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October 20, 2025
Bank Seeks Atty Fees For 'Vexatious' Patent Suit
CIBC Bank has asked a Texas federal court to impose sanctions on a rival litigant, its principal and one of its attorneys, saying the patent claims they brought were "vexatious and substantively unsuccessful in every single aspect."
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October 20, 2025
AI-Driven Marketing Biz Says Ex-Workers Lifted Trade Secrets
Artificial intelligence-integrated marketing and advertising venture AIquire Inc. sued a newer, climate-focused marketing business in Delaware federal court on Friday, accusing former employees and affiliated companies of misappropriating trade secrets to build the new business, Climaty.
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October 20, 2025
Paul Weiss-Led Diversis Wraps 3rd Fund With $1.2B
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP-advised Diversis Capital Management LP on Monday revealed that it closed its third fund with over $1.2 billion in tow, which will be used to invest in software and technology-enabled services companies.
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October 20, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
This past week, the Delaware Chancery Court and Supreme Court handled a crowded corporate docket, weighing blockbuster merger appeals, shareholder settlement objections, fights over control involving an NBA franchise and a high-profile appeal from Elon Musk involving a massive payday from Tesla.
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October 20, 2025
Justices Deny EcoFactor Appeal Over Google Patent Damages
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by EcoFactor Inc. on Monday that argued the en banc Federal Circuit usurped the role of the jury when it found the company's damages expert unreliable and vacated a $20 million patent verdict it won against Google.
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October 20, 2025
UK Clears $24.2B Global Payments Deal For Worldpay
Britain's antitrust authority said Monday that it has given the green light to Global Payments' planned acquisition of payments giant Worldpay for $24.25 billion after finding that it will not harm competition in any U.K. markets.
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October 20, 2025
Justices Won't Review Optional NAR Rule In Zillow Case
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review claims that Zillow and the National Association of Realtors blocked competition through an optional association rule that relegated a defunct brokerage platform's listings to a secondary tab on Zillow's site.
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October 17, 2025
Audible Users Blocked From Using Calif. Law In Privacy Row
A pair of Audible customers can't sustain claims that the audiobook provider violated California's wiretap law on allegations it shared their browsing and listening activities with Meta Platforms Inc. because they agreed to litigate any disputes under Washington law when they signed up for the service, a federal judge in Seattle held in tossing the proposed class action for now.
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October 17, 2025
Texas Youth Join Big Tech In Challenging New App Store Law
Advocacy group Students Engaged in Advancing Texas has joined tech industry giants in challenging the Lone Star State's new law requiring app store owners to verify users' ages and block minors from downloads and purchases without parental consent, arguing the measure illegally imposes restrictions on protected speech and information.
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October 17, 2025
Mixed Discretionary Denial Batch Caps Off Big Week For PTAB
Deputy U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart allowed 19 Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions to go forward while denying 21 others on Friday, concluding a week that saw major reforms at the PTAB.
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October 17, 2025
PTAB Axes Patent And Finds Chip Co. Has No Ties To Intel
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board found that a Greenthread semiconductor patent was invalid after finding one of the challengers didn't have ties to Intel in a way that could have doomed the case.
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October 17, 2025
Charter-Cox Deal Called Rational, Given Cable Biz Decline
Conservative think tank Free State Foundation thinks the Federal Communications Commission should give Charter Communications' $34.5 billion plan to merge with Cox Communications the green light, given the fact that "cable television is deep in decline."
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October 17, 2025
John Hancock, UBS Settle $600K Data Breach Class Action
UBS Financial Services Inc., John Hancock Investment Management LLC and their marketing vendor DG3 North America Inc. have gotten a final nod for their $600,000 deal ending customer claims stemming from a DG3 data breach.
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October 17, 2025
W.Va. Says Pole Owners Must Replace Old Utility Poles
Utility poles that have been "red tagged" for replacement must be replaced by whoever owns them, not the utility that is paying to use them, West Virginia's Public Service Commission has declared.
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October 17, 2025
Newsmax To Build Crypto Reserve With Bitcoin, Trump Coin
Newsmax Inc. plans to purchase up to $5 million worth of bitcoin and President Donald Trump's meme coin in the coming year, joining the ranks of public companies adding cryptocurrency to their strategic reserve.
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October 17, 2025
NJ Parents Keep Fighting State Over Storage Of Babies' DNA
Across the U.S., health departments draw small blood samples from newborns' heels to test for metabolic and genetic disorders. After a new mother discovered that New Jersey police had used DNA extracted from such samples in criminal investigations, she signed on as plaintiff in a suit that says parents have a right to refuse these blood draws.
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October 17, 2025
Texas Readies $1.3B Spending Plan For Broadband Access
Texas, which was originally allocated $3.3 billion under the Biden administration, is about to submit its plans for using the $1.3 billion in federal broadband funding that was eventually awarded after a Trump administration revamp of the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program.
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October 17, 2025
Arson, Stalking Claims Not Defamatory, NC Biz Court Rules
A Virginia couple has lost their bid for a pretrial win on claims their former friends defamed them online, with a North Carolina Business Court judge finding the posts weren't defamatory and their identities couldn't otherwise be easily deduced.
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October 17, 2025
Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown
The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.
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October 17, 2025
Latham To Bring On 3 Restructuring Pros From Ropes & Gray
Latham & Watkins LLP announced Friday that it will be adding three restructuring partners from Ropes & Gray LLP, including one who steered that firm's business restructuring practice.
