X Hits Company Behind 'Twitter.New' Site With Trademark Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

X Corp. filed suit Tuesday against a company seeking to bring Twitter back, saying in a complaint filed in Delaware federal court that "Twitter never left" and that the trademarks associated with the social media platform remain X's "incontestable intellectual property."

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Analysis

The Top Copyright Decisions Of 2025

By Ivan Moreno

In watershed moments for copyright law and artificial intelligence, two California federal judges delivered the first rulings on whether AI developers' reliance on copyrighted works to train their models qualifies as fair use, providing initial guidance on contentious battles between content creators and tech companies. Here are Law360's picks for the top copyright rulings of 2025.

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Hagens Berman Sanctioned For Bot Errors In OnlyFans Case

By Emily Sawicki

A California federal judge sanctioned Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for submitting four briefs that contained errors blamed on ChatGPT while representing OnlyFans users pursuing proposed class fraud claims against the online platform, tossing the suit but allowing the users a chance to refile.

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Patent Attys Ordered To Explain AI-Hallucinated Citations

By Lauren Berg

A Kansas federal judge ordered the attorneys representing patent licensing company Lexos Media IP in its infringement suit against Overstock.com Inc. to explain why they shouldn't be sanctioned for submitting briefs that contained nonexistent and incorrect legal citations hallucinated by generative artificial intelligence.

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Judge Trims Ziff Davis Copyright Claims In OpenAI MDL

By Elliot Weld

A Manhattan federal judge has dismissed part of a suit from digital media publisher Ziff Davis Inc. against OpenAI alleging that its chatbot ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted content scraped from the internet and gives re-creations of those works when prompted.

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'Choking Challenge' Suit Against YouTube, TikTok Is Tossed

By Mike Curley

A California federal judge has dismissed without leave to amend a suit by parents and an advocacy group alleging YouTube and TikTok's reporting and moderating tools are defective and fail to take down dangerous videos, saying the complaint suffers from the same deficiencies that got a previous version dismissed.

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Anthropic Seeks Music Publishers' Claude IP Testing Data

By Dorothy Atkins

Anthropic urged a California federal judge during a hearing Tuesday to order music publishers to produce the prompts and outputs their investigators used to test whether the Claude AI chatbot was infringing song lyrics, while the publishers slammed Anthropic's request as an overbroad third attempt to pierce work-product protections.

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States Sue Trump Admin To Restart EV Infrastructure Funds

By Ben Adlin

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration in Washington federal court on Tuesday in an effort to stop the U.S. government from blocking billions of dollars in congressionally approved funds meant to expand the country's electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

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USPTO To Stay Director Reviews For Fed. Circ. Appeals

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires announced Tuesday that he will pause director review proceedings when the petitioner is also asking the Federal Circuit for relief. 

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'Take It Or Leave It' Defines Network-Affiliate Ties, FCC Told

By Christopher Cole

The major TV affiliates' groups have urged the Federal Communications Commission to tackle what they call the "seriously out of balance" relationship that has developed between major national networks and local broadcasters that carry their programs.

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Brief

Nokia Chosen As Spectrum Access Manager For CBRS

By Nadia Dreid

Nokia is the newest spectrum access manager for the Citizens Broadband Radio Service, the slice of spectrum that stretches from 3.55 to 3.7 gigahertz and is used for both private and government purposes, according to the Federal Communications Commission.

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Corporate Transparency Act Is Constitutional, 11th Circ. Says

By Kevin Pinner

The Corporate Transparency Act is constitutional because it regulates economic activities with a substantial impact on interstate commerce and doesn't violate protections against unreasonable searches, the Eleventh Circuit said Tuesday, reversing a lower court's decision.

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USPTO Tells Fed. Circ. That Inventor 'Abused' Patent System

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is urging the Federal Circuit to ignore an inventor's call to end doctrine that can render a patent unenforceable based on delays by the owner during prosecution, saying his actions were "a textbook example of unreasonable examination delays."

