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October 07, 2025
DraftKings, FanDuel Fight Gambling Patent Suits
DraftKings and FanDuel seek to dodge claims in New Jersey federal court that allege they willfully infringed a series of WinView IP Holdings patents covering online and mobile gambling, with FanDuel saying the patents are invalid to begin with.
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October 07, 2025
Ex-Trinoor VP Agrees Not To Solicit Customers, For Now
A former vice president at Georgia-based software company Trinoor LLC agreed Tuesday not to solicit the company's customers for business in a case alleging she stole internal data before joining a competitor firm.
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October 07, 2025
Ex-Executives' Payroll Tax Convictions Biased, 4th Circ. Told
Two former software executives asked the Fourth Circuit to reverse their criminal convictions stemming from their failure to pay employment taxes, claiming the jury's instructions were biased.
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October 07, 2025
USPTO To Test AI Tool For Automated Prior Art Searches
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is launching a program to test the use of artificial intelligence for automated prior art searches, saying the tool could let patent applicants know earlier in the application process about potential prior art problems.
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October 07, 2025
Apple Seeks To Toss IPhone, Watch Buyers' Antitrust Suits
Apple has asked a New Jersey federal court to toss multidistrict antitrust litigation brought by iPhone and Apple Watch buyers, arguing that while they "try in vain to invent" theories about how Apple charges monopoly prices the inflation-adjusted price of the latest iPhone is nearly the same as the first model.
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October 07, 2025
DOJ Backs Patent Rights In Disney's Streaming Antitrust Case
The U.S. Department of Justice urged a Delaware federal court to ensure wireless technology company InterDigital's patent rights are protected when it assesses Disney's antitrust case accusing the company of monopolizing video streaming technology.
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October 07, 2025
Siemens Worker Asks 3rd Circ. To Save 401(k) Forfeiture Suit
A Siemens Corp. employee urged the Third Circuit to reopen his lawsuit alleging the company violated federal benefits law by using forfeited retirement funds to cover its own contributions rather than plan expenses, arguing a lower court lost sight of his specific allegations when it tossed the case.
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October 07, 2025
Comcast Wins PTAB Fight Against Entropic Receiver Patent
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has found that an Entropic Communications LLC television receiver patent challenged by Comcast is invalid, about a month after the board found that claims in two other patents were also unpatentable.
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October 07, 2025
FAR Rewrite Could Cut Small Biz From Task Orders
The Trump administration's newly updated Federal Acquisition Regulation aims to support small businesses by retaining a rule that prioritizes them and slashing administrative barriers, but it could also reduce their chances of landing task orders and sole-source awards.
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October 07, 2025
Fitch Even's $1.2M Fee Fight Appears Headed To Arbitration
Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP's $1.2 million fee dispute with a former client and a litigation funder's CEO may be paused and sent to arbitration before the firm can convince an Illinois federal judge to halt any alleged use or transfer of the money at issue.
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October 07, 2025
Zillow Can See Anywhere Deal Docs In Compass Antitrust Suit
A New York federal judge partially approved real estate listings company Zillow Inc.'s discovery motion in brokerage Compass Inc.'s antitrust suit over Zillow's listings policy, ruling that Compass must provide Zillow with specific documents related to its $1.6 billion all-stock acquisition of Anywhere Real Estate Inc.
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October 07, 2025
Mich. Court Scraps Ruling That Affirmed Solar Farm Permit
A Michigan state appeals court tossed a ruling that upheld a township's permit for an Invenergy subsidiary's industrial-scale solar farm, concluding that its board of trustees failed to sufficiently explain or provide a basis for its decision.
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October 07, 2025
Online Test Proctor Fights Suit Over California Bar Exam
ProctorU Inc., which does business as Meazure Learning, asked a federal judge to toss a potential class action from three Californians who accuse the company of administering a glitch-ridden state bar exam that they were unable to complete as planned, arguing that it made no direct promises or sales to the test-takers, and isn't covered by the cited consumer protection laws.
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October 07, 2025
NYSE Parent Invests $2B In Polymarket Amid Market Scrutiny
The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange said Tuesday that it will infuse up to $2 billion into Polymarket, which has an $8 billion valuation, at a time when prediction markets in the United States are increasing in popularity but facing increased scrutiny.
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October 07, 2025
Monster.com Scores OK For Ch. 11 Plan After Creditor Deal
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved job search site CareerBuilder + Monster's Chapter 11 plan after the debtor struck a deal that could help holders of unsecured claims land a recovery.
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October 07, 2025
Copyright Chief Says DC Circ. Decision Bars Removal
Shira Perlmutter has shot back at the government's arguments defending President Donald Trump's decision to fire her as head of the U.S. Copyright Office, saying the D.C. Circuit has said in her case that Trump likely never had the power to do so.
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October 07, 2025
3 Firms Advise On Qualtrics' $6.75B Press Ganey Forsta Buy
Goodwin Procter LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP are advising Qualtrics on its agreement to acquire Latham & Watkins LLP-led experience analytics firm Press Ganey Forsta for $6.75 billion, in a deal the companies said will create the "most complete platform designed for experience management."
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October 07, 2025
Calif. Allows Tax Break For Solar Property Until Owner Change
A California property tax exclusion for newly built solar energy systems that is set to end in 2027 will continue to apply until there is a change in a qualifying property's ownership under a bill signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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October 06, 2025
High Court Declines Challenge To Ore. Secret Recording Ban
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up conservative media group Project Veritas' First Amendment challenge to an Oregon law prohibiting secret audio recordings of people's conversations, leaving in place a Ninth Circuit ruling upholding the measure.
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October 06, 2025
NBA Scores 2nd Toss Of Privacy Suit Over Meta Data Sharing
A New York federal judge Monday again dismissed a proposed digital privacy class action against the NBA, saying the league, based on binding Second Circuit precedent, didn't unlawfully disclose the personal information of one of its newsletter subscribers.
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October 06, 2025
Fed. Circ. Weighs NASA Contractor's IP Infringement Immunity
The Federal Circuit questioned whether litigation brought by two California men alleging a NASA contractor infringed their patent should play out in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, during oral arguments held in Boston on Monday.
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October 06, 2025
Cisco Gets PTAB To Invalidate Ethernet Patent Claims
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated all claims Cisco Systems Inc. had challenged of an Ethernet patent owned by Lionra Technologies Ltd.
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October 06, 2025
SAP Expands Celonis Fight With Delaware Patent Suit
German software firm SAP SE has filed a suit in Delaware federal court against Celonis SE that alleges infringement of patents related to business management software, expanding a legal battle between the two already going on in other litigation in the U.S. and Europe.
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October 06, 2025
Broadcasters Say FCC Can Nix Nat'l Ownership Cap. It's Iffy
Top TV station chains insist the Federal Communications Commission has clear authority to scrap a decades-old cap on national audience share controlled by any one company. But they're wading into a murky legal area almost certain to prompt a flood of litigation.
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October 06, 2025
FCC Eyes Creating 'Assembly Line' For Space Licensing
The Federal Communications Commission plans to streamline space licensing by setting up an "assembly line" to clear paperwork faster, the agency's chief said Monday.
Expert Analysis
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Courts Redefining Software As Product Generates New Risks
A recent wave of litigation against social media platforms, chatbot developers and ride-hailing companies has some courts straying from the traditional view of software as a service to redefining software as a product, with significant implications for strict liability exposure, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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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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Series
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.