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October 09, 2025
Q3 Notches Biggest Megadeal Quarter In Three Years
The value of global mergers and acquisitions worth $10 billion or more hit $289.5 billion in the third quarter, the highest since the second quarter of 2022, according to a report provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence on Thursday.
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October 09, 2025
Megan Thee Stallion Wins Sanctions Over Deleted Messages
A Florida magistrate judge Thursday sanctioned online personality Milagro "Mobz World" Cooper for deleting thousands of text messages and WhatsApp data after being told to preserve evidence in rapper Megan Thee Stallion's defamation and cyberstalking suit against her.
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October 09, 2025
FCC Looks To Scale Down Broadband 'Nutrition' Label Reg
The Federal Communications Commission will consider making broadband "nutrition" labels a little leaner after the agency during the Biden administration imposed what the industry sees as overly burdensome requirements.
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October 09, 2025
Kentucky AG Enters Roblox Fray, Says App Attracts Predators
The Kentucky attorney general has filed his own suit against Roblox, joining other plaintiffs alleging that the popular gaming platform fails to safeguard against adult sexual predators seeking to target and exploit minors despite assurances to parents that its platform is safe for their children.
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October 09, 2025
Fed. Circ. Backs PTAB Wins For Samsung In Earpiece Cases
The Federal Circuit on Thursday shot down appeals of a series of Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions that found claims across three patents covering earpieces and attached microphone technology invalid.
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October 09, 2025
Mobile Game Co. To Pay $25M To End Chancery Investor Suit
A China-based mobile gaming company has agreed to pay $24.75 million to settle a Delaware Chancery Court class action accusing it of engineering a $600 million share buyback that unfairly cemented its control of the company.
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October 09, 2025
Investment Adviser Firm Sues Over Fraud Protection Patent
Investment adviser firm FinTegrity LLC has sued Deutsche Bank and a Czech cybersecurity company in Texas federal court with claims they are infringing a patent that covers fraud protection technology.
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October 09, 2025
Clearview AI's £7.5M GDPR Fine Faces Renewed Scrutiny
A London tribunal has decided that a lower court was wrong to find that the U.K.'s data protection regulator lacked the power to fine Clearview AI Inc. £7.5 million ($10 million) over its collection of images of U.K. citizens from social media without their knowledge.
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October 08, 2025
NYC Takes Social Media Youth Addiction Suit To Federal Court
New York City has withdrawn from coordinated litigation against social media companies in California and filed a largely identical suit in federal court, a move the city determined was in its "best interest" for holding the companies accountable for purposefully getting youth hooked on their addictive platforms, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
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October 08, 2025
Ex-AI Chief Says US Bank Can't Dodge Race Bias Claims
The former head of U.S. Bank's artificial intelligence efforts says he looped in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission within the required time frame before suing the bank for discrimination, telling a North Carolina federal judge not to toss his claims.
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October 08, 2025
Retailers Lose Bid To Ax NY Algorithmic Pricing Law
A New York federal judge Wednesday tossed the National Retail Federation's lawsuit challenging a new state law that requires retailers to disclose the use of so-called algorithmic pricing, saying the retailers have not plausibly alleged that the disclosure requirement violates the First Amendment's prohibition on compelled speech.
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October 08, 2025
GoPro Owes $174M For Infringing Video Camera IP, Jury Hears
GoPro Inc. infringed Contour IP Holding LLC's patented video camera technology and should pay $174 million in damages, Contour's counsel told a California federal jury during closing trial arguments Wednesday, while GoPro's attorney countered that the action cam maker didn't infringe because it actually invented the technology first.
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October 08, 2025
Semtech Gets Suit Over Revised Sales Projections Trimmed
A California federal judge has trimmed shareholder claims against semiconductor supplier and cloud service provider Semtech Corp. in an investor suit alleging share prices for the company dropped and investors were hurt after it downgraded bullish sales expectations for a certain product portfolio it had earlier said would be used by chipmaker Nvidia.
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October 08, 2025
Meta Sued Over Financial Scam Impersonation Ads
Meta Platforms Inc. is knowingly publishing and profiting from scam advertisements that unlawfully impersonate licensed financial professionals to ensnare social media users in fraudulent investment schemes involving thinly traded China-based securities, two financial professionals allege in a proposed class action in California federal court.
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October 08, 2025
Cepton Accused By Investor Of Hiding Better Takeover Bid
Light detection and ranging technology company Cepton Inc. has been hit with a shareholder's proposed class action in California federal court, accusing it of concealing a third party's "credible" attempt to buy Cepton for more than double the amount Japan-based Koito Manufacturing Inc. paid to acquire it in January.
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October 08, 2025
Senate IP Leader Plans Push To Pass Patent Eligibility Bill
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., the leader of the Senate's intellectual property subcommittee, said Wednesday that before he leaves Congress in just over a year, one of his primary goals will be to advance his long-gestating bill to make more inventions eligible for patents.
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October 08, 2025
Fortinet Brass Misled Investors With Rosy Outlook, Suit Says
Executives and directors of cybersecurity company Fortinet Inc. were hit Wednesday with a shareholder derivative action alleging they made the company misrepresent its revenue expectations for certain customer upgrades despite knowing that certain rosy projections were unrealistic.
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October 08, 2025
ALN Medical Strikes $4M Data Breach Deal With 1.8M Users
Healthcare advisory firm ALN Medical has offered to create a $4 million settlement fund to resolve litigation surrounding a March 2024 data breach that affected more than a million individuals, requesting a Nebraska federal court's preliminary approval of the deal.
