Technology

  • July 14, 2026

    Google Is Wrong, 'Settled Expectations' Is Legal, Justices Told

    Software company VirtaMove has argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should ignore Google's challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's policy of using the age of patents as a reason to not review them, saying Google's fight is based on a false foundation.

  • July 14, 2026

    Diodes To Buy ElevATE In $250M Automated Test Chip Deal

    Semiconductor maker Diodes Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire privately held ElevATE Semiconductor Inc. for $250 million in cash, expanding its presence in the automated test equipment market and broadening its analog and mixed-signal product portfolio.

  • July 14, 2026

    Fiber Group Tells FCC To Vet State Pole Dispute Policies

    Congress has given states the power to claw back control over pole attachment rules from the Federal Communications Commission through so-called reverse preemption, but a fiber broadband group says the agency needs to make sure those states have adequate regulations in place when it comes to settling disputes.

  • July 14, 2026

    IBM Nets Deal To End Ex-Sales Specialist's Age Bias Suit

    IBM has settled a 63-year-old's lawsuit accusing the global technology company of systemic age bias, North Carolina federal court records show.

  • July 14, 2026

    DC Circ. Asked To Force FCC's Hand On Petition Against Fox

    An advocacy group urged the D.C. Circuit Tuesday to compel the Federal Communications Commission to review Fox's character fitness as a broadcast licensee after its Philadelphia TV station aired Fox News' 2020 cable election coverage rather than let stand a staff level decision dismissing the group's petition.

  • July 14, 2026

    The Biggest Telecom Developments Of 2026: Midyear Report

    A key high court win for the Federal Communications Commission and its plans to reshape the regulatory code, reorder the nation's telecom priorities, and take broadcasters to task for purported leftward leanings all headlined a busy first half of 2026 in telecom law.

  • July 14, 2026

    Sports Video Analytics Co. Defends Hudl Monopolization Case

    An antitrust feud over sports video analytics services is heating up in New Jersey federal court, where QwikCut LLC is fortifying its argument that Hudl Inc. has monopolized the market for assisting high school and college teams.

  • July 14, 2026

    NY Gov. Signs Data Center Moratorium Executive Order

    New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed an executive order that blocks any new hyperscale data center projects from being built in her state by temporarily pausing environmental permits for those types of projects, the governor's office announced Tuesday.

  • July 14, 2026

    Meta Employees Say AI-Tainted Layoffs Should Be Blocked

    Over two dozen Meta employees accused the tech giant of unlawfully picking them to be laid off using artificial intelligence tools that penalized people who took protected leave or received workplace accommodations, and they urged a California federal court to suspend their terminations until their legal claims are resolved.

  • July 14, 2026

    Wilson Sonsini-Led TerraFirma Secures $115M Of New Capital

    Critical infrastructure-focused construction company TerraFirma, advised by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, on Tuesday revealed that it raised around $115 million in new capital.

  • July 14, 2026

    Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Eyewear Tech Patent Claims

    The Federal Circuit on Tuesday shot down an attempt to bring back claims in a patent covering a sensor in eyewear meant to detect human eye movement, affirming a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that the claims were obvious.

  • July 14, 2026

    Quinn Emanuel, Spiro Ousted From CoStar Copyright Fight

    A California federal judge has disqualified Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and its attorney Alex Spiro from representing a commercial real estate platform in a copyright infringement suit brought by CoStar, agreeing that the firm's representation of CoStar in a different case should result in its removal from this one.

  • July 14, 2026

    Broadcasters, Fire Chiefs Press For AM Radio In Cars

    Dozens of broadcasters and emergency responders converged Tuesday on Capitol Hill to push for passage of a bill requiring automakers to continue manufacturing vehicles with AM radio capability.

  • July 14, 2026

    AI Drug Discovery Biz Valued At $3.8B After Series C Round

    Artificial intelligence-based drug discovery company Chai Discovery on Tuesday revealed that it reached a $3.8 billion valuation after closing its latest funding round with $400 million in tow.