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Fed. Circ. Stunned By 'Numerous' Flaws In Patent Appeal

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a patent licensing company's infringement lawsuit over a software patent, finding there were so many issues with the appeal that they "are almost too numerous to count."

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Ultrahuman Loses Bids To Halt ITC Order In Oura Patent Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. International Trade Commission and the Federal Circuit have both denied requests by Ultrahuman to stay ITC orders barring imports of its smart rings found to infringe an Ouraring patent, turning aside Ultrahuman's arguments that the orders are too broad.

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La. Social Media Law Violates First Amendment, Judge Rules

By Nadia Dreid

Louisiana cannot enforce a new law that restricts minors' access to social media and bans companies from showing them targeted ads because it is likely unconstitutional and would violate their First Amendment rights, a Louisiana federal judge said Monday.

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Six Flags Can't Escape Privacy Suit Over Website Tracking

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge has refused to release Six Flags Entertainment Corp. from a proposed class action accusing it of illegally allowing third parties to track the browsing activities of visitors to its Cedar Point amusement park website, finding that the plaintiff had sufficiently asserted an array of claims for invasion of privacy, wiretap, fraud and unjust enrichment.

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Crypto Host Must Pay $1.2M For Breaching Mining Deal

By Sydney Price

A federal judge in Washington state ruled Tuesday that a cryptocurrency computer host breached a contract it signed with a bitcoin mining company and unlawfully retained its equipment, awarding the mining firm $1.2 million in damages.

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Judge Blocks T-Mobile From Using Tool To Scrape AT&T Data

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas federal judge blocked T-Mobile from using a price tool to scrape data from AT&T's website, saying that without a temporary restraining order T-Mobile would likely continue to enter into AT&T's password-protected software without permission.

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Quinn Emanuel Fee Fight Bound For Texas Or Mass. Court

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts federal judge is weighing whether to kick Quinn Emanuel's bid for $30 million in legal fees from a former client's parent company, Nano Dimension Ltd., to state court or to the Texas bankruptcy court where the client is undergoing Chapter 11 proceedings.

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Bobcat, Caterpillar, Lawmakers Spar Over Possible Import Ban

By Ryan Davis

Doosan Bobcat has told the U.S. International Trade Commission to ignore claims by rival Caterpillar Inc. and eight members of Congress that U.S. industry will be harmed by banning imports of Caterpillar construction machines if they are found to infringe Doosan Bobcat patents.

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Digital Marketing Co. Ibotta Seeks To Ditch Suit Over IPO

By Emilie Ruscoe

Digital consumer discount company Ibotta Inc. and its brass and underwriters seek to shed a consolidated proposed investor class action alleging the company misled investors in the lead-up to its 2024 initial public offering, arguing that it properly disclosed certain risks that later purportedly affected trading prices for its shares.

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Samsung Wants ITC To Consider Oura Smart Ring IP Fight

By Theresa Schliep

Samsung has expanded its legal battle with Oura over patents covering biometric-tracking wearable technologies, telling the U.S. International Trade Commission that Oura's smart rings infringe a set of four patents owned by Samsung.

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Hinge, Tinder Sued Over Matching Women With Serial Rapist

By Mike Curley

A group of six women sued Hinge, Tinder and their parent company in Colorado state court Tuesday, saying they matched them with a serial rapist despite claiming to have banned him from their apps.

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BMW Seeks Block On 'Unprecedented' German Patent Case

By Elliot Weld

Carmaker BMW has asked a Texas federal court to block what it called an "unprecedented" attempt to adjudicate U.S. patents in German court by a patent company asserting infringement claims.

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DOD Contractor Says Engineer Stole 2K Files On Last Day

By Bonnie Eslinger

Defense contractor Competitive Range Solutions LLC is suing a field engineer in Virginia federal court, accusing him of violating the Defend Trade Secrets Act by downloading thousands of confidential documents at the end of his last day of work and after accepting a job with a competitor.

