Calif. Jury Convicts Ex-Google Engineer Of Stealing AI Secrets

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal jury on Thursday found former Google software engineer Linwei Ding guilty of seven counts of trade secret theft and seven counts of economic espionage in a criminal trial over allegations that he stole the tech giant's artificial intelligence trade secrets to help himself and China.

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Analysis

3 Fed. Circ. Clashes To Watch In February

By Ryan Davis

The Federal Circuit's argument calendar for next month includes the latest round of the patent slugfest between VLSI Technology and Intel Corp. as well as a patent owner's bid to escape a ruling that it must pay $4 million in attorney fees for a "baseless" suit against EMC Corp.

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Feature

From TikTok To The Courtroom, The Rise Of Lawfluencers

By Chris Villani

A growing group of legal influencers with huge followings say social media use is helping them expand their practices along with their brands and offering marketing lessons that even BigLaw can learn from.

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Attacks Haven't Killed Judiciary's AI Rule, May Strengthen It

By Jeff Overley

Federal judiciary advisers Thursday confronted the most extensive opposition yet in their campaign to ensure the reliability of evidence utilizing artificial intelligence, but the criticism appeared constructive, possibly upping the odds of a digital age addition to U.S. court rules.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Streaming IP Suit Against Hulu

By Dani Kass

A California federal judge was right to free Hulu LLC from allegations that it infringed Sound View Innovations LLC's streaming patent, the Federal Circuit determined Thursday.

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Optis' Patent Case Against Apple Inches Closer To 3rd Trial

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal judge has denied competing motions for summary judgment from Apple Inc. and Optis Wireless Technology LLC and preserved a claim accusing Apple of willfully infringing Optis patents.

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Fitness App Must Face Trimmed Suit Over Tracking Cookies

By Allison Grande

A California federal judge cut several wiretap and fraud claims from a proposed class action accusing MyFitnessPal of allowing third parties to track the browsing activities of website visitors who rejected the use of tracking cookies while allowing the plaintiffs to proceed with invasion of privacy and two other allegations.

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Apple Dodges Users' Deposition In Google Antitrust Case

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge has quashed a Christmas Eve deposition subpoena that sought information from Apple Inc. concerning dealings with Google LLC, saying users who accused Google of suppressing rival search engines through anticompetitive deals had no valid reason for the subpoena.

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Boies Schiller Hits Meta With Arbitration Bids Over Addiction

By Hailey Konnath

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP on Thursday filed a number of arbitration demands against Meta Platforms Inc. on behalf of young Instagram users, claiming that the social media company's products are harmful and intentionally designed to hook young people.

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NHTSA Opens Waymo Probe After Autonomous Car Hits Child

By Dorothy Atkins

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened another investigation into Waymo LLC autonomous vehicles and how they operate in school zones after one hit a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica, California, marking the second safety probe into Waymo's maneuverings around children since October.

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Feds OK Expansion To Boost Techs In 6 GHz Airwaves

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday agreed to new rules expanding use of the 6 gigahertz spectrum band, mainly to drive the growth of devices using the Internet of Things and virtual and augmented reality.

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FCC To Collect More Info On Cos.' Ties With US Adversaries

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to require companies seeking telecommunications approvals to attest in writing if they are owned or controlled by foreign adversaries in a bid to increase national security in the media and telecom industries.

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Md. Tech Groups Praise Cybersecurity Tax Credit Plan

By Sanjay Talwani

Expanding eligibility for Maryland's cybersecurity tax credit would help more customers use tools from companies in the state to protect their data and information systems, industry representatives and the state's Commerce Department director told legislators Thursday.

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Brief

FCC's Carr Says More Plans To 'Delete' Regs On Way Soon

By Christopher Cole

The chief of the Federal Communications Commission says more rounds of his "Delete, Delete, Delete" initiative to scale back what he views as obsolete telecom rules will be coming up soon.

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Robbins Geller To Lead CarMax Investors' Tariffs-Linked Suit

By Emilie Ruscoe

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP will represent a proposed class of CarMax Inc. investors in a suit accusing the used car retailer of mischaracterizing a bump in sales caused by consumers trying to get ahead of the Trump administration's tariffs as a sign of sustainable growth.

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Valve Scores Partial Win As Its Patent Troll Claims Near Trial

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal judge found Wednesday that inventor Leigh Rothschild breached an intellectual property licensing deal by leveling bogus infringement claims against Valve Corp. in 2022 but left other key questions for jurors to consider when the video game company's patent trolling case heads to trial next month.

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PubMatic Fails To Score Complete Dismissal Of Privacy Suit

By Corey Rothauser

A California federal judge has largely refused to dismiss a proposed class action that accuses digital advertising firm PubMatic Inc. of secretly tracking internet users across the web and selling their data, with the judge allowing most privacy and wiretapping claims to move forward.

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RealNetworks Can't Exit Investor Suit Over Take-Private Deal

By Katryna Perera

RealNetworks Inc., an artificial intelligence-focused digital media company, cannot escape a shareholder suit alleging that the company and its top brass misled investors in a 2022 take-private transaction, a Washington federal judge has ruled.

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ITC Judge Clears Innoscience's Redesigned Semiconductor

By Dani Kass

The U.S. International Trade Commission's 2025 decision that Innoscience's semiconductor imports infringe one of Infineon Technologies' patents was made public Thursday, revealing Innoscience has a path to avoid any upcoming ban.

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ITC To Review Medical Imaging Imports For Infringement

By Elliot Weld

The U.S. International Trade Commission said it is looking into medical imaging device imports for alleged patent infringement in response to a complaint from a Canadian-American firm.

