after a biased internal investigation. The employee, Mercius Delice, who worked nearly eight years without disciplinary issues, was accused of sexual misconduct...
More than 60 civil‑society groups, led by the Consumer Federation of America, have written to Congress demanding a halt to Meta’s plan to embed facial‑recognition software, called “Name Tag,” in its Ray‑Ban smart glasses. The groups cite a Swedish investigation...
On March 30, 2026, the EEOC filed a federal lawsuit against Ascend Wellness Holdings, alleging that female employees at its Collinsville, Illinois dispensary endured a sexually hostile work environment and that one employee was constructively discharged. The complaint centers on...
The Federal Aviation Administration announced civil penalties totaling nearly $430,000 against three shippers for violating hazardous‑material rules on air cargo. Verizon faces a $70,500 fine for shipping lithium‑ion batteries to FedEx without proper classification, packaging, labeling, or emergency‑response data. World...
A federal court dismissed all of Aneesa Johnson’s discrimination claims against Georgetown University, upholding the school’s decision to fire her based on its at‑will probationary policy. Johnson, an African‑American Muslim assistant director, was terminated after old anti‑Zionist tweets surfaced on...
The EU Pay Transparency Directive mandates gender‑neutral job evaluation to ensure equal pay for work of equal value. In response, the European Institute for Gender Equality released a voluntary EU Toolkit on March 26, 2026, offering nine modular tools that...
Toll Northeast Building, a homebuilder, sued Paul Camarda and his entities on March 30, 2026 in the Southern District of New York, alleging they blocked the second closing of a two‑parcel residential land deal in Putnam County. The first parcel closed in...
Maryland’s Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure has drafted an amendment to Rule 2‑504.3, the state’s computer‑generated evidence rule, to expressly cover generative AI exhibits. The proposal mandates prior notice, full disclosure of training data and methodology, a pre‑trial...
The Ohio Supreme Court upheld a workers’ compensation penalty against Whirlpool for failing to install required guard railings at a conveyor‑belt crossing, deeming the task of crossing the belt as effectively required. The court interpreted Ohio Administrative Code 4123:1‑5‑05(C)(3) to...
First American Title Insurance and its mortgage arm have moved to freeze more than $1.6 million in the bank accounts of Novad Management Consulting, alleging the reverse‑mortgage servicer concealed a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ban and a HUD settlement. Novad stopped...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has released a detailed Q&A to clarify how data contributors should onboard to the EU’s Consolidated Tapes (CTs) for bonds and equities ahead of the system’s go‑live. It reminds trading venues and Authorized...
An Ohio appeals court upheld the dismissal of an employer intentional tort claim stemming from a workplace shooting that injured seven employees. Plaintiff Nicholas Harris alleged Tri‑Tech Laboratories allowed an intoxicated, armed coworker on site, but the court said his...
Former JPMorgan Private Bank executive director Joshua Biering filed a federal petition after a FINRA panel concluded the firm deliberately impeded his move to a competitor but awarded him zero damages. Biering, who managed roughly $1 billion in client assets and...
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) operates a two‑tier system: a Court of First Instance split into local, regional and central divisions, and a Court of Appeal seated in Luxembourg. The central division is anchored in Paris with additional seats in...
A Delaware Court of Chancery judge denied the defendants' motion to dismiss, allowing a lawsuit by the YWCA of Rochester to proceed against the Hatteras fund complex. The case centers on a 2021 transaction that swapped a $305 million diversified portfolio...
A federal court on March 31 rejected a proposed settlement that would have weakened the Johnson Amendment, the 70‑year‑old law barring partisan political activity by 501(c)(3) nonprofits. The ruling, based on the Tax Anti‑Injunction Act, leaves the law intact and...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that the FDA has still not finalized the financial conflicts‑of‑interest (COI) guidance for its advisory committees, despite a law mandating it 13 years ago. The agency also fails to publicly disclose how it evaluates...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against a Texas Kroger store for revoking a previously granted ADA accommodation for an employee with neuropathy. The employee had been allowed to use a walker and take frequent sitting breaks,...
Australia has introduced its first orphan works scheme, allowing libraries and museums to digitise and share works whose copyright owners are unknown or unlocatable. The framework lets owners reclaim exclusive rights if they later surface, while mandating a searchable registry...
Cetera Financial and Ameriprise are facing class‑action lawsuits after data breaches exposed client personally identifiable information. Cetera’s breach stemmed from an unauthorized email account access, leaking names, Social Security numbers and account details. Ameriprise was hit by the ShinyHunters ransomware...
Federal prosecutors in California have charged ten foreign nationals from four crypto market‑making firms with orchestrating wash‑trading and pump‑and‑dump schemes that artificially inflated token prices. CEOs of Vortex and Contrarian were arrested in Singapore and extradited to Oakland, where they...
The Puerto Rico Supreme Court ruled in Friger Salgueiro v. Mech‑Tech College that commercial image rights can be transferred only through a written agreement, regardless of whether the individual is an employee or contractor. Verbal consent or implied permission does...
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Michele Bullock announced a ban on merchant surcharging for card payments. The decision follows a two‑decade review of Australia’s electronic payments market, which regulators say has been exploited by banks and multinational schemes. The ban...
Indiana enacted House Bill 1200, requiring all commercial driver’s license (CDL) applicants to demonstrate English proficiency and restricting license ownership to drivers with established domicile. Effective April 1, the state’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles began revoking licenses of roughly 2,000...
The Federal Circuit’s 2025 decision in Lashify, Inc. v. ITC broadened the economic prong of the domestic‑industry requirement, allowing all U.S. labor and capital—including warehousing, marketing and distribution—to count toward eligibility for Section 337 relief. This change enables more patent owners...
President Trump signed an executive order directing DHS to create state‑by‑state lists of adult U.S. citizens for upcoming federal elections, aiming to curb mail‑in voting. Experts argue the federal government lacks reliable data to compile accurate citizenship and residency records,...
A federal appellate court declined to revive a challenge to Minnesota's 2023 deep‑fake law, leaving the 8th Circuit's earlier ruling intact. The law criminalizes realistic AI‑generated videos of politicians unless they are clearly labeled as parody. Plaintiffs Christopher Kohls and...
