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September 30, 2025
AI Chipmaker's Valuation Soars To $8.1B After Funding Round
Artificial intelligence infrastructure maker Cerebras Systems, advised by Latham & Watkins LLP, announced on Tuesday that it wrapped an oversubscribed Series G funding round after securing $1.1 billion of commitments, boosting the Sunnyvale, California-headquartered company's post-money valuation to $8.1 billion.
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September 30, 2025
Calif. Agency Fines Retailer $1.35M Over Data Privacy Lapses
Rural lifestyle retailer Tractor Supply Co. will pay a record $1.35 million penalty and overhaul its data privacy practices to resolve the California privacy agency's claims that it failed to properly notify consumers and job applicants of their privacy rights, maintain adequate agreements with service providers and provide consumers with an effective way to stop the sharing and sale of their personal information, the regulator announced Tuesday.
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September 30, 2025
Education Tech Co. Anthology Hits Ch. 11 With Over $1B Debt
Anthology Inc., a software company in the educational technology space, filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court with more than $1 billion in debt, saying it intends to sell parts of its business and restructure the rest.
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September 30, 2025
Eversheds ALSP Adds Biz Professional From A&O Shearman
Eversheds Sutherland announced on Tuesday that the former U.S. head of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling's global flexible sourcing platform has joined the firm to lead the interim legal resourcing offerings of its alternative legal services provider, Konexo US.
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September 29, 2025
Meta Faces Sanctions Bid Alleging Co. Destroyed 'Taps' Data
Personal injury plaintiffs have urged a California state judge to sanction Meta Platforms Inc. in coordinated litigation over claims social media harms young users' mental health, alleging Meta willfully destroyed crucial time‑stamped "taps" data that captures users' taps, scrolls and swipes on Facebook and Instagram.
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September 29, 2025
Newsom Signs AI Law Requiring Guardrails, More Disclosures
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed into law a bill that bolsters safety and disclosure requirements for artificial intelligence companies in the Golden State, a measure the governor said further establishes California as a leader in "safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence."
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September 29, 2025
Google VP Says Ad Tech Breakup Has Risks For Publishers
A Google LLC executive tried to convince a Virginia federal judge Monday that the U.S. Justice Department has the company's advertising placement technology business backward, arguing that instead of helping website publishers, the breakup sought by the government would cost time and money, while artificial intelligence is scrambling prospects too much to warrant greater intervention.
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September 29, 2025
Meta Ducks Antitrust Suit As Economist's Opinions Excluded
A California federal judge on Monday freed Meta from an antitrust lawsuit that accused it of monopolizing an asserted market for personal social networking, saying Facebook users failed to prove the existence of an antitrust injury, with or without help from an expert witness.
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September 29, 2025
Supreme Court Considers 7 Patent Petitions
The U.S. Supreme Court held its first conference Monday, presenting the justices with several petitions of interest to patent practitioners before the court's new term kicks off next week.
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September 29, 2025
White House Eyes More Than 'Zero Sum Game' On Spectrum
A Trump White House official said Monday that the administration hopes to expand available spectrum for new uses and does not see commercial players pitted against each other in a "zero sum game" as the only approach to sharing the airwaves.
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September 29, 2025
FPI Signs $2.8M Deal To Exit Yardi Price-Fixing Class Action
Property management firm FPI Management Inc. has reached a $2.8 million deal to settle a proposed price-fixing class action in Washington federal court accusing it and others of using Yardi Systems Inc.'s third-party software to inflate residential rents.
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September 29, 2025
YouTube Inks $24M Deal To End Trump's 'Censorship' Case
YouTube has agreed to pay more than $24 million to settle a lawsuit that President Donald Trump filed after the video platform suspended his account following the 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol over concerns he would incite further attacks, the parties told a California federal judge Monday.
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September 29, 2025
DLA Piper Must Face Trial In Pregnancy-Firing Suit
A New York federal judge on Monday said DLA Piper must face trial in a discrimination case by a former lawyer who was fired two months after disclosing her pregnancy, saying the former seventh-year IP associate has made out a case around the circumstances of her 2022 departure.
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September 29, 2025
Russian Businessman Fights Docs Order In Trump Media Suit
A Russian businessman tied to the former CEO of the entity that merged with Donald Trump's Truth Social urged a Florida state court judge to reconsider an order compelling him to produce records in a lawsuit over taking the company public, saying it violates his Fifth Amendment rights.