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Apple Aims To Boot Anti-Moonlighting Suit To Arbitration

By Ben Adlin

Apple Inc. urged a Seattle federal judge to throw out a former employee's proposed class action accusing the company of unlawfully barring lower-wage workers from taking second jobs, arguing that plaintiff Gabriel Fisher gave up his right to sue when he signed an arbitration agreement included in his job offer.

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Inspire Medical Leaders Face Suit Over Apnea Device Rollout

By Emilie Ruscoe

Brass of Inspire Medical Systems Inc. face shareholder derivative claims they breached their fiduciary duties by concealing issues affecting the launch of the company's latest sleep apnea device, damaging investors after its trading prices fell 32% when the issues were disclosed.

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Shoddy Funds Cost Bloomberg 401(k) Investors Big, Suit Says

By Grace Elletson

Bloomberg may have lost its workers almost $200 million by failing to nix two underperforming investment funds from its $5 billion retirement plan, according to a proposed class action filed in New York federal court on Thursday claiming the financial data and media company shirked its fiduciary duties.

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Wolfspeed Says Jaguar Land Rover Reneged On Supply Deal

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina-based chipmaker Wolfspeed Inc. has accused Jaguar Land Rover of refusing to pony up payments under a supply agreement for allegedly underbuying products last year, saying the automotive giant can't use slowdowns elsewhere as an excuse for its nonpayment.

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Luminar Sues Semiconductor Co. To Recover On $2.2M Loan

By Gina Kim

Bankrupt self-driving vehicle technology developer Luminar Technologies has hit Next Semiconductor with a suit in Texas bankruptcy court alleging the chipmaker has defaulted on a $2.2 million loan while "wrongly" suggesting Luminar's Chapter 11 proceedings somehow exempt it from paying the debt. 

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Fight To Control Security Screening Co. Hits Del. Chancery

By Jarek Rutz

A former director of a Florida-based weapon screening technology maker has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to determine who actually controls the company, bringing a summary proceeding challenging his recent removal from the board following what he described as an invalid stockholder vote grounded in a deeply flawed capitalization table.

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3 Companies Begin Trading After Raising $1.3B In IPOs

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Satellite maker York Space Systems began trading publicly Thursday after raising $629 million in its upsized initial public offering, joining Brazilian digital banking platform PicPay and insurance platform Ethos Technologies, both of which also made their public debuts Thursday.

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6th Circ. Backs Gov't In $125K Crypto Forfeiture Case

By Sydney Price

The Sixth Circuit has sided with the U.S. government in a suit over its rights to more than $100,000 in allegedly laundered cryptocurrency, ruling the previous receivers of the funds missed the deadline to bring a claim after the government seized the assets.

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Microsemi To Report $144M In Overseas Sales In Settlement

By Anna Scott Farrell

Semiconductor manufacturer Microsemi has agreed to report $144 million in income from sales to its Irish affiliate but will avoid some tax penalties under the terms of a transfer pricing settlement with the Internal Revenue Service, according to a filing in the U.S. Tax Court.

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AI Licensing Suit Exhibits Pitfalls Of Vague Contract Terms

Fastcase Inc. v. Alexi Technologies, a case in District of Columbia federal court, demonstrates the potential consequences of vaguely drafted contract terms amid unforeseen technological advances, but there is practical guidance parties may employ to mitigate the potential for similar contract disputes, say attorneys at Baker Botts.

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Patent Eligibility Faces Widening Gap Between USPTO, Courts

The year 2026 opened with a profoundly altered Patent Act Section 101 ecosystem — the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has pushed eligibility as far open as it can for artificial intelligence technologies, but the courts are not on the same page, say attorneys at Skadden.

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How Generative AI Cos. Can Navigate Product Liability Claims

Increasingly, plaintiffs are aggregating disputes over generative artificial intelligence and pursuing them through mass-tort-style proceedings, borrowing tactics from litigation involving social media, pharmaceuticals and other consumer-facing products — but there are approaches that AI companies can use to narrow claims and manage long-term exposure, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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Series

Playing Tennis Makes Me A Better Lawyer

An instinct to turn pain into purpose meant frequent trips to the tennis court, where learning to move ahead one point at a time was a lesson that also applied to the steep learning curve of patent prosecution law, says Daniel Henry at Marshall Gerstein.

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Ex-Worker Says Goldstein Offered Crypto, Gifts As IRS Probed

By Jared Foretek

A former employee at Thomas Goldstein's law firm who resigned after the Internal Revenue Service began investigating the firm said that the SCOTUSblog founder suddenly began offering her bitcoin, payment from case settlements and potential student loan relief after federal agents visited the office.

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Clemency Favors White Collar Offenders, New Study Shows

By Phillip Bantz

White collar criminal defendants are more likely than other types of offenders to receive presidential pardons, especially under the Trump administration, a new analysis of clemency actions shows, raising concerns about a system one expert called "broken."

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DOJ Awards $1M In First For Antitrust Whistleblower Program

By Rae Ann Varona

The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division awarded a whistleblower $1 million for providing information that led to charges and a $3.28 million criminal fine against used-vehicle auction site EBlock, marking the first-ever award under a new antitrust whistleblower program, the DOJ announced Thursday.

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Crowell & Moring Loses DC Appeal In $30M COVID Rent Dispute

By Isaac Monterose

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled against Crowell & Moring LLP's appeal for its $30 million rent dispute with a D.C. office landlord that refused to grant a coronavirus-related rent abatement.

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Bondi Elevates Pa. US Atty Amid Appointments Scrutiny

By Matthew Santoni

The first assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania is being retained and elevated to full U.S. attorney, Attorney General Pamela Bondi announced Thursday, though the appointment will have to remain temporary or he could face the same questions about his appointment as other top prosecutors in President Donald Trump's administration.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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