Epic, Apple Antitrust Trial: What's On Deck Week 2

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  Ericsson And Samsung Ink Licensing Deal, Ending Patent War

  By Andrew Karpan

  Ericsson and Samsung on Friday agreed to bury the hatchet on all ongoing patent disputes between the companies, ...(read more)

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  Apple Exec Testifies Epic's Payment Cheat 'Blindsided' Him

  By Dorothy Atkins

  An Apple App Store executive testified in an antitrust bench trial Thursday that he was "blindsided" by Epic CEO...(read more)

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• Apple's App Review Comes Under Fire In Antitrust Trial

  By Dorothy Atkins

  An Apple senior director defended the company's app-review process Friday during an antitrust bench trial between the tech giant and Epic Games, testifying that although Apple has approved some potentially offensive apps, including a school-shooting game app, such mistakes are rare and "we catch the vast majority of issues."

• OpenAI GC Steps Away Weeks After Tesla GC's Departure

  By Hailey Konnath

  The general counsel for OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research laboratory backed by Elon Musk, confirmed Friday he's leaving the company, a move that comes a little more than two weeks after Tesla's acting general counsel announced that he would be stepping down.

• 9th Circ. Tells Women's Soccer Players To Meet With Mediator

  By Zachary Zagger

  U.S. Soccer and members of the women's national soccer team will meet with a federal mediator to assess whether further settlement talks are necessary in the players' high-profile discrimination and equal pay class action, a move that is an apparent long-shot bid to avoid going through with the players' Ninth Circuit appeal of the dismissal of those claims.

• Bigger In Texas: Ch. 11s In Lone Star State Outpace Delaware

  By Vince Sullivan

  Rising out of the energy sector turmoil that began in 2015, Texas bankruptcy courts have fashioned themselves into an attractive venue for complex Chapter 11 cases, and have used their growing reputation for efficiency and predictability to surpass Delaware and New York as the most popular destinations for corporate reorganizations.

• With US On Board, COVID IP Waiver Still Faces Long Road

  By Ryan Davis

  While the Biden administration has backed a temporary waiver on intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines, experts now foresee heated World Trade Organization negotiations about the scope of any deal, which could keep the proposal in limbo for some time.

• EDTX Jury Hands Game Maker $92M IP Win Over Rival

  By Adam Lidgett

  A Texas federal jury on Friday found that Clash of Clans game maker Supercell Oy infringed at least one claim in a series of patents held by Japanese game maker Gree Inc. and awarded Gree a lump sum of $92.2 million.

• Google Claims Women Fudged Data, Denies Gender Pay Gap

  By Hannah Albarazi

  Google accused its female ex-employees Friday of having "manipulated" and "fabricated" data to support their accusations that the search behemoth systematically underpaid women and hired them at lower-level positions than their male peers, urging a California state judge not to certify a class of over 10,000 women.

• Alex Oh Says She Rues 'Breakdown Of Civility' In Exxon Case

  By Dean Seal

  Former Paul Weiss partner Alex Oh said Friday she regrets her role in the "breakdown of civility" with opposing counsel in a long-running Exxon Mobil Corp. human rights case that apparently pushed her to resign as head of the SEC's Enforcement Division less than a week after being named to the role.

• Feds Tread Lightly On Giuliani Devices After 'Taint Team' Flak

  By Jack Queen

  Federal investigators who seized Rudy Giuliani's devices as part of a foreign lobbying probe are proceeding cautiously with the host of sensitive material they now possess, signaling a possible shift in how the government handles attorney-client communications following strong criticisms from judges.

• NJ Justices To Mull Constitutionality Of Remote Jury Selection

  By Cara Salvatore

  The New Jersey Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether virtual jury selection is unconstitutional amid the COVID-19 pandemic, setting accelerated briefing in a case against a man who went to trial last fall for attempted arson.

• Ex-BigLaw Atty Gets Prison For Conduct In Bankruptcy Case

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge hit a hedge fund pro and onetime BigLaw lawyer with six months in prison Friday for illegally pressuring Jefferies Financial Group not to challenge his bid for assets sold by retailer Neiman Marcus in a Texas bankruptcy.

• Attys Must Share Vax Status Before In-Person Mass. Auto Trial

  By Chris Villani

  Attorneys and other participants in an upcoming trial to resolve an auto group's challenge to Massachusetts' updated "Right to Repair" law will have to tell the presiding judge whether they've been vaccinated against COVID-19, he said during a hearing Friday.