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October 10, 2025
Supreme Court Asked To Consider Appeal Over AI-Created Art
A computer scientist who was denied a copyright for artwork created by an artificial intelligence system he built has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review his appeal challenging the U.S. Copyright Office's decision.
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October 10, 2025
'LinkedIn For Doctors' Accused In Chancery Of Inflating Data
A shareholder of a San Francisco-based networking company for healthcare workers filed a derivative suit Friday in the Delaware Chancery Court accusing the CEO and directors of overstating user engagement and deceiving investors.
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October 10, 2025
Infosys' Counterclaims Against Competitor Tossed For Now
A Texas federal court dismissed counterclaims from Infosys Ltd. accusing Cognizant TriZetto Software Group Inc. of monopolizing a market for healthcare software and related services after finding the allegations ignored potential competition from alternatives.
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October 10, 2025
Apple Faces Class Cert. Bid In Mobile Wallet Antitrust Case
An attorney for a proposed class of credit card issuers urged a California federal judge Friday to grant class certification in a suit accusing Apple of monopolizing mobile wallet technology for its own devices even though two lead plaintiffs said they would not pass transaction fees on to their users.
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October 10, 2025
Cisco Tells Albright $65.7M Patent Verdict Was Rightly Axed
Cisco has urged a Texas federal judge to reject Paltalk Holdings' request for reconsideration of a decision tossing a $65.7 million patent infringement verdict against Cisco, saying he correctly found that Paltalk presented no evidence of infringement.
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October 10, 2025
Seyfarth Eyes Middle-Market Bounce As Megadeals Dominate
While multibillion-dollar mergers look good in headlines and have fueled some broader market optimism, Seyfarth attorneys told Law360 on Friday that the middle-market door has yet to fully swing open for a true mergers and acquisitions revival.
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October 10, 2025
Profs Say Apple Used Copyrighted Material For AI Training
Two neuroscientists have sued Apple in California federal court, claiming it made use of their copyrighted materials to train its artificial intelligence model Apple Intelligence.
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October 10, 2025
OpenAI's Sora Backlash Shows IP Challenges For Tech Cos.
OpenAI's new version of its video-generation model Sora has highlighted the growing tension between the development of artificial intelligence technologies and intellectual property rights, with the company emphasizing an opt-in approach for copyright owners for using their works after backlash over a reported opt-out policy.
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October 10, 2025
FCC's Carr Reminds Retailers To Heed Banned Equipment List
Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission chair, said that millions of online sales listings have been taken down because of manufacturing ties to Chinese telecoms and warned that retailers must comply with the federal ban on telecommunications devices made in foreign adversary countries.
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October 10, 2025
Mich. Panel Says Detroit Flouted Surveillance Tech Notice Law
Detroit failed to comply with procedural requirements before inking contracts for gunshot detecting technology, a Michigan appellate panel said Thursday, leaving it to a lower court to determine if the contracts should be canceled due to the violations.
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October 10, 2025
GoPro Beats Infringement Claims In $174M Camera IP Trial
A California federal jury cleared camera giant GoPro of accusations that some of its products infringed two video camera technology patents in a case where Contour IP Holding LLC had sought $174 million in damages.
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October 10, 2025
Ga. Medical Billing Practice Faces Data Breach Class Action
A Georgia-based medical billing practice was hit with a proposed class action in federal court over a September data breach that allegedly exposed the personally identifiable and protected health information of its patients and current and former employees.
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October 10, 2025
Space Biz Could Get FCC Boost In Upper Microwave Bands
Hoping to give a jolt to satellite industry growth, the Federal Communications Commission will look at revamping several upper microwave spectrum bands for more flexible use.
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October 10, 2025
DOJ Scrutiny Sparks Change To $500M Material Analysis Deal
Onto Innovation Inc. removed a product line from its planned deal to purchase a materials analysis business from Semilab International after the U.S. Department of Justice requested additional information to review the merger, reducing the purchase price to $495 million.
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October 10, 2025
X Corp. Workers Seek Redo On Severance Claims In Del.
