Perkins Coie DQ'd From Facial Recognition IP Suit

By Emily Sawicki

Perkins Coie LLP has been disqualified from defending Jumio Corp. in a patent infringement lawsuit involving facial recognition technology, with the San Francisco federal judge who signed the order citing the firm's prior general corporate and intellectual property representation of plaintiff FaceTec Inc.

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Buyer Class Of Surgical Robots Is Certified In Antitrust Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge on Monday certified a class of thousands of hospitals alleging Intuitive Surgical monopolized the market for robotic surgical tools by blocking third-party repairs and tying services to robot purchases, finding the case raises common antitrust questions that can be resolved on a classwide basis.

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USPTO Director Stops 4 Motorola IP Reviews At PTAB

By Adam Lidgett

The acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has decided that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board will not review Motorola's challenges to a series of Stellar Inc. patents on glasses equipped with cameras, undoing PTAB decisions instituting the reviews.

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Intellectual Ventures Urges PTAB To Deny Tesla IP Challenge

By Adam Lidgett

Intellectual Ventures II LLC wants the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to reject Tesla's bid to have the board examine a digital camera patent, pointing to a recent memo from the acting director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office saying she and other board judges will review petitions to determine whether they should be denied for discretionary reasons.

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Samsung Bid To Beat Back $192M Patent Award Falls Short

By Andrew Karpan

Texas U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap unsealed a ruling Friday explaining why he decided that a small Silicon Valley outfit's use of continuations in filing wireless charger patents were not unreasonable delays that made the patents unenforceable or void a $192 million verdict against Samsung.

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Salesforce Gets Judge To Ax Patent Suit Fed. Circ. Revived

By Adam Lidgett

A Nevada federal judge has thrown out a suit accusing Salesforce of infringing patents for database software reprogramming, saying the transfer of the patent rights to the consulting company that sued was voided by an earlier transfer.

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Amazon's Bid To Kick Drivers From Pay Suit Mostly Denied

By Irene Spezzamonte

A Washington federal judge agreed to oust only two of the 11 workers Amazon asked to dismiss from an 8-year-old suit accusing the company of misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, saying the other nine made enough effort to comply with discovery.

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Texas Judge Deems Lab-Test Rule Outside FDA Authority

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Texas federal judge on Monday vacated a new U.S. Food and Drug Administration rule that would have brought lab-developed tests under its regulatory authority as "medical devices," finding that the move exceeded the agency's statutory authority and defied "common sense."

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Conn. Law Firm Hit With Class Action Data Breach Suit

By Aaron Keller

A 26-attorney Connecticut business litigation, intellectual property and employment law firm waited 16 months to notify potentially thousands of current and former clients of an alleged 2023 data breach that may have left sensitive personal information exposed to cybercriminals, a Monday lawsuit alleged

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Wireless Cos. Warn Of Economic Losses In Call For Spectrum

By Christopher Cole

The wireless industry is ramping up calls for Capitol Hill to allow more midband licensed spectrum, pointing to a new report showing that failure to clear more airwaves could cost the U.S. more than $1.4 trillion in economic growth over a decade.

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Low-Power TV Stations Seek Looser Rules For 5G Broadcast

By Christopher Cole

Low-power TV broadcasters have asked the Federal Communications Commission to let them voluntarily transmit 5G broadcast signals and, in turn, ease requirements to carry programming channels.

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Fed. Circ. Tells PTAB To Look At Samsung Foe's Patents Again

By Andrew Karpan

Samsung convinced the Federal Circuit Monday that administrative patent board judges used an "erroneous" definition of a term used in two gesture-sensing interface patents that the smartphone giant is accused of infringing in litigation in Texas.

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Former Stimlabs Exec Must Face Trade Secrets Claims

By Kelcey Caulder

A former biomedical technology company executive must face claims that she absconded with thousands of internal files containing valuable product information in the days and weeks leading up to her ouster last year, a Georgia federal judge ruled.

