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March 19, 2025
Special Master Suggests Sanctioning Irell In Patent Case
Irell & Manella LLP should be sanctioned for the actions of an attorney who allegedly presented an altered document during a deposition for its client CogniPower LLC as part of the company's patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics, a special master in the case has recommended.
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March 19, 2025
AI Is Growing Focus For Corporate Boards, Proxy Proposals
Public companies and their investors increasingly set their sights on artificial intelligence last year, according to a report released Wednesday indicating the rapidly evolving technology was a major focus when it came to both board-level oversight and shareholder proxy proposals.
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March 19, 2025
Ex-Cognizant CLO Fires Paul Weiss After Trump Order
A former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executive facing a bribery trial next month has fired Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP from his defense team following the Trump administration's revocation of the firm's security clearances, according to a withdrawal motion filed Wednesday by firm partner Roberto Finzi.
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March 19, 2025
Pillsbury Adds Commercial Deal Pro From A&O Shearman
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has expanded its global sourcing and technology transactions practice with the addition of the U.S. head of Allen Overy Shearman Sterling's digital, data, intellectual property and technology practice.
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March 19, 2025
Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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March 19, 2025
Republican FCC Aide Named NTIA's Acting Head
The White House has named Adam Cassady, formerly a top Republican aide at the Federal Communications Commission, as acting chief of the U.S. Department of Commerce branch in charge of federal spectrum policy.
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March 19, 2025
FCPA Uncertainty May Lead Attys To 'Gamble' On Disclosure
The Trump administration's pullback on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement is sowing confusion in the white collar bar, as companies consider whether to voluntarily disclose potential violations of the anti-bribery law while the chances of getting a favorable resolution seem good or keep quiet until the dust settles.
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March 18, 2025
Amazon Asks To Claw Back Docs In Consumer Antitrust Suits
Amazon has asked a Washington federal court to allow it to claw back three documents it has deemed as privileged from consumers in a trio of proposed antitrust class actions, saying that the plaintiffs are refusing to return or destroy them after quoting them in their motion for class certification.
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March 18, 2025
Apple Arcade Accused Of Infringing Download Patent
Apple was hit with a lawsuit Tuesday in Delaware federal court alleging its Arcade subscription service infringes a patent covering the process of searching for and downloading games.
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March 18, 2025
NBA Asks High Court To Weigh In On VPPA Data Sharing Suit
The NBA has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a Second Circuit decision that revived a Video Privacy Protection Act suit alleging that the league shared video viewing activities of its website's visitors with Meta, arguing that the plaintiff lacked standing since the information wasn't publicly disseminated or highly personal.
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March 18, 2025
Music Publishers, Anthropic Fight Over Song Lyric Discovery
Music publishers urged a California federal magistrate judge Tuesday to order artificial intelligence company Anthropic to produce certain song lyric data from both before and after Anthropic implemented "guardrails" to prevent Anthropic's AI tool "Claude" from outputting copyrighted lyrics, while Anthropic slammed the discovery request as overly broad.
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March 18, 2025
Ga. Hospital Failed To Protect Data Of 120K, Patient Says
A former patient of a southwest Georgia hospital hit the provider with a proposed class action Monday over a data breach last year, alleging that it failed to secure 120,000 customers' personal information before it was filched in a cyberattack.
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March 18, 2025
Netlist Slams Samsung's 'Abuse Of Power' As 3rd Trial Begins
Samsung Electronics Co. engaged in a "raw abuse of power" when it breached the terms of a patent licensing agreement with chipmaker Netlist Inc., a jury heard Tuesday as the contract dispute went to trial for the third time in California federal court.
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March 18, 2025
Md. Judge Says USAID Dismantling Is Likely Unconstitutional
A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the U.S. Constitution "in multiple ways" in their drive to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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March 18, 2025
FCC Quarterly Subsidy Rate Should Be Zero, Group Says
The Federal Communications Commission should set the fee that telecom companies have to pay to fund the agency's telecom subsidy system to zero for the next quarter, says a group that is in the middle of challenging the agency's right to collect those fees at all.
