Technology

  • September 25, 2025

    Textron Shakes Privacy Suit Over Data Sharing With Google

    A California federal judge has tossed a proposed class action accusing Textron Inc. of illegally sharing information about website visitors' search activities with Google LLC, finding that the plaintiff failed to allege that the aviation and defense products manufacturer had expressly targeted residents of the Golden State.

  • September 25, 2025

    Wash. Judge Weighs Audible Bid To Toss Privacy Class Action

    A Seattle federal judge on Thursday questioned whether a proposed class action accusing Amazon-owned Audible of violating customers' privacy should proceed under California law, as the plaintiffs argue, or Washington law, as Audible insists — a decision that could determine the lawsuit's fate.

  • September 25, 2025

    Internet Co. To Face Trimmed Claims In Investor Fraud Suit

    A California federal judge has trimmed claims from a proposed class action against internet company Fastly Inc. and several of its executives, alleging they misled investors about the "customer pullback and macroeconomic impacts" the company was experiencing, finding several challenged statements in the suit were not misleading when made.

  • September 25, 2025

    Hagens Berman Not Very Contrite About AI Errors, Judge Says

    A California federal judge chided attorneys from Hagens Berman on Thursday over what he called a lack of contrition after submitting briefs that contained errors lifted from ChatGPT in a proposed class action against the online platform OnlyFans, saying the attorneys seemed more interested in excuses.

  • September 25, 2025

    Judge Affirms Fla. Studio Didn't Register Movie Securities

    A Florida federal judge affirmed a ruling that a movie studio company sold $1.2 million in unregistered securities purportedly using blockchain technology to license motion picture rights, saying he wasn't convinced the company qualified for an exemption. 

  • September 25, 2025

    Judge Plans To Let ITC Take Lead In Apple Watch Patent Fight

    A D.C. federal judge said Thursday that she is not inclined to block a U.S. Customs and Border Protection decision permitting Apple Watch imports amid a patent dispute with Masimo Corp., because the U.S. International Trade Commission will soon address the same issue.

  • September 25, 2025

    Robotics AI Co. Says It Didn't Infringe Imaging Patents

    Plus One Robotics has asked a Texas federal court to find it has not infringed five patents owned by an entity that has allegedly been harassing the artificial intelligence robotics company to get licensing fees.

  • September 25, 2025

    Manhattan Associates Brass Face Suit Over Biz Strategy Shift

    Directors and officers of enterprise software firm Manhattan Associates were hit with a shareholder derivative suit in Georgia federal court from an investor who claimed that the company's shift from onsite technology services to cloud-based offerings was a business disaster, wiping out billions in market value in late 2024 and early 2025.

  • September 25, 2025

    Anthropic Judge Greenlights 'Historic' $1.5B Copyright Deal

    A California federal judge on Thursday preliminarily approved a $1.5 billion deal Anthropic PBC struck with authors to end their copyright class action against the artificial intelligence developer, with counsel for the plaintiffs calling it a "historic settlement" that will result in the "largest copyright recovery of all time."

  • September 25, 2025

    GE Avoids Retirees' Lawsuit Over Pension Annuity Deal

    General Electric dodged a proposed class action claiming it put retirees' benefits at risk by transferring over $1.7 billion of pension obligations to a private equity-controlled insurance company, with a New York federal judge ruling the retirees hadn't shown how they'd been harmed.

  • September 25, 2025

    Illinois Court Overturns City's Fiber Optic Permit Fee

    An Illinois law blocks municipalities from charging new fees for the use of public rights of way, a state judge has ruled, handing a win to a fiber optic internet service provider.

  • September 25, 2025

    Judge Grants Limited Sanctions In Sports Betting Secrets Suit

    A Nevada federal judge has granted some sanctions requested by a gambling technology company locked in a trade secrets case, finding that the rival litigant won't be allowed to introduce some evidence.

