Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
Technology
-
December 04, 2024
9th Circ. Won't Allow Bookseller Group In FTC's Amazon Suit
An independent bookstore association can't join the government's antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, the Ninth Circuit said Wednesday, with the panel's majority agreeing with the Federal Trade Commission and e-commerce giant that the trade group's allegations involve different anticompetitive conduct in different markets.
-
December 04, 2024
Yelp Blasts Paxton's Anti-Abortion Center Suit As 'Bad Faith'
Yelp is urging the Ninth Circuit to revive its bid to block Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit alleging the review service misinformed users with disclaimers about limited medical services at crisis pregnancy centers, arguing Wednesday it should've been allowed to pursue discovery to show Paxton sued in bad faith.
-
December 04, 2024
Colo. Co.'s Alleged Kickback Scheme Ends In $2M Settlements
A Colorado neuromonitoring company, its founder and two others have agreed to pay more than $2 million to end a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging they participated in a kickback scheme to get surgeons to order neuromonitoring services covered by federal programs.
-
December 04, 2024
Meta Persuades PTAB To Ax 2 Earphone Patents
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that Meta was able to show that every claim in a pair of earphone patents owned by Eight kHz is invalid, holding they are obvious.
-
December 04, 2024
RealPage Says DOJ's Antitrust Markets 'Hide The Ball'
RealPage has urged a North Carolina federal court to throw out the government's antitrust case against it, arguing that enforcers have not shown that use of its software is raising rental rates in any part of the country and that landlords use it to offer competitive rents.
-
December 04, 2024
Aya Healthcare Buys Fla. Peer Cross Country In $615M Deal
Talent software and staffing company Aya Healthcare, steered by Procopio, will acquire Davis Polk & Wardwell-guided Cross Country Healthcare in an $18.61-per-share cash transaction worth roughly $615 million that will take the company private, according to a Wednesday statement.
-
December 04, 2024
Fed. Circ. Sends UC System LED Patent Claims Back To PTAB
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday found that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has to partially rethink its finding that claims in a filament LED light bulb patent owned by the University of California system were too obvious to warrant patent protection.
-
December 04, 2024
Frontier To Pay $288K FCC Fine Over Broadband Data
Frontier Communications has agreed to pay almost $288,000 to end a Federal Communications Commission probe into a Wisconsin agency's claims that the internet service provider submitted inaccurate information to the FCC during a challenge to data used in mapping national broadband service, according to a consent decree made public Wednesday.
-
December 04, 2024
Uber Investors' Attys Awarded $58M In $200M IPO Suit Deal
A California federal judge granted final approval Wednesday to Uber's $200 million deal settling class claims from investors accusing it of making false and misleading statements ahead of its initial public offering, and also awarded $58 million for attorney fees that he called quite "substantial" but "warranted."
-
December 04, 2024
Amazon Held To Prior Fights, Ongoing Rules In Antitrust Row
Amazon.com Inc. can't duck updated consumer antitrust suits because it failed to raise some arguments against prior iterations and because plaintiffs adequately alleged substantial, ongoing anticompetitive conduct and effects from rules punishing sellers who offer their goods cheaper elsewhere, according to a decision unsealed in Washington federal court.
-
December 04, 2024
Chinese Semiconductor Co. Seeks OK Of Emergency Award
A Chinese semiconductor company has asked a California federal court to enforce an emergency arbitral award barring a commodity trading firm from dissipating its assets as the two companies arbitrate a $5.4 million dispute over a botched contract for two lithography machines.
-
December 04, 2024
Outgoing FCC Chief Lacerates With A Grin At 'Telecom Prom'
Lawyers who gathered for the telecom bar's marquee yearly dinner Tuesday were treated to the traditional night of sardonic wit as the outgoing head of the Federal Communications Commission took aim at the new power structure looming in Washington, D.C.
-
December 04, 2024
FTC Slams IntelliVision's Facial Recognition Bias Claims
The Federal Trade Commission has ordered artificial intelligence facial recognition software maker IntelliVision Technologies to stop misrepresenting that its software was free of racial and gender bias.
