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October 30, 2024
Northwestern Settles Patent Suit After $6.6M Trial Win
Northwestern University told a Delaware federal judge it has reached a deal to bring an end to its patent infringement suit against Universal Robots over three patents on collaborative robot, or "cobot," systems, about a month after a jury handed the school a $6.6 million verdict in its favor.
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October 30, 2024
4th Circ. Mulls Shipping Honeywell Royalty Fight To Fed. Circ.
The Fourth Circuit grappled Wednesday with whether a fight over royalty payments between technology conglomerate Honeywell and its Japan-based rival had its roots in patent or contract law, which could dictate whether the appeal stays put or gets kicked over to the Federal Circuit.
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October 30, 2024
More Than Half Of Cos. Slow With Antirobocall Compliance
Fewer than half of U.S. phone companies have finished installing equipment to stop scam robocalls in the three years since the adoption of Federal Communications Commission standards for robocall mitigation, according to a new report from a consumer watchdog group.
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October 30, 2024
Judge Finds Some Patent Claims Indefinite In Chip Fight
A California federal judge has found that some of the claims in HD Silicon Solutions LLC patents it accused semiconductor company Microchip Technology Inc. of infringing are invalid, ruling they are not specific enough.
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October 30, 2024
Calif. Agency Targets Data Brokers Over Registry Mandate
The California Privacy Protection Agency revealed Wednesday that it's cracking down on data brokers' compliance with the registration requirements of a groundbreaking consumer data deletion law, stressing that it won't hesitate to impose hefty fines on those that are falling short.
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October 30, 2024
Doc Review Site Must Face Suit Over Criminal Profile Mix-Up
The owners of physician review website Healthgrades on Wednesday lost their bid to toss allegations they defamed a surgeon in mixing up his profile with a doctor by a similar name who was convicted on federal opioid-related charges.
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October 30, 2024
Prison Phone Co. GTL Gets OK On $17M Price-Fix Deal
Prison phone company Global*Tel Link Corp will pay $17 million to escape claims that it colluded with two other companies to inflate the cost of calls made from inside U.S. prisons after a Maryland federal judge gave the deal her preliminary seal of approval Wednesday afternoon.
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October 30, 2024
Amazon Escapes Biometric Data Suit Over Call Center Tech
Amazon Web Services Inc. beat the last remaining claim in a proposed biometric privacy class action in Delaware federal court Wednesday, with a judge saying there's no evidence the tech giant's cloud-based call center service collects customer voice data.
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October 30, 2024
T-Mobile Defends UScellular Spectrum Buy At FCC
T-Mobile and United States Cellular Corp. urged the Federal Communications Commission to dismiss challenges to UScellular spectrum leases as it seeks to sell wireless operations to T-Mobile, arguing the dispute over the leases is unrelated to the wireless sale.
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October 30, 2024
FCC To Consider Undersea Cable Security Review In Nov.
The Federal Communications Commission next month is expected to embark on a review of security measures for undersea cables, an issue of growing concern over the last year.
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October 30, 2024
Biopharma Co. Can't Knock Ex-CFO's Bias Suit Out Of Court
A biopharmaceutical development company can't kick a fired executive's bias suit to arbitration, a California federal judge said, ruling that the harassment she said she faced on the job was gendered enough to invoke a federal law curbing out-of-court-resolutions of sex harassment claims.
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October 30, 2024
CTIA Asks To Expand Hot Spot Program Directly To Devices
School districts and libraries should be able to use their E-rate funds to provide commercially available mobile broadband service to students instead of just hotspots, a wireless industry trade group has told the Federal Communication Commission.
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October 30, 2024
Siemens Makes $10.6B AI Push With Altair Engineering Buy
German tech conglomerate Siemens AG has agreed to acquire software company Altair Engineering Inc. for approximately $10.6 billion, in a deal that seeks to bolster its artificial intelligence-powered design and simulation portfolio, the companies said Wednesday.
