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March 05, 2025
Justices Asked To Recuse Fitbit Judge Over Google Ties
A Silicon Valley-based patent-holding company that lost its infringement case against Fitbit is telling the U.S. Supreme Court that a California federal judge and her husband's financial ties to Fitbit parent Google are so strong that "if these circumstances do not warrant recusal ... then nothing does."
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March 05, 2025
GOP Bid To Nix CFPB Payment Oversight Rule Clears Senate
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a measure to nullify the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Biden-era digital payments supervision rule, advancing a Republican effort to block the agency from exercising greater oversight of big payment app providers.
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March 05, 2025
Bezos' Satellite Co. Drops Docs Fight With His Newspaper
Jeff Bezos' satellite company has ended a public records fight with the Bezos-owned Washington Post over Washington state labor department workplace investigation records, after both sides agreed on blacking out some details to shield trade secrets.
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March 05, 2025
Fed. Circ. Keeps Lenovo, Databricks Patent Fights In Texas
The Federal Circuit has turned down efforts by Lenovo and Databricks to ship separate lawsuits they are facing from patent-holding companies out of the Eastern District of Texas.
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March 05, 2025
SEC Asks To Toss Subpoena Suit Against Telehealth Co.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked a New York federal judge Wednesday to dismiss its suit aimed at forcing a weight-loss-focused telehealth company to comply with a subpoena, saying the company has since provided the requested documents and otherwise complied with the subpoena.
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March 05, 2025
Broadcom Slams 'Meritless Retaliatory' Netflix Patent Suit
Technology giant Broadcom blasted a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Netflix over five software patents Broadcom contends are invalid and urged a federal California court to toss the litigation, calling it a "meritless retaliatory case" meant to distract from Netflix's "rampant infringement of patents owned by Broadcom-related entities."
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March 05, 2025
Wash. Hospital Patient's Pixel Privacy Suit Survives Dismissal
A Washington federal judge said Tuesday that a patient has shown how an Evergreen State hospital allegedly shared her personal health information by installing Facebook browser tracking tools on its website, preserving one of her claims while giving her a final shot at revising several others.
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March 05, 2025
12 Chinese Nationals Charged With Hacking Scheme
The U.S. Department of Justice announced it has charged 12 Chinese nationals who it alleges were employed as contractors by a shell company that ran hacking operations against dissidents of the Chinese government and against multiple foreign ministries of other governments in Asia.
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March 05, 2025
Defense Biz Epirus Clinches $250M Funding Round
National security-focused technology company Epirus announced Wednesday it closed an oversubscribed Series D fundraising round after securing $250 million from investors, bringing the startup's total venture funding to more than $550 million.
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March 05, 2025
Cleanova, Micronics Combine To Create $1.3B Business
Private equity-owned clean technology maker Cleanova on Wednesday announced plans to buy fellow private equity-owned clean technology manufacturer Micronics Engineered Filtration Group to create a company with an enterprise value of $1.3 billion, in a deal built by three law firms.
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March 05, 2025
UK Clears $35B Synopsys, Ansys Merger
The Competition and Markets Authority said Wednesday it has cleared Synopsys' planned $35 billion acquisition of fellow U.S. software company Ansys under certain divestiture and monitoring conditions.
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March 05, 2025
Trump's NIH Cost-Cutting Measure Blocked By Judge
A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration cannot cap indirect costs for research grants at the National Institutes of Health, rejecting the move as a rushed cost-saving measure that violates federal law governing the expenses.
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March 04, 2025
Musk Fails To Block OpenAI From Turning Into For-Profit Entity
A California federal judge on Tuesday denied Elon Musk's bid to preliminarily bar OpenAI Inc. from converting into a for-profit entity, saying that a threshold question of whether Musk's over $44 million in donations created a charitable trust was a "toss-up."
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March 04, 2025
Sens. Again Push Bill To Boost Online Protections For Teens
A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators on Tuesday revived a longstanding legislative proposal that would expand digital privacy protections to cover teens between the ages of 13 and 16, ban targeted advertising to minors and require companies to enable the erasure of underage users' personal information.
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March 04, 2025
Car Cos. Need Facts, Not Opinions, In Patent Suit, Judge Says
A Michigan federal judge on Tuesday pressed auto manufacturers for concrete proof that Neo Wireless investors withheld key information about a rival's project from patent officials, telling the carmakers they can't just fall back on an out-of-state judge's opinion to win the patent dispute.
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March 04, 2025
Scientific American Publisher Can't Ax Meta Pixel Privacy Suit
A New York federal judge refused to dismiss a putative class action accusing publisher Springer Nature America Inc. of violating the Video Privacy Protection Act by sharing Scientific American subscribers' video viewing data with Meta Platforms Inc. via a tracking pixel.
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March 04, 2025
Semiconductor Co. Faces Suit Over Apple Biz Loss, AI Hype
Semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc. was hit Tuesday with a proposed investor class action alleging it hurt investors by downplaying the risks posed by the loss of business from iPhone maker Apple, a major customer, and overplaying the strength of artificial intelligence to its business.
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March 04, 2025
Blockchain Org. Wins $3.5M Fees From Trader's Seized Assets
Crypto project the ICON Foundation is set to receive $3.5 million in attorney fees and costs after it successfully turned the tables on a user who sued the project after it took action to freeze millions of tokens he created by exploiting a bug in the project's software.