-
December 04, 2024
Viks' Bid To Duck Bank May Hinge On Norway Orders
A Connecticut state court judge noted repeatedly on Wednesday that Deutsche Bank AG has not provided her with copies of Norwegian judgments to undergird its argument that billionaire Alexander Vik and his daughter tortiously harmed the value of an asset sale, but the bank said the material is not necessary to let its lawsuit escape summary judgment.
-
December 04, 2024
Fed. Circ. Backs NY Judge In Freeing Meta From Patent Suit
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday wouldn't revive a software company's suit claiming Meta Platforms Inc. infringed patents on digital data storage and organization, agreeing with a decision that the evidence couldn't back a finding that the Meta features at issue covered all parts of the patent claims.
-
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.
Expert Analysis
-
Series
Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.
-
Del. Dispatch: Cautionary Tales Of 2 Earnout Effort Breaches
The Delaware Court of Chancery's tendency to interpret earnout provisions precisely as written, highlighted in two September rulings that found buyers breached their shareholder obligations when they failed to make reasonable efforts to hit certain product development milestones, demonstrates the paramount importance of precisely wording these agreements, say attorneys at Fried Frank.
-
Series
A Day In The In-House Life: Best Egg CLO Talks Power Of Prep
On a typical Monday in her life, Best Egg Chief Legal Officer Amy Thoreson Long chronicles a remote workday in which she makes time for everything from getting ahead on regulatory issues and researching recent Supreme Court decisions to dog walks and podcast breaks.
-
Navigating The Complexities Of Cyber Incident Reporting
When it comes to cybersecurity incident response plans, the uptick in the number and targets of legal and regulatory actions emphasizes the necessity for businesses to document the facts underlying the assumptions, complexities and obstacles of their decisions during the incident response, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
-
The Trade And Tax Issues Behind US-Canada Digital Tax Clash
The new Canadian digital services tax recently went into effect despite objections from the U.S., a controversy that represents an unusual mix of trade and tax policy, and many companies have been pondering how it will affect their e-commerce businesses, says Damon Pike at BDO.
-
Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs
The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.
-
Opinion
Bill Is Key To Protecting US Economy From Patent Piracy
It is critical that Congress pass a recently introduced bill that would protect U.S. investors from intellectual property theft by restoring court-ordered injunctions as the default remedy in patent infringement cases to ensure inventors get the justice they deserve, says Andrei Iancu at Sullivan & Cromwell.
-
Managing Sanctions Defense Across Multiple Jurisdictions
Companies called before multiple regulators to account for the same conduct in this era of increased global sanctions and import-control enforcement should consider national differences in law and policy, and proactively coordinate their responses in certain key areas, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.
-
Defending AI, Machine Learning Patents In Life Sciences
Ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Alice v. CLS Bank, artificial intelligence and machine learning technology remain at risk for Alice challenges, but reviewing recent cases can help life sciences companies avoid common pitfalls and successfully defend their patents, say attorneys at Mintz.
-
Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession
About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
-
From Concept To Capital: 5 Stages Of Evolving IP Needs
Companies must understand the shifting intellectual property needs throughout an organization’s life cycle in order to protect innovation, which can be done by fortifying the IP portfolio, expanding and leveraging IP assets, and more, says Keegan Caldwell at Caldwell Law.
-
4 Ways To Prepare For DOD Cyber Certification Rule
Given the U.S. Department of Justice's increased scrutiny of contractor compliance with cybersecurity requirements, it is critical that contractors take certain steps now in response to the U.S. Department of Defense's proposed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification implementation rule, say Townsend Bourne and Lillia Damalouji at Sheppard Mullin.
-
What Pennsylvania Can Expect From Anti-SLAPP Law
Pennsylvania's anti-SLAPP law is an important step in protecting speech on matters of public concern against retaliatory claims, and is buttressed by a robust remedy for violations as well as procedural requirements that lawyers must follow to take advantage of its application in practice, says Thomas Wilkinson at Cozen O'Connor.
-
Opinion
AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys
The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.
-
A Class Action Trend Tests Limit Of Courts' Equity Powers
A troubling trend has developed in federal class action litigation as some counsel and judges attempt to push injunctive relief classes under Rule 23(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure beyond the traditional limits of federal courts' equitable powers, say attorneys at Jones Day.