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September 29, 2025
Honeywell Says Ex-GC's Age Bias Suit Belongs Only In China
A former vice president and general counsel for a Honeywell International Inc. subsidiary is seeking a redo for her age discrimination claims despite the fact that her employment contracts say those claims must be litigated in China, Honeywell told a North Carolina federal court Friday.
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September 29, 2025
CFTC Illegally Blocking Fantasy Site's Application, Court Told
A fantasy sports company is challenging the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's move to intervene in its application to become a licensed broker for derivatives trading, saying its application has been stalled in front of the industry's regulating body despite meeting all the requirements.
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September 29, 2025
Hagens Berman Misstep Ends Amazon-Apple Suit, For Now
A Washington federal judge threw out a proposed class action targeting an alleged pact between Amazon and Apple to limit device sales on the e-commerce platform, agreeing on Monday to revisit an earlier ruling after fresh facts surfaced showing that the former lead plaintiffs' counsel misled the court for months.
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September 29, 2025
Why $2.5B Might Not Be Enough In FTC's Amazon Settlement
As the Federal Trade Commission and some observers hailed Amazon's $2.5 billion deal over its Prime membership practices as a milestone to protect consumers from manipulative tactics, others doubted the 10-figure settlement will be enough to hold the company accountable following a case it had seemed likely to lose.
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September 29, 2025
6 Copyright, TM Cases On Tap As Justices Begin New Term
The new U.S. Supreme Court term could be an eventful one for intellectual property law, with a $1 billion copyright fight on deck between music publishers and Cox Communications that is expected to clarify the bounds of liability for internet companies over their customers’ illegal downloads. Here's a look at some of the IP cases under review as the justices begin their new term Oct. 6.
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September 29, 2025
Meta Stole Plan For Instagram Shopping, Antitrust Suit Alleges
A British company Friday sued Meta Platforms Inc. in California federal court, claiming the tech giant was only able to build Instagram Shopping and create a "Meta monopoly" over the tag-based shopping market by secretly stealing the startup's proprietary business plan and exploiting its social network dominance.
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September 29, 2025
6th Circ. Won't Revive Software Development IP Case
The Sixth Circuit has declined to revive copyright infringement and trade secrets claims brought by a business communications company over a software development tool, saying the company waited too long to look into its concerns that a rival was distributing a modified version of the software.
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September 29, 2025
USPTO, Tech Cos. Tell Justices To OK Expired Patent Reviews
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and technology companies have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a patent owner's argument that expired patents cannot be reviewed by the patent office, saying a previous high court ruling means such reviews are permitted.
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September 29, 2025
MyPillow CEO Defamed Smartmatic, Minn. Judge Rules
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell defamed Smartmatic when he accused the voting systems company of rigging votes in the 2020 election to favor President Joe Biden, a Minnesota federal judge ruled, but issues of damages and whether the statements were made with malice will need to be worked out by a jury.
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September 29, 2025
Samsung's $112M IP Loss Nixed For 'Conclusory' Testimony
A Texas federal judge has revealed his rationale for overturning a jury's May verdict that found Samsung Electronics Co. owed Maxell Ltd. $112 million for infringing personal electronics patents, finding that much of Maxell's experts' testimony was "conclusory" and insufficient to support the infringement verdict.
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September 29, 2025
TikTok Can't Use Section 230 To End NJ AG's Harm Suit
A New Jersey state court judge has rejected TikTok's bid to use an internet safety law carveout that shields publishers of third-party information to end Attorney General Matthew Platkin's lawsuit over the exploitation of children, reasoning that the alleged harm stems from the social media app's design rather than what users view.
Expert Analysis
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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work
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.
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3 Cautionary Tales For Cos. Using Facial Recognition Tech
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.
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How Insurance Policies Are Adapting To AI Risk
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.
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Google Damages Ruling Offers Lessons For Testifying Experts
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.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Communicating With Clients
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.
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3 Judicial Approaches To Applying Loper Bright, 1 Year Later
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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Breaking Down Part 3 Of The Copyright Office's AI Report
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.
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Trending At The PTAB: Shifts In Parallel Proceedings Strategy
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.
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What Businesses Need To Know To Avoid VPPA Class Actions
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.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm
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.
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Discretionary Denial Rulings May Spur Calls For PTAB Reform
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.
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Comparing New Neural Data Privacy Laws In 4 States
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.
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Spinoff Transaction Considerations For Biotech M&A
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.
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2025's First Half Brings Regulatory Detours For Fintechs
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.
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Opinion
Senate's 41% Litigation Finance Tax Would Hurt Legal System
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.