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January 28, 2025
Amid Big Bets, Tom Goldstein Argued 'Poker Is Not Gambling'
A federal indictment's jarring portrayal of pioneering U.S. Supreme Court advocate Tom Goldstein as an "ultrahigh-stakes" gambler who dodged taxes has left the legal community virtually speechless. But Goldstein's status as a serious poker player was not a secret, and in past court cases, he proclaimed the card game "fundamentally dissimilar" from conventional gambling, even while preparing to wager millions on matches.
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January 28, 2025
Prison Phone Providers Urge 1st Circ. To Back FCC Rate Suit
Prison telephone companies are asking the First Circuit to either move their challenge to new Federal Communications Commission prison payphone rate caps to the conservative Fifth Circuit or toss the limits themselves, saying the caps violate a congressional provision that the companies be "fairly compensated" for service in detention facilities.
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January 28, 2025
'Right To Hug' Case In Michigan Draws ACLU Support
The American Civil Liberties Union and 15 other organizations urged a Michigan appeals court to hold that children have a right to in-person visits with their incarcerated parents, describing in a friend-of-the-court brief the long-lasting psychological effects of isolating child from parent.
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January 28, 2025
Apple Can't Defend Google Revenue Deal In DOJ Search Case
A D.C. federal judge has refused to let Apple intervene to defend the billions it gets from Google to keep the search giant as the default for Safari browser, holding the iPhone maker waited too long to intervene in the Justice Department's monopolization lawsuit, and the company's involvement now would be too disruptive.
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January 28, 2025
Trump Pledges Tariffs On Semiconductors, Chips, Drugs
The U.S. will soon place tariffs on foreign-manufactured semiconductors, computer chips and pharmaceuticals in an effort to convince foreign companies to move their manufacturing operations stateside, President Donald Trump told House Republicans at a conference.
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January 28, 2025
TravelPerk Hits $2.7B Valuation, Announces Yokoy Buy
Spanish business travel platform TravelPerk, advised by Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Lenz & Staehelin, on Tuesday announced that it hit a $2.7 billion valuation after closing its Series E funding round with $200 million of commitments, while also announcing its acquisition of European expense, invoice and card payment processing platform Yokoy.
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January 28, 2025
Beacon Roofing Nails Poison Pill To $11B Hostile Takeover Bid
Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. adopted a poison pill strategy on Tuesday, designed to thwart the $11 billion hostile takeover bid launched by tech and software company QXO Inc. the previous day.
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January 28, 2025
Vivint 'Kicking Dead Horse' In $190M TM Suit, 4th Circ. Hints
Smart home software company Vivint faced an uphill battle Tuesday trying to convince the Fourth Circuit to dismantle a nearly $190 million verdict for allegedly tricking its rival's customers into switching providers, with one judge saying Vivint's claims that the lower court misapplied state consumer protection law are fruitless.
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January 28, 2025
Greenberg Traurig Digital Infrastructure Leader Joins Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has picked up the longtime co-chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP's digital infrastructure, data center and cloud computing industry group, who has joined the firm's corporate practice group in Washington, D.C.
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January 28, 2025
Eminem IP Owners Sue Over Ford Dealer's 'Lose Yourself' Ads
Eminem's publisher hit a Ford dealership with a copyright infringement lawsuit in Michigan federal court, alleging the business used the rapper's hit "Lose Yourself" on TikTok and other social-media advertisements for a limited edition Detroit Lions Ford F-150 pickup truck without permission or obtaining requisite IP licenses.
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January 28, 2025
Technology Group Of The Year: Cooley
Cooley LLP has had a mix of wins in litigation, such as defending Meta in a copyright case stemming from its artificial intelligence product LLaMA, but also helping artificial intelligence-powered diagnostics company Tempus AI with its $410.7 million initial public offering, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Technology Groups of the Year.
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January 28, 2025
Trump Wants TikTok 'Bidding War' As Microsoft Enters Talks
President Donald Trump said that Microsoft is in discussions to purchase TikTok, stressing that a bidding war would be a "good thing" because that's how to get "the best deal."
