Technology

  • November 04, 2024

    Startup Beats $460M Cancer Trade Secrets Case In Delaware

    In front of a federal jury in Delaware, a California biotech startup has defeated a nearly $460 million trade secrets case from a rival that claimed the startup's co-founder helped himself to confidential information regarding cancer treatment antibodies while employed as an expert in an unrelated international arbitration proceeding.

  • November 04, 2024

    Google Looks To Toss Rumble's Search Antitrust Case

    Google told a California federal court there's no need for a trial in Rumble's antitrust case accusing it of rigging its search results to favor YouTube over the rival video-sharing site, saying the tech giant applies its search algorithms consistently across all webpages.

  • November 04, 2024

    Australia Ends $5.3B Lockheed Military Satellite Deal

    The Australian military announced Monday that it canceled its $5.3 billion military satellite deal with Lockheed Martin Australia.

  • November 04, 2024

    Apple Hid Audio Defects In 1st-Gen AirPods Pro, Users Say

    Audio defects in the first generation of Apple's AirPods Pro did not stop the company from touting the wireless earbud's superior sound quality and noise-canceling features, consumers from Pennsylvania, Texas, and Ohio alleged in a proposed false advertising class action filed Friday in California federal court.

  • November 04, 2024

    Microsoft Wants To Weigh In On Google Play Store Challenge

    Microsoft has asked the Ninth Circuit to allow it to file an amicus brief backing Epic Games in Google's challenge to an injunction requiring Google to open up its Play Store to competing app stores, arguing that the search giant's policies have prevented Microsoft from offering "mobile gaming experiences customers want."

  • November 04, 2024

    Amazon Says DC Antitrust Suit Full Of 'Mischaracterizations'

    Amazon hit back Friday against the District of Columbia's amended antitrust complaint, arguing that the business practices the city claims are diminishing competition and inflating prices for consumers are actually doing the opposite — rewarding competition — and claiming that retail competition is "vigorous" both online and in person.

  • November 04, 2024

    VA Accused Of Choosing 'Pass-Through' Co. For $257M Deal

    A veteran-owned small business has challenged a $256.8 million U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs telehealth program support contract, saying the VA wrongly chose a small business joint venture that effectively served as a pass-through for a larger company.

  • November 04, 2024

    High Court Questions If False Claims Act Covers FCC's E-Rate

    Multiple justices seemed unconvinced Monday that the federal government plays such a limited role in requiring companies to pay fees for supporting telecom subsidies in schools that it can't seek to recover excess payouts from the fund under the False Claims Act.

  • November 04, 2024

    Ericsson Settles Cell Site Patent Case On Eve Of Texas Trial

    Ericsson reached a settlement over cellular infrastructure patents on Friday, allowing Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile to avoid a looming trial in Texas federal court over their use of the technology.

  • November 04, 2024

    Wash. Tribe Inks Relationship Pact With State Commerce Dept.

    The Cowlitz Indian Tribe and the Washington State Department of Commerce have signed a memorandum of understanding formally establishing their government-to-government relations, the fourth such MOU in the state that affirms tribal sovereignty.

  • November 04, 2024

    Judge Cites Tesla Stock, Friendship In SpaceX Firing Recusal

    A California federal judge on Monday recused herself from a hostile work environment and retaliation suit brought by a group of former SpaceX employees, saying she owns Tesla stock and is friends with a SpaceX human resource executive's mother-in-law.

  • November 04, 2024

    Patent Co. Looks To Combine Antitrust Case With Consumers

    Patent-holding company VoIP-Pal.com is asking a D.C. federal judge to consolidate, at least for pre-trial purposes, its own Wi-Fi calling antitrust suit against Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile with a proposed class action it launched making many of the same claims.

  • November 04, 2024

    Philly DA Can't Stop Elon Musk's $1M Giveaway To Voters

    A Pennsylvania judge on Monday denied Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's bid to halt Elon Musk's $1 million giveaway to registered voters leading up to the 2024 presidential election, issuing a one-page order ending the prosecutor's claims that the tech mogul was operating an illegal lottery.

  • November 04, 2024

    Boston Dynamics Sues Supplier Over Delayed Robot Parts

    Boston Dynamics says a New Hampshire company is holding millions of dollars worth of components for its industrial robots "hostage" as leverage to renegotiate its contract, according to a lawsuit filed in Massachusetts state court.

