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September 29, 2025
Supreme Court Considers 7 Patent Petitions
The U.S. Supreme Court held its first conference Monday, presenting the justices with several petitions of interest to patent practitioners before the court's new term kicks off next week.
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September 29, 2025
White House Eyes More Than 'Zero Sum Game' On Spectrum
A Trump White House official said Monday that the administration hopes to expand available spectrum for new uses and does not see commercial players pitted against each other in a "zero sum game" as the only approach to sharing the airwaves.
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September 29, 2025
FPI Signs $2.8M Deal To Exit Yardi Price-Fixing Class Action
Property management firm FPI Management Inc. has reached a $2.8 million deal to settle a proposed price-fixing class action in Washington federal court accusing it and others of using Yardi Systems Inc.'s third-party software to inflate residential rents.
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September 29, 2025
YouTube Inks $24M Deal To End Trump's 'Censorship' Case
YouTube has agreed to pay more than $24 million to settle a lawsuit that President Donald Trump filed after the video platform suspended his account following the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol over concerns he would incite further attacks, the parties told a California federal judge Monday.
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September 29, 2025
DLA Piper Must Face Trial In Pregnancy-Firing Suit
A New York federal judge on Monday said DLA Piper must face trial in a discrimination case by a former lawyer who was fired two months after disclosing her pregnancy, saying the former seventh-year IP associate has made out a case around the circumstances of her 2022 departure.
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September 29, 2025
Russian Businessman Fights Docs Order In Trump Media Suit
A Russian businessman tied to the former CEO of the entity that merged with Donald Trump's Truth Social urged a Florida state court judge to reconsider an order compelling him to produce records in a lawsuit over taking the company public, saying it violates his Fifth Amendment rights.
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September 29, 2025
Honeywell Says Ex-GC's Age Bias Suit Belongs Only In China
A former vice president and general counsel for a Honeywell International Inc. subsidiary is seeking a redo for her age discrimination claims despite the fact that her employment contracts say those claims must be litigated in China, Honeywell told a North Carolina federal court Friday.
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September 29, 2025
CFTC Illegally Blocking Fantasy Site's Application, Court Told
A fantasy sports company is challenging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's move to intervene in its application to become a licensed broker for derivatives trading, saying its application has been stalled in front of the industry's regulating body despite meeting all the requirements.
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September 29, 2025
Hagens Berman Misstep Ends Amazon-Apple Suit, For Now
A Washington federal judge threw out a proposed class action targeting an alleged pact between Amazon and Apple to limit device sales on the e-commerce platform, agreeing on Monday to revisit an earlier ruling after fresh facts surfaced showing that the former lead plaintiffs' counsel misled the court for months.
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September 29, 2025
Why $2.5B Might Not Be Enough In FTC's Amazon Settlement
As the Federal Trade Commission and some observers hailed Amazon's $2.5 billion deal over its Prime membership practices as a milestone to protect consumers from manipulative tactics, others doubted the 10-figure settlement will be enough to hold the company accountable following a case it had seemed likely to lose.
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September 29, 2025
6 Copyright, TM Cases On Tap As Justices Begin New Term
The new U.S. Supreme Court term could be an eventful one for intellectual property law, with a $1 billion copyright fight on deck between music publishers and Cox Communications that is expected to clarify the bounds of liability for internet companies over their customers’ illegal downloads. Here's a look at some of the IP cases under review as the justices begin their new term Oct. 6.
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September 29, 2025
Meta Stole Plan For Instagram Shopping, Antitrust Suit Alleges
A British company Friday sued Meta Platforms Inc. in California federal court, claiming the tech giant was only able to build Instagram Shopping and create a "Meta monopoly" over the tag-based shopping market by secretly stealing the startup's proprietary business plan and exploiting its social network dominance.
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September 29, 2025
6th Circ. Won't Revive Software Development IP Case
The Sixth Circuit has declined to revive copyright infringement and trade secrets claims brought by a business communications company over a software development tool, saying the company waited too long to look into its concerns that a rival was distributing a modified version of the software.