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WorldQuant Predictive Technologies Sues Ex-CEO, Lawyer

By Brian Steele

The ousted CEO of WorldQuant Predictive Technologies LLC and his attorney brought vexatious lawsuits against the company as part of an effort to dodge an arbitrator's $691,000 award in favor of the AI-driven business solutions provider, the company says in a lawsuit in Connecticut state court.

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Property Management Co. Faces AI Platform Antitrust Suit

By Grace Dixon

Artificial intelligence-driven insurance compliance service provider Beagle Labs Inc. has hit AppFolio with antitrust claims in federal court, alleging the property management software company told customers Beagle created cybersecurity risks in order to drive them toward AppFolio's in-house products.

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AI Biz Databricks Valued At $134B With Latest Funding Plans

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Databricks, led by Fenwick & West LLP, on Tuesday revealed that it is raising around $4 billion in a Series L round that would value the data and artificial intelligence company at $134 billion.

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Medical Device Maker Zynex Hits Ch. 11 With Sale Plans

By Clara Geoghegan

Zynex Inc., a pain management medical device maker, filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas with at least $66.7 million in debt and plans to sell the business backed by a stalking horse bid from its creditors.

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IRobot Can Use Cash Collateral In Ch. 11, Judge Says

By Yun Park

A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday allowed the company behind the Roomba robot vacuum to access cash collateral, which would enable the company to operate during Chapter 11 proceedings and move to implement its prepackaged insolvency plan.

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Brief

Luminar Can Use $25M Cash Reserves For Speedy Ch. 11

By Emily Lever

A Texas bankruptcy judge Tuesday agreed to allow Luminar Technologies Inc., a bankrupt developer of lidar technology for autonomous vehicles, to use its $25 million in cash collateral to fund its Chapter 11 case as it heads to a planned sale.

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FTC Orders Crypto Firm To Return Losses From $186M Hack

By Allison Grande

Blockchain infrastructure company Illusory Systems has agreed to overhaul its data security protocols and return to consumers money it's been able to recover from hackers who stole $186 million in a 2022 cyberattack in order to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's claims the company shirked its cybersecurity responsibilities, the agency said Tuesday. 

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Mich. Judge Challenges Ex-UMich Coach's ID Theft Defense

By Danielle Ferguson

A federal judge on Tuesday pushed back on a former University of Michigan assistant football coach's argument that his alleged use of college students' login information couldn't support aggravated identity theft charges, saying using usernames and passwords to view "private materials" is "illegal."

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Split Pa. Justices Rule Rapist's Google Search Wasn't Private

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that evidence the state police collected from Google on searches a convicted rapist conducted online to find his victim were fair game at trial, ruling in a split decision that the defendant did not have an expectation of privacy when using the search engine.

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SEC Says No New 'Scalping' Trial For Penny Stock Trader

By Emilie Ruscoe

A penny stock trader found liable for a $2.5 million fraud scheme known as scalping should not get a new trial, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said, arguing that the trader's complaints about the verdict form came too late.

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Omni Bridgeway Taps New Antitrust, Arbitration Leaders

By Jack Rodgers

The Australia-headquartered litigation funding firm Omni Bridgeway has hired new leaders for its arbitration and antitrust initiatives in the U.S., who bring experience working at the U.S. Department of Justice, the International Court of Justice and a number of law firms to the team in Washington, D.C.

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Software Patents May Face New Eligibility Scrutiny

November guidance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, along with recent litigation trends from the Federal Circuit, may encourage new challenges in the USPTO and district courts to artificial intelligence and software patents that rely on generic computing functions without concrete details, say attorneys at Venable.

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4 Privacy Trends This Year With Lessons For Companies

As organizations plan for ongoing privacy law changes, 2025 trends that include a shift of activity from the federal to the state level mean companies should take an adaptive and principle-based approach to privacy programs rather than trying to memorize constantly changing laws, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

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Opinion

A Uniform Federal Rule Would Curb Gen AI Missteps In Court

To address the patchwork of courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence, curbing abuses and relieving the burden on judges, the federal judiciary should consider amending its civil procedure rules to require litigants to certify they’ve reviewed legal filings for accuracy, say attorneys at Shook Hardy.