  • November 04, 2024

    Pornhub Ignored Arbitration In Data Privacy Case, Judge Told

    Pornhub's parent company forfeited the right to litigate data privacy claims outside of court when it ignored American Arbitration Association proceedings for six months, counsel for a putative class of adult entertainment viewers told a California federal judge Monday.

  • November 04, 2024

    Asia-Pacific Helped Prop Up Q3 M&A Activity, Report Says

    Mergers and acquisitions in the Asia-Pacific region hit numbers during the third quarter this year that haven't been seen since 2021's dealmaking heyday, helping to boost global figures amid mixed performances in the U.S. and Europe, S&P Global found in a recent report.

  • November 04, 2024

    Morgan Lewis Lands Global Tech Atty From Mayer Brown

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Monday that it has hired an attorney to strengthen its leading technology, outsourcing and commercial contracts practice who previously worked at Mayer Brown LLP for more than a decade.

  • November 04, 2024

    Ex-Twitter Marketing Exec Denied $20M Severance, Suit Says

    Elon Musk abruptly fired Twitter's chief marketing officer and denied her $20 million in severance benefits because she recommended Musk meet with an employee who disagreed with letting former President Donald Trump back on the platform, according to a suit in California federal court.

  • November 04, 2024

    Ex-Twitter Execs Can Proceed With Severance Claim

    Elon Musk and X Corp. can't escape four former executives' claim that Musk fired them to prevent them from receiving severance benefits after he struck the deal to buy the company formerly known as Twitter, a California federal judge ruled while also lifting a stay on discovery.

  • November 04, 2024

    Justices Skip TM Challenge To BofA's Virtual Assistant 'Erica'

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Tenth Circuit decision that found Bank of America Corp. did not infringe a movie website owner's trademark with its virtual financial assistant "Erica."

  • November 04, 2024

    US IPO Activity Hits Standstill As Election Takes Center Stage

    U.S. initial public offerings have screeched to a halt amid peak election season, and dealmakers expect new listings to largely remain iced until next year as market participants sort out ramifications of Tuesday's presidential and congressional contests.

  • November 03, 2024

    Philly DA Gets Remand Of Suit Over Musk's $1M 'Lottery'

    Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner's suit over Elon Musk's $1 million giveaway to voters in swing states has been sent back to where it started, with a Pennsylvania federal judge ruling Friday that the case belongs in state court.

  • November 01, 2024

    Delta Rips 'Transparent' CrowdStrike Bid To Duck Liability

    Delta Air Lines on Friday pressed a Georgia federal court to throw out CrowdStrike's declaratory judgment action against it, arguing that it's merely a "transparent attempt" to avoid the airline's own state court suit blaming the cybersecurity firm for the July outage that crashed millions of computers worldwide.

  • November 01, 2024

    Meet The Attys Arguing Meta's High Court Disclosure Suit

    Both Meta Platforms and its investors are calling in the big guns as two U.S. Supreme Court veterans are set to go head-to-head Wednesday in a case that could limit the types of information corporations are required to disclose to shareholders.

  • November 01, 2024

    EBay Must Face Punitive Damages For Some Stalking Claims

    A Massachusetts federal judge held Friday that a pair of bloggers can pursue punitive damages from eBay Inc. on some of their civil claims over an "extraordinary and troubling" harassment campaign orchestrated by the e-commerce giant's security staffers.

Expert Analysis

  • The Trade And Tax Issues Behind US-Canada Digital Tax Clash

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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.

  • Takeaways From Texas AG's Novel AI Health Settlement

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    The Texas attorney general's recent action against a health tech company marks another step in rapidly proliferating enforcement against artificial intelligence and privacy issues across multiple states, and highlights important risk mitigation considerations for health companies that implement AI systems, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • A Look At How De Minimis Import Rules May Soon Change

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    The planned implementation of executive actions focused on the de minimis rule as it applies to shipments means companies should use this interval to evaluate the potential applicability and impact of Section 301, Section 201 or Section 232 duties on their products, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Antitrust Issues To Watch Amid Google Ad Tech Trial

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    Regardless of the outcome of the U.S. Department of Justice's advertising technology antitrust suit against Google in Virginia federal court, matters ranging from market definition to unified pricing will likely have far-reaching implications for the digital advertising industry, competition and innovation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Key Takeaways From DOJ's New Corp. Compliance Guidance

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    The U.S. Department of Justice’s updated guidance to federal prosecutors on evaluating corporate compliance programs addresses how entities manage new technology-related risks and expands on preexisting policies, providing key insights for companies about increasing regulatory expectations, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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