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Mich. Judge Dismisses Biz's 'Pump-And-Dump' RICO Suit

By Katryna Perera

A Michigan federal judge on Monday tossed what he called a confusing "power struggle" of a lawsuit from a company accusing its former leaders of conspiring to install a CEO and leading a pump-and-dump scheme, finding that the company was essentially improperly seeking review of a prior state court judgment that it lost.

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Insurer Denies Coverage For Crushing Death, Alleging Lies

By Elizabeth Daley

A wood company's insurer said it owed nothing in connection with the crushing death of a recycling company worker who was killed by equipment rented from the wood seller, telling a California federal court that its insured misrepresented itself when claiming it didn't lease equipment on its coverage application.

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Voting Exec Says Defamation Suit Not Fit For Colo. High Court

By Thy Vo

A former Dominion Voting executive urged Colorado's justices not to hear appeals from a conservative broadcaster and radio host in his defamation suit, saying the defendants haven't made any new dismissal arguments and that "this case is not the case" for the high court to resolve disagreements about state anti-SLAPP law.

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Luxembourg Fund Claims Fla. Entreprenuer Owes $40M Loan

By David Minsky

A Luxembourg investment fund has sued a Florida entrepreneur in federal court for allegedly misrepresenting the financial condition of his businesses in order to secure three loans, saying he now owes more than $40 million that he has also failed to pay back.

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Trucking Co. Says Insurers Owe Coverage For BIPA Suit

By Elizabeth Daley

A trucking company's insurers owe coverage for underlying litigation brought by a former employee who said the company violated his biometric privacy rights by using a hand-scanning timekeeping system that stored his protected personal data, the company told an Illinois federal court.

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Wells Fargo Sued Over Online Wire Fraud Protections

By Jon Hill

Wells Fargo has been hit in by a proposed class action California federal court accusing the bank of leaving its online and mobile banking customers exposed to costly losses from fraudulent wire transfers.

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Driver Says Parking Garage Privacy Suit Can't Be Arbitrated

By Joyce Hanson

The lead plaintiff in a proposed class action claiming a nationwide operator of parking garages violates privacy laws with its use of video analytics to enforce phony parking fees is fighting the company's bid in Colorado federal court to force the dispute into arbitration.

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Vizio Stockholders Open Challenge To $2.3B Walmart Merger

By Jeff Montgomery

A Vizio Inc. stockholder launched a class challenge Monday to the smart-TV company's $11.50 per share, $2.3 billion, sale to Walmart Inc., accusing insiders — including Vizio CEO and controller William Wang — of wiring up a deal unfair to common stockholders.

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Analysis

Nasdaq's Tighter IPO Rules Raise Bar For Small Companies

By Tom Zanki

Nasdaq is seeking to weed out volatile stocks by tightening listing standards for small companies conducting initial public offerings or uplistings, although lawyers caution that new rules could prompt capital-hungry companies to pursue other listing strategies, including reverse mergers.

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France Fines Apple €150M For App Tracking Policy

By Matthew Perlman

France's competition enforcer fined Apple €150 million ($162.3 million) on Monday for its rollout of a policy designed to give users more control of the data apps can track over concerns that it hindered small publishers and others that rely on data collection to finance their business.

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Cleary Gains 5-Atty Latham Team Known For Big IP Wins

By Andrea Keckley

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has welcomed a bi-coastal team of five intellectual property litigators from Latham & Watkins LLP, lauding their history leading "many of the most high-profile and complex patent and trade secrets cases of the last decade" in a statement Monday.

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Ex-Blood Bank Atty Goes Back To Ballard Spahr In Phoenix

By Andrew Karpan

Ballard Spahr LLP has picked up a former in-house intellectual property lawyer from nonprofit blood bank Vitalant who had worked at the law firm a little over a decade ago.

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Key Issues To Watch As USPTO Changes Abound

As 2025 continues to unfold, changes at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — including new leadership, operational reforms, legislative initiatives and AI-related policies — have potential to influence proceedings, including efforts to prosecute patents and adversarial proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Firms Must Embrace Alternative Billing Models Or Fall Behind

As artificial intelligence tools eliminate inefficiencies and the Big Four accounting firms enter the legal market, law firms that pivot from the entrenched billable hour model to outcomes-based pricing will see a distinct competitive advantage, says attorney William Brewer.