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March 18, 2025
Motorola Gets PTAB To Wipe Out Video Streaming Patent
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has ruled that Motorola has shown that all the challenged claims in a patent on providing access to video streams over a network are invalid, finding they were too obvious to warrant patent protection.
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March 18, 2025
Deere & Co. Attacks FTC's Right-To-Repair Suit As 'Vague'
Farm machinery manufacturer Deere & Co. is asking an Illinois federal court to nix the Federal Trade Commission's right-to-repair suit, arguing that the company doesn't operate in or exclude others from the equipment repair market, and that the FTC lacks the constitutional authority to sue, among other failings.
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March 18, 2025
Google, Apple Urge 9th Circ. To Reject Search Collusion Case
Google and Apple are urging the Ninth Circuit to reject an appeal from an advertiser seeking to revive a case accusing Google of paying Apple to stay out of the search market, arguing that a ruling in the government's search case against Google has nothing to do with the claims.
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March 18, 2025
Apple Attempts To Hide Discovery Are 'Systemic,' Epic Says
Epic Games is pushing a California federal judge to punish Apple for its "sanitized, fictional account" of compliance with an injunction blocking App Store anti-steering policies, arguing the iPhone-maker can't evade discovery sanctions by trying to blame the scale of document review.
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March 18, 2025
Fed. Circ. Says It Can't Review Realtek's ITC Sanctions Fight
The Federal Circuit ruled Tuesday that the appeals court can't tell the U.S. International Trade Commission to explain why it declined Taiwan-based chipmaker Realtek Semiconductor Corp.'s request for a "sua sponte ruling" over a rival's alleged conduct in a dropped patent investigation.
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March 18, 2025
Pa. Lawmakers Push For State-Level Net Neutrality Rules
Federal net neutrality rules died in appeals court this winter, but a pair of Pennsylvania lawmakers are pushing to see similar regulations enacted in their place at the state level.
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March 18, 2025
Split 7th Circ. Says Texts For Free Services Don't Violate TCPA
A divided Seventh Circuit panel on Monday refused to revive a putative Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action over a company's texts and calls offering free nutritional services through the lead plaintiff's state and Medicaid funded healthcare plan, finding the messages weren't telephone solicitations because he wasn't being encouraged to purchase anything.
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March 18, 2025
FCC Dem Starks To Step Down This Spring
The longest-serving Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission, Geoffrey Starks, said Tuesday he will resign the post sometime this spring.
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March 18, 2025
AI Healthcare Co. Accuses Test-Maker Of Infringing Patents
Artificial intelligence-powered diagnostics company Tempus AI has accused medical test-maker Guardant Health of infringing numerous patents related to healthcare records platforms and ways of pinpointing patient biomarkers.
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March 18, 2025
Mistrial Declared In Magnet Co. Export Control Violation Case
A Kentucky federal judge has declared a mistrial in a case accusing Quadrant Magnetics LLC of violating export control law by sending schematics from military contractors to Chinese companies, finding that the government withheld relevant documents from the company.
Expert Analysis
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Is AI Distillation By DeepSeek IP Theft?
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.
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Opinion
SEC Defense Bar Should Pursue Sanctions Flexibility Now
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.
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7 Tips For Associates To Thrive In Hybrid Work Environments
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
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.
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Series
Playing Beach Volleyball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
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.
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Considering The Future Of AI Regulation On Health Sector
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.
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Opinion
2 Errors Limit The Potential Influence Of AI Fair Use Case
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.
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What's Next For Russia Sanctions After Task Force Disbanded
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.
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How Law Firms Can Counteract The Loneliness Epidemic
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.
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Opinion
DOJ's HPE-Juniper Challenge Is Not Rooted In Law
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.
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Texas Fraud Case Shows Dangers Of Faulty Crypto Reporting
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.
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5 Keys To Building Stronger Attorney-Client Relationships
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.
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Justices' TikTok Ruling May Pose Threat To Online Expression
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.
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How Rising Secondary Private Markets Affect Tech Disputes
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.
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What Reuters Ruling Means For AI Fair Use And Copyright
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.
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The Current And Future State Of Bank-Fintech Partnerships
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.