A new inter partes review proceeding at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board could draw close attention from patent owners, challengers, and counsel following the medical technology sector. In IPR2026-00341, filed June 12, 2026, the petition is styled Resmed Corp., signaling that ResMed is involved in a fresh PTAB dispute over the validity of an issued patent.

At this early stage, the public docket identifies the proceeding but may not yet fully reflect all underlying petition details, including the specific patent number, all real parties in interest, and the complete list of asserted prior-art grounds.

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has required Taiheiyo Cement Corporation and CalPortland Company to divest assets as a condition of moving forward with their acquisition of ready-mix concrete assets from Vulcan Materials Company. Although the matter did not produce a court opinion, it is a notable enforcement action in a sector that sits at the center of public infrastructure, commercial development, and residential construction.

The government’s intervention underscores a familiar antitrust concern: consolidation in highly local markets for essential building materials.

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A Ukrainian national’s guilty plea in connection with the Conti ransomware operation marks another notable step in the Justice Department’s long-running effort to pursue transnational cybercrime actors through traditional criminal statutes. According to federal prosecutors, the defendant admitted participating in a wire fraud conspiracy tied to the Conti group, one of the most disruptive ransomware organizations to target businesses and institutions worldwide.

The plea is legally significant because it reinforces the government’s willingness to use conspiracy and fraud theories to reach conduct that often spans multiple jurisdictions, anonymous infrastructure, and decentralized criminal networks.

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered an important enforcement win to the Securities and Exchange Commission by preserving the agency’s ability to seek disgorgement in civil cases, including in the matter involving defendant Sripetch. For securities litigators and regulated businesses, the ruling is a reminder that even as the Court has shown increasing skepticism toward parts of the administrative state, it is not categorically stripping agencies of meaningful remedial tools.

Disgorgement has long been one of the SEC’s most potent remedies.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday delivered a significant administrative-law win to the Federal Communications Commission, ruling 8-1 that the agency may continue using its longstanding internal enforcement process to pursue monetary penalties against regulated companies. The decision rejects a constitutional challenge brought by wireless carriers including Verizon and ATT in a case arising from FCC investigations into whether carriers failed to adequately protect customers’ location information.

At issue was the FCC’s two-step penalty framework.

The Third Circuit’s June 4, 2026 opinion in No. 26-1772 is now available, but practitioners should note an immediate limitation: the publicly provided case details here identify the court, docket number, filing date, and a link to the opinion, but do not include the opinion text itself. That means any substantive assessment of the panel’s holdings, doctrinal reasoning, or precedential effect depends on reviewing the slip opinion directly.

Even so, this filing is worth flagging for lawyers who track Third Circuit developments.

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to its order against Illuminate Education, closing an administrative enforcement action that centered on allegations the ed-tech company failed to adequately safeguard highly sensitive student information. According to the FTC, those security failures contributed to a breach affecting 10.1 million students — a scale that makes this one of the most significant recent privacy matters involving school-related data.

The agency’s action, announced here, is notable not just because of the number of affected individuals, but because it underscores the FTC’s continued willingness to treat data-security lapses as consumer-protection violations in sectors handling especially sensitive populations.

A federal judge in Manhattan has sentenced former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah to 42 years in prison, marking one of the most notable terrorism sentencings of the week and reinforcing the Justice Department’s long-running commitment to pursuing legacy wartime prosecutions years after the underlying conduct.

The sentence, imposed June 9 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, followed Najibullah’s conviction for hostage-taking and providing material support for terrorism resulting in death.

In a unanimous opinion by Justice Gorsuch, the Supreme Court affirmed the judgment below in No. 25-466, with Justice Thomas filing a concurrence. Although the Court’s disposition is straightforward on its face, the opinion matters because it reinforces the Court’s current approach to appellate review: close attention to text, procedural posture, and the limited role of higher courts in revisiting questions not properly preserved or presented.

The Court’s holding was simple: the lower court’s judgment stands.

In an early jurisdictional ruling that Texas litigators will want to watch closely, the Texas Business Court has sent a former Exxon Mobil executive’s $5 million racial discrimination suit back to state district court, holding that the court’s enabling statute does not reach employment disputes. The decision marks one of the clearer signals yet about how narrowly the new court may read its own authority.

The case arose from claims by a former Exxon executive alleging race-based discrimination and seeking substantial damages.

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court preserved the Securities and Exchange Commission’s ability to seek disgorgement without having to show identifiable investor harm in every enforcement action. The ruling is a significant win for the agency, which has long relied on disgorgement to strip alleged wrongdoers of ill-gotten gains in cases ranging from accounting and books-and-records violations to insider trading and broader fraud claims.

The practical takeaway is straightforward: the SEC retains a powerful remedial tool even where the connection between misconduct and a specific victim’s financial loss may be difficult to trace.

A new inter partes review, IPR2026-00391, was filed on June 5, 2026, at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board naming Teladoc Health, Inc. in the proceeding. The filing places another spotlight on the digital health and telemedicine patent landscape, where platform functionality, remote care workflows, and software-driven healthcare delivery continue to generate high-stakes validity disputes.

At this early stage, the PTAB docket identifies the proceeding by title but may not yet reflect the full set of publicly available petition details practitioners typically watch for, including the specific patent number, the complete alignment of petitioner and patent owner, and the precise prior-art combinations asserted in the challenge.

A new inter partes review, IPR2026-00387, was filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on June 5, 2026, under the caption Optiver US LLC. At this early stage, the proceeding is notable less for a developed merits record and more for what it signals: another PTAB dispute involving a sophisticated market participant, with the potential to touch on commercially important technology and high-stakes parallel enforcement or licensing issues.

Based on the docket currently available, the proceeding names Optiver US LLC as the petitioner.

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has announced a criminal indictment against four container manufacturing companies and seven executives for an alleged price-fixing conspiracy during the Covid-19 pandemic. Even without all charging details yet public, the case stands out for pairing corporate defendants with individual executive charges in a market tied to essential goods during a period of severe supply-chain disruption.

That combination is important.