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October 06, 2025
Nokia, Ericsson Lose PTAB Challenge To Wireless Patent
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has refused to toss certain claims in a wireless communication technology patent challenged by Ericsson and Nokia, finding the companies failed to show the claims were obvious.
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October 06, 2025
SentinelOne Beats Investors' Revenue Revision Claims
Cybersecurity company SentinelOne Inc. has shed a proposed investor class action alleging that it hurt investors after it disclosed accounting issues that led to a $27 million downward revision of its 2023 recurring revenue, with a judge finding that there was "not enough" in the suit supporting an inference that the company misled the markets on purpose.
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October 06, 2025
Supreme Court Isn't Pausing Google Play Store Order
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to pause a sweeping injunction requiring Google to change its app store policies in a case being brought by Epic Games Inc., after the tech giant argued that the changes threaten the security and privacy of Android users.
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October 06, 2025
Artists Want Google To Produce AI Datasets In Copyright Suit
Artists and writers accusing Google of infringing their copyrights to train its artificial intelligence models asked a California federal judge to order the tech giant to produce certain datasets the plaintiffs believe contain their work, while Google has argued the request is "yet another sideshow" seeking irrelevant information.
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October 06, 2025
Womble Bond Atty Tells 4th Circ. He Didn't Mislead Dutch Court
There's no evidence that Womble Bond Dickinson partner Pressly Millen misled a Dutch court or violated a federal judge's correction order in a $28 million trademark dispute, Millen has told the Fourth Circuit in a bid to reverse a contempt order against him.
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October 06, 2025
Music Publishers Can Pursue Copyright Suit Against Anthropic
Music publishers accusing Anthropic of using their songs' lyrics to train its artificial intelligence chatbot can pursue previously dismissed copyright claims, after a California federal judge said Monday that their updated complaint plausibly alleges that Anthropic knew people were using its AI system to create song lyrics.
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October 06, 2025
Meta Accused Of Retaliation In Pregnancy Discrimination Suit
A former manager for Meta claims in a lawsuit filed in California federal court Friday that the company discriminated against her for pregnancy-related leave, giving her unfair reviews and overloading her with work before firing her weeks after she reported bias to the human resources department.
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October 06, 2025
Seattle Law Firm Inks Insurance Deal In $1M Data Breach Suit
Insurers Cowbell Cyber Inc. and Spinnaker Insurance Co. have reached a tentative agreement with a Seattle law firm over the firm's alleged loss of more than $1 million following a data breach by hackers, according to an order Monday in Washington federal court.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Deny Cert. In Uber Wrongful Death, Sex Assault Suits
The U.S. Supreme Court Monday denied Uber's petition for review of two Ninth Circuit rulings holding it had a duty of care, one in a wrongful death case brought by a murdered driver's family and the other from a woman who was sexually assaulted by a suspended driver.
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October 06, 2025
Cybertruck Design Trapped Rider In Flaming Wreck, Suit Says
The family of a college student who died while trapped in a Tesla Cybertruck has hit the electric-auto maker with a wrongful death lawsuit in California state court, alleging that Tesla knowingly kept Cybertrucks on the roads despite known risks of their allegedly defectively designed electric doors failing.
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October 06, 2025
Google Judge Anticipates 'Fine-Tuning' Ad Tech Remedies
The Justice Department and Google questioned their last witnesses Monday in a fight over whether to break up the company's advertising placement technology business, in a two-hour hearing with a rebuttal witness, a rare surrebuttal witness, and an acknowledgment from the Virginia federal judge overseeing the case that even after she delivers her final judgment, it might need revisions in the future.
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October 06, 2025
Tax Court Denies IT Co.'s $45M Capital Loss Penalty Challenge
The U.S. Tax Court rejected on Monday an information technology company's bid to skirt a $45 million penalty related to the IRS' denial of its $651 million capital loss deduction, saying the agency did not violate the Administrative Procedure Act in asserting the fine.
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October 06, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Last week, the owner of the Kentucky Derby was hit with a suit accusing it of withholding escrow funds for environmental compliance violations owed under a 2022 deal with hospitality company Enchantment Holdings LLC.
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October 06, 2025
Grassley Probes Judges' Possible AI Use In Faulty Rulings
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed two federal judges on Monday about their possible use of artificial intelligence in court orders that contained a multitude of errors.
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October 06, 2025
AT&T, T-Mobile Settle Patent Suit Over 4G, 5G Tech
AT&T and T-Mobile have settled claims from Pegasus Wireless Corp. that they infringed patents with technology that runs on 4G and 5G standards.
