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May 13, 2026
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board properly invalidated all claims of the five Flypsi Inc. telecom patents Google LLC was found to infringe, the Federal Circuit said Wednesday.
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May 13, 2026
The Ninth Circuit's 2019 ruling against Altera Corp., which upheld rules requiring companies to share the cost of employee stock options with foreign affiliates, means that Meta's income for 2017-18 should be increased by roughly $3 billion, the IRS told the U.S. Tax Court.
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May 13, 2026
Apple Inc. requires its hourly call center employees to boot up computers, log in to security networks and open multiple software programs before clocking in — and doesn't pay them for any of it, a former tech support adviser alleged in a proposed class and collective action filed in California federal court.
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May 13, 2026
E-commerce platform Society Pass has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Texas bankruptcy court with more than $10 million in liabilities and less than $10 million in assets, on the eve of a hearing Wednesday in New York state court to put the business into receivership.
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May 13, 2026
Shutterstock Inc. will pay $35 million to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit alleging it knowingly deceived customers about its subscription plans' autorenewal policies, with one executive noting in internal communications they could "hopefully get away with it" when they saw competitor Adobe Inc. sued over its subscription practices in 2024.
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May 13, 2026
Apple has lashed out at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for trying to withdraw a named plaintiff from an iCloud antitrust case in California federal court without discovery into any directions she received to preserve now-deleted emails, raising concerns that the withdrawal is meant to "paper over lost evidence."
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May 13, 2026
A split panel of the Sixth Circuit has upheld a $1 damages award that a Michigan federal judge gave to electronics manufacturer Oldnar Corp., with two judges saying they agreed that Oldnar had not proved higher damages with reasonable certainty.
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May 13, 2026
Military technology company Anduril, led by Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP, on Wednesday announced it reached a $61 billion valuation after raising $5 billion in its latest funding round.
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May 13, 2026
A Texas federal judge shot down a request by X Corp. to make Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook a custodian in a sprawling antitrust lawsuit X launched last year, but said Wednesday that it could make Apple's head of software a custodian.
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May 13, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday backed a California federal judge's ruling that a contract under which Finelite buys LED chips from Samsung does not require Samsung to indemnify Finelite in a patent suit by Seoul Semiconductor.
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May 13, 2026
A decision from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board that invalidated a patent covering remote control technology asserted against Roku Inc. was affirmed by the Federal Circuit on Wednesday.
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May 13, 2026
A Federal Circuit panel on Wednesday, in a one-line order, affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's determination that Nike's infringement claims against Lululemon Athletica Inc. related to fitness-tracking technology were invalid.
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May 13, 2026
Geothermal energy developer Fervo Energy hit the public markets on Wednesday after raising $1.9 billion in its upsized initial public offering.
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May 13, 2026
A personal injury law firm in North Carolina is rebutting allegations that it engaged in nefarious activity on the dark web to solicit plaintiffs for a data breach class action, saying it received the data legally from a cybersecurity consulting expert and should not be disqualified from the suit.
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May 13, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission will kick off a pair of public workshops this week aiming to find ways to elevate cybersecurity in the telecom space.
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May 13, 2026
Zillow has accused property brokerage Compass and a Chicago-area multiple listing service provider of hatching a "backup plan" to protect a private home sales network, even after the online real estate marketplace company established a rule last year banning home listings from its platform that have appeared elsewhere for more than a day.
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May 13, 2026
A trade group representing rural wireless providers said it opposes the Federal Communications Commission's recent approval of EchoStar's sales of spectrum to AT&T and SpaceX totaling roughly $40 billion, saying rural providers and consumers will likely suffer.
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May 12, 2026
An Idaho federal judge said Tuesday "the time has finally come" for Longhorn IP and its Katana Silicon Technologies unit to pay an $8 million bond imposed three years ago under a state law against "patent trolls" after they alleged Micron Technology made memory devices that infringe their semiconductor patents.
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May 12, 2026
A California federal judge appeared open Tuesday to partly unwinding a jury's decision to convict a former Google engineer of trade secret theft and economic espionage, saying he's "somewhat skeptical" of the economic espionage charges since he doesn't see sufficient evidence the engineer intended to benefit China.
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May 12, 2026
OpenAI Inc. CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in the California federal jury trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion, acknowledging that colleagues have accused him of being deceptive while testifying that "I believe I'm a trustworthy person."
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May 12, 2026
The top Democrat on an influential U.S. House committee has begun to scrutinize corporate "surveillance pricing" practices, pushing Target, Walmart, Costco, Family Dollar, Whole Foods and 20 others Tuesday to explain whether and how they're using consumers' personal data to set individualized prices for certain products and services.
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May 12, 2026
A cannabis company CEO testified Tuesday as the first witness in Citron Research founder Andrew Left's criminal securities fraud trial, telling a California federal jury that Left published an inaccurate short sale report on his company that quickly tanked its stock even though it appears he lacked the "conviction" of his attack.
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May 12, 2026
An attorney representing authors accusing OpenAI of feeding their copyrighted works into training data for large language models told a New York federal magistrate judge Tuesday that the AI startup was asserting vastly different positions in New York and in an ongoing trial in California about whether it ever intended to become a for-profit enterprise.
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May 12, 2026
A group of journalists and voice actors has hit Google, Meta, Microsoft, chipmaking giant Nvidia and speech synthesis software company ElevenLabs with proposed class actions in Illinois federal court accusing the companies of wrongly using the plaintiffs' voices to train their artificial intelligence models.
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May 12, 2026
The estate of a 16-year-old girl who was lured in by a 35-year-old man on the Grindr platform and tortured and murdered told a Florida federal judge to reconsider the court's decision to send the case to arbitration, saying developing case law says otherwise.