Technology

  • December 04, 2024

    Oracle Can't Seek Fla. Tax Refunds Without Repaying Clients

    Oracle can't obtain refunds for Florida state and local taxes that it improperly collected on sales of electronically delivered software to three businesses because the company didn't reimburse those customers first, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.

  • December 04, 2024

    Apple Forced Exec Out For Flagging Unequal Pay, Court Told

    Apple gave the former head of an audio division an "awful" choice — work under a performance improvement plan or quit — after she raised concerns that she received less pay than her male counterparts and participated in an investigation into her supervisor, she told a California state court.

  • December 04, 2024

    Trump Names Slater To DOJ Antitrust Against 'Wild' Big Tech

    President-elect Donald Trump signaled a full steam ahead approach to reining in major technology platforms with the announced nomination Wednesday of former Federal Trade Commission staffer and Trump administration economic adviser Gail Slater to run the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.

  • December 04, 2024

    Worker Accuses Delivery Robot Maker Of Wage Violations

    A former operations coordinator sued a California robotics company making food delivery in partnership with Uber Eats, claiming in his proposed class action in state court that the company cheated workers out of wages and failed to provide meal and rest breaks.

  • December 04, 2024

    TPG Leads $2B Investment In PE-Backed Data Firm Veeam

    Insight Partners-owned Veeam Software said Wednesday it has sold off a $2 billion stake in the company through a secondary offering to a group led by TPG and including Temasek, Neuberger Berman Capital Solutions and other new investors, valuing the software company at $15 billion. 

  • December 04, 2024

    Paul Weiss-Led PE Firm's SPAC Bids £836M For E-Training Biz

    Investor General Atlantic said Wednesday that a company it manages has agreed to buy Learning Technologies Group PLC, a workplace training provider, for a total of £836 million ($1.1 billion) as the U.S. business looks to expand in the growing sector.

  • December 03, 2024

    Ex-Apple Workers Accused Of Swiping Charity Match Funds

    A Northern California district attorney's office on Tuesday unveiled charges against six former Apple Inc. workers accused of scheming to convince their employer to match thousands of dollars in nonexistent donations to children's charities, according to an announcement from the office.

  • December 03, 2024

    FTC Secures Location Data Sale Bans In Pair Of New Actions

    The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday doubled down on its efforts to safeguard consumers' sensitive location information, announcing a pair of settlements against a data broker and an analytics provider that the commission claims unlawfully collected and sold data that could track individuals to health clinics and other sensitive places. 

  • December 03, 2024

    US Claims Court Backs HHS Agency's $20.5M IT Deal Choice

    A federal claims court judge has denied a protest of a $20.5 million U.S. Department of Health and Human Services information technology deal, saying an HHS agency reasonably concluded that it had only "some confidence" in a government contractor protester.

  • December 03, 2024

    Samsung Foe Wants More Money After $192M Patent Win

    A small Silicon Valley outfit that makes wireless chargers wants U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap to potentially triple the $192 million willful infringement verdict the company won against Samsung, citing the smartphone maker's "egregious" conduct during trial in Texas federal court in Marshall.

  • December 03, 2024

    Crypto Co. Hut 8 Wants Out Of Merger Disclosure Investor Suit

    Crypto mining company Hut 8 moved to dismiss a proposed shareholder class action that is based on the claims of a short-seller's report that Hut 8 overpaid for a company with severe operational issues, saying the suit does not show the alleged misrepresentations were false or misleading when made or that investors were actually harmed.

  • December 03, 2024

    Del. Justices Mostly Uphold Mindbody Merger Suit Ruling

    Delaware's Supreme Court has upheld a Court of Chancery ruling that the former CEO of Mindbody Inc. is liable for an extra $1 per share plus interest to stockholders of the fitness software company but reversed the lower court's finding that Vista Equity Partners Management LLC, which acquired Mindbody in 2019, aided and abetted the executive.

  • December 03, 2024

    Antitrust Judge Rips Apple's 'Meritless' Doc Privilege Claims

    Apple fought uphill Tuesday to convince a California federal magistrate judge that it properly withheld 57,000 documents from Epic Games due to attorney-client privilege in their antitrust fight, with the judge eventually telling its lawyer, "I disagree with everything you're saying, and the fact you're making these meritless arguments causes me concern."

  • December 03, 2024

    Former Officials Target DOJ, FTC Position In Epic V. Google

    The U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission drew criticism Tuesday from former officials who targeted the agencies' stance on Google's Ninth Circuit fight against the mandated opening of the Android Play Store, with the officials warning in an amicus brief against "compulsory sharing obligations."

  • December 03, 2024

    Chamber Backs T-Mobile, Sprint's Challenge To FCC Fine

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the D.C. Circuit that recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings make clear that the Federal Communications Commission overstepped its authority when it levied a combined $92 million in fines on T-Mobile and Sprint for selling users' location data.

  • December 03, 2024

    ZoomInfo Brass Face COVID Customer Loss Derivative Suit

    Leaders of software company ZoomInfo Technologies Inc. face new shareholder derivative action claims over the company's allegedly improper customer retention measures following its $33 million write-down in connection with the matter.

  • December 03, 2024

    Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

    December's appellate forecast calls for a squall of showdowns in a tiny time period before the holidays, including arguments involving recent U.S. Supreme Court cases, Big Tech's patents and popular purveyors of health food. In addition, winds of change are swirling around the White House's litigation posture and judicial nominations, and we'll quiz you on the latter in this edition of Wheeling & Appealing.