Six former X Corp. employees have argued in a lawsuit naming billionaire Elon Musk that a federal circuit judge was "manifestly looking in the wrong place" when he found that those who sued for severance benefits lacked standing for their claims after Twitter's merger with X Corp.
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October 10, 2025
Nonprofit Asks 9th Circ. To Rethink Vegas Price-Fixing Case
A nonprofit that focuses on antitrust issues urged entire Ninth Circuit to rehear a price-fixing case accusing several Las Vegas casino-hotel operators of using the same algorithm to set prices for hotel rooms.
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October 10, 2025
Dish Streaming Patent Fight Sent To Utah For Witnesses' Ease
A case brought by Pornhub's owner seeking a declaration that it did not infringe three of Dish Technologies LLC's patents could likely be litigated more conveniently in Utah, a Delaware federal judge has said in transferring the suit.
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October 10, 2025
FCC Pushes For New Rules To Help Retire Copper
The Federal Communications Commission plans to weigh a proposal this month to accelerate the transition to networks that rely on internet protocol rather than copper for voice services.
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October 10, 2025
No Taxes On $137M Failed Merger Payment, UK Court Rules
A British microchip company doesn't owe taxes on $137 million it received from a U.S. company after a failed merger, a U.K. court ruled, rejecting HM Revenue & Customs's contention that the payment constituted a taxable disposal of assets.
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October 10, 2025
'Lambo' Website Acquired In Bad Faith, 9th Circ. Affirms
Italian luxury automaker Lamborghini won at the Ninth Circuit when the appellate court found that a man who registered the online domain name "lambo.com" did so in bad faith.
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October 10, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Sullivan, MoFo, Freshfields
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Fifth Third Bancorp acquires Comerica in an all-stock deal, Qualtrics buys experience analytics firm Press Ganey Forsta, and SoftBank buys ABB's robotics division.
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October 10, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen Paddington Bear's creators and Studio Canal sue the company behind Spitting Image, Blackpool Football Club's former owner Owen Oyston bring a fresh claim against the club, and Mishcon de Reya sue a Saudi investment group.
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October 10, 2025
EDTX Jury Says Samsung Owes $445.5M After Patent Trial
Samsung has to pay up about $445.5 million after a Texas federal jury found that the South Korean electronics giant infringed a series of patents related to wireless communication network efficiency owned by Collision Communications.
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October 09, 2025
Musk's X Posts Trigger Disclosure In NYT Suit, Judge Rules
The government must produce a list of any security clearances granted to Elon Musk in response to The New York Times' Freedom of Information Act request, a Manhattan federal judge ruled, saying the billionaire waived his privacy interest by posting about his top secret clearance, drug use and foreign contacts.
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October 09, 2025
USPTO Says Overturned PTAB Invalidation Can't Be Appealed
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is urging the Federal Circuit to turn away an appeal from Verizon Connect Inc., whose successful challenge at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board was overridden by the acting director.
Expert Analysis
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SDNY Ruling Reinforces Joint Steering Committee Obligations
The recent Southern District of New York decision in ChemImage v. Johnson & Johnson makes joint steering committees a valuable tool in strategic relationships, as provisions for such committees can now be wielded to demand attention to core issues, say Lisa Bernstein at the University of Chicago Law School, and Reginald Goeke and Brad Peterson at Mayer Brown.
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How AI Is Easing Digital Asset Recovery In Fraud Cases
In combination with recent legislation and a maturing digital asset infrastructure, artificial intelligence tools are making it easier to recover stolen assets, giving litigants a more specific understanding of financial fraud earlier in the process and making it economically feasible to pursue smaller fraud claims, says Solomon Shinerock at Lewis Baach.
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What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI
After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.
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Despite SEC Reset, Private Crypto Securities Cases Continue
While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration has charted a new approach to crypto regulation, the industry still lacks comprehensive rules of the road, meaning private plaintiffs continue to pursue litigation, and application of securities laws to crypto-assets will be determined by the courts, say attorneys at Skadden.
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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.