  • July 14, 2026

    RJ Reynolds Says TCPA Doesn't Apply To Texts, Cellphones

    Tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds is looking to duck a proposed class action accusing it of sending unsolicited text messages, saying a North Carolina federal judge should apply recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent on judicial deference to find the Telephone Consumer Protection Act doesn't apply to cellphones or texts.

  • July 14, 2026

    News Orgs Need To Show AI Uses More Than Just Facts

    News organizations suing artificial intelligence companies for allegedly infringing their copyrighted content for AI training must show that chatbots are using the organizations' prose as opposed to merely uncopyrightable facts, or that the practice is diluting the market for human-made journalism, experts told Law360.

  • July 14, 2026

    States Will Get $18M From 23andMe Ch. 11 For Data Breach

    A week after a bankruptcy court approved a $46.75 million settlement between the DNA testing company 23andMe and data breach claimants, a coalition of more than 40 states announced Tuesday that they would share in an additional $18 million to resolve claims of unreasonable security practices.

  • July 14, 2026

    Google Faces Another AI Copyright Suit By Publishers

    Book publishers and legal novelist Scott Turow have lodged a copyright infringement suit alleging Google used their works to train its artificial intelligence model Gemini following an earlier suit they launched against Meta.

  • July 13, 2026

    Ex-SVB Treasurer Says No Risky Actions Taken Before Failure

    Silicon Valley Bank's former treasurer defended the bank's former leadership Monday during a California federal bench trial over the FDIC's claim they mismanaged its assets before its 2023 collapse, saying he never observed anyone take actions he believed risked the soundness of the financial institution.

  • July 13, 2026

    Defense Gears Up To Fight Polymarket Insider Trading Case

    Counsel for a former Google software engineer accused of raking in over $1.2 million by leveraging the tech giant's confidential information to place bets on Polymarket told a Manhattan federal judge Monday about a number of defenses they are considering to fight the novel allegations of prediction market-based insider trading.

  • July 13, 2026

    NJ Delays Registry Aspect Of Newly Enacted Data Broker Law

    New Jersey regulators won't immediately enforce a sweeping data broker law that took effect in June, announcing Friday covered businesses have to register and pay a potentially hefty registration fee until spring, and it would consider complaints about the law's lack of clarity in policing its sensitive data sales ban.

  • July 13, 2026

    7th Circ. Nixes Clearview AI Privacy Deal Over Class Rift

    The Seventh Circuit has vacated a novel biometric privacy settlement between Clearview AI and classes of individuals who claim the company misused their public photos, saying a nationwide class representative should have signaled their agreement before the district court approved a deal containing such comparatively "meager" benefits.

  • July 13, 2026

    Netflix Wins $3M Atty Fees Over 'Objectively Baseless' IP Suit

    A California federal judge granted Netflix Inc. $3 million in attorney fees on Monday, ruling that the plaintiff in a patent suit and his attorney knew that his claims of ownership were "objectively baseless" and worked to conceal a Finnish court's determination that he did not own the patent.

  • July 13, 2026

    After Favorable Ruling, Maxell Files New Samsung ITC Suit

    Japan's Maxell Ltd. alleged in a U.S. International Trade Commission suit Friday that South Korea-based Samsung's smartphones and tablets infringe six patents, days after an ITC judge backed Maxell in a separate case and recommended an import ban on infringing Samsung devices.

  • July 13, 2026

    Court Economist Says Epic-Google Deal Isn't Evidence-Based

    U.S. District Judge James Donato has already told Epic and Google that he's "not going to keep" going back and forth with them about changes they want to an injunction he has to issue following Epic's antitrust trial win against Google, and now a court-appointed expert has informed him she has issues with the proposed changes as well.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    Agentic AI And Securities Law: Steps Congress Should Take

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    Agentic artificial intelligence technology doesn't fit comfortably into the existing securities regulatory landscape, so Congress should avoid repeating the mistakes that led to the legal uncertainty crypto companies and investors have faced over the past decade-plus by providing a legislative framework before AI fully matures, says Joseph A. Hall at Davis Polk.

  • What Colorado AI Law's Major Rewrite Means For Employers

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    Colorado's landmark law regulating employers' use of artificial intelligence tools was recently replaced with a narrower regime that eliminates many burdensome obligations, but still imposes a host of requirements focused on transparency and accountability, say attorneys at Proskauer.

