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December 08, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Dec. 5 opinion, a Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated a Texas federal judge’s dismissal of an advertising technology company’s patent infringement suit against Meta Platforms Inc., finding that the dismissal hinged on a premature resolution of a disputed claim construction in Meta’s favor and a failure to credit the plaintiff-appellant’s factual allegations.
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December 08, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In consolidated suits in which a District of Columbia federal judge determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the judge on Dec. 5 issued an opinion and final judgment outlining prohibitory injunctions, including requiring Google not to condition the licensing of Google Play on the distribution or license “of any Google GenAI [emerging generative artificial intelligence] Product on any device sold in the United States.”
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December 08, 2025
HONOLULU — The state of Hawaii filed suit in Hawaii state court against ByteDance Ltd. and its subsidiaries, ByteDance Inc., TikTok Inc. and TikTok Ltd. (collectively, TikTok), the operators of the TikTok social media platform, “for falsely marketing and promoting—to children and their families—an addictive and otherwise harmful social media platform.”
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December 05, 2025
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The John R. Cash Revocable Trust sued The Coca-Cola Co. in a Tennessee federal court, alleging violation of state laws and the Lanham Act over Coca-Cola’s “Infringing Ad” allegedly using a singing voice that is “identifiable and attributable to Johnny Cash” without permission in a 2025 NCAA college football advertising campaign on television networks and across social media platforms.
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December 04, 2025
CHICAGO — A named plaintiff who signed up for Amazon.com Inc.’s Voice ID program after the filing of a suit would be subject to unique defenses that render him unfit to be a class representative, a federal judge in Illinois said while certifying claims that the company violated Illinois law by collecting certain biometric data through its Alexa artificial intelligence system.
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December 03, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge dismissed with leave to amend a putative class action filed by citizens of the United Kingdom against two companies that own and operate the “Honey” discount-finding browser extension, finding that the plaintiffs’ claim for monetary restitution under California’s unfair competition law (UCL) is actually a claim for damages and, therefore, not recoverable.
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December 03, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge on Dec. 2 issued a revised opinion with “minimal redactions” after issuing an earlier redacted opinion entering judgment in favor of Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.) regarding allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that Meta monopolized the personal social networking (PSN) market by buying rivals WhatsApp and Instagram, finding that the FTC failed to show that Meta has monopoly power in the relevant market.
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December 02, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel once again ruled against a technology company on Dec. 1, affirming a finding of the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that certain claims of the company’s patent describing a handheld device using a camera to receive gesture-based inputs are invalid as anticipated; the panel also dismissed the company’s appeal in part related to other patent claims that the appellate court had already held to be invalid.
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December 01, 2025
CHICAGO — An Illinois appeals court panel held that a management company for multiple nursing care facilities is not entitled to recover the expenses it incurred following a cyberattack on one of its payroll vendors, affirming a lower court’s ruling in favor of an insurer in the management company’s declaratory judgment lawsuit.
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December 01, 2025
ATLANTA — A split 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted the Florida attorney general’s motion to stay pending appeal of a preliminary injunction issued by a district court to stop enforcement of certain provisions of a Florida law that seeks to regulate access to certain social media platforms for Florida youth, finding “that the balance of the harms and the public interest favor a stay of the preliminary injunction.”
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November 26, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 25 affirmed a California federal judge’s finding that some claims in patents describing systems for routing streamed content over the internet were invalid as indefinite and likewise affirmed findings that the technology company’s products did not meet a claim limitation required by the patents at issue.
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November 26, 2025
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a proposed final judgment in a North Carolina federal court in an antitrust suit against RealPage Inc., a commercial revenue management software company, alleging that RealPage used nonpublic information obtained from landlords and runs the information through its algorithmic software to align pricing, thereby impeding the free market process.
