Technology

  • March 31, 2025

    Voting Exec Says Defamation Suit Not Fit For Colo. High Court

    A former Dominion Voting executive urged Colorado's justices not to hear appeals from a conservative broadcaster and radio host in his defamation suit, saying the defendants haven't made any new dismissal arguments and that "this case is not the case" for the high court to resolve disagreements about state anti-SLAPP law.

  • March 31, 2025

    Samsung Bid To Beat Back $192M Patent Award Falls Short

    Texas U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap unsealed a ruling Friday explaining why he decided that a small Silicon Valley outfit's use of continuations in filing wireless charger patents were not unreasonable delays that made the patents unenforceable or void a $192 million verdict against Samsung.

  • March 31, 2025

    Nasdaq's Tighter IPO Rules Raise Bar For Small Companies

    Nasdaq is seeking to weed out volatile stocks by tightening listing standards for small companies conducting initial public offerings or uplistings, although lawyers caution that new rules could prompt capital-hungry companies to pursue other listing strategies, including reverse mergers.

  • March 31, 2025

    Buyer Class Of Surgical Robots Is Certified In Antitrust Fight

    A California federal judge on Monday certified a class of thousands of hospitals alleging Intuitive Surgical monopolized the market for robotic surgical tools by blocking third-party repairs and tying services to robot purchases, finding the case raises common antitrust questions that can be resolved on a classwide basis.

  • March 31, 2025

    Conn. Law Firm Hit With Class Action Data Breach Suit

    A 26-attorney Connecticut business litigation, intellectual property and employment law firm waited 16 months to notify potentially thousands of current and former clients of an alleged 2023 data breach that may have left sensitive personal information exposed to cybercriminals, a Monday lawsuit alleged

  • March 31, 2025

    Salesforce Gets Judge To Ax Patent Suit Fed. Circ. Revived

    A Nevada federal judge has thrown out a suit accusing Salesforce of infringing patents for database software reprogramming, saying the transfer of the patent rights to the consulting company that sued was voided by an earlier transfer.

  • March 31, 2025

    Intellectual Ventures Urges PTAB To Deny Tesla IP Challenge

    Intellectual Ventures II LLC wants the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to reject Tesla's bid to have the board examine a digital camera patent, pointing to a recent memo from the acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office saying she and other board judges will review petitions to determine whether they should be denied for discretionary reasons.

  • March 31, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Tells PTAB To Look At Samsung Foe's Patents Again

    Samsung convinced the Federal Circuit Monday that administrative patent board judges used an "erroneous" definition of a term used in two gesture-sensing interface patents that the smartphone giant is accused of infringing in litigation in Texas.

  • March 31, 2025

    Vizio Stockholders Open Challenge To $2.3B Walmart Merger

    A Vizio Inc. stockholder launched a class challenge Monday to the smart-TV company's $11.50 per share, $2.3 billion, sale to Walmart Inc., accusing insiders — including Vizio CEO and controller William Wang — of wiring up a deal unfair to common stockholders.

  • March 31, 2025

    Mich. Judge Dismisses Biz's 'Pump-And-Dump' RICO Suit

    A Michigan federal judge on Monday tossed what he called a confusing "power struggle" of a lawsuit from a company accusing its former leaders of conspiring to install a CEO and leading a pump-and-dump scheme, finding that the company was essentially improperly seeking review of a prior state court judgment that it lost.

  • March 31, 2025

    Wireless Cos. Warn Of Economic Losses In Call For Spectrum

    The wireless industry is ramping up calls for Capitol Hill to allow more midband licensed spectrum, pointing to a new report showing that failure to clear more airwaves could cost the U.S. more than $1.4 trillion in economic growth over a decade.

  • March 31, 2025

    Low-Power TV Stations Seek Looser Rules For 5G Broadcast

    Low-power TV broadcasters have asked the Federal Communications Commission to let them voluntarily transmit 5G broadcast signals and, in turn, ease requirements to carry programming channels.