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October 30, 2024
IBM Wants Extra $63M From Zynga After $45M App Patent Win
IBM Corp. asked a Delaware federal judge to add $63 million in enhancement and prejudgment interest onto its $45 million patent infringement award against Zynga Inc., a week after Zynga asked the court to order a new trial over the dispute.
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October 30, 2024
Class Members Can't Change Opt-Out Rules In Chevy EV Deal
A Michigan federal judge won't grant a bid by individual class members to change the opt-out procedure in a $150 million settlement to resolve claims that General Motors sold Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles with defective batteries, calling the motion an improper late objection to the settlement's preliminary approval.
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October 30, 2024
MVP: Paul Weiss' Karen Dunn
Karen Dunn, co-chair of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP's litigation practice, over the past year has co-led a defense of Google LLC and secured two pretrial wins against the U.S. Department of Justice's pending antitrust suit alleging the tech giant runs a monopoly on online advertising, earning Dunn a spot among the 2024 Law360 Technology MVPs.
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October 30, 2024
FTX Witness Who Saw Bankman-Fried's 'Evil' Avoids Prison
A Manhattan federal judge allowed FTX's former chief engineer to avoid prison Wednesday, crediting his trial testimony against the crypto exchange's founder Sam Bankman-Fried, his ongoing cooperation and his relatively small role in the $11.2 billion fraud.
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October 30, 2024
AI-Focused SPAC Joins Pipeline With $200M IPO Filing
Archimedes Tech SPAC Partners II Co., a special purpose acquisition company targeting the artificial intelligence industry, filed plans on Wednesday for an estimated $200 million initial public offering, while another SPAC, energy-transition focused Tavia Acquisition Corp., downsized plans.
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October 30, 2024
Gov't Contracts Of The Month: Uranium And Missile Detection
Over the past month, the Biden administration advanced plans to secure the nuclear energy supply chain with $3.5 billion worth of uranium enrichment contracts and added $1.8 billion to its next-generation missile detection program. Here are Law360's most note-worthy government contracts for October 2024.
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October 30, 2024
NY Telecoms Urge Justices To Keep Pause On Price Cap
Telecommunications trade groups urged U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to keep New York's broadband price cap for low-income residents on hold even if the justices ultimately decide to review it, saying in a new brief Wednesday enforcement of the price caps would do irreparable harm to their members.
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October 29, 2024
'In-And-Out' Trades Don't Doom Lead Plaintiff Bid, Judge Says
A Manhattan federal judge appointed a Pomerantz LLP client as lead plaintiff in a shareholder suit against Nano Nuclear Energy Inc., rejecting arguments that the investor's handful of so-called in-and-out trades in the company's stock should preclude her from representing the proposed class in securities fraud allegations against the company.
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October 29, 2024
NY Health Provider To Boost Data Security To End AG's Probe
An Albany-based healthcare provider has agreed to pay $2.75 million in penalties and data security enhancements to resolve the New York attorney general's claims it failed to protect private medical data that was exposed in a pair of 2023 cyberattacks, the regulator said Tuesday.
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October 29, 2024
DOJ Will Restrict Data Swapping With 'Countries Of Concern'
The U.S. Department of Justice has proposed new rules that will make it the regulator of any type of transaction that would put certain kinds of sensitive privacy data in the hands of any "covered persons" or "country of concern."
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October 29, 2024
'Breathtaking' Pentagon Leak Merits 16 Years, Feds Say
Prosecutors urged a federal judge on Tuesday to sentence a former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman to more than 16 years in prison for posting top secret military documents to the social media platform Discord, calling the crimes a historic and "breathtaking" betrayal of national security.
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October 29, 2024
Bell Owes $16M In Trade Secrets Row With Vendor, Jury Finds
A Texas jury on Tuesday largely found in favor of Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. in a suit claiming that it used a former vendor's trade secrets to prep a replacement supplier, concluding that Bell breached its contract with the vendor but that the Fort Worth, Texas-based aerospace manufacturer hadn't stolen intellectual property.
