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April 14, 2025
Google Fired Workers For Pro-Palestine Views, Suit Says
Staging a peaceful protest to denounce harassment of Muslim and Arab employees at Google and the tech giant's support of Israeli military operations got many workers at the company unlawfully fired, a proposed class action filed in California federal court said.
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April 14, 2025
Silver Lake To Buy Stake In Intel Chips Unit At $8.8B Value
Skadden-led Intel Corp. said Monday it has agreed to sell a 51% stake in its Altera business to Latham & Watkins LLP-advised Silver Lake, valuing the semiconductor solutions business at $8.75 billion.
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April 14, 2025
3 Firms Guide $3.1B KKR Purchase Of S&P, CME Trading Unit
KKR has agreed to acquire post-trade solutions provider OSTTRA from Davis Polk-led S&P Global and Skadden-advised CME Group for $3.1 billion, with Simpson Thacher guiding the private equity giant on the deal, the companies said Monday.
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April 11, 2025
Patent Exec Hasn't Yet Proven Defamation In Baker Botts Case
A Florida federal judge held Friday that it's too early to rule in favor of a patent licensing company executive accusing a Baker Botts LLP attorney of defamation, ruling that there are still "material facts in dispute."
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April 11, 2025
Microsoft, OpenAI Want Out Of Musk's For-Profit Challenge
OpenAI and Microsoft are ready to be done with a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk accusing them of swindling the billionaire by turning OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, into a private entity after he and others invested in the artificial intelligence venture.
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April 11, 2025
9th Circ. Revives AirDoctor's $2.5M Damages Bid In TM Suit
The Ninth Circuit on Friday revived AirDoctor's request for $2.5 million in damages after scoring default judgment against a competitor in a trademark infringement and unfair competition case over replacement air filters, noting the plaintiff isn't barred from actual damages just because it didn't seek a specific amount in its complaint.
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April 11, 2025
Ireland Probes X's Use Of Public Posts To Train AI Tool Grok
Ireland's data protection authority said Friday that it is forging ahead with an investigation into whether efforts by the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X to train its artificial intelligence model Grok on personal data lifted from public posts complied with the European Union's data protection rules.
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April 11, 2025
Palo Alto Networks Beats Suit Over Competition 'Headwinds'
Cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks has beaten, for now, a shareholder class action over allegedly concealed "headwinds," with a California federal judge saying Friday that the investors have failed to plead any actionable misstatements or knowledge of wrongdoing by Palo Alto's top brass.
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April 11, 2025
T-Mobile Prevails In Wireless Patent Trial In EDTX
T-Mobile on Friday persuaded jurors in the Eastern District of Texas to reject an infringement case from a patent licensing company that had landed a nine-figure verdict against a different telecom company in another patent case that later settled amid a retrial.
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April 11, 2025
Chancery Tosses Exabeam Stockholder's Appraisal Suit
A former stockholder of cybersecurity venture Exabeam Inc. saw his suit for Court of Chancery share appraisal shot down on Friday, after a vice chancellor concluded that the suit was launched as an unsupported workaround to secure documents unavailable to him on the company's merger with LogRhythm Inc.
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April 11, 2025
ITC Judge Cites Fed. Circ. In Patent Win For Cooler Master
A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has ruled that three companies violated trade law by importing computer cooling mechanisms that infringe Cooler Master Co. Ltd. patents, citing a recent Federal Circuit ruling to find that the Taiwan-based patent owner has a U.S. domestic industry.
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April 11, 2025
EchoStar Wants FCC To Cut Satellite Cos.' Political File Reg
Dish Network parent company EchoStar Corp.'s wishlist to curb Federal Communications Commission regulations includes a proposal to drop a requirement that satellite providers keep tabs on paid political ads.
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April 11, 2025
Tariff Reprieve Offers Little Comfort For Venture-Backed IPOs
President Donald Trump's move to pause most tariff threats is not reassuring venture-backed startups eyeing public listings, many of which will likely postpone initial public offerings for at least another quarter or until shaky market conditions stabilize, a new report concludes.