  • March 31, 2025

    Luxembourg Fund Claims Fla. Entreprenuer Owes $40M Loan

    A Luxembourg investment fund has sued a Florida entrepreneur in federal court for allegedly misrepresenting the financial condition of his businesses in order to secure three loans, saying he now owes more than $40 million that he has also failed to pay back.

  • March 31, 2025

    Trucking Co. Says Insurers Owe Coverage For BIPA Suit

    A trucking company's insurers owe coverage for underlying litigation brought by a former employee who said the company violated his biometric privacy rights by using a hand-scanning timekeeping system that stored his protected personal data, the company told an Illinois federal court.

  • March 31, 2025

    USPTO Director Stops 4 Motorola IP Reviews At PTAB

    The acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has decided that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board will not review Motorola's challenges to a series of Stellar Inc. patents on glasses equipped with cameras, undoing PTAB decisions instituting the reviews.

  • March 31, 2025

    Insurer Denies Coverage For Crushing Death, Alleging Lies

    A wood company's insurer said it owed nothing in connection with the crushing death of a recycling company worker who was killed by equipment rented from the wood seller, telling a California federal court that its insured misrepresented itself when claiming it didn't lease equipment on its coverage application.

  • March 31, 2025

    Amazon's Bid To Kick Drivers From Pay Suit Mostly Denied

    A Washington federal judge agreed to oust only two of the 11 workers Amazon asked to dismiss from an 8-year-old suit accusing the company of misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, saying the other nine made enough effort to comply with discovery.

  • March 31, 2025

    Perkins Coie DQ'd From Facial Recognition IP Suit

    Perkins Coie LLP has been disqualified from defending Jumio Corp. in a patent infringement lawsuit involving facial recognition technology, with the San Francisco federal judge who signed the order citing the firm's prior general corporate and intellectual property representation of plaintiff FaceTec Inc.

  • March 31, 2025

    Cleary Gains 5-Atty Latham Team Known For Big IP Wins

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has welcomed a bi-coastal team of five intellectual property litigators from Latham & Watkins LLP, lauding their history leading "many of the most high-profile and complex patent and trade secrets cases of the last decade" in a statement Monday.

  • March 28, 2025

    Calif. Privacy Action Drives Home Need To Look Under Hood

    California's privacy agency targeted design features and contracting policies that apply to a wide range of companies in its inaugural enforcement strike under the state's data privacy law, signaling a broad regulatory approach that experts say promises to heat up as the agency continues to mature. 

  • March 28, 2025

    Musk Says His Artificial Intelligence Co. Acquired X For $45B

    Elon Musk said Friday that his artificial intelligence company xAI acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock deal for $45 billion, saying that the futures of the high-profile companies are now "intertwined."

  • March 28, 2025

    Doctor's Counterclaims Cut In 'Groq' TM Feud With Chipmaker

    A Manhattan federal judge says her court can't order the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to reject pending trademark applications, turning down counterclaims in a fight between generative artificial intelligence inference chipmaker Groq and a notable New York endocrinologist who changed the name of her company to "Groq Health."

  • March 28, 2025

    Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Suit Shouldn't Be Tossed, Judge Says

    A Delaware federal judge on Friday recommended denying motions to dismiss from former executives of bitcoin mining company VBit Technologies Corp. looking to ditch an investor proposed class action, rejecting the executives' qualms with how they were served and the plausibility of the claims.

  • March 28, 2025

    Ad Display Cos. Bury Hatchet In Arizona Patent Case

    Two ad tech companies say they have reached a deal to end a lawsuit in Arizona federal court over alleged infringement of a patent covering a purportedly novel way of loading advertisements on websites.

  • March 28, 2025

    GM's Cruise Must Face Trimmed Securities Fraud Suit

    A Michigan federal judge on Friday trimmed a proposed class action alleging General Motors and its self-driving car unit Cruise LLC misrepresented the technological capabilities of its autonomous vehicles, but said the investor plaintiffs plausibly alleged that some Cruise executives made recklessly false statements.