Expert Analysis
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Increased Scrutiny Raises Int'l Real Estate Transaction Risks
Recently proposed regulations expanding the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' oversight, a White House divestment order and state-level legislative efforts signal increasing scrutiny of real estate transactions that may trigger national security concerns, say Luciano Racco and Aleksis Fernández Caballero at Foley Hoag.
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Trending At The PTAB: Obviousness In Director Reviews
Three July decisions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office favoring petitioners indicate a willingness by the director to review substantive issues, such as obviousness, particularly in cases where the director believes the Patent Trial and Appeal Board provided incorrect or inadequate rationale to support its decisions, say attorneys at Finnegan.
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Navigating Cybersecurity Rule Changes For Gov't Contractors
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
As federal contractors evaluate the security of their IT systems, they should keep in mind numerous changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement recently promulgated to meet new cyber threats, says William Stowe at KBR.
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AI Art Ruling Shows Courts' Training Data Cases Approach
A California federal court’s recent ruling in Andersen v. Stability AI, where the judge refused to throw out artists’ copyright infringement claims against four companies that make or distribute software that creates images from text prompts, provides insight into how courts are handling artificial intelligence training data cases, say attorneys at Skadden.
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Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles
Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.
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Ch. 11 Ruling Shows Early Attempt To Tackle Purdue Fallout
A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent ruling in Parlement Technologies’ Chapter 11 case, which denied a bid by Parler’s former owner to extend its bankruptcy stay to nondebtors, illustrates early efforts to grapple with the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Purdue Pharma for a recurring bankruptcy issue, say Daniel Lowenthal and Jonah Wacholder at Patterson Belknap.
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Opinion
Agencies Should Reward Corporate Cyber Victim Cooperation
The increased regulatory scrutiny on corporate victims of cyberattacks — exemplified by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's case against SolarWinds — should be replaced with a new model that provides adequate incentives for companies to come forward proactively and collaborate with law enforcement, say attorneys at McDermott.
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Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.
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Series
A Day In The In-House Life: Narmi GC Talks Peak Productivity
On a work-from-home day in August, Narmi general counsel Amy Pardee chronicles a typical day in her life in which she organizes her time to tackle everything from advising on products and contract negotiations to volunteering and catching up on the New York Times crossword.
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Opinion
CFPB's AI Stance Backslides On Innovation Issues
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent response to a Treasury Department's request for information about artificial intelligence in the financial services sector uses alarmist rhetoric about the technology's risks, ceding an opportunity to help shape this important discussion, says Mike Silver at Husch Blackwell.
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How Cos. Can Leverage IP In Corporate Bankruptcy
In light of an increase in year-to-date Chapter 11 filings, businesses must understand the importance and value of intellectual property in corporate bankruptcy and restructuring, from contributing to enterprise value, to providing leverage in negotiations and facilitating recovery, says Gregory Campanella at Ocean Tomo.
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What We Know From Early Cyberinsurance Rulings
Recent cyber disruption incidents, like the Crowdstrike outage and the CDK Global cyberattack this summer, highlight the necessity of understanding legal interpretations of cyberinsurance coverage — an area in which there has been little litigation thus far, say Peter Halprin and Rebecca Schwarz at Haynes Boone.
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5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond
As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.
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Examining Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Of AI Inventions
In light of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data showing that patent applications for artificial intelligence inventions are likelier to get rejected based on patent-ineligible subject matter, inventors seeking protection should be aware of the difficulties and challenges pertaining to patent eligibility, say Georgios Effraimidis at NERA and Joel Lehrer at Goodwin.
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IP Hot Topic: The Intersection Of Trademark And Antitrust Law
Antitrust claims – like those in the U.S. Department of Justice’s recent case against Apple – are increasingly influencing trademark disputes and enforcement practices, demonstrating how antitrust law can dilute the power of a trademark, say attorneys at Dentons.