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March 04, 2025
ITC To Weigh Essential Patent Import Bans In Amazon Row
The U.S. International Trade Commission is seeking public comments on whether the owners of standard-essential patents should be able to obtain ITC import bans on infringing products, in a case where a judge found that Amazon TVs and tablets infringed Nokia video patents.
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March 04, 2025
PTAB Orders Mostly Backing Apple, Others Upheld On Appeal
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions that Apple and others had shown most claims of a patent on using cameras to sense gestures by users are invalid, but said the board correctly upheld two claims.
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March 04, 2025
House Aviation Panel Weighs Air Traffic Control Fixes
Aviation workers' unions and industry stakeholders told lawmakers on Tuesday that years of political inertia and more recent tumult related to the federal workforce firings are impacting efforts to hire more air traffic controllers and overhaul the nation's outdated and overburdened ATC system.
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March 04, 2025
Apple Seeks Ban Against Masimo's Original Smartwatch
Apple has urged a Delaware federal judge to issue an injunction against a healthcare technology company found last year to have infringed two of the tech giant's design patents with its W1 smartwatch and charger, calling the defense's refusal to agree to the injunction "telling."
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March 04, 2025
Intel Beats Investor Suit Over 'Foundry' Losses, For Now
Intel Corp. has beaten a proposed securities class action accusing it of misleading investors about the financial health of its so-called foundry segment, with the court finding Intel made all required disclosures regarding the segment's performance.
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March 04, 2025
Albright Rejects Transfer Bid In Another Apple Patent Feud
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright rejected Apple and Qualcomm Inc.'s bid to transfer Red Rock Analytics' patent suit against them from the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California, saying in a redacted order made public Tuesday that the tech companies have not established the case "would be clearly more convenient" in the preferred venue.
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March 04, 2025
Staffing Co. Got 'Honest Pay' For Dynata Work, Jury Hears
In a tense exchange, an executive for a staffing company told a Dallas jury that market research company Dynata LLC had wrongly withheld $8 million after an attorney representing Dynata said the staffing company had already gotten "honest pay" for "honest work."
Expert Analysis
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Influencer IP Case Risks Judges Becoming Arbiters Of 'Vibes'
The case of Gifford v. Sheil, pending in Texas federal court, involves an influencer alleging that distinctive social media aesthetics constitute protectable property, and reflects a troubling trend: the overreach of intellectual property law in areas better left for creative freedom, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025
Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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Despite Political Divide, FEC Found Common Ground In '24
The Federal Election Commission, although evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, reached consensus in consequential advisory opinions, enforcement actions and regulations last year, offering welcome clarity on some key questions facing campaigns, PACs and parties, say attorneys at Covington.
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3 Noteworthy Effects Of The 2025 NDAA
The 2025 defense budget includes further restrictions on semiconductor sales to Huawei, requiring companies to rethink customer-base oversight, but other provisions are likely to broaden procurement contract opportunities, say attorneys at Miles & Stockbridge.
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The Blueprint For A National Bitcoin Reserve
The new administration has the opportunity to pave the way for a U.S.-backed crypto reserve, which could conceptually function as a strategic asset akin to traditional reserves like gold markets, hedge against economic instability, and influence global crypto adoption, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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FTC Privacy Enforcement Takeaways From 2024
In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission distinguished three prominent trends in its privacy-related enforcement actions: geolocation data protections, data minimization practices, and artificial intelligence use and marketing, say Cobun Zweifel-Keegan at IAPP and James Smith at Dechert.
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The Fed. Circ. In 2024: 5 Major Rulings To Know
In 2024, the Federal Circuit provided a number of important clarifications to distinct areas of patent law – including design patent obviousness, expert testimony admissions and patent term adjustments – all of which are poised to have an influence going forward, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.
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Student Loan Entities In Hot Seat After CFPB Goes To College
While the direction of student loan servicer oversight in the new presidential administration is unclear, recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau actions still signal heightened regulatory scrutiny at both the federal and state levels of college institutional loan programs, along with their service providers, says attorney Jonathan Joshua.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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Nixing NRC Oversight Of Small Reactors Could Cut Both Ways
A lawsuit in a Texas federal court aims to abolish the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's authority over small modular reactors, which the plaintiffs contend will unleash new and innovative technology — but the resulting patchwork of state regulations could increase costs for the nuclear industry, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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How DOGE's Bite Can Live Up To Its Bark
All signs suggest that the Department of Government Efficiency will be an important part of the new Trump administration, with ample tools at its disposal to effectuate change, particularly with an attentive Republican-controlled Congress, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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5 Notable Information Security Events In 2024
B. Stephanie Siegmann at Hinckley Allen discusses 2024's largest and most destructive data breaches seen yet, ranging from ransomware disrupting U.S. healthcare systems on a massive scale, to tensions increasing between the U.S. and China over cyberespionage and the control of U.S. data.
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US-China Deal Considerations Amid Cross-Border Uncertainty
With China seemingly set to respond to the incoming U.S. administration's call for strategic decoupling and tariffs, companies on both sides of the Pacific should explore deals and internal changes to mitigate risks and overcome hurdles to their strategic plans, say attorneys at Covington.
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Considering The Status Of The US Doctrine Of Patent Misuse
A recent Ninth Circuit decision and a U.K. Court of Appeal decision demonstrate the impact that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2015 decision in Kimble v. Marvel Entertainment has had on the principle that post-patent-expiration royalty payments amount to patent misuse, not only in the U.S. but in English courts as well, say attorneys at Covington.
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Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.