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October 20, 2025
IT Company Says Plaintiff In Contract Suit Threatened Worker
An information technology company defending against claims that it committed fraud while performing a contract for online retailer Wayfair LLC told a Texas federal court the plaintiff who brought the suit should be sanctioned for threatening an employee.
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October 20, 2025
OpenAI Says It Owes Musk Nothing In For-Profit Move
OpenAI and Microsoft have asked a California federal court to avoid trial on claims that OpenAI duped Elon Musk into donating $45 million with false promises of remaining a nonprofit, arguing no such promises were made and that the billionaire's money came without strings or control.
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October 20, 2025
Fed. Circ. Revived Chevron In PTAB Appeal, Justices Told
The Federal Circuit has revived Chevron deference in "all but name," by relying on U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policy to answer a key question about what qualifies as prior art, a law professor has told the U.S. Supreme Court.
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October 20, 2025
Biotech Co. Asks SEC For Emergency Delisting Pause
Chinese biotechnology company Shineco Inc. has asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an emergency stay of Nasdaq's suspension and delisting of its securities, arguing it will likely succeed in its pending appeal to the stock exchange.
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October 20, 2025
Tax Startup CEO Swindled $13M From Investors, SEC Says
The CEO of a defunct tax-compliance startup lied to investors as she raised $13 million for her company, overstating its revenues by almost 900 times and falsely claiming she was a certified public accountant, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday in California federal court.
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October 20, 2025
Del. Supreme Court Upholds Keynetics Trust Dissolution
The Delaware Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Chancery Court order dissolving the Keynetics Shareholder Trust and sanctioning its chairman, ruling that the lower court acted within its discretion when it imposed penalties for repeated violations of stock transfer restrictions tied to the stock of Idaho tech firm Keynetics Inc.
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October 20, 2025
Cybersecurity Co. Sued In Del. For Merger Docs.
A CNI Holdings Inc. stockholder sued the cybersecurity company in Delaware's Court of Chancery for company books and records on Monday, citing a need for corporate details and documents that could purportedly salvage a California suit objecting in part to a "cram down" merger in 2022.
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October 20, 2025
Proposed PTAB Rules Bolster SAP's Fight, Fed. Circ. Told
SAP America Inc. told the Federal Circuit on Friday that its challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's stance on Fintiv-based discretionary denials is bolstered by newly proposed USPTO rules, which the company says prove that "mandamus relief is urgently needed to protect important public interests."
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October 20, 2025
'A Total Mess': Judge Slams Calif. Privacy Law's Ambiguity
California's Invasion of Privacy Act "is a total mess" that routinely requires courts to make "borderline impossible" decisions about how to apply the law's language to new technologies, a San Francisco federal judge commented in an order Friday, pleading for state lawmakers to bring the law into the 21st century.
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October 20, 2025
TikTok Urges Nix Of Wash. Applicant's Pay Transparency Suit
TikTok urged a Washington state court to toss an applicant's proposed class action claiming the video platform failed to include salary information in job listings, arguing the worker leading the case and dozens of others couldn't show he was harmed by the omission.
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October 20, 2025
Samsung Must Face Vape Battery Injury Suit, Minn. Court Says
A Minnesota state appeals court has ruled that a subsidiary of Samsung must face a lawsuit regarding a vape pen battery that exploded in a man's pocket, saying the company was likely aware that some of the nearly 3 million batteries it shipped to the state were being used in e-cigarettes.
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October 20, 2025
DC Says It's Ready To Pick Subgrantees For BEAD Money
The District of Columbia has received the green light from the federal government on how it plans to use its $100 million slice of the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program pie after a Trump administration revamp of the program made all the states and territories rework their proposals.
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October 20, 2025
Meta Faces Massive Cut To $167M Win Over WhatsApp Hack
A California federal judge said Friday that WhatsApp parent Meta must either accept a cut of its $167.25 million punitive damages win against spyware-maker NSO Group to $4 million or go to trial again over the proper amount of damages, concluding that the amount awarded by a jury was "excessive."
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October 20, 2025
Squires Gives Entropic Chance To Save Patent Claims
The head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board has to take another look at certain claims the board found invalid in an Entropic Communications local area network patent challenged by Dish Network.
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October 20, 2025
Ford Says Solar Battery Co. Shared Trade Secrets
Ford Motor Co. has sued a battery maker with which it once had a business partnership, claiming the company filed multiple patent applications disclosing Ford's confidential technology.
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October 20, 2025
Mobile Cos. Ask FCC To Revisit Local Interconnection Rule
Wireless carriers asked the Federal Communications Commission to ditch a rule that allows local exchange carriers to request interconnection agreements with mobile providers, triggering procedures the carriers say can be overly burdensome.
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October 20, 2025
Ex-GC Says Honeywell Can't Boot Her Age Bias Suit To China
A former vice president and general counsel for a Honeywell subsidiary said the conglomerate can't skirt her age discrimination claims by punting the case to China — where she lived and worked during her employment — because she has no legal remedy under Chinese law.
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October 20, 2025
No Review For Battery Patent After USPTO Head Steps In
A lithium-ion battery maker won't have its challenge to a rival's patent heard at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board after the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said it wasn't a good use of time to review the fight.
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October 20, 2025
Give Small Jails More Time On FCC Rate Caps, Rep. Says
A U.S. lawmaker representing a swath of rural Virginia said the Federal Communications Commission needs to give small jails more time to comply with rate caps on inmate phone calls.
