Technology

  • November 05, 2024

    USPTO Says Hyatt Forfeit Appeal Relies On Rejected Args

    A D.C. federal judge properly held inventor Gilbert Hyatt forfeited his rights to receive certain patents by delaying his applications for decades, and the inventor's claims otherwise rehash arguments the Federal Circuit has already rejected, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office told the circuit court.

  • November 05, 2024

    MLB, Inventor Spar Over Viability Of Digital Ticket Patent

    Major League Baseball's interactive division and the holder of a digital ticketing patent it is accused of infringing are both seeking sanctions against each other, amid the league's claim that the patent was abandoned during bankruptcy proceedings and cannot be asserted.

  • November 05, 2024

    Nokia Beats Patent Infringement Case Over Router Tech

    A Texas federal jury found Tuesday that a licensing company hasn't proved that certain Nokia internet protocol routers infringe a trio of patents related to technology for transmitting data, handing a win to the telecommunications giant.

  • November 05, 2024

    DC Circ. Wary Of FTC Changes To $5B Meta Privacy Deal

    The Federal Trade Commission faced a skeptical D.C. Circuit panel Tuesday in its bid to modify a $5 billion privacy deal with Meta, with judges questioning why any private company would settle with the agency if the deal could later be reopened.

  • November 05, 2024

    Hagens Berman Defends Bid To Ditch AWOL Apple Suit Client

    A Washington federal judge expressed skepticism on Tuesday that Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP was within its rights to substitute a proposed class representative in an antitrust case against Amazon and Apple earlier this year when the lead plaintiff stopped communicating with the firm.

  • November 05, 2024

    Bright Health Beats Investor Suit Over COVID-19 Costs

    The health insurer previously known as Bright Health Group Inc. no longer faces a proposed investor class action after a Brooklyn federal judge found that the company's initial public offering risk disclosures hadn't deliberately misled investors about its anticipated costs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • November 05, 2024

    Google, Nvidia Push To Toss YouTuber's IP Class Actions

    Google and Nvidia have asked a California federal court to dismiss a YouTube creator's proposed class actions accusing them and OpenAI in three nearly identical suits of copying his videos to train large language models, arguing the plaintiff has not asserted any copyright claims.

  • November 05, 2024

    Edge Providers Say Data Centers Key To Network Growth

    Data centers will be buzzing with ever more activity in the coming years, and edge providers like Netflix and Amazon want to make sure that U.S. agencies keep up with the network traffic flow, according to a new filing from their national trade group.

  • November 05, 2024

    Meta Ruling Will Fuel Class Actions, Chamber Warns Justices

    Business organizations are backing Meta's appeal of a Ninth Circuit ruling upholding damages class certification for a group of Meta advertisers claiming they were misled about Facebook's ad tools, with the industry outfits telling the U.S. Supreme Court that the Ninth Circuit is out of sync with other circuits on class questions.

  • November 05, 2024

    Meta Owed No Coverage For Social Media MDL, Hartford Says

    Two Hartford units told a Delaware state court they should have no duty to defend Meta Platforms Inc., parent of Facebook and Instagram, against numerous lawsuits accusing the social media giant of deliberately designing its platforms to be addictive to adolescents and concealing its harmful effects on them. 

  • November 05, 2024

    GOP Sens. Say NTIA 'Distorting' US Broadband Access

    Senate Republicans are accusing Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris of "manipulating census data" to conceal the number of people using satellite internet, in their latest attack on the Biden administration and Harris, who they have dubbed the "broadband czar."

  • November 05, 2024

    Holland & Knight Gains Latham Project Finance Atty In DC

    Holland & Knight LLP has hired a former Latham & Watkins LLP attorney, who has joined the firm as a partner in Washington, D.C., to represent equity investors, developers, lenders and other clients in a range of project finance matters, the firm announced Tuesday.

  • November 05, 2024

    Nixon Peabody Taps Leader For New Fintech Group

    A former mechanical engineering researcher who for years worked as a research assistant for his alma mater, Yale University, is moving his intellectual property and financial services practice from Duane Morris LLP to lead a recently launched Nixon Peabody LLP group, the firm announced Monday.

  • November 05, 2024

    Glazer Sues In Del. For Appraisal In $7.2B Squarespace Deal

    Five funds of Glazer Capital LLC sued late Monday for Delaware Court of Chancery appraisal of the investment management firm's more than 2.8 million shares of website builder Squarespace Inc., seeking to better the company's $46.50 per share price for a recently closed take-private acquisition by interests of Permira Advisers LLC.

  • November 05, 2024

    Atos Inks Deal To Sell Worldgrid Biz To Alten At €270M Value

    French information technology company Atos said Tuesday it has agreed to sell its Worldgrid business at an enterprise value of €270 million ($294 million) to Alten, an engineering and technology consulting firm also based in France, nearly five months after disclosing that the deal was in the works.

  • November 05, 2024

    Emerson Eyes Remaining AspenTech Shares At $15.1B Value

    Emerson Electric said Tuesday it has proposed to buy the remaining shares of AspenTech common stock it does not already own for $240 per share in cash, an offer that would give the industrial software company a $15.1 billion enterprise value.

  • November 05, 2024

    Emerging Cos. Pro With SEC Background Returns To Latham

    Latham & Watkins LLP is expanding its West Coast team, welcoming back an emerging companies expert who was a founding partner at Ketsal PLLC and worked for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is now joining Latham as a partner in its San Francisco Bay Area offices.