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September 29, 2025
USPTO, Tech Cos. Tell Justices To OK Expired Patent Reviews
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and technology companies have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a patent owner's argument that expired patents cannot be reviewed by the patent office, saying a previous high court ruling means such reviews are permitted.
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September 29, 2025
MyPillow CEO Defamed Smartmatic, Minn. Judge Rules
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell defamed Smartmatic when he accused the voting systems company of rigging votes in the 2020 election to favor President Joe Biden, a Minnesota federal judge ruled, but issues of damages and whether the statements were made with malice will need to be worked out by a jury.
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September 29, 2025
Samsung's $112M IP Loss Nixed For 'Conclusory' Testimony
A Texas federal judge has revealed his rationale for overturning a jury's May verdict that found Samsung Electronics Co. owed Maxell Ltd. $112 million for infringing personal electronics patents, finding that much of Maxell's experts' testimony was "conclusory" and insufficient to support the infringement verdict.
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September 29, 2025
TikTok Can't Use Section 230 To End NJ AG's Harm Suit
A New Jersey state court judge has rejected TikTok's bid to use an internet safety law carveout that shields publishers of third-party information to end Attorney General Matthew Platkin's lawsuit over the exploitation of children, reasoning that the alleged harm stems from the social media app's design rather than what users view.
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September 29, 2025
Seyfarth Beats DQ Bid In Amazon COVID Screening Case
A Colorado federal judge Monday denied Amazon warehouse workers' bid to disqualify Seyfarth Shaw LLP from representing the e-commerce giant in a proposed wage class action, rejecting arguments that Amazon wrongly represented former managers who may be class members since the firm immediately withdrew from that representation once informed of the possible conflict.
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September 29, 2025
Fed. Circ. Backs Lyft Win In PTAB Car ID Patent Challenge
The Federal Circuit on Monday refused to revive claims across five vehicle identification system patents, affirming Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions that rideshare giant Lyft was able to show that the claims were invalid.
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September 29, 2025
Sherwin-Williams Contests 'Exceptional Case' Fee Claim
Arguing over a single contentious issue does not support a report that labeled Sherwin-Williams' litigation strategy in a patent dispute as "exceptional," the company asserted in a recent objection to recommendations that it should pay fines and attorney fees in the case.
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September 29, 2025
FTC Tightens Fixes For $13B Omnicom-Interpublic Deal
The Federal Trade Commission is requiring a monitor to oversee Omnicom's compliance with the conditions put on its $13.5 billion deal for Interpublic preventing the marketing giant from working with others to steer advertising away from publishers based on their political viewpoints.
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September 29, 2025
Verizon Resolves Wi-Fi Calling Patent Fight
Verizon has reached an agreement with VoIP-Pal.com Inc. to end patent infringement litigation over its free Wi-Fi calling service that was at one point seeking over $5 billion in damages.
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September 29, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
A Delaware vice chancellor expressed disappointment and concern over what she says is a "breakdown" in "civility and respect" that has emerged in recent Delaware corporate litigation. A $30 million settlement was approved in the five-year running Match.com reverse spinoff suit, and the top brass of Estée Lauder were hit with a derivative suit for allegedly covering up the company's reliance on prohibited, duty-free "gray market" sales of its products in China.
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September 29, 2025
Porsche Owners Say EV Update Doubled Charge Times
A proposed class of Porsche buyers is suing the company's North American wing in Georgia federal court, saying an update that was supposed to address overheating in chargers for electronic and hybrid vehicles has resulted in charge times that are double what was advertised.
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September 29, 2025
Duane Morris, DLA Piper Steer $1.2B Hadron SPAC Deal
Duane Morris LLP-advised nuclear energy company Hadron Energy on Monday announced plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company GigCapital7 Corp., led by DLA Piper, in a deal that values the company at $1.2 billion.
