Technology

  • September 29, 2025

    Sherwin-Williams Contests 'Exceptional Case' Fee Claim

    Arguing over a single contentious issue does not support a report that labeled Sherwin-Williams' litigation strategy in a patent dispute as "exceptional," the company asserted in a recent objection to recommendations that it should pay fines and attorney fees in the case.

  • September 29, 2025

    FTC Tightens Fixes For $13B Omnicom-Interpublic Deal

    The Federal Trade Commission is requiring a monitor to oversee Omnicom's compliance with the conditions put on its $13.5 billion deal for Interpublic preventing the marketing giant from working with others to steer advertising away from publishers based on their political viewpoints.

  • September 29, 2025

    Verizon Resolves Wi-Fi Calling Patent Fight

    Verizon has reached an agreement with VoIP-Pal.com Inc. to end patent infringement litigation over its free Wi-Fi calling service that was at one point seeking over $5 billion in damages.

  • September 29, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    A Delaware vice chancellor expressed disappointment and concern over what she says is a "breakdown" in "civility and respect" that has emerged in recent Delaware corporate litigation. A $30 million settlement was approved in the five-year running Match.com reverse spinoff suit, and the top brass of Estée Lauder were hit with a derivative suit for allegedly covering up the company's reliance on prohibited, duty-free "gray market" sales of its products in China.

  • September 29, 2025

    Porsche Owners Say EV Update Doubled Charge Times

    A proposed class of Porsche buyers is suing the company's North American wing in Georgia federal court, saying an update that was supposed to address overheating in chargers for electronic and hybrid vehicles has resulted in charge times that are double what was advertised.

  • September 29, 2025

    Duane Morris, DLA Piper Steer $1.2B Hadron SPAC Deal

    Duane Morris LLP-advised nuclear energy company Hadron Energy on Monday announced plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company GigCapital7 Corp., led by DLA Piper, in a deal that values the company at $1.2 billion.

  • September 29, 2025

    6 Firms Advise On EA's $55B Deal With Investor Group

    Electronic Arts Inc. said Monday it has agreed to be acquired by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake and Affinity Partners at an enterprise value of approximately $55 billion, with six firms steering the transaction. 

  • September 26, 2025

    Meta Set To Appeal Flo Privacy Verdict As Users Seek Billions

    Meta is gearing up to appeal a California federal jury verdict that found it liable for using a data analytics tool to illegally retrieve sensitive health data from users of the popular menstrual tracking app Flo, the company disclosed in a posttrial filing in which the plaintiffs separately asked the court to award statutory damages that could reach the billions.

  • September 26, 2025

    Trump Demands Microsoft Fire Ex-Biden Deputy AG Monaco

    President Donald Trump on Friday demanded that Microsoft fire its new President of Global Affairs Lisa Monaco, deputy attorney general in the Biden administration and homeland security adviser in the Obama administration, in what seems to be the president's latest effort to exact revenge on his perceived political enemies.

  • September 26, 2025

    Ad Tech Judge Told Google Shouldn't Control Auctions

    The head of an industry consortium that could have an important role in breaking up Google's advertising placement technology business told a Virginia federal judge Friday that the Justice Department should be able to take away Google's control over the processes that pick where ads are placed.

  • September 26, 2025

    Full Fed. Circ. Told There's Mixed Transfer Law In Patent Case

    Software company VirtaMove Corp. is doubling down on efforts to keep its patent infringement suits against Amazon and Google in the Western District of Texas, telling the full Federal Circuit that a panel strayed from Fifth Circuit precedent by declining to disturb the suits' transfer to California.

  • September 26, 2025

    Stewart Keeps Discretion Duty As Squires Takes On RPIs, AI

    In John Squires' first week as U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director, he walked back precedent from the first Trump administration, claimed machine learning should be patent-eligible, and designated Deputy Director Coke Morgan Stewart to continue handling discretionary denial reviews.

  • September 26, 2025

    Drone-Maker DJI Can't Undo DOD's Chinese Military Co. Label

    A D.C. federal judge on Friday ended drone manufacturer DJI Technology's lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Defense's decision to designate it as a Chinese military company, saying the designation is supported by evidence and that the decision was not arbitrary.

