Technology

  • November 06, 2024

    Intel Accused Of Touting 'Defective' Raptor Lake Processors

    Intel has continued to promote the purported speed and performance of its "defective" 13th and 14th generation desktop processors, which go by the code name Raptor Lake, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in California federal court.

  • November 06, 2024

    Fed. Circ. Mulls Whether Billable Hour Tech Can Be Patented

    The Federal Circuit is set to decide whether a LexisNexis program that helps attorneys track their billable hours is stepping on another company's intellectual property or if that company is simply trying to patent the noninventive concept of keeping time using a computer.

  • November 06, 2024

    Masimo Expert Cites LED And Foam As Evidence Apple Stole IP

    Apple misappropriated Masimo's pulse oximetry trade secrets and used them to improve its Apple Watch, a Masimo expert witness testified in California federal court Wednesday, pointing to Apple's use of a short circuit LED and a black foam test.

  • November 06, 2024

    9th Circ. Says No New Trial For Tesla Investors' Suit

    The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday ruled that a lower court didn't err in denying Tesla investors' request for a new trial regarding their $12 billion claim over Elon Musk's 2018 tweets that he had "funding secured" to take the electric car giant private, saying there were no improper instructions given to the jury.

  • November 06, 2024

    Trump's Win Likely To Spur Deals For Capital Markets Attys

    Former President Donald Trump's decisive win in Tuesday's presidential election will enable deals to proceed on a more certain basis, capital markets advisers said Wednesday, citing pent-up demand to restart capital raising after a long period of subdued activity.

  • November 06, 2024

    SEC Moves To Ax Key Defenses In Kraken Crypto Fraud Row

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has urged a California federal court to ax three of crypto exchange Kraken's defenses in a case alleging it violated securities laws by offering crypto assets without proper registration, arguing that the court has already rejected Kraken's claims that the agency lacks authority to bring the case and that existing law is too vague.

  • November 06, 2024

    Chancery OKs Trade Desk Vote On Charter Move To Nevada

    The Trade Desk Inc. received a Delaware Court of Chancery go-ahead Wednesday for a Nov. 14 stockholder vote on reincorporating the digital advertising company in Nevada, after a vice chancellor rejected claims in a stockholder suit that the company's move requires a supermajority stockholder vote.

  • November 06, 2024

    Trump Win Set To Reshape FCC, Push Policies Rightward

    Donald Trump's return to the White House following Tuesday's election will usher in new political appointees at federal agencies to carry out conservative tech and telecom policies, leading to a reshuffling of priorities at the Federal Communications Commission.

  • November 06, 2024

    Customers Look To Preserve Lead Class Action Against AT&T

    AT&T shareholders are telling a Texas federal judge that the company acted with scienter when it allegedly misled investors about the removal of lead-covered copper cables from its network, pushing back on AT&T's motion to dismiss the suit stemming from a drop in the company's stock price.

  • November 06, 2024

    Automation Co. UiPath Beats Some Shareholder Claims

    A New York federal judge has dismissed several claims from a proposed investor class action against UiPath Inc. that alleges the automation software company misrepresented its technological advancements, market share and revenue to artificially inflate its stock price, finding that many of the challenged statements are inactionable.

  • November 06, 2024

    CMA Probing Outbrain's $1B Altice Video Platform Deal

    Britain's competition enforcer is investigating digital advertising technology provider Outbrain's planned purchase of video advertising platform Teads in a deal with European telecommunications company Altice worth around $1 billion.

  • November 06, 2024

    Fed. Circ. Panel Irked By Confusion In Check Patent Case

    An irritated Federal Circuit panel criticized attorneys for the United Services Automobile Association and PNC Bank on Wednesday for a lack of clarity on which issues reached a final judgment in their nine-figure patent dispute, with one judge telling them, "You both should be embarrassed."

