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July 29, 2025
Del. Judge Lets Realtek Beat IP Suit With Alice Invalidation
A Delaware federal judge has invalidated the communications patent Media Content Protection LLC accused Realtek Semiconductor Corp. of infringing, finding it doesn't meet patent eligibility requirements.
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July 29, 2025
Flywire Hid Impact Of Student Visa Restrictions, Investor Says
Payment technology company Flywire Inc. has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action in New York federal court accusing the company of attempting to minimize the impact of international student visa restrictions, particularly in Australia and Canada, on its revenues.
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July 29, 2025
Senate Dem Presses Musk On Starlink Use In Scams
Elon Musk is facing questions from a Democratic U.S. senator concerning the possible use of Starlink by South Asian criminal organizations to run sweeping scams against Americans.
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July 29, 2025
Ex-TTEC Worker Pushes For Cert. In Expense Coverage Suit
A former TTEC Services employee accusing the customer service technology company of failing to reimburse workers for computers and internet upgrades asked a Colorado federal judge on Monday to certify a proposed class and collective action, claiming Tenth Circuit precedent backs certification prior to a court considering arbitration agreements.
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July 29, 2025
Bit Digital's AI Infrastructure Subsidiary Eyes $125M IPO
Artificial intelligence infrastructure company WhiteFiber Inc. on Tuesday unveiled plans to spin off from its parent company Bit Digital by way of an initial public offering, with plans to raise an estimated $125 million in an offering built by four law firms.
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July 29, 2025
Convicted Crypto CEO Tied To Abramoff Gets 7-Year Sentence
A California federal judge Tuesday sentenced a cryptocurrency company founder who committed a multimillion-dollar fraud in a scheme also involving disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff to seven years imprisonment — less than the 17 years prosecutors sought — in light of the man's childhood trauma, mental health and lack of criminal history.
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July 29, 2025
Sens. Introduce Aviation Safety Bill 6 Months After DCA Crash
Republican senators introduced legislation Tuesday that would mandate aircraft-tracking technology in civilian and military aircraft, alongside fresh audits of Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. Army practices, six months after January's deadly midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet near Washington, D.C.
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July 29, 2025
Limited Run Games Customers Seek OK Of $2.7M VPPA Deal
Limited Run Games inked a $2.72 million settlement in a proposed class action alleging it illegally shared customers' personally identifiable information and video-viewing history with Meta Platforms Inc. through a tracking pixel embedded on its website, according to a preliminary approval motion filed in New York federal court.
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July 29, 2025
Some OpenAI Defenses Nixed In 'Over-Litigated' Musk Suit
A California federal judge briefly took Elon Musk and OpenAI to task on Tuesday, in an order summarily nixing some of the ChatGPT-maker's affirmative defenses against the billionaire's lawsuit challenging plans to change its corporate structure.
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July 29, 2025
7th Circ. Backs Ex-CTA Worker's Sanction Over Deleted Chats
The Seventh Circuit has affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a former Chicago Transit Authority employee's retaliation lawsuit as a sanction for spoiling evidence, saying his explanation about how electronic phone messages were deleted changed over time and concluding that he wasn't entitled to an evidentiary hearing or jury review.
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July 29, 2025
Calif. Privacy Agency Fines Data Broker For Skirting Registry
The California Privacy Protection Agency on Tuesday announced its latest enforcement action under a groundbreaking state data deletion law, imposing a more than $55,000 fine on a Washington-based data broker on allegations it failed to fulfill its registration obligations last year.
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July 29, 2025
Guests Defend Luxury Hotel Info Exchange Claims
Guests targeting luxury hotel chains for using software provided by Amadeus IT Group to exchange occupancy information told an Illinois federal court the chains have used the software platform to raise room rates in local areas across the country.
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July 29, 2025
Motorola Seeks Contempt Ruling In Hytera Trade Secret Fight
Motorola has urged an Illinois federal court to hold Hytera in contempt for selling off its Teltronic subsidiary without telling the court or Motorola, saying it still owes Motorola hundreds of millions of dollars toward a $489 million debt it owes in a trade secrets fight over two-way radios.
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July 29, 2025
Judge May Review Classified DOD Evidence In DJI Drone Case
A D.C. federal judge said he might need to see the U.S. Department of Defense's classified reasoning for listing drone manufacturer SZ DJI Technology as a Chinese military company, suggesting the unredacted evidence might not include enough information to assess whether the listing is justified.
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July 29, 2025
Haynes Boone Adds 2 Robins Kaplan Litigation Partners In NY
Haynes Boone announced Tuesday that it has hired a pair of litigation partners in New York from Robins Kaplan LLP.
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July 29, 2025
Authors Fight Anthropic's Appeal Of Fair Use Ruling
Authors battling artificial intelligence firm Anthropic over its use of their books to train a large language model have urged a California federal judge to disallow a mid-case appeal of his ruling that Anthropic could use books it bought legally, but not the millions it purportedly lifted from online libraries of pirated works.
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July 29, 2025
DOJ's Top Antitrust Deputy, Merger Chief Both Fired
The U.S. Department of Justice has ousted two of its top Antitrust Division officials, citing insubordination amid growing signs of tension between merger enforcers and the wider Trump administration.
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July 29, 2025
Mich. Judge Sanctions Attys For False Case Quotations
A Michigan federal judge on Monday ordered plaintiffs' attorneys in two cases against a robotics company to pay for the time opposing counsel took in filing an additional briefing because of false case quotations.
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July 29, 2025
NC Engineer Says Green Energy Co. Withheld Stock Options
A former engineer at a North Carolina climate technology company sued his ex-employer, claiming the company and its board refused to let him exercise his stock options after he left for another green energy business.