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Analysis

DOJ Seeking Steep Costs To Make Challengers Think Twice

By Jeff Overley

The U.S. Department of Justice is quickly implementing President Donald Trump's plan to seek huge sums of money from litigants whose cases impede his agenda but ultimately prove unsuccessful, court records show.

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Trump EOs And Skadden Face Pushback At Law Schools

By Emma Cueto

President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting law firms, and one firm's attempt to avoid a directive, have each received pushback at top law schools, with more than 90 Harvard faculty members objecting to the measures' effect on the rule of law and Georgetown students blasting Skadden's deal with Trump as a second firm associate publicly resigned.

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US DOT Taps Quinn Emanuel To Probe FAA Diversity Hiring

By Linda Chiem

The U.S. Department of Transportation said Monday that it has hired Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP to investigate claims that the Federal Aviation Administration is continuing to prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion when hiring air traffic controllers in defiance of the Trump administration's sweeping anti-DEI policy.

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Ex-Sen. Sinema Joins Hogan Lovells' Regulatory Group

By Jack Rodgers

Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who made headlines by changing her party affiliation from Democrat to independent in 2022, will join Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C., as a senior adviser in its global regulatory and intellectual property practice groups, the firm announced Monday.

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Feds Seek 10 Years For Ex-Girardi CFO's 'Brazen' Crimes

By Elliot Weld

Los Angeles federal prosecutors said Girardi Keese's former head of accounting should spend 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to assisting Tom Girardi in siphoning clients' settlement funds and what the government called a "brazen" side fraud to steal from the firm's operating accounts.

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Ex-CFTC Enforcement Chief Joins Sidley As Partner

By Gina Kim

Ian McGinley, who served as the enforcement director for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has joined Sidley Austin as a partner at its New York office, where he will be handling regulatory enforcement and white-collar matters with a focus on commodities and securities laws, the firm said Monday.

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Eric Adams Urges Speedy Dismissal As NYC Primaries Loom

By Frank G. Runyeon

New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday urged a Manhattan federal judge to promptly throw out his bribery and corruption charges, pointing to an upcoming mayoral election filing deadline and the court's previous vows to rule quickly.

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Shook Hardy Practice Leader To Stand In As Chicago US Atty

By Lauraann Wood

One of Chicago firm Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP's government investigations and white-collar practice chairs is headed back to the U.S. attorney's office, this time as northern Illinois' next top prosecutor, after spending about a decade in private practice serving in leading white collar roles.

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Trump Admin Asks DC Circ. To Stay 'Lawless' CFPB Injunction

By Jon Hill

The Trump administration moved Monday to thwart a Washington, D.C., federal judge's preliminary injunction that bars it from stopping work and firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, asking the D.C. Circuit for an emergency stay.

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Faegre Drinker Fights Sanctions Bid In Trump IP Song Suit

By Rose Krebs

Conservative group Turning Point Action Inc. is urging a Georgia federal judge not to sanction its Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP counsel in a copyright suit filed by the estate of soul artist Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. over President Donald Trump playing his song "Hold On, I'm Comin'," disputing claims they submitted a "frivolous" dismissal bid.

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House To Vote On Bill To Curb Nationwide Injunctions

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. House of Representatives is one step closer to voting this week on a bill to curb nationwide injunctions, which Republicans are championing in the wake of federal judges ruling against many of the Trump administration's policies on immigration, government funding, the federal workforce and other areas.

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Law Firm's Blog Post Unwinds $43M Ill. Injury Retrial Verdict

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois appellate court wiped out a couple's $43 million jury verdict and ordered a third trial in their injury case Monday, saying the trial judge should have done a better job probing their attorney's highly improper blog and social media posts.

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Trump Names 3 US Atty Picks For Idaho, Iowa, South Dakota

By Lauren Berg

President Donald Trump on Monday announced his picks for three U.S. attorney positions, including two familiar faces returning to Idaho and South Dakota.

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