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April 11, 2025
Samsung Used Our Algorithms, Israeli Co. Says In IP Suit
Samsung is facing a patent infringement lawsuit in Texas from an Israeli startup that says it negotiated with the smartphone maker almost a decade ago to discuss improving the image quality of cellphone photos using "proprietary image improvement algorithms."
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April 11, 2025
Telehealth Co. Sued Over 2024 Data Breach
A company that helps healthcare providers manage after-hours patient calls was hit with a proposed class action in New York federal court Friday alleging that it failed to secure user data prior to a 2024 breach that exposed the sensitive information of nearly 1 million people.
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April 11, 2025
Live Nation, Ticketmaster Can't Nix Consumer Antitrust Suit
A California federal judge Friday denied a bid from Live Nation and Ticketmaster to toss an antitrust case from consumers alleging monopolization of the concert ticketing market, following a tentative ruling issued earlier this week while finding a recent antitrust win for Amazon doesn't translate to the case before him.
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April 11, 2025
Software Co. Freshworks Scores Early Win In IPO Suit
Software company Freshworks Inc. has gotten an early win on proposed investor class action claims that it failed to disclose decelerating revenue and billings growth as it went public in 2021.
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April 11, 2025
Crypto Firm To Pay SEC Fine Over False Client Claims
Cryptocurrency firm Nova Labs Inc. has agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit claiming it falsely touted client relationships with Nestle and other large businesses in an effort to sell crypto mining devices tied to the so-called Helium network.
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April 11, 2025
House Bill Would Fund Satellite, Fixed Wireless Broadband
An Ohio Republican has introduced House legislation to use some of the funds from the $42.5 billion Congress set aside for broadband expansion in 2021 to help defray the costs of obtaining satellite or fixed wireless broadband equipment and service.
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April 11, 2025
EV Charging Biz Sues Over Alleged Seattle Station IP Theft
An electric-vehicle charging network has launched a lawsuit in Seattle federal court accusing a number of Washington state residents of conspiring to rip equipment from its charging stations in order to resell it on the streets, while also lifting the company's trade secrets.
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April 11, 2025
Landlords Look To Exit DOJ's RealPage Antitrust Case
The residential building owners accused by federal and state enforcers of violating antitrust law through their use of RealPage's software to set rental prices told a North Carolina federal court it's not against the law for companies to use the same software.
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April 11, 2025
OpenAI Says Co. Sought 'Open AI' TM After It Became Famous
OpenAI has urged a California federal court to find that it holds senior, protectable trademark rights over a company called Open Artificial Intelligence, saying the entity "rushed" to register its name only after the ChatGPT developer began getting media attention about a decade ago.
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April 11, 2025
Hagens Berman Sanctioned Over Disappearing Client
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP is facing monetary sanctions in a proposed class action against Apple and Amazon, after a Washington federal judge said the firm misled her about a problem client who disappeared and wasted the court's time in the process.
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April 11, 2025
Goodwin-Led Lock 8 Clinches 3rd Fund With $182M In Tow
New York-based private equity shop Lock 8 Partners LLC, advised by Goodwin Procter LLP, on Friday announced that it closed its third lower middle market technology buyout fund after securing $182 million of investor commitments.
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April 11, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Norton Rose, Ropes & Gray
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Capri Holdings sells Versace to Prada, Woodside Energy sells a liquefied natural gas terminal stake to Stonepeak, crypto infrastructure firm Ripple acquires prime brokerage platform Hidden Road, and Bain Capital takes a stake in Lincoln Financial.
Expert Analysis
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DeepSeek AI Investigation Could Lead To IP Law Precedents
The investigation by OpenAI and Microsoft into DeepSeek's artificial intelligence model raises interesting legal concerns involving intellectual property and contract law, including potential trade secret appropriation and fair use questions, say Saishruti Mutneja and Raghav Gurbaxani.
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What NHTSA's Autonomous Vehicle Proposal Means For Cos.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's recently proposed framework for review and oversight of vehicles equipped with automated driving systems offers companies a more flexible, streamlined approach to regulatory approvals for AVs, including new exemption pathways, assessments by independent experts and other innovations, say attorneys at Covington.
