The US Forest Service violated the Clean Water Act when the agency’s aircraft sprayed fire-retardant chemicals without a permit, a Montana federal court ruled.

Shareholders of Covid-19 vaccine developer Vaxart Inc. adequately stated insider trading and scheme participation claims against Armistice Capital LLC, a hedge fund linked to Vaxart, a federal court ruled.

Courtroom attacks that 10x Genomics Inc. and Harvard College launched over gene-mapping technology patents have exposed the collaborators to “bombshell revelations”—uncovered by one of the defendants—that Harvard and 10x broke “long-hidden” promises to openly license “the fruits of government-funded biotechnology research.”

The US Patent and Trademark Office’s decision that a LegalForce trademark attorney violated the agency’s rules of professional conduct was upheld by a Virgina federal judge who denied the attorneys’ attempt to fight the decision.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google must pay Sonos Inc. $32.5 million for using patented smart-speaker technologies without its former partner’s permission, a federal jury in San Francisco said Friday, ending one chapter of a sprawling global battle between the tech rivals.

An insurer for Bill Hwang and his Archegos Capital Management is suing to avoid paying any costs incurred by Archegos, Hwang and other senior executives of the investment firm from a separate suit by a former employee who claims the implosion of the family office cost him as much as $50 million.