  • September 26, 2025

    Google Asks High Court To Pause Epic Play Store Order

    Google has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to pause parts of the order won by Epic Games in its antitrust case targeting the tech giant's app store policies, saying the sweeping injunction threatens to create security and privacy concerns for millions of users.

  • September 26, 2025

    Boeing Pushes 9th Circ. To Rethink $72M Trade Secret Verdict

    Boeing has urged the Ninth Circuit to reconsider an August decision reinstating a $72 million jury verdict against the aircraft giant in an electric jet startup's trade secret case, saying the appellate panel decision creates "confusion, conflict, and injustice."

  • September 26, 2025

    Atty Fights Uphill To Nix Sanctions For Motion With AI Errors

    MPH International's counsel urged a California federal judge Friday to change his mind on sanctions requiring him to report to the state bar for filing a summary-judgment motion with AI-generated errors, arguing he had COVID, such mistakes are becoming commonplace and disciplinary proceedings could harm small practices and pro-bono work.

  • September 26, 2025

    Skechers Emails Are Misleading Spam, Customers Say

    Footwear brand Skechers is blasting shoppers with spam emails that clog their inboxes with false and misleading statements about urgent deals, according to a new proposed class action in Washington federal court seeking more than $6 million for the alleged violations.

  • September 26, 2025

    ConvergeOne's Ch. 11 Plan Undone, In Part, On Appeal

    A Texas federal judge has reversed parts of reorganized IT group ConvergeOne's Chapter 11 plan, saying an exclusive equity backstop opportunity given to a faction of its secured lenders violated bankruptcy's equal treatment requirements.

  • September 26, 2025

    Illumina And Grail Nix Investor Suit Over Failed Deal, For Now

    Illumina and Grail on Friday defeated a proposed class action alleging they lied to investors who bought artificially inflated Illumina stock whose prices plunged following several purported disclosures, after a California federal judge said the investors hadn't adequately pled which disclosures corrected any alleged misstatements that caused their losses. 

  • September 26, 2025

    Fla. Urges 11th Circ. To Remand Snap Inc. Suit To State Court

    The Florida Office of the Attorney General urged the Eleventh Circuit to undo an order blocking enforcement of a law that requires Snap Inc. to limit teens' access to the platform, arguing the case belongs in state court. 

  • September 26, 2025

    Cellectis, AstraZeneca Face IP Suit From Cell Engineering Co.

    A cell engineering company sued pharmaceutical giant Cellectis Inc. on Friday, claiming it had used patented gene-editing protein research technology and purported to license it for use to AstraZeneca.

  • September 26, 2025

    Fitch Even Sues Litigation Funder CEO, Ex-Client For $1.2M

    Chicago-based law firm Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP has brought a lawsuit in Illinois federal court against a former client and the CEO of a litigation funder, saying it is owed more than $1.2 million in legal fees for the firm's work on a patent infringement case the ex-client filed against Samsung.

  • September 26, 2025

    Oldies.com Class Claims Over Video-Buying Info Kept Alive

    A Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled that online video seller oldies.com must face a customer's proposed class action claiming it unlawfully disclosed his personal viewing information, finding he adequately showed the website violated the Video Privacy Protection Act.

  • September 26, 2025

    Chemical Plant Spat Must Unfold In NY, NC Court Is Told

    A Swiss chemical technology company urged a North Carolina state judge Friday to toss a suit alleging that it bungled work on a $200 million plant, arguing during a hearing that it is not a construction company as defined in a state law undergirding where the claims can be litigated.

  • September 26, 2025

    Jury Says Samsung Owes $78.5M In Media Use Patent Case

    Samsung owes $78.5 million to a patent owner, a federal jury in Texas found Friday, for infringing claims in a pair of patents covering automatic content recognition technology for commercial advertising.

