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March 13, 2025
FCC Creates New Nat'l Security Arm Focused On China
The Federal Communications Commission will operate a new organization within the agency focused solely on national security, particularly cybersecurity threats emerging from the Chinese government.
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March 13, 2025
Full Fed. Circ. Probes Basis For $20M Google Patent Verdict
The en banc Federal Circuit on Thursday closely scrutinized the damages evidence underlying EcoFactor's $20 million thermostat patent trial victory against Google, with some judges suggesting that it doesn't support the testimony given by EcoFactor's expert witness.
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March 13, 2025
Ohio Co. Can't Get New Trial After Scrapped $18M Award
An Ohio startup on Thursday lost its latest bid to revive an $18.3 million jury verdict it won against TransUnion for allegedly holding its source code hostage after ending a business deal.
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March 13, 2025
Who Is FCC Nominee Olivia Trusty? Here's What We Know
Republicans on the five-seat Federal Communications Commission need a critical third vote to push through many of the changes they envision for the nation's telecom policies, and the White House has chosen longtime Capitol Hill aide Olivia Trusty for the role.
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March 13, 2025
Lush Customer Can Pursue Privacy Class Action In California
Lush must face a proposed privacy class action in California for allegedly recording a woman's phone call with customer service without her permission, after a California federal court ruled Tuesday it had personal jurisdiction over the company since it had 35 retail locations in the state.
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March 13, 2025
Energy Co. Faces Investor Suit Alleging AES, Siemens Rifts
Energy storage company Fluence Energy Inc. faces a proposed investor class action alleging it concealed the impact to its revenues of growing rifts and falling business with its founders, German conglomerate Siemens AG and U.S. utility company AES Corp.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Expert Analysis
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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.
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How The AI Antitrust Landscape Might Evolve Under Trump
The Trump administration's early actions around artificial intelligence and antitrust policy, along with statements from competition regulators, suggest that the AI competition landscape may see reduced scrutiny around acquisitions, but not an entirely hands-off enforcement approach, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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Series
Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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Questions Remain After Justices' Narrow E-Rate FCA Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Wisconsin Bell, holding that requests for reimbursement from the Federal Communications Commission's E-Rate program are subject to False Claims Act liability, resolves one important question but leaves several others open, says Jason Neal at HWG.
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Opinion
At 100, Federal Arbitration Act Is Used To Thwart Justice
The centennial of the Federal Arbitration Act, a law intended to streamline dispute resolution in commercial agreements, is an opportunity to reflect on its transformation from a tool of fairness into a corporate shield that impedes the right to a fair trial, says Lori Andrus at the American Association for Justice.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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Del. Supreme Court TripAdvisor Ruling May Limit 'MFW Creep'
The Delaware Supreme Court's recent Maffei v. Palkon ruling regarding TripAdvisor's proposed reincorporation to Nevada potentially signals a turning point in the trend of expanding the protections from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide to other types of transactions, says Andrew J. Haile at Elon University.
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9th Circ. Draws The Line On Software As A Derivative Work
The Ninth Circuit's recent decision in Oracle International v. Rimini Street clarifies the meaning of derivative work under the Copyright Act, and when a work based upon a preexisting item doesn't constitute a derivative, says John Poulos at Norton Rose.
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A Closer Look At FDX's New Role As Banking Standard-Setter
Should the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau let stand the decision empowering Financial Data Exchange as an industry standard-setter, it will be a significant step toward broader financial data-sharing, but its success will depend on industry adoption, regulatory oversight and consumer confidence, say attorneys at Clark Hill.