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October 02, 2025
Apple Accused Of Infringing Multiple Video Encoding Patents
Apple has been hit with a lawsuit in Texas federal court accusing the technology giant of infringing a half dozen patents covering ways to encode and decode data.
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October 01, 2025
Accellion Breach Plaintiffs Get Cert. For Narrow Subclasses
A California federal judge has agreed to allow plaintiffs to proceed with five subclasses in their dispute with Accellion over allegations the company failed to protect against cyberattacks on its file-sharing software, while finding that a lack of "cohesion" doomed their chances to certify a broader negligence class of roughly 5 million breach victims.
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October 01, 2025
Alphabet CLO Urges Europe To Clear Hurdles For AI
Kent Walker, president of global affairs and chief legal officer for Google and Alphabet, on Wednesday called on the European Union to do away with "regulatory complexity" as global competition in artificial intelligence intensifies, saying European businesses are finding regulation to be their biggest hurdle to investment in the bloc.
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October 01, 2025
Contractors Must Record Shutdown-Related Losses, Attys Say
Government contractors risk losing money due to the shutdown in Washington, D.C., and experts told Law360 that contractors must be diligent about documenting the costs they incur for project delays, stop-work orders and other interruptions to their work.
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October 01, 2025
USPTO Tells Fed. Circ. To Reject Ineligibility Rule Petition
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the Federal Circuit to reject a software company's argument that the office violated due process by rejecting challenges to patents a court has found ineligible, saying that decision is entirely in the office's discretion.
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October 01, 2025
Drone Maker Can't Arbitrate Minor's Suit Over Eye Injuries
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday rejected a motion to compel arbitration in a case brought by a minor who was legally blinded in one eye by a drone, finding that the minor had disavowed the arbitration agreement both when he was underage and when he turned 18.
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October 01, 2025
Economist Says Google's Ad Tech Fix Enough To Boost Rivals
Google's expert economics witness urged a Virginia federal judge Wednesday not to break up the search giant's advertising placement technology business, arguing the company's counterproposal would free up rivals without the "market reengineering" threatened by the Justice Department's proposed remedies.
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October 01, 2025
Squires Jumps Right Into Patent Eligibility Reform
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires used his first week at the agency to make bold statements about what should be eligible for patenting, with patent owners celebrating his support of diagnostics, crypto and machine learning technologies.
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October 01, 2025
HP Ditches Antitrust Suit Over Third-Party Ink, For Now
HP customers accusing the printer maker of illegally using a firmware update to block them from using third-party ink cartridges in their machines have not outlined a viable antitrust claim to pursue, but they can try again, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.
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October 01, 2025
Temu Antitrust Claims Nixed, Copyright Claims Get Go-Ahead
Major fast fashion company Shein has convinced a D.C. federal judge to slim down a lawsuit brought by its main rival Temu, which accuses Shein of spamming it with copyright takedown requests.
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October 01, 2025
DC Circ. Won't Rethink Return Of Head Of Copyright Office
The D.C. Circuit said Wednesday that it won't rethink its decision to temporarily reinstate the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, who was fired by President Donald Trump as her lawsuit against the administration plays out in court.
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October 01, 2025
States Accuse Zillow, Redfin Of Deal To End Competition
A coalition of states followed their federal counterparts with an antitrust lawsuit in Virginia federal court Wednesday accusing Zillow of paying Redfin more than $100 million to stop competing for the sale of rental housing advertisements on their listing services.
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October 01, 2025
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
The Federal Trade Commission put the final tweaks on its deal allowing a $13.5 billion merger of marketing companies to move ahead and pushed its bid to block a merger in the medical device coatings industry, while U.K. enforcers launched a number of merger probes.
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October 01, 2025
Gambling Machine Patent Owner Can't Get New Trial
The owner of a gambling machine patent that a jury ruled was not infringed has lost its bid for a new trial, after a Nevada federal judge rejected the argument that the accused infringer made a "highly prejudicial and inflammatory" damages request on its unsuccessful defamation counterclaim.
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October 01, 2025
OpenAI Blasts X's Suit Over Apple Deal As 'Lawfare' Campaign
Apple Inc. and OpenAI Inc. have asked a Texas federal court to toss an antitrust case from X targeting a deal to integrate ChatGPT into iPhones, with OpenAI saying X's billionaire owner Elon Musk is waging a multipronged "lawfare" campaign against it.
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October 01, 2025
FCC Sets Furlough Plan In Motion With Government Shutdown
The Federal Communications Commission's staff halted most regular operations Wednesday as Congress failed to reach a deal to continue funding agencies after the end of the government's fiscal year.
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October 01, 2025
Va. Biz Group Calls Charter, Cox Tie-Up Good For Consumers
The Virginia Chamber of Commerce urged the Federal Communications Commission to approve the planned $34.5 billion merger of cable giants Charter and Cox, saying it would be good for consumers as the companies cut costs through scale.
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October 01, 2025
Software Co. Not Covered For $3M Privacy Fight, Court Says
Various Travelers units owe no coverage to a software provider that reached a nearly $3 million class action settlement over claims that it violated Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act, a federal court ruled, finding that an exclusion relating to the "access or disclosure" of personal information is applicable.
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October 01, 2025
Fed. Circ. Sends Social Media Patent Fight Back To PTAB
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday partly revived Snap's challenge to substitute claims in a You Map patent covering a way of displaying social media posts on a map, finding that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board needs to take another run at the issue.