  • November 06, 2024

    Hyundai, Kia Rip Cities' Bellwether Trial Bid In Car-Theft MDL

    Hyundai and Kia have asked a California federal judge to reject several cities' request for bellwether trials in consolidated litigation alleging that the automakers knowingly sold vehicles with design flaws that spawned a car-theft crime wave after a viral TikTok trend popularized tips for breaking into their cars.

  • November 06, 2024

    Justices Eye Narrowing Disclosure Rules In Meta Investor Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court seemed poised Wednesday to hand Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. a narrow victory in a case tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as justices put up a range of hypothetical scenarios to try to pin down when exactly a company needs to disclose to investors that a past event could cause future damage to its business.

  • November 06, 2024

    Data Tracking Suit Against California Hospital Gets 'Last' Try

    A California federal judge gave a plaintiff "one last opportunity" to amend her proposed class action accusing Santa Clara Valley Medical Center of unlawfully sharing sensitive data with Meta and Google through online tracking tools embedded in its website and patient portal.

  • November 06, 2024

    Amazon Can't 'Just Walk Out' On BIPA Claims

    An Illinois federal judge largely allowed two biometric privacy suits to proceed against Amazon and a Midway Airport shop operator over Amazon's Just Walk Out cashierless checkout technology, trimming just an unlawful profiting claim against the travel retailer.   

  • November 06, 2024

    Fed. Circ. Panel Skeptical Of GeoComply Anti-Spoofing Patent

    Judges on the Federal Circuit appeared unlikely to reverse a district court's dismissal of GeoComply's patent infringement suit against its geolocation competitor XPoint Wednesday, repeatedly telling GeoComply's attorney that its anti-location spoofing patent seemed to be largely built around conventional programming.

  • November 06, 2024

    News Outlet Fighting To Keep OpenAI, Microsoft IP Suit Alive

    The Center for Investigative Reporting has told a Manhattan federal judge that its copyright infringement complaint against Microsoft and OpenAI for allegedly using its content to train artificial intelligence models raises existential issues for news organizations that should survive the tech companies' push for dismissal.

  • November 06, 2024

    What A Second Trump Term Could Mean For FDA And CPSC

    The historic reelection of former President Donald Trump could lead to shake-ups at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, while questions remain about what policies he will enact.

  • November 06, 2024

    McGuireWoods-Led Teledyne Pays $710M For Defense Assets

    Led by McGuireWoods LLP, Teledyne Technologies Inc. said Wednesday it will buy certain aerospace and defense electronics businesses from Excelitas Technologies Corp., guided by Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, for $710 million in cash.

  • November 06, 2024

    EU Court Won't Toss Commission's Tax Clawback In Portugal

    A European Union court on Wednesday tossed two challenges to a European Commission ruling that Portugal must claw back tax breaks provided to companies with no local economic activity because that ran counter to commission-approved policies.

  • November 06, 2024

    Fake BigLaw Atty Duped Exec Into Wiring $55M, Co. Says

    A German rubber product manufacturer is suing a California woman and JPMorgan Chase Bank NA in California federal court alleging a company employee was tricked into wiring more than $54.9 million to at least 18 bank accounts by a fraudster posing as both an Orion executive and a partner at Clifford Chance LLP.

  • November 06, 2024

    Nano Dimension Targeted By Activist Investor Murchinson

    Nano Dimension shareholder Murchinson Ltd. has nominated two independent candidates to stand for election to the Israeli 3D printing company's board while slamming the current board for its inability to hold CEO Yoav Stern accountable, saying that it's time to address the company's "persistent undervaluation, improve its allocation of capital and fix a broken boardroom culture."

  • November 06, 2024

    Mass. Voters Back Gig Driver Unions, Setting Up Possible Suit

    Massachusetts voters on Tuesday handed Uber and Lyft drivers a novel route to unionization, likely setting up a legal challenge to the measure that experts predict will face an uphill climb.

  • November 06, 2024

    Capita's £207M Software Co. Takeover Deal Gets UK Probe

    The Competition and Markets Authority has said it will investigate the completed £207 million ($267 million) acquisition by real estate software maker MRI Software LLC of Capita One Ltd. to examine whether the deal could weaken competition in U.K. markets.

