The Federal Circuit affirmed a trio of administrative tribunal decisions nixing nearly 100 claims from patents related to portable data storage devices belonging to non-practicing entity Ioengine LLC but revived six claims found to have been wrongly axed under the printed matter doctrine on Friday.

Zoom Video Communications Inc. and Salesforce Inc. made their in-house legal leaders among the companies’ top-paid executives last year.

The nation’s busiest judge when it comes to patent cases rejected a digital rights group’s request to unseal records from a suit pitting an investor-backed patent owner against Charter Communications Inc.

Block Inc., the parent company of mobile payment service Cash App, failed to convince a federal judge to toss a proposed class action alleging its role in sending out referral text messages violated Washington’s anti-spam statute.

Cookie maker and bakery franchise chain Crumbl LLC shared the financial information of consumers with its payments processor Stripe Inc. without their consent in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, a proposed federal class action said.

Four prominent authors filed putative class actions against software companies Nvidia Corp. and Databricks Inc., joining a parade of creators suing for copyright infringement over inputs used to train generative AI models.