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January 28, 2025
CMA Panel Blasts Microsoft's Software Licensing Practices
The antitrust watchdog should consider sanctioning Microsoft over the harmful effect of its software licensing practices on the cloud computing market, an independent inquiry group said Tuesday.
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January 28, 2025
NY Battery Startup Hits Ch. 11 With $136M Debt, Sale Plans
Electric vehicle and renewable energy storage lithium-ion battery maker iM3NY filed for bankruptcy protection in Delaware, reporting around $136 million in debt after it wasn't able to drum up new funding for a battery production plant in New York.
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January 28, 2025
Former FAA Chief Counsel Joins DLA Piper
The Federal Aviation Administration's former chief counsel Marc Nichols has joined DLA Piper in Washington, D.C., as partner and co-chair of its transportation practice, the firm announced Tuesday.
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January 27, 2025
Harvard Drops Chip Patent Suit Against Samsung
Harvard University on Monday dropped its lawsuit that accused Samsung and several of the South Korean multinational's U.S. affiliates of infringing two patents assigned to the Ivy League university when manufacturing certain microprocessors and memory chips.
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January 27, 2025
Palo Alto Networks Inside-Trader Wins Resentencing At 9th Circ.
The Ninth Circuit on Monday upheld securities fraud convictions of a former Palo Alto Networks engineer for raking in $7 million by trading on stolen inside information but remanded the case for resentencing, saying a lower court was wrong to use his trading gains to estimate the cybersecurity company's loss.
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January 27, 2025
States Back In Spotlight As Feds Exit Net Neutrality Debate
The Sixth Circuit might have recently hammered the last nail into the coffin of federal net neutrality rules, but states are poised to fill the void — just as some did when the last Trump administration tanked a previous broadband regulatory regime.
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January 27, 2025
Crypto Exchange KuCoin Pleads Out, Agrees To Pay $297M
Cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin on Monday pled guilty and agreed to pay $297 million for failing to implement anti-money laundering protocols and allowing more than $5 billion worth of criminal funds to flow through its trading platform.
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January 27, 2025
Keep Damages Rules, Let Newman Hear Case, Fed. Circ. Told
The full Federal Circuit has been urged by startups and attorneys to reject calls by Google to tighten rules for admitting patent damages testimony, while counsel for suspended U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman told the court it can't lawfully decide the case without her.
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January 27, 2025
Google Ireland Says $1.3B Russia Suit Belongs In Arbitration
An Irish Google affiliate is pressing a California federal court to halt a former Russian Google affiliate from pursuing litigation in Moscow seeking a $1.3 billion judgment in a dispute ostensibly challenging certain underlying contracts, saying the matter belongs in arbitration in the Golden State.
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January 27, 2025
UnitedHealth Raises Cyberattack Estimate To 190M Individuals
A debilitating cyberattack last year that sabotaged vital billing and prescribing services operated by a UnitedHealth Group unit affected personal information belonging to roughly 190 million individuals, the health insurer disclosed Friday, nearly doubling its previous estimate of the scope of the incident.
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January 27, 2025
Judge Grants Bid For Docs, Code In EPassport Fight
A Court of Federal Claims judge partially granted a German company's bid to secure discovery materials from the U.S. government and a French cybersecurity firm for its suit accusing the government of infringing on patents related to electronic passport readers.
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January 27, 2025
Jury Will Decide $140M Intuitive Robo-Surgery Antitrust Case
A federal judge on Monday rejected dueling requests for directed verdicts at the wrap of a $140 million antitrust trial over claims that Intuitive Surgical abused its market power in barring a repair provider's refurbished part for Intuitive's surgery robot, saying there's "substantial evidence" for jurors to decide on the parties' claims and counterclaims.
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January 27, 2025
PTAB Axes Processor Patent Asserted Against Carmakers
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated all the claims in a patent issued almost a decade ago to engineers at Intel and then assigned to a litigation business that asserted it against automakers and others.