  • Operational AI Washing: The Next Frontier Of Fiduciary Risk

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    While there are still no final Delaware decisions applying Caremark specifically to artificial intelligence governance failures, previous case law provides a blueprint, so the question for boards is whether their governance architectures will satisfy Caremark when the first cases are decided, say attorneys at Akerman.

  • A Look At The Court's Next Steps In Live Nation Antitrust Case

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    Following a recent jury verdict that Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly to fix ticket prices, a New York federal court stands to weigh Live Nation's bid for a new trial, approve the U.S. Department of Justice's March settlement with the defendants, and impose remedies that include full structural separation, say attorneys at Crowell.

  • Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

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    A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

  • Green Card Memo Warps Long-Standing Adjustment Process

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    A recent policy memorandum that treats a nonimmigrant visa holder’s decision to seek adjustment of status in the U.S., rather than at a U.S. consulate, as an adverse factor reinterprets existing discretionary frameworks, compounds risks for applicants required to apply abroad and changes practitioner approaches to application preparation, says attorney Jack Jrada.

  • Tips For Protecting Privilege On Multinational IP Teams

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    As recent court rulings illustrate how fact-specific privilege determinations have become in modern legal workflows, corporations with multinational intellectual property teams must take steps to deliberately preserve attorney-client privilege through clear roles, confidentiality controls and disciplined communication practices, say Taylor Stemler and Grace Neumann at Merchant & Gould.

  • Series

    The Biz Court Digest: Shoring Up Corporate Law In Maryland

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    Launched more than 20 years ago to improve complex corporate adjudication, Maryland's Business and Technology Case Management Program has been a solid success in some areas, but there always is room for improvement, says Bill Krulak at Miles & Stockbridge.

  • 2nd Circ.'s Embedded Video Ruling May Protect Publishers

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    The Second Circuit's recent decision in Richardson v. Townsquare, dismissing an infringement claim arising from an embedding of a YouTube-hosted interview, reaffirms a potent defense for publishers who regularly use social media platforms' embed functionality, says Amanda Harris at Jassy Vick.

  • Product-Or-Content Question Is Pivotal In AI Litigation

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    A growing range of civil cases against OpenAI address the question of whether the output of a generative artificial intelligence system is a product, subject to traditional tort doctrine, or third-party content — and the framing courts adopt will shape software liability well beyond AI, says David Meldofsky at Lawsuit Informer.

  • Citron Founder Verdict Tests Reach Of 'Half-Truth' Fraud

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    A California federal jury's conviction this week of Citron founder Andrew Left may be remembered less as a conventional manipulation prosecution than as a case about how far the "half-truth" doctrine can reach when applied to modern market speech, says Elisha Kobre at Sheppard.

  • Series

    Competing At Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing poker in male-dominated rooms taught me to treat skepticism as background noise when my opponents seem to underestimate me, to apply pressure when it matters and to adapt without losing strategic discipline — skills that are all indispensable in restructuring and insolvency matters, says Alexis Gambale at Pashman Stein.

  • FTC Sweep Signals Increased 'Made In USA' Claim Scrutiny

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    After the Federal Trade Commission's recent enforcement sweep targeting allegedly deceptive "Made in USA" claims, companies should expect continued scrutiny of both traditional and digital marketing channels, coupled with sustained focus on supply chain transparency and claim substantiation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Why IPR Slowdown Has Not Led To More Patent Litigation

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    Despite sustained strength in patent application filings and a decline in inter partes review and post-grant review, 2026 has not seen the anticipated surge in patent litigation in district courts and at the U.S. International Trade Commission, potentially due to four reasons, say attorneys at Sterne Kessler.

  • Revisiting TransUnion's Underused Standing Rule, 5 Years On

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    The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' recent use of the U.S. Supreme Court’s now five-year-old TransUnion v. Ramirez rule specifying that the "mere risk of future harm" isn't concrete enough to support a damages claim presents an opportunity to revisit this underutilized standing rule, say attorneys at Horvitz & Levy.

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