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January 10, 2025
PowerSchool Blamed For Breach of Student, Teacher Data
The personal data of tens of millions of students, parents and teachers was put at risk last month when hackers were able to worm their way into PowerSchool's systems because the educational software company's security safeguards were not up to snuff, two lawsuits filed in California federal court allege.
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January 10, 2025
Plex Says Subscriber's Privacy Lawsuit Must Be Arbitrated
Streaming platform Plex is urging a California federal court to nix a proposed data privacy class action, accusing the plaintiffs of using the litigation as a tactic to "coerce" it into settling more than 400 pending arbitrations.
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January 10, 2025
Masimo, Apple Fight Over Watch IP In Post-Bench Trial Briefs
Masimo and Apple have submitted dueling briefs to a California federal judge following a trade secret retrial over health sensing technology in Apple's smartwatches, with Masimo maintaining Apple poached its employees to steal its intellectual property and Apple contending Masimo failed for years to "back up their spurious claims" of misappropriation.
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January 10, 2025
Infosys Files Antitrust Counterclaims In Trade Secrets Suit
Healthcare payments software company Infosys has hit back with antitrust counterclaims against Cognizant TriZetto Software Group's Texas federal court suit accusing Infosys of abusing its system access to develop competing services.
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January 10, 2025
Telescope Indirect Buyers Want $10.6M Fees In Antitrust Fight
Class counsel for a group of indirect purchasers who struck a $32 million settlement with Celestron and other companies in an antitrust case accusing them of conspiring to increase the prices of telescopes asked a California federal judge Thursday to grant $10.67 million in attorney fees and $771,461 in costs.
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January 10, 2025
4 Trends That Will Shape Venture Capital Funding In 2025
Venture capital funding appears primed to improve in 2025 as market participants shake off the effects of a post-pandemic crash, with surging demand for artificial intelligence, expectations of friendlier government policies, and more exits through public listings and acquisitions.
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January 10, 2025
Patent Partner Leaves Kilpatrick Townsend For K&L Gates
K&L Gates LLP has added to its Orange County, California, office a Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP partner with a practice of working with Chinese companies looking to file patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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January 10, 2025
CFPB Floats Protections For Crypto, Video Game Payments
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday proposed to make clear that cryptocurrency and video game transactions are covered under existing rules codifying consumers' rights in situations of fraudulent transfers, hacks and stolen funds.
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January 10, 2025
Tech Co., Feds Seek Wins In Commercial Item Preference Row
A tech company is asking a federal judge to block the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from proceeding with solicitations that stand to replace so-called batCAVE and Signal software it developed that is already providing the desired functionality.
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January 10, 2025
Paramount Wants Out Of User's Video Privacy Suit
Paramount Global urged a New York federal court to dismiss a California man's putative class action accusing it of unlawfully sharing streaming platform users' personal information to third parties like Facebook and TikTok, saying the man lodged inadequate theories of disclosure and otherwise consented to the alleged disclosure.
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January 10, 2025
NJ Says Existing Anti-Discrimination Law Applies To Using AI
New Jersey's attorney general issued guidance clarifying that the Garden State's discrimination law applies to "algorithmic discrimination," or discrimination and bias-based harassment stemming from the use of artificial intelligence and other similar technologies.
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January 10, 2025
Fed. Circ. Skeptical Ioengine Can Overcome On-Sale Bar
A Federal Circuit panel seemed doubtful Friday that none of the hundreds of people who downloaded a firmware upgrade affiliated with an early flash drive used it, which Ioengine LLC would need to prove to beat an on-sale bar invalidation of its patents.
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January 10, 2025
Social Media Apps Fail To Trim Calif. Mental Health Mass Tort
Meta Platforms, YouTube, Snap and TikTok have lost a bid to cut failure-to-warn claims from consolidated litigation over their social media platforms' alleged harm to youth mental health, with a California state judge ruling that neither the Communications Decency Act nor the First Amendment bar liability based on an app's own features.
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January 10, 2025
Faster Permits Needed For Next G's, Wireless Cos. Say
Wireless infrastructure builders are hoping for a more inviting regulatory environment at the federal and state levels as technology progresses and have put broadband permitting reform at the top of their legislative wish list for 2025.
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January 10, 2025
Insurer Says No Coverage For Unlicensed Electrician's Death
An Oklahoma grocery store's insurer shouldn't have to cover litigation brought by the family of a man who died while performing electrical work because he was unlicensed and because the store, when obtaining its policy, said it didn't hire independent contractors, the insurer told a federal court.
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January 10, 2025
US Trustee Balks At Ch. 11 Bid Protections In First Mode Case
A package of bid protections for the stalking horse of bankrupt electric-engine developer First Mode needs to be reined in, the Office of the U.S. Trustee has said, urging a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject the debtor's request that expenses and fees tied to the $15 million bid be paid as priority claims.
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January 10, 2025
Couple Says EBay, Top Brass Can't Duck Trial In Stalking Suit
A Massachusetts couple argued Friday that eBay Inc. and several of its top executives were at least aware of a harassment campaign perpetrated by employees of the online retailer and should not be let off the liability hook.
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January 10, 2025
Microscope Co. Didn't Infringe UMich Patent, Judge Finds
A California federal judge has held that German microscope company Leica Microsystems Inc. didn't infringe a patent issued to the University of Michigan that covers a new way of measuring fluorescence.
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January 10, 2025
Semiconductor Co. Hit With Investor Suit Over Demand Slump
Semiconductor manufacturing company Micron Technology Inc. has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging Micron began overstating demand for its products after two years of disappointing sales in order to keep share prices artificially inflated.