Expert Analysis
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Short-Seller Implications Of 10th Circ.'s Overstock Decision
The Tenth Circuit's Oct. 15 decision in Overstock Securities Litigation provides clarity on the pleading standard for a market manipulation claim under the Exchange Act, and suggests that short sellers might not be able to rely on the fraud-on-the-market presumption typically invoked by securities plaintiffs, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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Patent Lessons From 4 Federal Circuit Reversals In September
Cases that were reversed or vacated by the Federal Circuit last month provide helpful clarity on collateral estoppel, patent eligibility, construction of claim terms that have different boundaries across different claims, and the role of courts as neutral arbiter, say attorneys at Bunsow De Mory.
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Lawyers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity
Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.
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Lessons For Municipalities Facing Cyberattacks
With municipal IT teams facing the daunting task of keeping agencies operational while safeguarding sensitive government data, including residents' and employees' personally identifiable information, there are steps a municipality can take to guard against a major cyberattack, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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New Export Control Guidance Raises The Stakes For Banks
Recent guidance from the Bureau of Industry and Security alerts banks that they could be liable for facilitating export control violations, the latest example of regulators articulating the expectation that both financial institutions and corporations serve as gatekeepers to mitigate crime and aid enforcement efforts, say attorneys at Freshfields.
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Opinion
Judicial Committee Best Venue For Litigation Funding Rules
The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules' recent decision to consider developing a rule for litigation funding disclosure is a welcome development, ensuring that the result will be the product of a thorough, inclusive and deliberative process that appropriately balances all interests, says Stewart Ackerly at Statera Capital.
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The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Law Firm CEO
The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.
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Fed. Circ. Ruling May Signal Software Patent Landscape Shift
The Federal Circuit's recent ruling in Broadband iTV, despite similarities to past decisions, chose to rely on prior cases finding patent-ineligible claims directed to receiving and displaying information, which may undermine one of the few areas of perceived predictability in the patent eligibility landscape, say attorneys at King & Wood.
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How 2 Proposed Bills Could Transform Patent Law
The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act and the Prevail Act may come up for vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee after the election, and both offer benefits and challenges for inventors and companies seeking to obtain patents, says Philip Nelson at Knobbe Martens.
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Series
Beekeeping Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The practice of patent law and beekeeping are not typically associated, but taking care of honeybees has enriched my legal practice by highlighting the importance of hands-on experience, continuous learning, mentorship and more, says David Longo at Oblon McClelland.
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Budding Lessons From Landmark Plant Seed Patent Battle
The Corteva v. Inari case involving intellectual property rights in genetically modified plants is now proceeding through discovery and potentially to trial, and will raise critical questions that could have a major impact on the agriculture technology industry, say Tate Tischner and Andrew Zappia at Troutman Pepper.
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GAO Decision Offers Insights On Verifying TAA Compliance
The U.S. Government Accountability Office's August decision in Matter of: HPI Federal LLC serves as a reminder of the importance of verifying Trade Agreements Act compliance — and of understanding the parameters of an agency's acceptance of an offeror's TAA representation, say Amy Hoang and Sarah Barney at Seyfarth.
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6 Tips For Cos. Facing Service Provider Cyber Incidents
When a third-party service provider experiences a cybersecurity incident, businesses may wonder if their information is compromised and if their systems are safe, but there are certain steps that can help businesses prepare for and respond to targeted attacks on vendors, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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Unpacking State AG Approaches To Digital Asset Enforcement
Attorneys at Cozen O'Connor survey recent digital asset enforcement by attorneys general nationwide driven by concerns over regulatory gaps where technological developments and market changes have outpaced legislation.
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Opinion
Legal Institutions Must Warn Against Phony Election Suits
With two weeks until the election, bar associations and courts have an urgent responsibility to warn lawyers about the consequences of filing unsubstantiated lawsuits claiming election fraud, says Elise Bean at the Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy.