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August 04, 2025
Ex-Copyright Chief Seeks Emergency Injunction In Firing Suit
The U.S. Copyright Office's fired head on Monday urged a Washington, D.C., federal court to let her continue serving the role while she appeals the court's denial of her reinstatement bid, saying the court didn't address the merits of her arguments challenging President Donald Trump's authority to terminate her.
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August 04, 2025
Trump's Sons Back 'New America' SPAC's $300M IPO Filing
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are backing a new special-purpose acquisition company that, with guidance from Paul Hastings LLP and Holland & Knight LLP, plans to raise $300 million and will target the technology, healthcare and logistics sectors, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday.
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August 04, 2025
4 Firms Build $558M Crypto Treasury With Telegram Token
Guided by Perkins Coie LLP and Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Verb Technology Co. Inc. announced Monday a $558 million private placement deal to stockpile the Telegram-afflilated TONcoin token.
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August 04, 2025
FCC Told States, Cities To Blame For Broadband Delays
A trade association representing the global broadband industry told the Federal Communications Commission that state and local practice vary widely when it comes to broadband permitting, with some approvals taking more than a year and fees and bureaucratic delays being a frequent issue.
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August 04, 2025
MOVEit Data Breach MDL Advances With Slimmed Frame
A Massachusetts federal judge has pared down but declined to toss sprawling multidistrict litigation over a data breach tied to Progress Software's MOVEIt file transfer tool, with negligence and several other claims allowed to proceed against the software vendor and four bellwether groups of companies that used the tool.
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August 04, 2025
Frontier, Verizon To Invest $8M In Rural Arizona Broadband Fix
Arizona is waiting for its corporation commission to green-light a settlement with Frontier and Verizon that includes an $8 million investment from the telecommunications companies to expand and enhance rural broadband in Navajo and Apache counties.
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August 04, 2025
Top Groups Lobbying The FCC
Lobbying heated up in July as the Federal Communications Commission heard from advocates close to 200 times on issues ranging from spectrum deals to regulatory cuts, spacecraft licensing, undersea cable security, broadband deployment hurdles and more.
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August 04, 2025
Trial Called Off After Judge Partly Clears Apple In Fintiv Row
Western District of Texas Judge Alan Albright called off a trial scheduled for Monday in Fintiv Inc.'s long-running mobile wallet patent case against Apple Inc., after he cleared Apple of infringing some claims and Fintiv opted to appeal rather than putting the remaining claims before a jury.
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August 04, 2025
GTCR Says Buyer In Place For Potential FTC Divestiture Deal
Private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings told an Illinois federal court it has a signed agreement with a buyer for a deal that should fix the concerns raised by the Federal Trade Commission over its planned $627 million purchase of a medical device coatings company.
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August 04, 2025
Apple Wins Challenge To Denial Of AR Software Trademarks
A Virginia federal judge has granted Apple's bid to undo a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decision denying the tech giant's attempt to register trademarks related to augmented reality software, saying the would-be marks have acquired enough secondary meaning.
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August 04, 2025
Crypto Exchange Bullish Launches Plans For $599M IPO
Venture-backed crypto exchange Bullish plans to raise roughly $599 million in an upcoming initial public offering, according to a Monday statement indicating that it intends to offer 20.3 million shares priced between $28 and $31 per share.
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August 04, 2025
Google Says Term Limits Only Needed For Some Search Fixes
Google told the D.C. federal court overseeing the government search monopolization case that there is no need to put a one-year term limit on its default search agreements with Android device manufacturers and wireless carriers because they are not exclusive.
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August 04, 2025
Circuit Split On Geofence Warrants 'Intolerable,' Justices Told
A Fourth Circuit panel skirted the issue when it was deciding the appeal of a man who was convicted on robbery charges using a geofence warrant to pinpoint his location, but now that man wants the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether such warrants are constitutional.
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August 04, 2025
Apple Hits 'Apple Cinemas' With TM Suit Amid Expansion
Apple Inc. has sued a movie theater chain called Apple Cinemas in Massachusetts federal court over trademark infringement claims, saying the cinema brand has expanded to the tech giant's backyard by opening in a historic theater location in San Francisco.
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August 04, 2025
CFO Looks To Jettison Widow's Fight Over Founder's Assets
The chief financial officer of a company behind a college athletics database has argued in an early exit bid that he has no connection to the state of North Carolina, where he's been accused in a civil lawsuit of driving the company's founder to take his own life amid allegations of embezzlement.
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August 04, 2025
Bitcoin Depot Hit With Data Breach Class Action In Ga.
Bitcoin Depot Inc. was hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court Friday over allegations that it failed to properly safeguard the personally identifiable information of more than 26,000 U.S. residents in a July 2024 data breach.
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August 04, 2025
Rising Star: Hogan Lovells' Jalpit Amin
Hogan Lovells LLP partner Jalpit Amin has successfully steered several multibillion-dollar deals in the technology sector, including Oracle's $28 billion purchase of Cerner Corp. and Marvell Technology Group's $10 billion acquisition of Inphi Corp., earning him a spot among the technology attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 04, 2025
Anthropic Asks 9th Circ. To Review Authors' Class Cert.
Anthropic PBC has asked the Ninth Circuit to review a California federal judge's class certification of a group of authors suing over use of their books to train artificial intelligence, saying the judge had rushed to approve a class of nearly seven million potential claimants.
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August 04, 2025
Home Depot's Self-Checkout Kiosks Violate BIPA, Suit Says
Home Depot was hit with proposed class biometric privacy claims Monday by a customer who says the facial recognition technology the retailer deploys at its self-checkout kiosks illegally scans, collects and uses consumers' geometric facial data without informed consent.
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August 04, 2025
Lawmakers Jumpstart Work On Telecom Subsidy Reform
A working group of U.S. senators focused on reforms to the nation's telecommunications subsidy system has started gathering the public's views on legislation.
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August 04, 2025
Amphenol Buys CommScope's Cable Biz In $10.5B Deal
Fiber optic connector systems maker Amphenol Corp., advised by Latham & Watkins LLP, unveiled plans on Monday to buy Alston & Bird LLP-led and private equity backed-CommScope's connectivity and cable solutions business in a $10.5 billion cash deal.
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August 01, 2025
Meta Illegally Recorded Flo Users' Data, Calif. Jury Finds
A California federal jury Friday found Meta Platforms Inc. liable for violating the state's wiretap law by using a data analytics tool to retrieve sensitive health data from users of the popular menstrual tracking app Flo, in what plaintiffs' counsel called "one of the first times" a major tech company has been held accountable for such practices.Â
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August 01, 2025
Manufacturer Seeks To Toss Marijuana Vape Antitrust Suit
The Chinese companies behind cannabis vape brand CCell have urged a California federal court to dismiss a consolidated consumer class action accusing it of orchestrating a price-fixing scheme, accusing the buyers of "padding" their amended complaint with "copy-pasted" passages from other, unrelated lawsuits.
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August 01, 2025
IP Owners Largely Win In Stewart's Newest Discretion Orders
Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart dismissed most of the 50 petitions for inter partes review addressed in her latest decisions over discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
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August 01, 2025
3rd Circ. Asked To Revive Amazon Biometric Data Suit
A federal judge erred in tossing class claims accusing Amazon of collecting consumers' voice data without their consent, including by finding that a third-party software company was a "financial institution," the named plaintiffs told the Third Circuit
Expert Analysis
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How Trump Cybersecurity EO Narrows Biden-Era Standards
President Donald Trump recently signed Executive Order No. 14306, which significantly narrows the scope and ambition of a Biden executive order focused on raising federal cybersecurity standards among federal vendors, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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Opinion
The SEC Should Embrace Tokenized Equity, Not Strangle It
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should grant no-action relief to firms ready to pilot tokenized equity trading, not delay innovation by heeding protectionist industry arguments, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.
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Compliance Changes On Deck For Banks Under Texas AI Law
Financial services companies, including banks and fintechs, should evaluate their artificial intelligence usage to prepare for Texas' newly passed law regulating AI governance, noting that the enforcement provisions provide for an affirmative defense to liability, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure
While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.
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23andMe Fine Signals ICO's New GDPR Enforcement Focus
Many of the cybersecurity failures identified by the Information Commissioner’s Office in its investigation of 23andMe, recently resulting in a £2.3 million fine, were basic lapses, but the ICO's focus on several new U.K. General Data Protection Regulation considerations will likely carry into the future, say lawyers at Womble Bond.
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Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards
The first half of 2025 saw a series of cases interpreting the Video Privacy Protection Act as applied to website tracking technologies, including three appellate rulings deepening circuit splits on what qualifies as personally identifiable information and who qualifies as a consumer under the statute, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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Tips For Crypto AI Agent Developers Under SEC Watch
With agents powered by artificial intelligence increasingly making decisions in the cryptocurrency world, there's a chance the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could use the Investment Advisers Act to regulate this technology in financial services, but there are ways developers can mitigate regulatory risks, say attorneys at Morrison Cohen.
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How The Healthline Privacy Settlement Redefines Ad Tech Use
The Healthline settlement is the first time California has drawn a clear line in the sand around how website tracking must function in practice, so if your site uses tracking technologies, especially around sensitive content like health or finance, regulators are inspecting your website's back end, not just its banner, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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AI Infrastructure Growth Brings Unique IP Considerations
The explosive rise of artificial intelligence has triggered an equally dramatic transformation in the supporting infrastructure required to meet growing AI demand, and the technology used in these data centers has its own intellectual property considerations to navigate, says Vincent Allen at Carstens Allen.
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Series
Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.
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Tips For US Investors Eyeing Middle East Data Centers
While Middle East data center investment presents a compelling opportunity in light of renewed U.S.-Gulf cooperation on artificial intelligence and critical technologies, these projects require a nuanced understanding of regional legal and regulatory regimes, says Haykel Hajjaji at Covington.
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Influencer Marketing Partnerships Face Rising Litigation Risk
In light of recent class actions claiming that brands and influencers are misleading consumers with deceptive marketing practices — largely premised on the Federal Trade Commission's endorsements guidance — proactive compliance measures are becoming more important, say attorneys at Olshan Frome.
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5 Consumer Protection Compliance Issues In NY State Budget
Companies that engage with New York consumers should promptly familiarize themselves with new state budget provisions that require finance and retail companies to make certain business practices more transparent and easier for customers to execute, say attorneys at Mintz.
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Balancing The Promises And Perils Of Tokenizing Securities
Tokenizing listed securities offers the promise of greater efficiency, accessibility and innovation, but a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission statement makes clear that the federal securities laws continue to apply to tokenized securities, so financial institutions and technology developers must work together to create clear rules, say attorneys at Orrick.
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How To Increase 3rd-Party Preissuance Patent Submissions
Attorneys Marian Underweiser and Marc Ehrlich, who helped draft the America Invents Act, discuss changes that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could potentially implement to facilitate its hopes for increased participation in front-end patent challenges.