Expert Analysis

  • How Political Divisions Are Stalling Pa. Energy Development

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    Despite possessing the nation's second-largest natural gas reserves and a legacy of energy infrastructure, Pennsylvania faces a fragmented and politically charged path to developing the energy resources it will need in the future, thanks to legislative gridlock, divided public opinion and competing energy interests, says Andrew Levine at Stradley Ronon.

  • A Look At Trump Admin's Shifting Strategies To Curtail CFPB

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    The Trump administration has so far carried out its goal of minimizing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's authority and footprint via an individualized approach comprising rule rollbacks, litigation moves and administrative tools, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • Evading DOJ Crosshairs As Data Security Open Season Starts

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    As the U.S. Department of Justice begins enforcing its new data security program — aimed at preventing foreign adversaries from accessing government-related and personal sensitive data — U.S. companies will need to understand the program’s contours and potential pitfalls to avoid potential civil liability or criminal scrutiny, say attorneys at Cohen & Gresser.

  • How Trump's Trade Policies Are Shaping Foreign Investment

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    Five months into the Trump administration, investors are beginning to see the concrete effects of the president’s America First Investment Policy as it presents new opportunities for clearing transactions more quickly, while sustaining risk aversion related to Chinese trade and potentially creating different political risks, say attorneys at Covington.

  • How To Balance AI Adoption With Employee Privacy Risks

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    As artificial intelligence transforms the workplace, organizations must learn to leverage AI's capabilities while safeguarding against employee privacy risks and complying with a complex web of regulations, including by vetting vendors, mitigating employee misuse and establishing a governance framework, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.

  • Tesla's Robotaxi Push Exposes Gaps In Product Liability Law

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    As Tesla's deployment of robotaxis on public roads in Austin, Texas, faces regulatory scrutiny and legislative pushback, the legal community confronts an unprecedented challenge: how to apply traditional fault principles, product liability laws and insurance practices to vehicles that operate as rolling computers, says Don Fountain at Clark Fountain.

  • Series

    My Opera And Baseball Careers Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Though participating in opera and the world of professional baseball often pulls me away from the office, my avocations improve my legal career by helping me perform under scrutiny, prioritize team success, and maintain joy and perspective at work, says Adam Unger at Herrick Feinstein.

  • FTC Focus: Enforcers Study AI Innovation And Entrenchment

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    The Federal Trade Commission and other regulators setting their sights on the burgeoning artificial intelligence ecosystem are considering how the government should approach innovation in tech markets that tend, almost inevitably, toward concentration, say attorneys at Proskauer.

  • Opinion

    Subject Matter Eligibility Test Should Return To Preemption

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    Subject matter eligibility has posed challenges for patentees due to courts' arbitrary and confusing reasoning, but adopting a two-part preemption test could align the applicant, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the courts, says Manav Das at McDonnell Boehnen.

  • 8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work

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    Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.

  • 3 Cautionary Tales For Cos. Using Facial Recognition Tech

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    Whether a business intends to develop its own facial recognition applications or contract with another company to use such services, three recent case studies should be kept in mind to help lower the risk of litigation or regulatory enforcement, says Adam Nyenhuis at Hilgers Graben.

  • How Insurance Policies Are Adapting To AI Risk

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    While many risks related to artificial intelligence may still fit under existing commercial insurance policies, the rise of broad AI exclusions, the definitional uncertainties surrounding what qualifies as AI and the emergence of affirmative AI coverage signal a shift toward a more fragmented and complex coverage environment, say attorneys at Hunton.

  • Google Damages Ruling Offers Lessons For Testifying Experts

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    The Federal Circuit's recent decision in EcoFactor v. Google represents a shift in how courts evaluate expert testimony in patent cases, offering a practical guide for how litigators and testifying experts can refine their work, says Adam Rhoten at Secretariat.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients

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    Law school curricula often overlook client communication procedures, and those who actively teach this crucial facet of the practice can create exceptional client satisfaction and success, says Patrick Hanson at Wiggam Law.

  • 3 Judicial Approaches To Applying Loper Bright, 1 Year Later

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    In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference in its Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision, a few patterns have emerged in lower courts’ application of the precedent to determine whether agency actions are lawful, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.

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