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September 03, 2026
A Delaware federal judge blocked Operation Bluebird Inc. from using the Twitter brand Thursday at the request of X Corp., which sought an injunction after founder Elon Musk changed the company's name.
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September 03, 2026
In his latest round of decisions, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires instituted eight patent reviews Wednesday and rejected only one challenge.
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September 03, 2026
U.S. Circuit Judge Richard G. Taranto's decision to recuse himself from a case based on newly inherited Amazon stock is not enough to justify reconsidering the opinion he'd already issued, the Federal Circuit has ruled.
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September 03, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge Thursday granted tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds' bid to dismiss a proposed class action over unsolicited text messages, citing a recent Supreme Court ruling that said the Telephone Consumer Protection Act's prohibitions on unwanted phone calls do not apply to texts.
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September 03, 2026
The Electronic Discovery Reference Model, which provides resources to improve e-discovery, privacy, security and information governance, has announced a fresh update of its model, with new considerations surrounding information governance and artificial intelligence.
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September 03, 2026
Private equity firm KKR agreed to acquire garage door repair company A1 Garage Door in a $2 billion deal, Advent International is seeking out more healthcare deals in Australia and New Zealand, and TPG filed confidential plans for an estimated $2.5 billion Malaysian initial public offering of hospital assets.
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September 03, 2026
The co-founder of defunct social app IRL is fighting fraud charges by claiming that the U.S. attorney's office prosecuting him is conflicted because an attorney who formerly defended IRL in an SEC investigation and is now with the office pushed for him to be charged — and he is disputing prosecutors' denial of impropriety.
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September 03, 2026
Wireless tower builders have asked the Federal Communications Commission to consider new rules that will promote the development of new positioning, navigation and timing technologies that can complement GPS technology.
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September 03, 2026
Nvidia Corp. has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.93 billion, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Thursday, in the chipmaker's largest acquisition to date as it puts more financial weight behind the open-model ecosystem.
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September 03, 2026
Apple is facing a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) collective action brought on behalf of thousands of developers who claim the technology giant "abused its power" when it changed the rules on how apps seek permission to use users' data.
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September 02, 2026
A split Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday held that courts must determine that they have, at the very least, constructive control over a foreign defendant's property to establish jurisdiction in a forfeiture case, pointing to the Fifth Amendment's due process clause.
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September 02, 2026
Walmart has asked an Arkansas federal court to order food tech startup Zest Labs to comply with a protective order from the parties' settled trade secret dispute and block it from disclosing Walmart's confidential information in Zest's malpractice suit against its former attorneys.
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September 02, 2026
Several lawmakers expressed concern at a hearing Wednesday about recent U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policies, including increased denials of patent reviews, and questioned if Congress should respond by putting conditions on the office's power to set its own fees.
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September 02, 2026
The Seventh Circuit said Wednesday that it will wait to make its arbitration rejection official so a Chicago trading firm can ask the U.S. Supreme Court to determine whether it was correctly ordered to litigate proposed class securities manipulation accusations.
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September 02, 2026
A Washington woman who donated through Snap Mobile's online fundraising platform filed a proposed class action claiming that the company deceptively skims up to 20% of donations as a platform fee on top of a 4% processing fee and a prepopulated "tip" that users must affirmatively decline.
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September 02, 2026
A New York federal judge has tossed a content-creation music label's lawsuit accusing YouTube LLC of cornering an automated monetization services market for sound recordings, saying the label filed suit too late and otherwise failed to state a legally sufficient monopolization claim.
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September 02, 2026
VLSI has urged a D.C. federal court to force the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to release an unredacted version of a report alleging a connection between Intel and a company that successfully challenged a VLSI patent at issue in a multibillion-dollar infringement case.
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September 02, 2026
A New York federal court has dismissed a shareholder lawsuit against two former Avaya Holdings Corp. executives, who were accused of misleading investors about the success of the North Carolina-based company's transition from a telecom to a technology firm prior to its bankruptcy filing, finding all challenged statements were forward-looking or inactionable.
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September 02, 2026
The Fifth Circuit last week rejected a 2007 copyright test that publishers have long criticized, but attorneys say the court's replacement may still leave news aggregators and apps that embed third-party content in a strong position while putting more pressure on rights holders to restrict content they don't want embedded elsewhere.
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September 02, 2026
PayPal misled users about third-party tracking technologies embedded in its payment platform Venmo and how their personal information was disclosed to third parties, according to a new suit filed in California federal court.
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September 02, 2026
Improvements in broadband infrastructure mean that Alaskan telecom GCI Holdings will be able to provide hybrid fiber-cellular service to 10,000 more people in the state, the telecom has told the Federal Communications Commission.
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September 02, 2026
When an arm of the Federal Communications Commission that deals with broadcast competition waived one of the country's signature media ownership rules without a full FCC vote this year, it wasn't the first time agency staff had been entrusted with a major decision by the FCC's politically appointed chair.
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September 02, 2026
The federal government is weighing in on the sprawling copyright litigation against OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in New York federal court brought by The New York Times and others, telling the judge that using copyrighted texts to train generative tools shouldn't expose developers to broad infringement liability.
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September 02, 2026
AT&T is continuing with its plans to end its legacy copper-line telephone service across the United States, asking the Federal Communications Commission for permission to cut services that rely on copper wires in certain areas in 20 states.
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September 02, 2026
A rideshare driver who damaged a malfunctioning community gate could have stopped trying to force it open or called the police for help, a Florida state appeals court said Wednesday in upholding the driver's felony conviction for criminal mischief.