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January 10, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen legal services group RBG Holdings face a winding-up petition from founder Ian Rosenblatt amid soured talks about the group's leadership, J.P. Morgan file a fresh claim against WeRealize, retailer Asda face an intellectual property claim over a specific type of mandarin and financier Nathaniel Rothschild sue German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst and his investment vehicle Tennor International. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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January 10, 2025
Tougher 911 Outage Report Regs Needed, Responders Say
First responder groups are urging the Federal Communications Commission to toughen up on network outage reporting requirements impacting 911 services, saying gaps in the current system don't fully meet the needs of emergency communications centers.
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January 10, 2025
EU Greenlights $35B Synopsys-Ansys Deal With Remedies
The European Commission said Friday it has conditionally approved Synopsys Inc.'s proposed $35 billion acquisition of Ansys Inc. after the companies agreed to certain divestitures, as the megadeal continues to make regulatory progress across jurisdictions.
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January 10, 2025
Justices Seem Inclined To Uphold TikTok Sale-Or-Ban Law
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed likely Friday to uphold a law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company over national security concerns or face a nationwide ban, despite some justices expressing concern over the law's impact on the free speech rights of Americans who use the wildly popular social media platform.
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January 10, 2025
Advocates Press For Renewed Broadband Subsidy Bill
A public interest group on Friday pushed the new Congress to renew a broadband subsidy for low-income households that ran out of money last year.
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January 10, 2025
ESPN, Fox, Warner Bros. Abruptly Scrap Sports Streaming JV
ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery called off their Venu joint live sports streaming venture Friday, just days after ESPN parent company The Walt Disney Co. used the acquisition of a majority stake in streaming startup FuboTV Inc. to nix Fubo's challenge to Venu on the courthouse steps.
Expert Analysis
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Takeaways From 2024's Emerging IP Licensing Trends
Themes in intellectual property licensing from the past year – including artificial intelligence; risk management; and name, image and likeness rights – highlight key considerations for navigating an evolving landscape, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.
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Top 10 Legal Issues This Year For Transportation Industry GCs
General counsel must carefully consider numerous legal and policy challenges facing the automotive and transportation industry in the year to come, especially while navigating new technologies, regulations and global markets, says Francesco Liberatore at Squire Patton.
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Exploring Venue Strategy For Trump-Era Regulatory Litigation
Litigation will likely play a prominent role in shaping policy outcomes during the second Trump administration, and stakeholders have several tools at their disposal to steer regulatory litigation toward more favorable venues, say attorneys at Covington.
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Searching For Insight On Requested Google Chrome Remedy
The potential for Google to divest its Chrome browser — a remedy requested by the Justice Department following a D.C. federal court’s finding the company is a monopolist — has drawn both criticism and endorsement, but legal precedent likely supports the former, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.
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How The UPC, ITC Complement Each Other In Patent Law
Attorneys at Ropes & Gray discuss the similarities and differences between the Unified Patent Court and the International Trade Commission, as well as recent matters litigated in both venues and why parties choose to file at these forums.
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New Year, New Risks: 8 Top Cyber Issues For Finance In 2025
As financial institutions forge ahead in 2025, they must strike a delicate balance between embracing technological innovation and guarding against its darker threats, which this year could include everything from supply chain vulnerabilities to deepfakes, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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FTC Focus: A Changing Of The Guard
While rigorous antitrust enforcement is unlikely to slow down at the Federal Trade Commission, the focus will undoubtedly change, including when it comes to Big Tech, as Andrew Ferguson prepares to take the reins from Chair Lina Khan, say attorneys at Proskauer.
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5th Circ.'s Nasdaq Ruling Another Piece In DEI Policy Puzzle
The Fifth Circuit's recent en banc opinion vacating Nasdaq's board diversity listing rule wades into the hotly debated topic of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at a time when many public companies are navigating the attention that DEI commitments are drawing from activists and shareholders, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Playing Esports Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Competing in a global esports tournament at Wimbledon last year not only fulfilled my childhood dream, but also sharpened skills that are essential to my day job, including strategic thinking, confidence and networking, says AJ Schuyler at Jackson Lewis.
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Lessons From The SEC's 2024 Crackdown On AI Washing
AI washing was the subject of increased scrutiny from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2024 following a surge in the commercial adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies in 2023, highlighting the importance of transparency, accuracy and accountability when communicating about AI, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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The 6 Most Significant FCRA Litigation Developments Of 2024
From a key sovereign immunity decision at the U.S. Supreme Court to a ruling on creditworthiness out of the Seventh Circuit, several important Fair Credit Reporting Act cases wound their way through the courts in 2024, each offering takeaways for both plaintiffs and defendants, say attorneys at Shipkevich.
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Identifying Deepfakes During Evidence Collection, Discovery
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Attorneys must familiarize themselves with the tools used to create and detect deepfakes — media manipulated by artificial intelligence to convincingly mimic real people and events — as well as best practices for keeping this fabricated evidence out of court, says Bijan Ghom at Saxton & Stump.
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Fed. Circ. In December: A Patent Prosecution History Lesson
Despite relying on two rock-solid principles of patent law, DDR lost its Federal Circuit case against Priceline.com, highlighting how a change in the scope of the invention from the provisional to the nonprovisional application can affect the court's analysis of how a skilled artisan would understand claim terms after reading the prosecution history, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.
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Health Tech Regulatory Trends To Watch In 2025
With an upcoming change in administration and the release of some long-awaited rules, the healthcare industry should prepare for shifting trends, including a growing focus on health data and interest in technology-enabled delivery of healthcare, say attorneys at Orrick.
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An Associate's Guide To Career Development In 2025
As the new year begins, associates at all levels should consider establishing career metrics, fostering key relationships and employing other specific strategies to help move through the complexities of the legal profession with confidence and emerge as trailblazers, say EJ Stern and Amanda George at Fractional Law Firm.