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November 25, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 24 affirmed a district court’s ruling issuing a permanent injunction barring certain individuals from future participation in multilevel marketing programs related to their participation in marketing internet-based travel services in violation of the FTC Act and imposing a sanction of $7,306,873.14 for violating a permanent injunction related to an earlier suit, finding that the sanction was appropriate and that the permanent injunction was “not overly broad.”
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November 25, 2025
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Internet trade association NetChoice LLC filed a motion for preliminary injunction and a brief in support in its Virginia federal court suit seeking preliminary and permanent injunctions to prevent the Virginia attorney general from enforcing provisions of Senate Bill 854, a Virginia law that seeks to require social media platforms to determine whether a user is a minor, arguing in part that the law violates the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and that the loss of First Amendment rights will inflict harm upon NetChoice members.
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November 21, 2025
By Jamie O’Neill and Abigail Damsky
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November 24, 2025
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge on Nov. 21 granted PayPal Inc.’s motion to dismiss a putative class action brought against it by influencers and content creators active on platforms such as YouTube and Instagram who accused it of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by using a discount-finding browser extension, “Honey,” to redirect profits from their market affiliate links to itself, finding that they lack standing for failure to allege an injury traceable to PayPal.
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November 24, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 21 affirmed a lower court’s award of $168,454,749 in compensatory and exemplary damages but vacated and remanded a permanent injunction in a dispute over the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets to develop a software platform by a technology consulting company, finding that requiring the technology consulting company to pay costs related to the software development while preventing it from using the software resulted in an overlap of the remedies which the lower court needs to address on remand.
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November 21, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Nov. 20 held that the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) wrongly construed the claim term “acquiring interest data” when considering the patentability of a claim phrase in a patent describing a system to determine if a computer is being used by a human or a “bot”; under the correct construction, the panel held that the claim is anticipated by a prior art reference.
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November 20, 2025
FORT WORTH, Texas — An IT services company has sued an energy company in Texas federal court alleging that it misappropriated trade secrets when it misused login credentials related to proprietary software code that the IT company created and managed for the energy company’s operations as a provider of proppants to the hydraulic fracturing industry.
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November 20, 2025
LOS ANGELES — A California judge granted the state’s unopposed ex parte application for final judgment and a permanent injunction against a data storage provider, requiring the company to implement enhanced data security measures, undergo third-party audits for five years and pay $3.25 million in penalties after the state alleged that the provider failed to maintain data privacy safeguards that led to a 2022 breach exposing sensitive student information in at least 49 school districts.
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November 19, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A District of Columbia federal judge on Nov. 18 entered judgment in favor of Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.) regarding allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that Meta monopolized the personal social networking (PSN) market by buying rivals WhatsApp and Instagram, finding that the FTC failed to show Meta has monopoly power in the relevant market.
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November 19, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Verizon Communications Inc. filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling denying review of a Federal Communications Commission forfeiture order imposing a $46.9 million penalty for violating the Communications Act and related regulations regarding Verizon’s alleged failure to safeguard certain customer proprietary network information.
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November 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 17 denied certiorari to a remanufacturer of ink cartridges seeking review of a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling affirming a lower court’s dismissal of a suit accusing Amazon.com Inc. and its subsidiaries of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL), the Lanham Act and other laws by allowing third-party sellers to post allegedly deceptive listings for recycled printer ink cartridges, thereby diverting business from authentic ink cartridge recyclers.
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November 17, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 17 rejected a patent-holding company’s petitions for writs of certiorari in disputes with Apple Inc., Google LLC, LG Electronics Inc. and an affiliate over multiple technology patents, declining to take up the company’s arguments regarding the constitutionality of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
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November 14, 2025
OAKLAND, Calif. — Nearly 13,000 purported class members and objectors who allegedly opted out of a $95 million settlement of a 6-year-old class action accusing Apple Inc. of collecting unauthorized recordings of Apple device users via its Siri digital assistant filed notice in California federal court that they will appeal the court’s final approval of the settlement to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.