Technology

  • March 13, 2025

    StubHub, Figma Pursue IPOs, And More Deal Rumors

    StubHub and Figma are pursuing IPOs, Granicus' owners are exploring a $4 billion sale, and deals tied to Reese Witherspoon and Eminem could be in the pipeline. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other notable deal rumors from the past week.

  • March 13, 2025

    9th Circ. Affirms Ex-Uber Exec's Conviction Over Data Breach

    The Ninth Circuit on Thursday affirmed a former Uber security executive's conviction for attempting to cover up a data breach from government investigators, rejecting his challenges to the jury instructions and strength of the evidence.

  • March 13, 2025

    Flock Safety Lands $275M In Funding At $7.5B Valuation

    Safety technology platform Flock Safety announced Thursday it achieved a $7.5 billion valuation after closing its most recent funding round with $275 million in tow.

  • March 13, 2025

    Payroll Co. Accuses Ex-Managers Of Driving 'Mass Defection'

    A Georgia-based payroll software company has sued three former managers and the rival company that the ex-employees allegedly conspired to engineer a "mass defection" of workers to last year.

  • March 13, 2025

    Swimsuit Pics App Maker Can't Revive Suit Against Facebook

    California appellate justices on Wednesday refused to revive an app developer's contract breach suit alleging Facebook rescinded its commitment to provide third-party developers with access to user data, rendering his app for finding users' swimsuit photos unworkable, after concluding Facebook's terms expressly said it could limit developers' access to data.

  • March 13, 2025

    Meta Blocks Ex-Exec From Promoting Tell-All Memoir

    An international arbitrator issued an emergency ruling Wednesday blocking former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her recently released tell-all memoir "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism," finding that Meta has shown it'll likely win its nondisparagement claim against the author.

  • March 13, 2025

    RealPage Pushes Bid To Duck Antitrust Case In NC

    RealPage and a group of landlords backed up a motion to shut down claims that the company's software helps fix rental prices brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and a group of states in North Carolina federal court.

  • March 13, 2025

    Auto Repair Biz Exec's Embezzlement Case Ends In Mistrial

    A California federal judge has declared a mistrial after a jury was unable to come to a unanimous verdict in an embezzlement case against a former finance executive of RepairPal, a website for auto repair reviews and estimates.

  • March 12, 2025

    LVMH Hit With Patent Suit Over NFT Smartwatch Display Tech

    A company that developed a platform that enables users to display their non-fungible tokens on their watches has sued LVMH in Texas federal court over claims the luxury goods giant infringed on its "pioneering" nonfungible tokens display technology when it allowed NFT displays on its own smartwatches.

  • March 12, 2025

    Askeladden Beats Software Patent At PTAB

    An administrative patent board ruling has wiped out all of the claims in a patent covering payment software that had been asserted against over 20 different companies in the payment space.

  • March 12, 2025

    5th Circ. Won't Revive Suit Over $58M Cloud Computing Deal

    The Fifth Circuit backed the dismissal of cloud computing company Cloud49's lawsuit against rivals Rackspace Technology and Capgemini, rejecting claims that the companies engaged in tortious interference and trade secrets misappropriation during a Texas state cloud computing contract bid worth more than $58 million.

  • March 12, 2025

    Look At All These 1-Word Orders In IP Cases, Justices Told

    A patent owner has told the U.S. Supreme Court that there's momentum behind its push for scrutiny of the Federal Circuit's one-word orders in patent cases and its challenge to courts' summary judgment practices in such matters.

  • March 12, 2025

    Coinbase Escapes Direct Listing Suit Despite New Plaintiff Bid

    A California federal court has dismissed a proposed class action against Coinbase over its direct listing following the lead plaintiff's decision to leave the suit when the Ninth Circuit dismissed a similar case brought against Slack Technologies, saying the voluntary dismissal counts as a final proceeding.

  • March 12, 2025

    Tech Mahindra Urges Justices To Nix White Worker's Bias Suit

    Tech Mahindra asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Third Circuit's ruling reviving a proposed class action claiming the information technology company favored South Asian employees, arguing it deepened a circuit split by greenlighting a case that should have been time-barred.