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October 20, 2025
Spiro Can't Be Witness And Musk Atty, Twitter Investors Say
Elon Musk's informed written consent does not mean that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Alex Spiro can serve as both his lead counsel and witness in the trial over a class of investors' allegations that Musk tried to tank Twitter's stock, those investors told a California federal judge on Friday.
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October 20, 2025
Bank Seeks Atty Fees For 'Vexatious' Patent Suit
CIBC Bank has asked a Texas federal court to impose sanctions on a rival litigant, its principal and one of its attorneys, saying the patent claims they brought were "vexatious and substantively unsuccessful in every single aspect."
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October 20, 2025
AI-Driven Marketing Biz Says Ex-Workers Lifted Trade Secrets
Artificial intelligence-integrated marketing and advertising venture AIquire Inc. sued a newer, climate-focused marketing business in Delaware federal court on Friday, accusing former employees and affiliated companies of misappropriating trade secrets to build the new business, Climaty.
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October 20, 2025
Paul Weiss-Led Diversis Wraps 3rd Fund With $1.2B
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP-advised Diversis Capital Management LP on Monday revealed that it closed its third fund with over $1.2 billion in tow, which will be used to invest in software and technology-enabled services companies.
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October 20, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
This past week, the Delaware Chancery Court and Supreme Court handled a crowded corporate docket, weighing blockbuster merger appeals, shareholder settlement objections, fights over control involving an NBA franchise and a high-profile appeal from Elon Musk involving a massive payday from Tesla.
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October 20, 2025
Justices Deny EcoFactor Appeal Over Google Patent Damages
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by EcoFactor Inc. on Monday that argued the en banc Federal Circuit usurped the role of the jury when it found the company's damages expert unreliable and vacated a $20 million patent verdict it won against Google.
Expert Analysis
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Open Banking Is On Ice As sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Seeks To Toss Its Own Rule
Even as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's efforts to toss its open banking rule play out in Kentucky federal court, it remains statutorily required to effectuate consumer access to data, raising questions about how it would replace the previously finalized standard, say attorneys at Cooley.
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SEC, FINRA Obligations In Changing AI Regulatory Landscape
Despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent withdrawal of its proposed artificial intelligence conflict rules, financial regulators remain focused on firms developing the correct AI compliance framework, as well as continuously testing and supervising them to ensure they're fit for purpose, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.
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Opinion
DOJ's HPE-Juniper Settlement Will Help US Compete
The U.S. Department of Justice settlement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise clears the purchase of Juniper Networks in a deal that positions the U.S. as a leader in secure, scalable networking and critical digital infrastructure by requiring the divestiture of a WiFi network business geared toward small firms, says John Shu at Taipei Medical University.
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Anthropic Ruling Creates Fair Use Framework For AI Training
A California federal court’s recent ruling that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its large language model qualified as fair use provides important guidance for both artificial intelligence developers and copyright holders because it distinguishes between transformative uses and unauthorized uses involving pirated or format-shifted works, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Series
Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.
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How US Cos. Should Prep For Brazil's Int'l Data Transfer Rules
Brazil's National Data Protection Authority's new rules concerning the processing and storing of Brazilians' personal data carry significant reputational risks for the e-commerce, financial services, education and health sectors, so U.S. companies with business in Brazil should prepare ahead of the Aug. 23 compliance date, says Juliane Chaves Ferreira at Guimarães & Vieira de Mello.
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A Deep Dive Into 14 Nixed Gensler-Era SEC Rule Proposals
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month formally withdrew 14 notices of proposed rulemaking, including several significant and widely criticized proposals that had been issued under former Chair Gary Gensler's leadership, signaling a clear and definitive shift away from the previous administration, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion
In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.
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A Look At Trump 2.0 Antitrust Enforcement So Far
The first six months of President Donald Trump's second administration were marked by aggressive antitrust enforcement tempered by traditional structural remedies for mergers, but other unprecedented actions, like the firing of Federal Trade Commission Democrats, will likely stoke heated discussion ahead, says Richard Dagen at Axinn.
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Breaking Down Novel Va. Social Media Law For Minors
While a Virginia bill passed in May is notable for setting a one-hour daily limit on minors' use of social media, other provisions create compliance burdens for social media operators and app store providers, and increase privacy and security risks associated with the collection of sensitive information to prove identity, says Jenna Rode at Hunton.
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Fed. Circ. Ingenico Ruling Pivotal For IPR Estoppel Landscape
The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Ingenico v. Ioengine brings long-awaited clarity to the scope of inter partes review estoppel, confirming that a patent challenger is not precluded from relying on the same or substantially similar prior art in both IPR and district court proceedings, so long as it is used to support a different invalidity theory, say attorneys at Irwin IP.
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Litigation Inspiration: How To Respond After A Loss
Every litigator loses a case now and then, and the sting of that loss can become a medicine that strengthens or a poison that corrodes, depending on how the attorney responds, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Tips For Cos. From California Climate Reporting FAQ
New guidance from the California Air Resources Board on how businesses must implement the state's sweeping climate reporting requirements should help companies assess their exposure, understand their disclosure obligations and begin documenting good-faith compliance efforts, says Thierry Montoya at Frost Brown.
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How Patent Attys Can Carefully Integrate LLMs Into Workflows
With artificial intelligence-powered tools now being developed specifically for the intellectual property domain, patent practitioners should monitor evolving considerations to ensure that their capabilities are enhanced — rather than diminished — by these resources, say attorneys at McDonnell Boehnen.
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How NJ's Proposed Privacy Rules Could Reshape AI Data Use
Although not revolutionary, New Jersey's proposed privacy rules would create obligations around the management and processing of consumer personal data that will require careful planning before they can be successfully implemented, say attorneys at Norton Rose.