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July 17, 2026
The number of patent families for generative artificial intelligence inventions more than doubled between 2024 and 2025, with mostly Chinese companies leading the pack, according to a report from a United Nations intellectual property agency.
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July 17, 2026
Music publishers have agreed to drop their copyright infringement suit against X Corp., at the same time the social platform said it would end claims that the publishers and their trade group banded together to demand an industrywide license.
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July 17, 2026
A California federal judge appeared open Friday to granting a group of states' bid for a temporary restraining order blocking Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying it appears the tie-up's anticipated market share presumptively violates the Clayton Act under U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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July 17, 2026
Democratic lawmakers are targeting both Fox Corp.'s planned purchase of Roku and the Justice Department that will review it, in a letter announced Friday lambasting the deal itself and pushing the agency under Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr. not to be "corrupted by influence-peddling or political favoritism."
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July 17, 2026
A Texas federal judge has dismissed a patent infringement suit against the Italian company that owns brands including Vimeo and AOL for lack of jurisdiction, weeks after the company hit public markets upon raising $1.7 billion in its initial public offering.
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July 17, 2026
Change is on the way for the Universal Service Administrative Co., which manages the Federal Communications Commission's multibillion-dollar subsidy fund, with the agency signaling its plans to consider slashing the company's board by more than a third.
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July 17, 2026
A Virginia federal judge ordered tech industry group NetChoice to turn over any studies or reports it has examining social media's potential addictiveness or harm to young people Friday, partially granting a motion to compel from the state as it fights a suit challenging its law limiting children's access.
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July 17, 2026
Two law firms have asked a New Jersey federal court to appoint them as interim co-lead counsel in a proposed federal benefits class action alleging telecom company Nokia mismanaged employees' 401(k) plans, pointing to their experience litigating similar actions and judicial efficiency to support their request.
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July 17, 2026
A bipartisan Senate bill would make it easier for small, rural communications providers to prepare reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission when obligated to submit paperwork for certain financial events.
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July 17, 2026
Class counsel is urging a Pennsylvania federal judge to grant it a fee award amounting to one-third, or about $39 million, of a negotiated $117.5 million data breach settlement with Comcast, saying it deserves that amount for the work put in and the "extraordinary result achieved."
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July 17, 2026
U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing dominant search engines such as Google from engaging in anticompetitive tactics to monopolize the online search market.
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July 16, 2026
Meta Platforms Inc. can, again, trim a proposed class action alleging it deceptively sold Meta Portal video-calling devices the company later "bricked" by dropping software support, a California federal judge ruled Thursday, while refusing to toss an unfair competition claim and giving the consumers another chance to rework the complaint.
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July 17, 2026
The past week in London has seen Snapchat and Dolby press on with a fresh infringement claim in their ongoing patent battle, The Telegraph face an intellectual property claim by a photo archive, a group of international human rights barristers and chambers sued, and oil business Equinor embroiled in a contract dispute with BP after recently acquiring full ownership in their offshore project. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 17, 2026
Federal enforcers reached a number of merger settlements in the first half of 2026, while state attorneys general stepped up their independent enforcement efforts, taking on Nexstar's planned purchase of rival broadcaster Tegna and Paramount's deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.
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July 16, 2026
A California federal judge denied a preliminary injunction request Thursday from consumers challenging Paramount Skydance Corp.'s pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery after challenging their attorney to cite more recent rulings beyond the 1960s-era U.S. Supreme Court cases he relied on.
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July 16, 2026
The California Public Utilities Commission has told AT&T that it's not pleased to hear that the cost of certain copper services has gone up "exponentially" as the state and the mobile behemoth duke it out in federal court and at the Federal Communications Commission over AT&T's desire to end legacy copper service.
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July 16, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has signed off on the U.S. Department of Justice's request that Dish be freed from its commitment to build and run a nationwide 5G network following its sale of $40 billion worth of spectrum licenses to AT&T and SpaceX.
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July 16, 2026
A company that touts itself as Verizon's largest retailer is accused of failing to protect employees' and customers' sensitive information, resulting in a "massive and preventable" data breach.
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July 16, 2026
The Trump administration is going to reinstate the Digital Equity Act Competition Grant Program, minus the provisions that require the government to consider race, a D.C. federal judge has said in an opinion striking down part of the law as unconstitutional.
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July 16, 2026
Almost 50 House Republicans have come together to let the Federal Communications Commission know they're in "strong support" of the agency's inquiry into whether it should update the TV rating system to warn people when a program may include transgender or nonbinary characters.
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July 16, 2026
A California federal judge said Thursday there's "no time to waste" to begin monitoring a three-year injunction against Google in Epic's antitrust battle over Google's Android app store policies, saying he wants monthly reports now that the parties have agreed to accept the injunction terms he laid out.
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July 16, 2026
A pair of insurance agencies accused by the Federal Trade Commission of operating a deceptive telemarketing scheme that targets consumers looking for health insurance must pay a combined $152 million to resolve the claims, a Florida federal court ruled Thursday.
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July 16, 2026
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., urged the Trump administration Thursday to protect national security and American citizens from a proposed backdoor surveillance bill from Canada.
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July 16, 2026
A New York bankruptcy court Thursday approved the Chapter 11 plan of Excell Communications Inc., a telecommunications infrastructure developer, after the company's owner agreed to provide $1.3 million for unsecured creditors.
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July 16, 2026
While it's clear that direct-to-device satellite service can fill some gaps in wireless coverage, the growing technology cannot fully replace Earth-based systems that ensure connectivity on the ground, a pair of new industry reports say.