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May 19, 2026
The European Parliament approved a regulation to strengthen the European Union's protections from global steel overcapacity, cutting the tariff-free import quota by 47% while doubling the duty on imports beyond the quota to 50%, according to a news release Tuesday.
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May 19, 2026
Silicon Valley chipmaker Groq has reached a settlement to end a trademark infringement case it brought in New York federal court against an endocrinologist with a similarly named company.
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May 19, 2026
Cooley LLP announced on Tuesday that it has welcomed two attorneys to its cyber, data and privacy practice from Perkins Coie LLP, one of whom had co-chaired that firm's privacy and security practice.
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May 19, 2026
The U.S. Government Accountability Office said NASA was justified in terminating a company from competition to provide agency-wide IT services, finding the company provided conflicting information over its outside designated providers, thereby failing to satisfy contract line item requirements.
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May 18, 2026
Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton "has not paid a dime" of his $2.5 million share of an eight-figure settlement resolving shareholder litigation over a fraud-shadowed special purpose acquisition company merger, the bankrupt electric vehicle company's trustee claims, asking the Delaware Chancery Court to hold the billionaire in contempt.
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May 18, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data indicates the office mistakenly kept hundreds of thousands of records of patent ownership transfers from becoming public for years, according to researchers who analyzed the files, an error that experts say could cause complications for anyone who relied on the incomplete data.
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May 18, 2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking public comment on a new set of proposed regulations for complying with the age determination and parental consent aspects of a looming law that restricts social media platforms from using algorithms to deliver addictive feeds to children.
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May 18, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched his own investigation into potential anticompetitive conduct among the country's meatpackers, a probe that will take place alongside the U.S. Department of Justice's ongoing investigation into the same allegations.
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May 18, 2026
The Trump administration told a D.C. federal judge that a technology research coalition's lack of injury should doom a suit challenging its new visa restriction policy targeting noncitizens who help foreign governments censor protected expression by American citizens and tech companies.
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May 18, 2026
The D.C. Circuit recently said that the Federal Communications Commission has a "non-discretionary obligation" to respond to applications for review, and an advocacy group that's spent almost three years pushing to strip a Fox affiliate station of its license on allegations it aired election conspiracy theories says that obligation applies to it as well.
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May 18, 2026
Zillow asked an Illinois federal court on Monday to stop real estate brokerage Compass from working with a Chicago-area multiple listing service to block access to home listings after Zillow established new rules around private listings on its site.
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May 18, 2026
The leaders of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Monday asked intellectual property experts to wade into debates over the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, focusing in part on whether switching to a stricter burden of proof would address disparate outcomes between the board and district court.
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May 18, 2026
Two Pennsylvania consumers targeted Amazon's Subscribe & Save feature in a proposed class action filed in Seattle federal court Monday, claiming the e-commerce giant tricks shoppers into registering by pricing eligible items lower than other sellers, then jacks up those prices once customers are committed to automatic future purchases.
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May 18, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Monday found that two Chinese electric motorcycle companies owe nearly $13 million for infringing a design patent owned by a rival manufacturer and issued a rare permanent injunction.
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May 18, 2026
A healthcare company suing medical technology company Commure Inc. over alleged trade secret theft has said Kirkland & Ellis LLP should be disqualified from representing Commure because the healthcare company had tried to retain Kirkland prior to filing the suit and shared confidential information before anyone asked who the defendant was going to be.
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May 18, 2026
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology hauled Microsoft Corp. into Texas federal court, accusing the technology company of infringing a pair of the university's patents related to "physical unclonable function" technology to secure the company's cloud services.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Department of Defense has said it has "substantial" evidence to back labeling Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. a Chinese military company because its products have military applications, urging a D.C. federal judge to reject the chipmaker's lawsuit challenging the label.
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May 18, 2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, one of the state attorneys general of a coalition of states that recently won a jury verdict finding Live Nation illegally established a monopoly over the live music industry, said Monday the next step is a structural overhaul of the conglomerate.
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May 18, 2026
AT&T is asking the Federal Communications Commission to greenlight hardware changes to foreign-made routers, which the agency recently placed on the covered list, arguing the artificial intelligence boom has created a shortage that makes getting replacements difficult.
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May 18, 2026
Disneyland guests hit the entertainment behemoth with a proposed class action in New York federal court Friday alleging it gathered facial recognition data of children who enter its parks without a meaningful way for them to opt out, arguing "the onus of privacy rights should not be on the victim."
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May 18, 2026
Counsel for a putative class of individuals who allege they were wrongfully arrested or detained due to glitches in the state's electronic court system told a North Carolina federal court during a Monday hearing that a county sheriff's office is delaying the release of its own records.
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May 18, 2026
Two GOP lawmakers say the Federal Communications Commission isn't moving fast enough to complete a rule that would effectively let state prisons and jails jam contraband cellphones, but industry pushback remains strong.
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May 18, 2026
Amazon is pushing back after California state enforcers accused the e-commerce company of bullying major brands into pressuring competing retailers to raise prices, arguing the case has never involved price-fixing allegations before.
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May 18, 2026
The debate over the role of injunctions in patent cases remains active in the U.S., and European leaders shouldn't think that there is a "consensus" in the country, said former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal.
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May 18, 2026
A mobile game company that won a $420 million jury verdict in April against a rival over its use of bots and representations that its games relied on skill has urged a New York federal judge to order an increased disgorgement of $1.4 billion, arguing it was "hard to imagine a civil case with a worse defendant."