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May 13, 2025
Albright Scraps $26M Video Patent Verdict Against Google
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright has overruled a jury's $26 million verdict against Google LLC and its YouTube LLC subsidiary for infringing VideoShare LLC's video sharing patent, finding that as a matter of law "the only reasonable interpretation of the claim language" shows no infringement.
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May 13, 2025
FTC To Keep Focus On Key Sectors, Address Personal Liberty
The head of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition said Tuesday the agency will remain focused on healthcare, technology and labor issues as enforcers also work to ensure corporate power does not infringe on personal liberties.
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May 13, 2025
MoFo DQ Sought In IP Case After Perkins Coie Ouster
A software developer pursuing intellectual property claims against another technology company in San Francisco federal court has followed through with its threat to seek removal of Morrison & Foerster LLP after it succeeded in disqualifying Perkins Coie LLP, arguing the firms worked closely together and new counsel is necessary to avoid prejudice.
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May 13, 2025
1st Circ. Vacates $10M Severance Win Over Drafting Error
The First Circuit threw out a judgment that valued a departing technology executive's severance payout at $10.2 million due to a mistake in the contract, ruling that the company's intended offer of $680,000 in total value could also be reasonably construed from the text of the deal.
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May 13, 2025
Walmart Settles Biometric Privacy Suit Ahead Of June Trial
Walmart and a driver for Walmart's grocery delivery platform have resolved his claims that the platform's identity verification process violates Illinois' biometric privacy law by scanning geometric facial data in their selfies and licenses to authenticate an applicant's identity without informed consent.
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May 13, 2025
Former X Exec Can Drop His Bonus Suit, Avoiding Sanctions
A former X Corp. executive can drop his suit accusing the social media company of failing to pay out bonuses after Elon Musk took over, a California federal judge ruled, rejecting the company's bid to sanction him for knowing his case was baseless from the start.
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May 13, 2025
Feds Nixing Crypto 'Property' Theft Charge Against Brothers
Prosecutors have told a Manhattan federal judge that they plan to drop a charge of conspiracy to receive stolen property against two Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated brothers accused of stealing $25 million worth of cryptocurrency, after the defendants pointed to a U.S. Department of Justice memo limiting certain charges involving digital assets.
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May 13, 2025
Latham-Led VMG Nets $1B For 6th Consumer Fund
Latham & Watkins LLP-advised growth equity firm VMG Partners on Tuesday revealed it had clinched its sixth consumer fund after securing $1 billion in investor commitments.
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May 13, 2025
Cahill Gordon Recruits Fried Frank Digital Assets Co-Leader
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP has added the former co-head of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP's digital assets and blockchain practice as a partner in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.
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May 12, 2025
Google, YouTube Reach Deal To End Kids' Data Collection Suit
Google LLC and its YouTube subsidiary say they have reached a settlement to resolve a long-running proposed class action accusing them of illegally collecting children's data to generate targeted advertising, after a California federal judge refused to release the companies from the dispute earlier this year.
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May 12, 2025
Eric Trump-Backed Crypto Miner Merges With Gryphon Digital
A new bitcoin miner backed by President Donald Trump's two eldest sons said Monday that it will go public through an all-stock merger with Gryphon Digital Mining Inc. and will list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ABTC.
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May 12, 2025
GOP Sens. Urge FCC To Overhaul Media Ownership Regs
Almost two dozen Republican senators have asked the Federal Communications Commission to "modernize the FCC's broadcast ownership rules," loosening regulations to allow "local broadcasters to compete with today's media giants."
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May 12, 2025
Mass. Court Says NIH Grant Disruption Suit Is In The Right Place
A Massachusetts federal court ruled Monday that it has jurisdiction over several states' lawsuit challenging delays and cancellations of federal grant programs linked to issues they say are "disfavored" by the Trump administration, rejecting the federal government's contention that the claims instead belonged in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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May 12, 2025
Instacart Beats Investor Suit Over Pre-IPO Business
A California federal judge tossed a shareholder class action accusing grocery delivery company Instacart of misrepresenting its potential in the lead-up to its initial public offering, finding, among other things, that the plaintiffs did not sufficiently plead any actionable misleading statements or that the defendants acted with a motive to deceive investors.
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May 12, 2025
Chancery Nixes Paramount-Skydance Books Suit Intervention
Delaware's Chancellor on Monday denied a Paramount Global preferred shareholders' motion to intervene in a New York public pension fund group's suit for documents on Paramount's proposed $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, the latest development in a sprawling, potential post-closing deal challenge.