  • March 12, 2025

    Texas Jury Awards Staffing Co. $14M Verdict Against Dynata

    A Texas state jury handed a mostly clean sweep to a staffing company that accused market research company Dynata LLC of withholding payment for months of work, awarding about $14 million Wednesday after a trial in a Texas state court that lasted about a week.

  • March 12, 2025

    'Delete, Delete, Delete': DOGE-Linked Effort Launched At FCC

    The nation's telecom rules will get a makeover to "delete" a lot of requirements the Federal Communications Commission has determined are no longer needed under an effort launched Wednesday by FCC Chair Brendan Carr.

  • March 12, 2025

    Adult Website Accused Of Giving Google Shoppers' Sexual Info

    An adult website and an e-commerce solutions company illegally share the private sexual information such as the sexual orientation, fetishes and product preferences of the website's customers with third parties like Google to boost the companies' bottom lines, a proposed class action filed in California federal court has alleged.

  • March 12, 2025

    ITC To Review Optimum Patent Case, Skips Another Case

    The U.S. International Trade Commission agreed Tuesday to review a final initial determination holding no infringement of Optimum Communications Services Inc.'s patent for passive optical network equipment, but it also affirmed a rare decision not to investigate a separate infringement complaint by Optimum against several Chinese tech companies over network switching and routing patents.

  • March 12, 2025

    Del. Justices Uphold LG Co.'s Loss In Firing Challenge

    Delaware's top court has backed a Chancery Court ruling that Alphonso Inc., a TV data company majority-owned by an LG subsidiary, was not permitted to push out five co-founders.

  • March 12, 2025

    Crypto CEO Linked To Jack Abramoff Convicted Of Fraud

    A California federal jury on Wednesday convicted a cryptocurrency company founder of fraud and money laundering over allegations he stole more than $10 million from tens of thousands of investors in a scheme that involved disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

  • March 12, 2025

    Judge Says Air Force Had Duty To Pay $1.9M For Materials

    A Court of Federal Claims judge said the U.S. Air Force breached its contractual duty by failing to reimburse Centech Group Inc. $1.9 million for materials it approved for purchase, but stopped short of granting the company damages.

  • March 12, 2025

    Live Nation Calls DOJ 'Delay Tactics' Claim 'Groundless'

    Live Nation Entertainment assailed the U.S. Department of Justice for claiming "out of the blue" that the company is slow-walking its discovery obligations in the government's New York federal court monopolization suit centered on the 2010 purchase of Ticketmaster.

  • March 12, 2025

    Northvolt's Ch. 11 Dismissal Possible After Swedish Filing

    Bankrupt electric vehicle battery maker Northvolt AB told a Texas bankruptcy judge that its Chapter 11 case is possibly headed for dismissal after its parent company filed an insolvency case in Swedish court early Wednesday.

  • March 12, 2025

    TikTok Faces Copyright Suit Over Livestreaming Software

    TikTok allegedly copied a company's livestreaming software to create a new feature on the app without complying with the company's open source requirements, according to a complaint filed in California federal court.

  • March 12, 2025

    Final Google Fixes Keep Apple Payments, DOJ Tells DC Circ.

    The U.S. Department of Justice doubled down on its arguments against permitting Apple to intervene in the upcoming remedies phase of its Google search monopoly lawsuit, arguing that the newly submitted final version of its sought fixes show Apple would keep getting payments it wants protected.

Expert Analysis

  • Is AI Distillation By DeepSeek IP Theft?

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    A brewing controversy over whether Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek's distillation of outputs from OpenAI's ChatGPT violates copyright law raises questions about the legality and ethics of such practices, and will set important precedents for the future of AI development and intellectual property law, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.

  • Opinion

    SEC Defense Bar Should Pursue Sanctions Flexibility Now

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defense bar has an opening under the new administration to propose flexible, tailored sanctions that can substantially remediate misconduct and prevent future wrongdoing instead of onerous penalties, which could set sanctions precedent for years to come, says Josh Hess at BCLP.