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October 06, 2025
AWS Atty Takes AI Post At Greenberg Traurig In Minneapolis
A lawyer who spent the past nine years at Amazon Web Services Inc. has moved back into private practice, this time as a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig LLP's corporate, innovation and artificial intelligence, and technology transactions groups, the law firm said Monday.
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October 06, 2025
3 Firms Guide $1.3B Heidrick & Struggles PE Buyout
Heidrick & Struggles International Inc. said Monday it has agreed to be acquired in an all-cash transaction valued at about $1.3 billion, with Paul Hastings LLP steering Heidrick and two firms — Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP and Ropes & Gray LLP — advising the buying group.
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October 06, 2025
8th Circ. Revives Part Of Legal Tech Worker's OT Dispute
The Eighth Circuit said in a published opinion Monday that the Minnesota federal district court must reexamine whether it has jurisdiction over an employee at legal document review company Consilio's pursuit of statutory damages for unpaid overtime under the Minnesota Fair Labor Standards Act.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Revive Church Shooting Claims Against Meta
The Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition from the family of a South Carolina state senator who died in the June 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, leaving in place a Fourth Circuit decision finding their claims against Meta Platforms were barred by federal law.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Refuses To Review Revived SAP Tying Claims
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request on Monday from German software giant SAP to review a ruling that revived Teradata's antitrust claims over the alleged tying of software and database products.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Turns Down 6 Patent Cases At Start Of Term
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected six petitions in patent-related cases, taking some of its first actions on intellectual property matters this term.
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October 06, 2025
Justices Won't Review Blacklisting Case Against LegitScript
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review a bid from LegitScript to duck an antitrust case accusing it of blacklisting a drug price checking website despite contentions that it facilitates illegal imports of prescription drugs.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Rejects USAA Appeal Over Patent Invalidations
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review the invalidation of two USAA patents in litigation against PNC Bank after USAA argued the Federal Circuit blessed a contradictory ruling in a nearly identical patent review.
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October 06, 2025
Slack Investor Won't Get 2nd Shot Before High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away a Slack Technologies investor's petition for the justices to hear his fraud dispute for the second time in two years, leaving intact a Ninth Circuit ruling that the case against the messaging software company was impossible to salvage under the 2023 high court ruling.
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October 03, 2025
Up First At High Court: Election Laws & Conversion Therapy
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in six cases during the first week of its October 2025 term, including in disputes over federal candidates' ability to challenge state election laws, Colorado's ban on conversion therapy, and the ability of a landlord to sue the U.S. Postal Service for allegedly refusing to deliver mail.
Expert Analysis
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Trump's 2nd Term Puts Merger Remedies Back On The Table
In contrast with the Biden administration, the second Trump administration has signaled a renewed willingness to resolve merger enforcement concerns through remedies from the outset, particularly when the proposed fix is structural, clearly addresses the harm and does not require burdensome oversight, say attorneys at Cooley.
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Patent Ambiguity Persists After Justices Nix Eligibility Appeal
The Supreme Court recently declined to revisit the contentious framework governing patent eligibility by denying certiorari in Audio Evolution Diagnostics v. U.S., suggesting a necessary recalibration of both patent application and litigation strategies, say attorneys at Skadden.
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How Banks Can Harness New Customer ID Rule's Flexibility
Banking regulators' update to the customer identification process, allowing banks to collect some information from third parties rather than directly from customers, helps modernize anti-money laundering compliance and carries advantages for financial institutions that embrace the new approach, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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Series
Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.
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How Trump Cybersecurity EO Narrows Biden-Era Standards
President Donald Trump recently signed Executive Order No. 14306, which significantly narrows the scope and ambition of a Biden executive order focused on raising federal cybersecurity standards among federal vendors, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Opinion
The SEC Should Embrace Tokenized Equity, Not Strangle It
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should grant no-action relief to firms ready to pilot tokenized equity trading, not delay innovation by heeding protectionist industry arguments, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.
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Compliance Changes On Deck For Banks Under Texas AI Law
Financial services companies, including banks and fintechs, should evaluate their artificial intelligence usage to prepare for Texas' newly passed law regulating AI governance, noting that the enforcement provisions provide for an affirmative defense to liability, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure
While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.
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23andMe Fine Signals ICO's New GDPR Enforcement Focus
Many of the cybersecurity failures identified by the Information Commissioner’s Office in its investigation of 23andMe, recently resulting in a £2.3 million fine, were basic lapses, but the ICO's focus on several new U.K. General Data Protection Regulation considerations will likely carry into the future, say lawyers at Womble Bond.
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Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards
The first half of 2025 saw 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.