  • September 25, 2025

    Oracle, Meta Mull $20B AI Deal, As Tech Rumors Abound

    Oracle Corp. is said to be in discussions with Meta on a multiyear cloud computing deal worth a potential $20 billion, Reuters reported on Sept. 19. The report came just days before a bombshell announcement from Nvidia about its $100 billion staged investment in OpenAI.

  • September 25, 2025

    Xerox Says Vendor Faked Equipment Leases, Paid Kickbacks

    Xerox's financing arm says a Colorado company cost it nearly $2 million by paying kickbacks to induce its customers into fraudulent equipment leases, overbilling and lying about the deals.

  • September 25, 2025

    XAI Claims OpenAI Poached Employees For Trade Secrets

    Elon Musk's chatbot company xAI Corp. has hit rival OpenAI Inc. with a suit in California federal court that alleges two engineers and an unnamed senior executive took trade secrets to OpenAI when they switched companies.

  • September 25, 2025

    Full Fed. Circ. Won't Reconsider IPR Estoppel Decision

    The full Federal Circuit on Thursday rejected a rehearing petition from Ioengine LLC, which was appealing the invalidation of its flash drive patents in a case that set precedent on estoppel.

  • September 25, 2025

    Broadcasters Ask FCC To Junk Radio Ownership Caps

    The broadcast industry, after convincing a court this year to jettison some local TV ownership limits, is trying to convince the Federal Communications Commission that it's also time for radio ownership caps to go.

  • September 25, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Affirms Dismissal Of Patent Suit Against Aldi

    The Federal Circuit on Thursday won't revive a suit accusing supermarket chain Aldi's mobile app of infringing patents covering a way to find consumer products in particular areas, backing an Illinois federal court's finding that the patents were invalid under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice standard.

  • September 25, 2025

    European Commission Probing SAP Over Software Support

    European enforcers have opened an investigation into concerns that German software giant SAP restricts the market for maintenance and support services for the company's business management software.

  • September 25, 2025

    Apple Affiliate Pushes To Undo Classes After Wage Case Loss

    Five classes of workers in a $840,000 a wage suit against an Apple-affiliated repair company in North Carolina federal court are rootless after a Fourth Circuit decision, the company said, accusing the workers of fabricating quotes from a case they relied on in their opposition.

  • September 25, 2025

    Trump SPAC Ex-CEO Wins $1.5M Legal Fee Advance In Del.

    Saying the court was wary of second-guessing attorney judgment in legal fee advancement billings, a Delaware magistrate in chancery has rejected most challenges to $1.5 million in fee claims by a former CEO of Donald Trump-tied blank check company Digital World Acquisition Corp.

  • September 25, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Upholds China Tariffs From Trump's 1st Term

    The Federal Circuit on Thursday blessed a large batch of tariffs on Chinese goods installed by President Donald Trump during his first White House term, turning away a host of importers' claims that the levies had been imposed illegally.

  • September 25, 2025

    Amazon To Pay $2.5B To End FTC's Prime Claims Midtrial

    Amazon has agreed to a landmark $2.5 billion settlement to end the Federal Trade Commission's consumer protection case targeting its Prime subscription program, the commission announced Thursday, just days into what was expected to be a monthlong trial.

  • September 24, 2025

    Google Ad Tech Judge Ponders If Order Without Sale Is Enough

    A Virginia federal judge wondered aloud Wednesday if it's necessary to break up Google LLC's advertising placement technology business, or if she can address the monopolies targeted by the U.S. Department of Justice through a "strict set of requirements."

  • September 24, 2025

    Ex-Lyft Lobbyist Testifies For Uber In Sex Assault Trial

    California has established model safety standards for the ride-hailing industry and Uber has exceeded those standards, a former lobbyist for Lyft told jurors Wednesday in a bellwether trial over claims Uber negligently failed to put sufficient measures in place to prevent sexual assaults by its drivers.

Expert Analysis

  • Breaking Down Part 3 Of The Copyright Office's AI Report

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    On May 9, the U.S. Copyright Office published a prepublication version of the third and final part of its three-part report on artificial intelligence, offering key insights on the unauthorized use of copyrighted material by AI systems, says Courtney Sarnow at CM Law.

