The Justice Department sued the University of Delaware and its Board of Trustees in federal court in Delaware on October 1 over a residency policy that gives in-state tuition to students without lawful immigration status. The complaint alleges Section VII of the policy violates 8 U.S.C. 1623 by denying the same rates to U.S. citizens from other states, and 8 U.S.C. 1621(d) because no state law authorizes the benefit.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on September 29, 2026, affirmed a Delaware federal judgment that ROSS Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters Westlaw headnotes and could not claim fair use for using them to train a competing AI legal research tool, Bloomberg Law and Copyright Lately reported. The precedential opinion, filed under temporary seal on September 29, is now public on the court's website.
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Corteva Agriscience and gene-editing company Inari Agriculture settled their patent and plant variety protection litigation days into a jury trial in Delaware federal court over Inari's use of Corteva's patented corn and soybean seed deposits. Under a stipulated order of dismissal with prejudice signed by Judge John F. Murphy on September 28, Inari must destroy all Corteva biological materials within 30 days, assign its edited versions of Corteva traits to Corteva, and negotiate licensing agreements; other terms are confidential.
U.S. Circuit Judge William Bryson, sitting by designation in Delaware federal court, denied motions to dismiss filed by Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna in patent infringement litigation brought by Bayer over messenger RNA technology. The court held that Bayer's asserted claims are not directed to patent-ineligible natural laws under Section 101 and that Bayer plausibly pled infringement under Section 271.