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May 12, 2025
More Than Defaults: Google Judge Mulls AI, Search, Browsers
A D.C. federal judge has three weeks to figure out the last questions he'll ask the U.S. Department of Justice and Google before laying out search monopolization remedies that could help shape the way consumers search, browse and use artificial intelligence.
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May 12, 2025
Redfin Shareholder Sues To Block $1.75B Rocket Cos. Merger
A shareholder has hit Redfin Corp. and several members of its top brass with a class action in Washington state federal court, seeking to block the real estate technology company's planned merger with Rocket Cos. by alleging the merger's proxy statement is false and misleading.
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May 12, 2025
Anthropic Says Music Cos.' Copyright Claims Still Fail
Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic PBC is urging a California federal judge to dismiss amended copyright claims from a group of music publishers, saying the plaintiffs still have not demonstrated the company knew people were using its large language model to produce song lyrics.
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May 12, 2025
Ohio AG Will Ask 6th Circ. To Revive Social Media Age Limit
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced Monday that he is appealing a federal court decision blocking the state's law barring social media companies from allowing children under 16 to create accounts without parental consent.
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May 12, 2025
InterDigital Fights Disney's Injunction Bid In Patent Feud
InterDigital has urged a California federal court to reject Disney's request for an injunction, arguing that the company cannot block its Brazilian patent lawsuit because the patents at issue are unrelated to any of the International Telecommunication Union's reasonable and nondiscriminatory obligations.
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May 12, 2025
Zazzle Can't Dodge Copyright Claim Over Fonts, Judge Says
A California federal judge has axed fraud claims in a suit claiming online marketplace Zazzle Inc. profits from stolen intellectual property and fails to fairly compensate design owners, but said it couldn't dodge a copyright claim.
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May 12, 2025
HP, Patent Licensing Co. Settle Suit Over Video Coding IP
HP Inc. and a California-based patent licensing company that accused the IT giant of infringing old Panasonic patents covering picture and moving picture coding and decoding methods agreed to end their dispute, according to a joint motion filed in Texas federal court.
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May 12, 2025
9th Circ. Questions Vegas Casino Room Rate Claims
A skeptical Ninth Circuit panel had questions Monday for guests accusing Las Vegas casino-hotel operators of using the same software to inflate room rates about what they need to show for their algorithmic pricing claims to survive.
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May 12, 2025
Feds Should Relax CBRS Power Limits, Carriers Say
Telecom carriers asked the Federal Communications Commission to accept industry proposals to relax power limits for devices in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service in hopes of opening the prime spectrum for more rapid growth.
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May 12, 2025
Music Labels Ask Justices To Uphold ISP's Copyright Liability
The nation's major record labels are urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to take up a petition from an internet service provider asking whether internet service providers can face "massive liability" for user copyright infringement, telling the justices that no circuit split on the question exists.
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May 12, 2025
Chip Co. Urges Stewart To Rethink PTAB Discovery Decision
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's acting leader should rethink her decision allowing for discovery in a patent fight over a pair of semiconductor patents, a chipmaker challenging the patents at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has argued.
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May 12, 2025
Budget Bill Would Let FCC Auction 600 MHz Of Spectrum
A sweeping budget bill teed up for a U.S. House of Representatives committee vote Tuesday would allow the Federal Communications Commission to auction at least 600 megahertz of spectrum rights for exclusive wireless company use.
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May 12, 2025
Full DC Circ. Won't Review Copyright Denial For AI-Created Art
The D.C. Circuit on Monday denied a computer scientist's request for a three-judge panel rehearing or en banc review of an order that found copyright law protects only human creations, nixing his appeal that attempted to obtain copyright for a two-dimensional artwork made by the computer scientist's artificial intelligence system.
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May 12, 2025
Crypto Analysis Biz Says Celsius Can't Shift Fraud Blame
Chainalysis Inc. is asking a New York federal judge to throw out a lawsuit brought against it by defunct cryptocurrency platform Celsius Network, saying Celsius is trying to deflect the blame for fraud perpetrated by the company and its executives.
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May 12, 2025
Wyo. Atty Asks To Scrap Widow's Suit Over Millions In Assets
A Wyoming attorney hired to protect the assets of a lawyer who later took his own life is seeking an early exit from his widow's lawsuit laying claim to the money her late husband left behind, telling North Carolina's business court he has no ties to the state, where the complaint was filed.
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May 12, 2025
Tenn. Family Sues Samsung Over Home Burned In Stove Fire
A Tennessee family alleges in a proposed class action that Samsung Electronics America Inc. failed to warn them of a dangerous defect that it had known about for years in its oven and stovetop that eventually caused a fire, destroying their home and killing their three dogs, just days before the family received a recall notice.
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May 12, 2025
Will Justices Finally Rein In Universal Injunctions?
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
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May 12, 2025
Police Can't Axe Game Co. Subpoena In Eckert Seamans Fight
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday rejected the Pennsylvania State Police's bid to completely avoid a subpoena from a skill games company suing Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC for an alleged conflict of interest, but noted that the department raised legitimate concerns about the subpoena's scope.
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May 12, 2025
AI Powers Next Wave Of Telehealth M&A After 2024 Uptick
Telemedicine-focused deal activity is poised for a transformative shift in 2025 as strategic buyers increasingly seek companies that embed artificial intelligence across their platforms, according to a new report from tech investment bank Drake Star.