  • November 05, 2024

    On The Ground: How Attorneys Safeguarded The Election

    Attorneys worked tirelessly Tuesday to support citizens and election workers on the final day of voting in one of history's most contentious presidential contests.

  • November 04, 2024

    How The Election Results Could Shape Data Privacy Policy

    The outcome of Tuesday's national elections will have a significant effect on the direction of efforts to regulate companies' collection and sale of consumer data, with the winners expected to dictate how aggressive an approach federal policymakers and regulators such as the Federal Trade Commission will take.

  • November 04, 2024

    Va. Co., Execs Charged For Transshipping US Tech To Russia

    A Virginia-based e-commerce company and two senior executives transshipped over $6 million worth of sensitive American technology to Russia through Turkey, Finland and Kazakhstan in violation of U.S. export law and sanctions imposed to counter Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine, a criminal complaint unsealed Monday in Virginia federal court alleges.

  • November 04, 2024

    NYT Says Discovery In OpenAI Suit Isn't Going 'Smoothly'

    The newspapers suing OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. over allegedly using copyright-protected news stories to train ChatGPT say they now have a "fundamental disagreement" with the tech companies "about who is responsible" for identifying which of their news stories were allegedly used by the artificial intelligence software.

  • November 04, 2024

    Security Tech Co. Evolv Misled Shareholders, Suit Claims

    Security technology company Evolv Technologies Holdings Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court by a shareholder alleging the company reported inaccurate revenue for over two years because of weaknesses in its internal controls.

  • November 04, 2024

    Robinhood Users Denied Class Cert. In Order Flow Suit

    A proposed class of Robinhood customers must run their expert's damages model before asking a California federal judge to weigh their class certification bid in litigation alleging that the investing platform failed to disclose financial interests affecting order flow on the platform.

  • November 04, 2024

    Firm Says 3D Printer Biz Owes $7.2M For Patent Trial Win

    Less than a year after obtaining a $17.3 million verdict from a Delaware federal jury in a patent case over 3D printing technology, one of the firms behind the win says its erstwhile client hasn't paid it over $7 million in legal fees.

  • November 04, 2024

    'Oh, Come On': 5th Circ. Doubts Intuit Ads Misled Consumers

    The Fifth Circuit on Monday seemed skeptical that the company behind TurboTax duped customers into thinking they could file their tax returns for free, with judges engaging in a lengthy back-and-forth with the Federal Trade Commission over how noticeable disclosures on the ads had to be for the agency to consider them truthful.

Expert Analysis

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    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • Open Questions In Unsettled Geofence Warrant Landscape

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    The Fourth and Fifth Circuits recently reached radically divergent conclusions about the constitutionality of geofence warrants, creating an uncertain landscape in which defendants should assert and preserve the full range of conventional Fourth Amendment challenges, says Charles Fowler at McKool Smith.

  • A Look At 5 States' New Data Privacy Laws

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    With new data privacy laws in Utah, Florida, Texas, Oregon and Montana recently in effect or coming into force this year, state-level enforcement of data privacy creates significant challenges and risks for how businesses interact with employees and consumers, and for companies that provide and use technologies in multiple jurisdictions, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.

  • Antitrust In Retail: Why FTC Is Studying 'Surveillance Pricing'

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    The Federal Trade Commission's decision to study targeted "surveillance pricing" should provide greater clarity into the nature of the data aggregation industry, but also raises several issues, including whether these practices are in fact illegal under any established interpretations of U.S. antitrust law, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • Licensing And Protections For Voice Actors In The Age Of AI

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    While two recently enacted California laws and other recent state and federal legislation largely focus on protecting actors and musicians from the unauthorized use of their digital likenesses by generative artificial intelligence systems, the lesser-known community of professional voice actors also stands to benefit, says attorney Scott Mortman.

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    Calif. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3

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    In the third quarter of the year, California continued to be at the forefront of banking regulation as it enacted legislation on unfair banking practices and junk fees, and the state Department of Financial Protection and Innovation notably initiated enforcement actions focused on crypto-assets and student loan debt relief, say Stuart Richter and Eric Hail at Katten.

  • 8 Issues AI Firms May Encounter As M&A Action Accelerates

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    As the AI merger climate heats up, potential complications may arise, including antitrust scrutiny, talent retention agreements, and aggressive and protective deal terms intended to compensate for lofty valuations, say Scott Schwartz and Kishan Barot at Manatt.

  • 2 High Court Securities Cases Could Clarify Pleading Rules

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    In granting certiorari in a pair of securities fraud cases against Facebook and Nvidia, respectively, the U.S. Supreme Court has signaled its intention to align interpretations of the heightened pleading standard under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act amid its uneven application among the circuit courts, say attorneys at V&E.

  • What 2 Key Rulings Mean For Solicitation Under TCPA

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    Two recent rulings from federal district courts in New York and California — each of which came to a different conclusion — bring to light courts' continued focus on and analysis of when an alleged communication constitutes a solicitation under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, say Felix Shipkevich and Jessica Livingston at Shipkevich.

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    NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3

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    In a relatively light few months for banking legal updates in New York, the state Department of Financial Services previewed its views on banking sector artificial intelligence use via insurer guidance, and an anti-money laundering enforcement action underscored the importance of international monitoring processes, say Eric McLaughlin and Dana Bayersdorfer at Davis Polk.

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    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    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

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    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.

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    A Day In The In-House Life: Best Egg CLO Talks Power Of Prep

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    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

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    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.

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