Expert Analysis
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Examining TCPA Jurisprudence A Year After Loper Bright
One year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, lower court decisions demonstrate that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act will continue to evolve as long-standing interpretations of the act are analyzed with a fresh lens, says Aaron Gallardo at Kilpatrick.
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Gauging The Risky Business Of Business Risk Disclosures
With the recent rise of securities fraud actions based on external events — like a data breach or environmental disaster — that drive down stock prices, risk disclosures have become more of a sword for the plaintiffs bar than a shield for public companies, now the subject of a growing circuit split, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.
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Playing The Violin Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo.
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DOJ Enforcement Trends To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025
Recent investigations, settlements and a declination to prosecute suggest that controlling the flow of goods into and out of the country, and redressing what the administration sees as reverse discrimination, are likely to be at the forefront of the U.S. Department of Justice's enforcement agenda the rest of this year, say attorneys at Baker Botts.
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The State Of AI Adoption In The Patent Field
The use of generative artificial intelligence in patent-related practices has lagged behind early predictions, which may be explained by a number of core concerns that organizations must address before seriously considering adoption, say attorney Michael Drapkin and leadership coach Michael Colacchio.
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Employer Tips As Deepfakes Reshape Workplace Harassment
As the workplace harassment landscape faces the rising threat of fabricated media that hyperrealistically depict employees in sexual or malicious contexts, employers can stay ahead of the curve by tracking new legal obligations, and proactively updating policies, training and response protocols, say attorneys at Littler.
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NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2
In the second quarter of the year, New York utilized every available tool to fill gaps left by federal retrenchment from consumer finance issues, including sweeping updates to its consumer protection framework and notable amendments to cybersecurity rules, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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NM Cyber Ruling Will Spur Litigation As Coverage Remedy
In Kane v. Beazley, the New Mexico Court of Appeals recently found that a cyber liability provision insuring security breaches included coverage for funds transfer fraud, implicitly and incorrectly motivating policyholders to commence litigation to avoid contractual limitations on cyber coverages, say attorneys at Zelle.
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State, Fed Junk Fee Enforcement Shows No Signs Of Slowing
The Federal Trade Commission’s potent new rule targeting drip pricing, in addition to the growing patchwork of state consumer protection laws, suggest that enforcement and litigation targeting junk fees will likely continue to expand, says Etia Rottman Frand at Darrow AI.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Self-Care
Law schools don’t teach the mental, physical and emotional health maintenance tools necessary to deal with the profession's many demands, but practicing self-care is an important key to success that can help to improve focus, manage stress and reduce burnout, says Rachel Leonard at MG+M.
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New Laws Show How States Are Checking AI Developers
Recent state consumer protection legislation shows Utah, Colorado and Texas are primed to impose controls on artificial intelligence, and exemplifies the states' unwillingness to accord strong deference to developers and deployers of AI tools, say attorneys at Polsinelli.
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Navigating Enforcement Risks Facing Data Centers
The importance of data centers seems to escalate daily alongside advancements in artificial intelligence and other technologies, but the enforcement risks they may face during development and operation merit attention, whether engaged with data centers as an investor, owner or operator, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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NFL Draft Incident Offers Remote Work Data Security Lessons
A recent incident in which an NFL coach's son prank called a potential draft pick after accessing confidential information on his father's computer serves as a wake-up call for organizations to analyze their protocols and practices related to protecting confidential information during remote work, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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Forensic Challenges In Lithium-Ion Battery Fire Cases
Lawsuits over lithium-ion battery fires and explosions often center on the core question of whether the battery was defective or combusted due to some other external factor — so both plaintiff and defense attorneys litigating these cases must understand the forensic issues involved, says Drew LaFramboise at Joseph Greenwald.
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ABA Opinion Makes It A Bit Easier To Drop A 'Hot Potato'
The American Bar Association's recent ethics opinion clarifies when attorneys may terminate clients without good cause, though courts may still disqualify a lawyer who drops a client like a hot potato, so sending a closeout letter is always a best practice, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.