  • December 03, 2024

    Meta, Jawbone Strike Deal Ending VR Headset Patent Case

    Meta Inc. said Tuesday it has reached a settlement with Jawbone Innovations to end a lawsuit in Texas federal court claiming its virtual reality headsets infringe a series of Jawbone's patents.

  • December 03, 2024

    USPTO Abandons Polarizing Proposal Over Double Patenting

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has withdrawn an extremely controversial proposal tied to double patenting, citing "resource constraints" in a Federal Register notice set to be published Wednesday.

  • December 03, 2024

    OpenAI Must Disclose Execs' Messages To News Orgs.

    The New York Times, Daily News, other news organizations and writers can gain access to the social media messages of executives at OpenAI in their litigation accusing the company of using copyright-protected material to train ChatGPT after a New York judge rejected efforts to block the disclosure of the messages.

  • December 03, 2024

    Microsoft Asks FTC Watchdog To Look Into Leaked Probe

    A Microsoft deputy general counsel on Tuesday asked the Federal Trade Commission's inspector general to look into whether commission management improperly told a news outlet that the FTC had opened a broad antitrust investigation of the tech giant.

  • December 03, 2024

    Vidal Aimed To Put USPTO Rulemaking In The Spotlight

    Kathi Vidal's tenure as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been marked by dedication to making the agency's decisions and processes more transparent, attorneys said ahead of her mid-December departure.

  • December 03, 2024

    Intel's License Fight With VLSI In Texas Gets May Trial Date

    A Texas federal judge has set a May trial date for Intel's claim that it already has a license to VLSI's chip patents in their multibillion-dollar dispute.

  • December 03, 2024

    Google Wants Ad Tech Claims In Texas Heard By Judge, Not Jury

    Google is pushing to have the Texas-led antitrust case targeting its digital ad technology tried to a judge instead of a jury, saying state enforcers are not entitled to have a jury decide whether the company violated the law or what penalties should be imposed if it did.

  • December 03, 2024

    Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Vehicle Security Patent Suit

    The Federal Circuit on Tuesday backed a lower court's finding that a vehicle security patent owned by consumer electronics company VOXX International Corp. was invalid as abstract, handing a win to a company it targeted in an infringement suit.

Expert Analysis

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    Playing Ultimate Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    In addition to being fun, ultimate Frisbee has improved our legal careers by emphasizing the importance of professionalism, teamwork, perseverance, enthusiasm and vulnerability, say Arunabha Bhoumik and Adam Bernstein at Regeneron. 

  • Tracking The Slow Movement Of AI Copyright Cases

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    The tech community may be expecting a prompt resolution on whether products generated by artificial intelligence are a fair use of copyrighted works, but legal history shows that a response to this question — at the heart of over 30 pending cases — will take years, say attorneys at White & Case.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Metadata

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    Several recent rulings reflect the competing considerations that arise when parties dispute the form of production for electronically stored information, underscoring that counsel must carefully consider how to produce and request reasonably usable data, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • The 3rd-Party Bankruptcy Release Landscape After Purdue

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    In its Purdue Pharma ruling prohibiting nonconsensual third-party releases, the U.S. Supreme Court did not comment on criteria to render a third-party release consensual, opening a debate in the bankruptcy courts on the permissibility of opt-out versus opt-in releases, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Comparing Antitrust Outlooks Amid Google Remedy Review

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    As the U.S. Justice Department mulls potential structural remedies after winning its recent case against Google, increased global scrutiny of Big Tech leaves ex post and ex ante antitrust approaches ripe for evaluation, say Nishant Chadha at the Indian School of Business and Manisha Goel at Pomona College.

  • What New Int'l Treaty Means For Global AI Regulation

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    Lawyers at Bird & Bird consider how global artificial intelligence regulation will be affected by the first international AI treaty recently signed by the U.S., EU and U.K., as well as its implications for business and several issues that stakeholders should be aware of.

  • How The Presidential Election Will Affect Workplace AI Regs

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    The U.S. has so far adopted a light-handed approach to regulating artificial intelligence in the labor and employment area, but the presidential election is unlikely to have as dramatic of an effect on AI regulations as it may on other labor and employment matters, say attorneys at Littler.

  • Opinion

    PREVAIL Bill Is Another Misguided Attempt To Restrict PTAB

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    The decade-long campaign against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board — currently focused on the PREVAIL Act that's slated for markup in the Senate — is not really about procedural issues, and it is not aimed at securing more accurate patentability decisions, says Clear IP's Joseph Matal, former acting director at the USPTO.

  • Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being

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    As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.

  • A Novel Expansion Of Alien Tort Statute In 9th Circ.

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    The Ninth Circuit's Doe v. Cisco rehearing denial allows a new invocation of the Alien Tort Statute to proceed, which could capture the U.S. Supreme Court's attention, and has potentially dramatic consequences for U.S. companies doing business with foreign governments, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes

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    Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.

  • Series

    Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.

  • How Judiciary Can Minimize AI Risks In Secondary Sources

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    Because courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence and other safeguards do not address the risk of hallucinations in secondary source materials, the judiciary should consider enlisting legal publishers and database hosts to protect against AI-generated inaccuracies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

  • 3 Steps For Companies To Combat Task Scams

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    On the rise in the U.S., the task scam — when scammers offer a victim a fake work-from-home job — hurts impersonated businesses by tarnishing their name and brand, but companies have a few ways to fight back against these cons, says Chris Wlach at Huge.

  • Nvidia Case's Potential Impact On Securities Class Actions

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    In Nvidia v. Ohman Fonder, the U.S. Supreme Court could strip lower courts of their long-standing ability and obligation to holistically weigh all relevant facts supporting plaintiffs' allegations of securities fraud, which would have a wide-ranging impact on securities fraud class actions in the U.S., say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

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