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October 01, 2025
InterDigital Wants Disney's Video Tech Antitrust Case Tossed
Wireless technology company InterDigital Inc. has asked a Delaware federal judge to dismiss an antitrust suit brought by Disney that claims InterDigital isn't offering reasonable licenses on patents for streaming video, saying the entertainment giant's claims were either deficient or time-barred.
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October 01, 2025
Skadden, MoFo Lead $4.4B All-Stock Merger Of Axcelis, Veeco
Semiconductor production equipment company Axcelis Technologies Inc. on Wednesday announced plans to merge with Veeco Instruments Inc. in an all-stock deal that values the combined entity at an enterprise value of roughly $4.4 billion.
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October 01, 2025
Meta Pushes Suit Over Sexism Complaints Into Arbitration
A former Meta employee must arbitrate his suit alleging he was retaliated against for complaining that his female colleagues faced sexist treatment, a New York federal judge said, ruling a law that bars the mandatory arbitration of sexual misconduct disputes doesn't shield his case.
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September 30, 2025
Apple, Google, Meta Get 'Casino Games' MDL Trimmed Again
A California federal judge on Tuesday again trimmed multidistrict litigation against Apple, Google and Meta platforms over allegedly illicit "social casino games," though he refused to find that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act means they don't have to face the suits.
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September 30, 2025
Google Ad Tech Judge Says Court Order Is 'Elephant In Room'
A Virginia federal judge again wondered Tuesday how far she must go to address Google's advertising placement technology monopolies, asking if a breakup is needed since, no matter what happens, the company will be under a court order banning efforts to put its thumb on the scales of competition.
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September 30, 2025
FTC Hits Sendit App Over Kids' Data, Fake Messages
The operator of the anonymous messaging app Sendit and its top executive have been illegally collecting personal information from children that they're "well aware" were using their service, and tricking users with fake messages and other misleading tactics to entice consumers into buying paid subscriptions, the Federal Trade Commission alleged in a California federal lawsuit.
Expert Analysis
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The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine
The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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New PTAB Denial Processes Grow More And More Confusing
Guidance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office about the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's new workload management and discretionary denial processes has been murky and inconsistent, and has been further muddled by the acting director's seemingly contradictory decisions, say attorneys at Finnegan.
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Business Takeaways Following CCPA Enforcement Actions
Advisories and recent enforcement activity by the California Privacy Protection Agency against Honda and Todd Snyder underscore the agency's enforcement interest in the intersection of data minimization and consumer rights, and could make it more challenging for a business to provide a streamlined consumer rights process, say attorneys at Covington.
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EU Space Act Could Stifle US Commercial Operators
The EU Space Act, proposed last month, has the potential to raise global standards for safety and sustainability in space, but the U.S. and EU need to harmonize their regulatory approaches to avoid imposing regulatory burdens that undermine commercial innovation and agility, say Jessica Noble and Adriane Mandakunis at Aegis Space Law.
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A Word On Ensuring Precision In Patent Claim Construction
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Express Mobile v. Meta Platforms, overruling the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's interpretation of the term "style," highlights the importance of articulating claim constructions that are as clear as possible, says Derrick Carman at Robins Kaplan.
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Unpacking Enforcement Challenges Of DOJ's Bulk Data Rule
Now fully effective, the U.S. Department of Justice's new data security program represents the U.S.' first data localization requirement ripe for enforcement, but its implementation faces substantial practical challenges that may hinder the DOJ's ability for wide-ranging or swift action, say attorneys at Cleary.
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Defense Lessons From Freshworks' Win In Post-IPO Case
A California federal court’s recent decision to grant Freshworks’ summary judgment bid in a proposed investor class action helpfully clarifies two important points for defendants facing postoffering securities claims under Section 11 of the Securities Act, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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Biotech Collaborations Can Ease Uncertainty Amid FDA Shift
As concerns persist that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's reduced headcount will impede developments at already-strapped biotech companies, licensing and partnership transactions can provide the necessary funding and pathways to advance innovative products, say attorneys at Troutman.
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Nuclear Stakeholders Must Prepare For Cyber Threats
As the White House signals its support for a revival of nuclear power to supply the power needs of data centers and the artificial intelligence industry, investors and operators must keep in mind that safeguarding nuclear infrastructure from evolving cyber threats will be essential, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.
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Series
Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator
Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.
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Does Research Tool Safe Harbor Cover AI Drug Development?
As artificial intelligence increasingly takes root in drug development, many questions may emerge regarding current gaps in courts' application of the research tool exception to the safe harbor defense against patent infringement, and whether that defense applies to AI-based tools, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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Tips For Business Users After 2 Key AI Copyright Decisions
Because two recent artificial intelligence copyright decisions from the Northern District of California — Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta — came out mostly in favor of the developers using the plaintiffs' works to train large language models, business users should proceed with care, says Chris Wlach at Acxiom.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Navigating Client Trauma
Law schools don't train students to handle repeated exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, but for litigators practicing in areas like civil rights and personal injury, success depends on the ability to view cases clinically and to recognize when you may need to seek help, says Katie Bennett at Robins Kaplan.
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Copyright Takeaways From 2 Calif. GenAI Rulings
Two California federal court decisions suggest that the fair use defense may protect generative artificial intelligence output, but given the ongoing war between copyright holders and AI platforms, developers should still consider taking steps to reduce legal risk, says Lincoln Essig at Knobbe Martens.
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5 Things Manufacturing GCs Should Know About Cyber Risk
Following a recent government report underscoring the growing cyber threat landscape for manufacturers, general counsel in the sector should be aware of the potentially broad consequences of a cyberattack, evolving notification systems and the need for incident response plans, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.