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May 12, 2025
Barnes & Noble Faces IP Suit Over E-Commerce Tech
Barnes & Noble has joined a line of retailers facing patent infringement suits from intellectual property licensing company AML IP, with a complaint filed Monday in Texas federal court accusing the bookseller of violating a patent related to technology for electronic methods of processing payments.
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May 12, 2025
Feds Ask Tesla For More Info On Texas Robotaxi Launch
Federal auto safety regulators have asked Tesla Inc. for more information about its upcoming plans to launch robotaxis in Austin, Texas, and whether the company has determined that its Full Self-Driving, or FSD, automated driving technology can achieve "acceptably safe behavioral competency."
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May 12, 2025
Billionaire Vik Sues To Reclaim Software Co. Ownership
Norwegian billionaire Alexander Vik has added another thread to a web of litigation arising from unfulfilled margin calls during the 2008 financial crisis, suing several Indiana-based businesses to reclaim a software company that was sold under court order to partially satisfy a $243 million judgment in favor of Deutsche Bank AG.
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May 12, 2025
Latham, Davis Polk Lead Digital Health Startup's IPO Filing
Omada Health Inc., a venture-backed startup that provides virtual care to help patients manage chronic conditions like diabetes, has filed an initial public offering, represented by Latham & Watkins LLP and underwriters counsel Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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Justices' TikTok Ruling May Pose Threat To Online Expression
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent landmark ruling upholding a federal law mandating TikTok's forced divestiture in the name of data security may embolden digital censorship agendas worldwide, says IP lawyer Bahram Jafari.
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How Rising Secondary Private Markets Affect Tech Disputes
The rise of secondaries is a natural by-product of growing and evolving private markets and, as such, we can expect their growth will continue, signaling an increase in the use of secondaries in damages as well as litigation revolving around secondaries themselves, says Farooq Javed at The Brattle Group.
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What Reuters Ruling Means For AI Fair Use And Copyright
A Delaware federal court's recent decision in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence is not likely to have lasting effect in view of the avalanche of artificial intelligence decisions to come, but the court made two points that will resonate with copyright owners who are disputing technology companies' unlicensed use of copyright-protected materials to train generative AI models, says David Ben-Meir at Ben-Meir Law Group.
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The Current And Future State Of Bank-Fintech Partnerships
Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Donald Trump seems likely to cultivate an environment friendlier to the financial services industry, bank-fintech partnerships should stay devoted to proactive compliance and be ready to adapt to regulatory shifts that may intensify scrutiny from enforcers, say attorneys at Greenberg Traurig.
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How The AI Antitrust Landscape Might Evolve Under Trump
The Trump administration's early actions around artificial intelligence and antitrust policy, along with statements from competition regulators, suggest that the AI competition landscape may see reduced scrutiny around acquisitions, but not an entirely hands-off enforcement approach, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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Series
Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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Questions Remain After Justices' Narrow E-Rate FCA Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wisconsin Bell, holding that requests for reimbursement from the Federal Communications Commission's E-Rate program are subject to False Claims Act liability, resolves one important question but leaves several others open, says Jason Neal at HWG.
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Opinion
At 100, Federal Arbitration Act Is Used To Thwart Justice
The centennial of the Federal Arbitration Act, a law intended to streamline dispute resolution in commercial agreements, is an opportunity to reflect on its transformation from a tool of fairness into a corporate shield that impedes the right to a fair trial, says Lori Andrus at the American Association for Justice.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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Del. Supreme Court TripAdvisor Ruling May Limit 'MFW Creep'
The Delaware Supreme Court's recent Maffei v. Palkon ruling regarding TripAdvisor's proposed reincorporation to Nevada potentially signals a turning point in the trend of expanding the protections from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide to other types of transactions, says Andrew J. Haile at Elon University.
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9th Circ. Draws The Line On Software As A Derivative Work
The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Oracle International v. Rimini Street clarifies the meaning of derivative work under the Copyright Act, and when a work based upon a preexisting item doesn't constitute a derivative, says John Poulos at Norton Rose.
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A Closer Look At FDX's New Role As Banking Standard-Setter
Should the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau let stand the decision empowering Financial Data Exchange as an industry standard-setter, it will be a significant step toward broader financial data-sharing, but its success will depend on industry adoption, regulatory oversight and consumer confidence, say attorneys at Clark Hill.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.
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Trending At The PTAB: Insights From 2024 Fed. Circ. Statistics
Looking at stats from the Federal Circuit's decisions in 219 Patent Trial and Appeal Board appeals last year sheds light on potential trends and strategy considerations that could improve appeals' chances of success, say attorneys at Finnegan.