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October 08, 2025
OpenAI Says Copyright Case Isn't About AI Outputs
OpenAI told a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday that a group of authors should not be allowed to argue that ChatGPT spits out summaries or verbatim portions of their books in a copyright infringement case, saying this is an additional theory of infringement that would make discovery more onerous than it already is.
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October 08, 2025
'I Don't Want To Be A Referee,' Google Search Judge Says
A D.C. federal judge faced the prospect Wednesday of years more involvement in the U.S. Justice Department's case against Google's search monopoly, saying during a hearing that he's trying to balance avoiding being a "referee" for his remedies decision while preventing "misuses" of data sharing and search syndication mandates.
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October 08, 2025
Calif. Mandates Browser Ad Tracking Opt-Out In US First
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Wednesday that requires browser developers to offer a digital tool enabling consumers to more easily opt out of online behavioral advertising throughout the web, making the Golden State the first in the nation to enact the regulations.
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October 08, 2025
Maryland Co. Challenges DHS Snub For Cybersecurity Award
A Maryland company told a Court of Federal Claims judge this week that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency improperly rated and passed over its quotation for a solicitation seeking digital transformation support services.
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October 08, 2025
Software Co.'s Ex-Chair Faces Jurist Ire Over 'Sloppy' Practices
A New York federal judge expressed frustration with the former chairman of The Resource Group International Ltd. in his bid to challenge his ouster from the software investment company following a widely reported sexual harassment scandal, criticizing the executive's "sloppy and irresponsibly careless practices" in the proceeding.
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October 08, 2025
5th Circ. Says Some NOLA Rental Rules Are Unconstitutional
A Fifth Circuit panel partially revived a proposed class action filed by homeowners and two companies challenging New Orleans' short-term rentals regulations, ruling in a published opinion that some of the regulations are unconstitutional.
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October 08, 2025
Crypto Co. Sues Mercury Funds Over $270M Token Dispute
A blockchain startup sued several entities of a venture capital firm on Wednesday, claiming they are trying to turn a $100,000 investment in the blockchain company's early-stage digital asset venture into $270 million worth of tokens by exploiting a contract typo that mistakenly tied token rights to all their shares.
Expert Analysis
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What Patent Claim 'Invalidity' Means In Different Forums
A recent Federal Circuit order allowing a patent suit to proceed despite similar claims being invalidated in an inter partes review underscores how fractured the patent litigation landscape has become, leading to critical nuances in how district courts, the U.S. International Trade Commission and Patent Trial and Appeal Board treat invalidity, says Jason Hoffman at BakerHostetler.
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Top Takeaways From Trump's AI Action Plan
President Donald Trump's AI Action Plan represents some notable evolution in U.S. policy, including affirmation of the administration's trend toward prioritizing artificial intelligence innovation over guardrails and toward supporting greater U.S. private sector reach overseas, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Reel Justice: 'Eddington' Spotlights Social Media Evidence
In the neo-Western black comedy “Eddington” released last month, social media is a character unto itself, highlighting how the boundaries between digital and real-world conduct can become blurred, thereby posing evidentiary challenges in criminal prosecutions, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.
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Rebuttal
BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation
A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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Opinion
8th Circ. Should Reaffirm False Commercial Speech's Nature
The Eighth Circuit in Goldfinch Laboratory v. Iowa Pathology Associates should assert that false commercial speech is not categorically immune from antitrust scrutiny, says Daniel Graulich at the Federal Trade Commission.
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Bid Protest Spotlight: Injunctions, Unequal Treatment
Two recent decisions by the Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Government Accountability Office illustrate how poorly defined criteria can muddle an agency's evaluation and best-value decision, and affirm the fundamental principle that an agency must evenhandedly evaluate vendors' quotations against solicitation requirements, says Victoria Angle at MoFo.
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9th Circ. Leaves Scope Of CIPA Applicability Unclear
Three recent Ninth Circuit decisions declined to directly address whether all of the California Invasion of Privacy Act's provisions actually apply to internet activity, and given this uncertainty, companies should heed five recommendations when seeking to minimize CIPA litigation risk, say attorneys at Skadden.
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5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust
Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.
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USPTO's AI Tool Redefines Design Patent Landscape
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's newly introduced DesignVision tool for artificial intelligence-powered image searching represents a dramatic shift in how design patent applications are examined, necessitating new strategies for patent practitioners, says Matthew Epstein at Dinsmore.
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Series
Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.
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6 Tips On Drafting Machine Learning Patents Post-Recentive
While the Federal Circuit's decision in Recentive v. Fox narrows the scope of patent-eligible machine learning applications, there are several drafting and prosecution strategies that may help practitioners navigate Section 101 challenges, say attorneys at BCLP.
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Regulating Online Activity After Porn Site Age Check Ruling
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding an age verification requirement for accessing online adult sexual content applied a lenient rational basis standard, raising questions for how state and federal courts will determine what kinds of laws regulating online activity will satisfy this standard going forward, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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DC Circ. Ruling Augurs More Scrutiny Of Blanket Gag Orders
The D.C. Circuit’s recent ruling in In re: Sealed Case, finding that an omnibus nondisclosure order was too sweeping, should serve as a wake-up call to prosecutors and provide a road map for private parties to push back on overbroad secrecy demands, says Gregory Rosen at Rogers Joseph.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills
I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.
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What EU GPAI Compliance Code Will Mean For Developers
The European Union recently released a code of practice to guide compliance for general purpose artificial intelligence models, offering early adopters regulatory deference, but posing timing concerns and significant costs burdens that may discourage smaller developers, say lawyers at Perkins Coie.