Expert Analysis

  • An Overview Of New Export Controls On Advanced Tech

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    With a new rule that took effect this month, the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security continues to expand export controls on advanced technologies, including semiconductor, additive manufacturing and quantum computing, in coordination with international partners, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • How States Are Approaching AI Workplace Discrimination

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    As legislators across the U.S. have begun addressing algorithmic discrimination in the workplace, attorneys at Reed Smith provide an overview of the status, applicability and provisions of 13 state and local bills.

  • 3 Patent Considerations For America's New Quantum Hub

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    Recent developments signal an incredibly bright future for Chicago as the new home of quantum computing, and it is crucial that these innovators — whose technology has the potential to transform many industries — prioritize intellectual property strategy, says Andrew Velzen at McDonnell Boehnen.

  • SBA Proposal Materially Alters Contractor Recertification

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    The Small Business Administration's new proposed rule on recertification affects eligibility for set-aside contracts, significantly alters the landscape for mergers and acquisitions in the government contracts industry, and could have other unintended downstream consequences, says Sam Finnerty at PilieroMazza.

  • Navigating A Potpourri Of Possible Transparency Act Pitfalls

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    Despite the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's continued release of guidance for complying with the Corporate Transparency Act, its interpretation remains in flux, making it important for companies to understand potentially problematic areas of ambiguity in the practical application of the law, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President

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    For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • DOJ Must Overcome Hurdles In RealPage Antitrust Case

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's recent claims that RealPage's pricing software violates the Sherman Act mark a creative, and apparently contradictory, shift in the agency's approach to algorithmic price-fixing that will face several key challenges, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.

  • How Companies Are Approaching Insider Trading Policies

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    An analysis of insider trading policies recently disclosed by 49 S&P 500 companies under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule reveals that while specific provisions vary from company to company, certain common themes are emerging, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • 11 Patent Cases To Watch At Fed. Circ. And High Court

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    As we head into fall, there are 11 patent cases to monitor, touching on a range of issues that could affect patent strategy, such as biotech innovation, administrative rulemaking and patent eligibility, say Edward Lanquist and Wesley Barbee at Baker Donelson.

  • Why India May Become A Major Patent Litigation Forum

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    India is reinventing itself with the goal of becoming a global hot spot for patent litigation, with recent developments at the Delhi High Court creating incentives for plaintiffs to assert patent rights in India, say Ranganath Sudarshan at Covington and IP litigator Udit Sood.

  • Increased IPOs In '24 Shows Importance Of Strategic Planning

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    Initial public offerings, debt issuances and M&A activity so far in 2024 have shown substantial increases over comparable periods in 2023, highlighting why counsel should educate clients on market trends and financing alternatives to proactively prepare them to be ready to take advantage of opportunities, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Bid Protest Spotlight: Rule Of Two, Post Award, Cost Request

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    In this month's bid protest roundup, Alissandra McCann at MoFo examines three recent decisions from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, offering distinct reminders for contractors challenging solicitations while an agency takes corrective action, pursuing post-award bid protests and filing timely cost reimbursement requests.

  • Finding Coverage For Online Retail Privacy Class Actions

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    Following recent court rulings interpreting state invasion of privacy and electronic surveillance statutes triggering a surge in the filing of privacy class actions against online retailers, companies should examine their various insurance policies, including E&O and D&O, for defense coverage of these claims, says Alison Gaske at Gilbert LLP.

  • The Fed. Circ. In August: Secret Sales And Public Disclosures

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    Two recent Federal Circuit rulings — Sanho v. Kaijet and Celanese International v. ITC — highlight that inventors should publicly and promptly disclose their inventions, as a secret sale will not suffice as a disclosure, and file their patent applications within a year of public disclosure, say Sean Murray and Jeremiah Helm at Knobbe Martens.

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