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October 17, 2025
Verizon Scraps Ad For Free Google Pixel After AT&T Objects
Verizon has dropped an advertisement for free Google Pixel phones that prompted an AT&T complaint that the offer was only available for "Unlimited Ultimate" plan customers, not everyone.
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October 17, 2025
USPTO Head To Take Over Patent Review Institution Decisions
John Squires, director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, said Friday that he will now make all decisions on whether to institute America Invents Act reviews of patents, including on the merits of the challenge and discretionary issues, in a major overhaul of the review system.
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October 17, 2025
Artists Ask To Certify Classes In Google AI Copyright Suit
A group of artists and writers who claim their copyrights were infringed when Google used their works to train its artificial intelligence model asked a California federal judge to grant them class certification.
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October 17, 2025
Songwriters Extend Copyright Fight To Suno AI
A group of independent songwriters has filed suit in Illinois federal court against music generator Suno AI, claiming the songwriters' copyrighted works were used to train its models after filing similar claims against AI music company Udio a day earlier.
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October 17, 2025
Industry Calls On Policymakers To Tackle Telecom Vandalism
Growing theft and vandalism of telecom lines can trigger not only immediate costs, but broader economic and social ripple effects from network shutdowns, a wireless infrastructure group warned in a pair of new reports issued to support the group's call for stepped-up law enforcement.
Expert Analysis
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How The FTC Is Stepping Up Subscription Enforcement
Despite the demise of the Federal Trade Commission's click-to-cancel rule in July, the commission has not only maintained its regulatory momentum, but also set new compliance benchmarks through recent high-profile settlements with Match.com, Chegg and Amazon, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Enter The Wu-Tang Ruling That May Change Trade Secret Law
A New York federal court's recent holding that a Wu-Tang Clan album qualifies as a trade secret provides the first federal framework for analyzing trade secret claims involving assets valued primarily for exclusivity, potentially reshaping Defend Trade Secrets Act jurisprudence for the digital economy, says Jason Bradford at Jenner & Block.
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Opinion
New US-UK Tech Deal Offers Opportunities To Boost Growth
The recently announced U.S. and U.K. Technology Prosperity Deal, encouraging businesses on both sides of the Atlantic to work together toward technological advance, will drive both investment in U.K. capabilities and returns for U.S. investors, says Peter Watts at Hogan Lovells.
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ConvergeOne Ruling May Disrupt Backstop Fee Approach
A Texas federal court's recent ruling in ConvergeOne has the potential to seriously disrupt previously accepted market practice when it comes to sourcing new capital for a restructuring, while offering a nebulous market test for a new approach, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Shutdown May Stall Hearings, But Gov't Probes Quietly Go On
Thanks to staff assurances under the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, the core work of congressional investigations continues during the shutdown that began Oct. 1 — and so does the investigative work that is performed behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: 3 Tips On Finding The Right Job
After 23 years as a state and federal prosecutor, when I contemplated moving to a law firm, practicing solo or going in-house, I found there's a critical first step — deep self-reflection on what you truly want to do and where your strengths lie, says Rachael Jones at McKool Smith.
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How Courts May Interpret Data-Driven Healthcare Fraud Suits
As the U.S. Department of Justice and other agencies increasingly turn to data mining as an enforcement tool, courts will have to determine how far data alone can take a fraud case, and sound theory, clinical expertise and institutional context will play an important role, say Jaime Jones at Sidley and Andrée-Anne Fournier and Atang Gilika at Analysis Group.
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Breaking Down The Intersection Of Right-Of-Publicity Law, AI
Jillian Taylor at Blank Rome examines how existing right-of-publicity law governs artificial intelligence-generated voice-overs, deepfakes and deadbots; highlights a recent New York federal court ruling involving AI-generated voice clones; and offers practical guardrails for using AI without violating the right of publicity.
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What 2 Recent Rulings Mean For Trafficking Liability Coverage
Two recent federal district court decisions add to a growing number of courts concluding that Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act claims may trigger coverage under commercial general liability policies, rejecting insurer arguments regarding public policy and exclusion defenses, says Joe Cole at Shumaker.
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Civil Maritime Nuclear Sector Poised For Growth, Challenges
The maritime industry now stands on the verge of a nuclear-powered renaissance, with the need for clean energy, resilient power generation and decarbonized logistics driving demand for commercial maritime nuclear technology — but these developments will raise significant new legal, regulatory and technical questions, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Series
Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.
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NY AML Rules Get Crypto Rebrand: What It Means For Banks
A recent letter from the New York State Department of Financial Services outlining how banks can use blockchain analytics in anti-money laundering efforts is a reminder that crypto activity is not exempted from banks' role in keeping the financial system safe, says Katherine Lemire at Lankler Siffert.
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3 Trends From AI-Related Securities Class Action Dismissals
A review of recently dismissed securities class actions centering on artificial intelligence highlights courts' scrutiny of statements about AI's capabilities and independence, and sustained focus on issues that aren't AI-specific, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
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5 Evolving Marketing Risks That Finance Cos. Should Watch
Financial services providers should beware several areas where consumer protection regulators are broadening their scrutiny of modern marketing practices, such as the use of influencer testimonials or advertisements touting artificial intelligence-powered products, so they can better adapt to changing expectations for compliance, say attorneys at Hinshaw.
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AI Will Transform Patent Examination For The Better
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's increasing use of artificial intelligence tools will result in patents that are more thoroughly vetted, and patent applicants and practitioners will need to adapt their drafting strategies and address stronger and more sophisticated rejections, say attorneys at Troutman.