  • Trending At The PTAB: Shifts In Parallel Proceedings Strategy

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    Dynamics are changing between the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and federal courts, with two recent discretionary denials and one Federal Circuit decision offering takeaways for both patent owners and challengers navigating parallel proceedings, say attorneys at Finnegan.

  • What Businesses Need To Know To Avoid VPPA Class Actions

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    Divergent rulings by the Second, Sixth and Seventh Circuits about the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act have highlighted the difficulty of applying a statute conceived to regulate the now-obsolete brick-and-mortar video store sector in today's internet economy, say attorneys at DTO Law.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm

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    My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.

  • Discretionary Denial Rulings May Spur Calls For PTAB Reform

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    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's recent decision in iRhythm Technologies v. Welch Allyn, denying inter partes review based on the patent owner's settled expectations that the patent would not be challenged, could motivate patent holders to seek Patent Trial and Appeal Board reform to preserve patent quality without burdening owners, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • Comparing New Neural Data Privacy Laws In 4 States

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    Although no federal law yet addresses neural privacy comprehensively, the combined effect of recent state laws in Colorado, California, Montana and Connecticut is already shaping the regulatory future, but a multistate compliance strategy has quickly become a gating item for those experimenting with neuro-enabled workplace tools, says Kristen Mathews at Cooley.

  • Spinoff Transaction Considerations For Biotech M&A

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    Amid current market challenges, boards and management teams of biotech companies can consider several strategies for maximizing value should a spinoff opportunity arise, but not without significant advance planning and careful implementation, particularly in cases that might qualify as tax-free, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

  • 2025's First Half Brings Regulatory Detours For Fintechs

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    The first half of the year has resulted in a bifurcated regulatory environment for fintechs, featuring narrowed enforcement in some areas, heightened scrutiny in others and a policy window that, with proper compliance, offers meaningful opportunities for innovation, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Opinion

    Senate's 41% Litigation Finance Tax Would Hurt Legal System

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    The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law.

  • Comparing Stablecoin Bills From UK, EU, US And Hong Kong

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    For multinational stablecoin issuers, navigating the differences and similarities among regimes in the U.K., EU, Hong Kong and U.S., which are currently unfolding in several key ways, is critical to achieving scalable, compliant operations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Tips For Litigating Apex Doctrine Disputes Amid Controversy

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    Litigants once took for granted that deposition requests of high-ranking corporate officers required a greater showing of need than for lower-level witnesses, but the apex doctrine has proven controversial in recent years, and fights over such depositions will be won by creative lawyers adapting their arguments to this particular moment, say attorneys at Hangley Aronchick.

  • Series

    Performing As A Clown Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    To say that being a clown in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has changed my legal career would truly be an understatement — by creating an opening to converse on a unique topic, it has allowed me to connect with clients, counsel and even judges on a deeper level, says Charles Tatelbaum at Tripp Scott.

  • A Midyear Tuneup For Your Trade Secret Portfolio

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    Halfway through 2025, now is a good time for companies to thoroughly evaluate their trade secret portfolios and follow eight steps to reassess protection processes for confidential information, says Robert Jensen at Wolf Greenfield.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Rejecting Biz Dev Myths

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    Law schools don’t spend sufficient time dispelling certain myths that prevent young lawyers from exploring new business opportunities, but by dismissing these misguided beliefs, even an introverted first-year associate with a small network of contacts can find long-term success, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.

  • Speech Protection Questions In AI Case Raise Liability Risk

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    A Florida federal court's recent landmark ruling in Garcia v. Character Technologies, rejecting artificial intelligence developers' efforts to shield themselves from product liability and wrongful death claims under the First Amendment, challenges the assumption that chatbot outputs qualify as speech, and may redefine AI regulation and litigation nationally, says Peter Gregory at Goldberg Segalla.

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