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AG Watch: Texas Junk Fee Deal Shows Enforcement Priorities

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's recent $9.5 million settlement with online travel agency website Booking Holdings for so-called junk fee practices follows a larger trend of state attorneys general who have taken similar action and demonstrates the significant penalties that can follow such allegations, say attorneys at Kelley Drye.

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Investment Advisers Should Stay Apprised Of New AI Risks

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recently issued annual examination priorities reiterate a host of regulatory implications for investment advisers using artificial intelligence tools, highlighting that meaningful ongoing due diligence can help mitigate both operational and regulatory surprises amid AI's rapid evolution, says Christopher Mills at Sidley.

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How Workforce, Tech Will Affect 2026 Construction Landscape

As the construction industry's center of gravity shifts from traditional commercial work to infrastructure, energy, industrial and data-hosting facilities, the effects of evolving technology and persistent labor shortages are reshaping real estate dealmaking, immigration policy debates and government contracting risk, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

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Netflix Caps 2025 M&A Deals That Will Test Antitrust Strategy

The 2025 media consolidation trend culminated in Netflix's $82.7 billion Warner Bros. Discovery announcement, but the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice is likely to question whether remedies short of blocking the deal could credibly preserve competition, says Brian Pandya at Duane Morris.

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What Trump Order Limiting State AI Regs Means For Insurers

Last week's executive order seeking to preclude states from regulating artificial intelligence will likely have minimal impact on insurers, but the order and related congressional activities may portend a federal expectation of consistent state oversight of insurers' AI use, says Kathleen Birrane at DLA Piper.

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Bonus Spotlight

Susman Godfrey Bests Market With Bonuses Of Up To $280K

By Andrea Keckley

Susman Godfrey LLP announced on Tuesday that it is topping New York's bonus scale with payouts that range from a median of $120,000 for first-year associates to a median of $280,000 for the most senior associates.

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Kasowitz Hid Plummeting Profits From Ex-Partner, Suit Says

By Andrea Keckley

A former Kasowitz LLP partner has accused the firm and its founder, renowned litigator Marc Kasowitz, of misrepresenting its finances and failing to pay him the millions he is owed in a lawsuit in New York state court, alleging the firm's profits have plummeted due to poor management.

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DOJ Says NY Court Can't Handle Maurene Comey Firing Suit

By Adrian Cruz

The U.S. Department of Justice has said former prosecutor Maurene Comey's suit challenging the circumstances of her firing should be dismissed, arguing that it is an attempt to sidestep the Civil Service Reform Act.

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Fired Top Antitrust Official Warns Of 'Politicization'

By Courtney Bublé

The former No. 2 at the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division until he was terminated this year testified Tuesday about the "politicization" of antitrust enforcement.

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Levona Says New Docs Show Reed Smith Lied In $102M Feud

By Emily Sawicki

Levona Holdings Ltd. is pressing a Manhattan federal court to vacate what it calls a fraudulent $102 million arbitral award issued to international shipping company Eletson, arguing that new documents released under the crime-fraud exception show that the company and its prior attorneys at Reed Smith LLP lied during the arbitration.

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Ex-State High Court Chiefs Start Group To Defend Rule Of Law

By Jake Maher

A group of over 40 former chief judges of state supreme courts across the country this week launched a new project to speak out against attacks on the judiciary's independence and educate about the rule of law. 

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Bullivant Houser Files For Ch. 11 After November Closure

By Rose Krebs

The now-shuttered Bullivant Houser Bailey PC has filed for Chapter 11 protection in California, with its chief dissolution officer saying the bankruptcy was filed so the firm can liquidate its assets as it continues "an orderly wind-down" of its operations.

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