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May 12, 2025
Attys Say Avvo Scraped Bar Data To Sell Marketing Services
A new class action filed Friday in Washington federal court accuses online legal service provider Avvo Inc. of misappropriating the identities of over 1 million attorneys to promote its legal marketing tools and referral services.
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May 12, 2025
AI Training May Need Licensing, Copyright Office Says
Using copyrighted material to train generative artificial intelligence systems may not always be excused by fair use, the U.S. Copyright Office said in a highly anticipated report addressing the issue, suggesting that licensing may be required in some instances.
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May 12, 2025
Mich. Gaming Board Dropped From Horse-Race Betting Suit
A Michigan federal judge, citing 11th Amendment immunity, dropped a local gaming authority from a lawsuit filed by the TwinSpires horse-racing betting platform claiming the state unlawfully tried to force the company to secure a license to operate there.
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May 12, 2025
Adams Street Clinches €270M European Venture Fund
Private markets investment manager Adams Street Partners LLC on Monday announced that it held the final closing for its latest European-focused venture fund after securing €270 million ($300 million) in capital commitments.
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May 12, 2025
SharkNinja Hit With Post-Recall Suit Over Pressure Cookers
SharkNinja knew about or failed to uncover a defect in a lid locking mechanism for more than 1 million pressure cookers, ultimately leading to a recall that was "grossly deficient" and left consumers with a "worthless" product, according to a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court.
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May 11, 2025
Treasury Aims To Tax IP's Role In Cloud Services, Official Says
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service are aiming to capture the role of intangible property in cloud computing services within tax regulations to account for the growing importance of automation in the field, a Treasury attorney said.
Expert Analysis
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Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance
Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.
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Addressing Antitrust Scrutiny Over AI-Powered Pricing Tools
Amid multiple recent civil complaints alleging antitrust violations by providers and users of algorithmic pricing tools, such as RealPage and Yardi, digital-era measures should feature prominently in corporate compliance programs, including documentation of pro-competitive benefits and when to use disclosures, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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How Courts Weigh Section 1782 Discovery For UPC Cases
A look at cases from six different federal district courts reveals a number of discretionary factors that influence how courts consider Section 1782 discovery applications in connection with Unified Patent Court proceedings, say attorneys at Finnegan.
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How Calif., NY Could Fill Consumer Finance Regulatory Void
California and New York have historically taken the lead in consumer financial protection, and both show signs of becoming even more active in this area during the second Trump administration amid an enforcement pullback at the federal level, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Volunteer Firefighting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While practicing corporate law and firefighting may appear incongruous, the latter benefits my legal career by reminding me of the importance of humility, perspective and education, says Nicholas Passaro at Ford.
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Unpacking FTC's New Stance On Standard-Essential Patents
Under its new chairman, Andrew Ferguson, the Federal Trade Commission is likely to bring more stand-alone Section 5 cases to challenge anticompetitive conduct, and it will be important for companies to see how the FTC responds to allegations of patent holdup by standard-essential patent holders committed to fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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Digesting A 2nd Circ. Ruling On Food Delivery App Arbitration
The Second Circuit recently rejected Grubhub's attempt to arbitrate price-fixing claims, while allowing Uber Eats to do so, reinforcing that even broad arbitration clauses must connect to the underlying dispute and suggesting that terms of service litigation may center on websites' design and content, say attorneys at Greenspoon Marder.
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Bid Protest Spotlight: Instructions, Price Evaluation, Standing
In this month's bid protest roundup, Caitlin Crujido at MoFo looks at three recent decisions that consider a contractor's attempt to circumvent unambiguous solicitation instructions, the fairness of an agency's price evaluation and whether a protestor that would be unable to perform even if sucessful has standing.
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5 Ways Banking Has Changed In 5 Years Since COVID
Since the start of the pandemic five years ago, technology, convenience and shifting expectations have transformed compliance for the financial services industry in several key ways, from the shrinking role of the traditional bank branch to the rise of fintech and mobile payments, says Christopher Pippett at Fox Rothschild.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols
Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Mastering The New TCPA Opt-Out Regulations
On April 11, the Federal Communications Commission's new rules concerning the handling of opt-out requests for robocalls and text messages became effective, so companies should prioritize high-value messaging, offer consumers regular opportunities to reconsent to communications, and more, says Aaron Weiss at Carlton Fields.
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A Look At M&A Trends In An Uncertain Deal Environment
Dealmakers are adopting more cautious and deliberate merger and acquisition practices, such as earnout agreements, joint ventures and strategic partnerships that mitigate risk and bridge valuation gaps, amid the slower pace so far in 2025, says Louis Lehot at Foley & Lardner.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work
Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.
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Takeaways From Gov't Report On AI Copyrightability
A recent report from the U.S. Copyright Office is a critical step toward establishing a framework for determining the copyrightability of work created in whole or in part by artificial intelligence systems, solidifying the office's positions on AI tools and advanced prompt techniques, say attorneys at Skadden.
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FTC Focus: Synthetic Data Yields Antitrust Considerations
Attorneys at Proskauer explore the burgeoning world of synthetic data, the antitrust implications involved, the Federal Trade Commission's role in regulating this space and practical takeaways from these emerging issues.