  • 7 Tips For Associates To Thrive In Hybrid Work Environments

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    As the vast majority of law firms have embraced some type of hybrid work policy, associates should consider a few strategies to get the most out of both their in-person and remote workdays, says James Argionis at Cozen O’Connor.

  • Series

    Playing Beach Volleyball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My commitment to beach volleyball has become integral to my performance as an attorney, with the sport continually reminding me that teamwork, perseverance, professionalism and stress management are essential to both undertakings, says Amy Drushal at Trenam.

  • Considering The Future Of AI Regulation On Health Sector

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    As Texas looks to become the next state to pass a comprehensive law regulating artificial intelligence, the healthcare industry should consider how AI regulation will continue to evolve in the U.S. and how industry members can keep up with compliance considerations, say attorneys at Kirkland & Ellis.

  • Opinion

    2 Errors Limit The Potential Influence Of AI Fair Use Case

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    The recent opinion in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence may have little predictive value for artificial intelligence litigation, because the decision failed to engage with an important line of case law on intermediate copying, and misapplied the concepts of commercial substitution and superseding use, says Brandon Butler at Jaszi Butler PLLC.

  • What's Next For Russia Sanctions After Task Force Disbanded

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    Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recent disbanding of Task Force KleptoCapture, which was initially aimed at seizing Russian oligarchs’ funds and assets, is unlikely to mean the end of Russia sanctions enforcement and other economic countermeasures, as the architecture for criminal enforcement remains in place, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic

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    The legal industry is facing an urgent epidemic of loneliness, affecting lawyer well-being, productivity, retention and profitability, and law firm leaders should take concrete steps to encourage the development of genuine workplace connections, says Michelle Gomez at Littler and Gwen Mellor Romans at Herald Talent.

  • Opinion

    DOJ's HPE-Juniper Challenge Is Not Rooted In Law

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    Legal precedents that date back as far as 1990 demonstrate that the U.S. Department of Justice's recent challenge to the proposed $14 billion merger between Hewlett Packard and Juniper is misplaced because no evidence of collusion or coordinated conduct exists, says Thomas Stratmann at George Mason University.

  • Texas Fraud Case Shows Dangers Of Faulty Crypto Reporting

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    The recent sentencing of a man who failed to properly report capital gains from bitcoin sales is a reminder that special attention must be given to the IRS' reporting requirements in order to stay out of the government's crosshairs, says Saverio Romeo at Fox Rothschild.

  • 5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships

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    Attorneys are often focused on being seen as the expert, but bonding with clients and prospects by sharing a few key personal details provides the basis for a caring, trusted and profoundly deeper business relationship, says Deb Feder at Feder Development.

  • Justices' TikTok Ruling May Pose Threat To Online Expression

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent landmark ruling upholding a federal law mandating TikTok's forced divestiture in the name of data security may embolden digital censorship agendas worldwide, says IP lawyer Bahram Jafari.

  • How Rising Secondary Private Markets Affect Tech Disputes

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    The rise of secondaries is a natural by-product of growing and evolving private markets and, as such, we can expect their growth will continue, signaling an increase in the use of secondaries in damages as well as litigation revolving around secondaries themselves, says Farooq Javed at The Brattle Group.

  • What Reuters Ruling Means For AI Fair Use And Copyright

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    A Delaware federal court's recent decision in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence is not likely to have lasting effect in view of the avalanche of artificial intelligence decisions to come, but the court made two points that will resonate with copyright owners who are disputing technology companies' unlicensed use of copyright-protected materials to train generative AI models, says David Ben-Meir at Ben-Meir Law Group.

  • The Current And Future State Of Bank-Fintech Partnerships

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    Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Donald Trump seems likely to cultivate an environment friendlier to the financial services industry, bank-fintech partnerships should stay devoted to proactive compliance and be ready to adapt to regulatory shifts that may intensify scrutiny from enforcers, say attorneys at Greenberg Traurig.

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