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Guidance For Cos. Balancing Web Scraping And Privacy
The European Data Protection Board's recent Opinion 28/2024, which clarifies how web scraping can be implemented under the General Data Protection Regulation while respecting data privacy, offers insights for companies navigating this intersection of AI innovation and privacy laws, says Jo Levy at the Norton Law Firm.
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Opinion
Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay
Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.
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How Cos. Can Use Data Clean Rooms To Address Privacy
Implementing comprehensive administrative controls, security processes and vendor management systems are vital steps for businesses leveraging data clean rooms for privacy compliance, especially given the Federal Trade Commission's warnings of complicated user privacy implications, say attorneys at Troutman.
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5 Key Takeaways From Energy Secretary's Confirmation
The recent confirmation hearing for U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright highlighted several important themes, including his vision for transforming the DOE, his nuanced stance on renewables, and a renewed emphasis on energy abundance and affordability, says Connor McCulloch at Ankura Consulting Group.
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Lights, Camera, Ethics? TV Lawyers Tend To Set Bad Example
Though fictional movies and television shows portraying lawyers are fun to watch, Hollywood’s inaccurate depictions of legal ethics can desensitize attorneys to ethics violations and lead real-life clients to believe that good lawyers take a scorched-earth approach, says Nancy Rapoport at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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What Employers Should Know For Next Round Of H-1B Filings
With the fiscal year 2026 H-1B visa period opening soon, employers should brush up on the registration and filing procedures, as well as organize applicable data, to ensure they are ready for this dynamic, multistep process, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Ga. Tech Case Shows DOJ Focus On Higher Ed Cybersecurity
The Justice Department’s ongoing case against the Georgia Institute of Technology demonstrates how many colleges and universities may be unwittingly exposed to myriad cybersecurity requirements that, if not followed, could lead to False Claims Act liability, say attorneys at Woods Rogers.
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Del. Ruling Further Narrows Scope Of 'Bump-Up' Exclusion
The recent Delaware Superior Court ruling in Harman International v. Illinois National Insurance offers a critical framework for interpreting bump-up exclusions in management liability insurance policies, and follows the case law trend of narrow interpretation of such exclusions, says Simone Haugen at Tressler.
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Perspectives
Accountant-Owned Law Firms Could Blur Ethical Lines
KPMG’s recent application to open a legal practice in Arizona represents the first overture by an accounting firm to take advantage of the state’s relaxed law firm ownership rules, but enforcing and supervising the practice of law by nonattorneys could prove particularly challenging, says Seth Laver at Goldberg Segalla.
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Zuckerberg's Remarks Pose Legal Risk For Meta Amid Layoffs
Within days of announcing that Meta Platforms will cut 5% of its lowest-performing employees, Mark Zuckerberg remarked that corporations are becoming "culturally neutered" and need to bring back "masculine energy," exposing the company to potential claims under California employment law, says Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law Center.
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Foreign Trade Zones Can Help Cos. With Tariff Exposure
Companies navigating shifts in global trade — like the Trump administration’s newly levied tariffs on Chinese goods — should consider whether the U.S. Department of Commerce's poorly understood foreign trade zone program could help reduce their import costs, says James Grogan at FTI Consulting.
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Critical Steps For Navigating Intensified OFAC Enforcement
The largely overlooked SkyGeek settlement from the end of 2024 heralds the arrival of the Office of Foreign Assets Control's long anticipated enhanced enforcement posture and clearly demonstrates the sanctions-compliance benefits of immediately responding to blocked payments, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.
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Perspectives
DC Circ. Cellphone Ruling Upends Law Enforcement Protocol
The D.C. Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Brown decision, holding that forcibly requiring a defendant to unlock his cellphone with his fingerprint violated the Fifth Amendment, has significant implications for law enforcement, and may provide an opportunity for defense lawyers to suppress electronic evidence, says Sarah Sulkowski at Gelber & Santillo.