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July 29, 2025
Stewart Undoes PTAB Decisions Axing Chip Patents
The acting head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has thrown out a pair of Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions that semiconductor companies like Texas Instruments were able to show two Greenthread chip patents are invalid.
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July 28, 2025
Authors Want Court To Reject Anthropic's Bid To Delay Trial
A group of authors urged a California federal court Monday to reject Anthropic PBC's request to pause their copyright case while Anthropic appeals the court's recent class certification order, arguing that the company has "no basis for a stay" and is trying to deprive them of their day in court.
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July 28, 2025
Truck Drivers Get Final Nod For $4.25M Deal In Face Scan Suit
An Illinois federal judge has signed off on a $4.25 million deal to resolve a proposed class action accusing tech company Lytx of violating the state's biometric privacy law by collecting truck drivers' biometric data through AI-powered monitoring cameras without proper notice or consent.
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July 28, 2025
Patent Damages Explode As Practice Areas See Wild Swings
Damages in plaintiff-won federal patent cases have soared in the past decade while those in environmental cases and some other types of civil litigation have plummeted, a new report from Lex Machina shows.
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July 28, 2025
2nd Circ. Won't Rehear Streaming App Video Privacy Fight
The Second Circuit declined to reconsider a panel ruling that affirmed the toss of a proposed class action accusing digital streaming provider Flipps Media of unlawfully sharing video-viewing information with Meta, on the heels of an NFL website user pushing the appellate court to revisit a similar video privacy dispute.
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July 28, 2025
Cadence To Pay $140M For Illegal Chip Design Exports To China
Semiconductor technology company Cadence Design Systems agreed to pay over $140 million and plead guilty to criminal conspiracy to commit export control violations to resolve charges that it exported semiconductor design tools to a restricted Chinese military university, U.S. Department of Justice officials announced Monday.
Expert Analysis
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Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards
The first half of 2025 has seen a series of cases interpreting the Video Privacy Protection Act as applied to website tracking technologies, including three appellate rulings deepening circuit splits on what qualifies as personally identifiable information and who qualifies as a consumer under the statute, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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Tips For Crypto AI Agent Developers Under SEC Watch
With agents powered by artificial intelligence increasingly making decisions in the cryptocurrency world, there's a chance the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could use the Investment Advisers Act to regulate this technology in financial services, but there are ways developers can mitigate regulatory risks, say attorneys at Morrison Cohen.
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How The Healthline Privacy Settlement Redefines Ad Tech Use
The Healthline settlement is the first time California has drawn a clear line in the sand around how website tracking must function in practice, so if your site uses tracking technologies, especially around sensitive content like health or finance, regulators are inspecting your website's back end, not just its banner, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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AI Infrastructure Growth Brings Unique IP Considerations
The explosive rise of artificial intelligence has triggered an equally dramatic transformation in the supporting infrastructure required to meet growing AI demand, and the technology used in these data centers has its own intellectual property considerations to navigate, says Vincent Allen at Carstens Allen.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.
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Tips For US Investors Eyeing Middle East Data Centers
While Middle East data center investment presents a compelling opportunity in light of renewed U.S.-Gulf cooperation on artificial intelligence and critical technologies, these projects require a nuanced understanding of regional legal and regulatory regimes, says Haykel Hajjaji at Covington.
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Influencer Marketing Partnerships Face Rising Litigation Risk
In light of recent class actions claiming that brands and influencers are misleading consumers with deceptive marketing practices — largely premised on the Federal Trade Commission's endorsements guidance — proactive compliance measures are becoming more important, say attorneys at Olshan Frome.
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5 Consumer Protection Compliance Issues In NY State Budget
Companies that engage with New York consumers should promptly familiarize themselves with new state budget provisions that require finance and retail companies to make certain business practices more transparent and easier for customers to execute, say attorneys at Mintz.
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Balancing The Promises And Perils Of Tokenizing Securities
Tokenizing listed securities offers the promise of greater efficiency, accessibility and innovation, but a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission statement makes clear that the federal securities laws continue to apply to tokenized securities, so financial institutions and technology developers must work together to create clear rules, say attorneys at Orrick.
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How To Increase 3rd-Party Preissuance Patent Submissions
Attorneys Marian Underweiser and Marc Ehrlich, who helped draft the America Invents Act, discuss changes that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could potentially implement to facilitate its hopes for increased participation in front-end patent challenges.
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How Cos. In China Can Tailor Compliance Amid FCPA Shifts
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recently updated Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement guidelines create a fluid business environment for companies operating in China that will require a customized compliance approach to navigate both countries’ corporate and legal systems, say attorneys at Dickinson Wright.
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7 Ways Employers Can Avoid Labor Friction Over AI
As artificial intelligence use in the workplace emerges as a key labor relations topic in the U.S. and Europe, employers looking to reduce reputational risk and prevent costly disputes should consider proactive strategies to engage with unions, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.
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Open Banking Is On Ice As CFPB Seeks To Toss Its Own Rule
Even as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's efforts to toss its open banking rule play out in Kentucky federal court, it remains statutorily required to effectuate consumer access to data, raising questions about how it would replace the previously finalized standard, say attorneys at Cooley.
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SEC, FINRA Obligations In Changing AI Regulatory Landscape
Despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent withdrawal of its proposed artificial intelligence conflict rules, financial regulators remain focused on firms developing the correct AI compliance framework, as well as continuously testing and supervising them to ensure they're fit for purpose, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.
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Opinion
DOJ's HPE-Juniper Settlement Will Help US Compete
The U.S. Department of Justice settlement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise clears the purchase of Juniper Networks in a deal that positions the U.S. as a leader in secure, scalable networking and critical digital infrastructure by requiring the divestiture of a WiFi network business geared toward small firms, says John Shu at Taipei Medical University.