Expert Analysis

  • Deficiency Trends In National Futures Association Exams

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    A recent notice from the National Futures Association outlining the most common deficiencies uncovered during exams gives member firms an opportunity to review prior guidance, particularly regarding the hot topic of implementing procedures governing the use of outsourced service providers, say attorneys at Akin.

  • A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing

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    U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.

  • Preparing For Disruptions To Life Sciences Supply Chains

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    Life sciences companies must assess how new and escalating tariffs — combined with other restrictions on cross-border activity singling out pharmaceutical products and medical devices — will affect supply chains, and they should proactively prepare for antitrust and foreign direct investment regulatory review processes, say attorneys at Weil.

  • Beware Risks Of Arguing Multiple Constructions In IP Cases

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    Defendants accused of patent infringement often argue for different, potentially contradictory, claim constructions before district courts and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, but the board may be clamping down on this strategy, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • Unpacking Liability When AI Makes A Faulty Decision

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    As artificial intelligence systems become more autonomous and influential in decision-making, concerns about AI-related harms and problematic decisions are growing, raising the pressing question of who bears the liability, says Megha Kumar at CyXcel.

  • A Close-Up Look At DOJ's Challenge To HPE-Juniper Deal

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    The outcome of the Justice Department's challenge to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proposed $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks will likely hinge on several key issues, including market dynamics and shares, internal documents, and questions about innovation and customer harm, say attorneys at McDermott.

  • 9 Considerations For Orgs Using AI Meeting Assistants

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    When deciding to use artificial intelligence meeting assistants, organizations must create and implement a written corporate policy that establishes the do's and don'ts for these assistants, taking into account individualized business operations, industry standards and legal and regulatory requirements, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

  • AG Watch: Texas Is Entering New Privacy Enforcement Era

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    The state of Texas' recent suit against Allstate is the culmination of a long-standing commitment to vigorously enforcing privacy laws in the state, and while still in the early stages, it offers several important insights for companies and privacy practitioners, says Paul Singer at Kelley Drye.

  • 6th Circ. Ruling Paves Path Out Of Loper Bright 'Twilight Zone'

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright ruling created a twilight zone between express statutory delegations that trigger agency deference and implicit ones that do not, but the Sixth Circuit’s recent ruling in Moctezuma-Reyes v. Garland crafted a two-part test for resolving cases within this gray area, say attorneys at Wiley.

  • A Reminder On Avoiding Improper Venues In Patent Cases

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    A Texas federal court's recent decision in the Symbology and Quantum cases shows that baseless patent venue allegations may be subject to serious Rule 11 sanctions, providing venue-vetting takeaways for plaintiffs and defendants, say attorneys at Bond Schoeneck.

  • Cos. Should Prepare For Mexican Payments Surveillance Tool

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    The recent designation of six Mexican cartels as "specially designated global terrorists" will allow the Treasury Department to scrutinize nearly any Mexico-related payment through its Terrorist Finance Tracking Program — a rigorous evaluation for which even sophisticated sanctions compliance programs are not prepared, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.

  • Implications Of Kid Privacy Rule Revamp For Parents, Cos.

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    The Federal Trade Commission's recent amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act will expand protections for children online, meaning parents will have greater control over their children's data and tech companies must potentially change their current privacy practices — or risk noncompliance, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

  • 2 Practical Ways For Banks To Battle Elder Financial Abuse

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    Federal regulators' recent statement raising awareness of elder financial exploitation provides a useful catalog of techniques that banks can employ to fight fraud, particularly encouraging older account holders to establish trusted contacts and sharing timely warnings about the latest scams with customers, say attorneys at Nutter.

  • When Reincorporation Out Of Del. Isn't A Good Idea

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    While recent high-profile corporate moves out of Delaware have prompted discussion about the benefits of incorporation elsewhere, for many, remaining in the First State may be the right decision due to its deep body of business law, tradition of nonjury trials and other factors, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • Is AI Distillation By DeepSeek IP Theft?

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    A brewing controversy over whether Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek's distillation of outputs from OpenAI's ChatGPT violates copyright law raises questions about the legality and ethics of such practices, and will set important precedents for the future of AI development and intellectual property law, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.

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