Inventor Leigh Rothschild, his companies and his former attorney broke Washington state's anti-patent trolling law by making a bad faith assertion of patent infringement against video game developer Valve Corp., and Rothschild and his companies breached an intellectual property licensing deal in the process, a Seattle federal jury found on Tuesday.
Inventor Leigh Rothschild, his companies and his former attorney broke Washington state's anti-patent trolling law by making a bad faith assertion of patent infringement against video game developer Valve Corp., and Rothschild and his companies breached an intellectual property licensing deal in the process, a Seattle federal jury found on Tuesday.
A California federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking OpenAI from using the word "Cameo" to refer to a component of its Sora AI video generator app in litigation brought by a personalized video provider of the same name, which argued that its consumer reputation was threatened by the artificial intelligence company.
The "artificial intelligence boom" is going to mean slower internet speeds for consumers if Congress doesn't do something to make commercial spectrum less scarce, according to a new report from a conservative-leaning policy group.
The first bellwether trial over thousands of claims that social media companies harm young people's mental health was delayed Tuesday due to a juror being hospitalized with an illness, although the California state judge in the case said the trial will resume one way or another on Wednesday, when Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify.
Globe Life Inc. and a subsidiary have agreed to pay up to $4.66 million to resolve a proposed class action alleging the life insurance companies failed to protect the private information of policyholders and applicants from an October 2024 data breach, according to a filing in Texas federal court.
The company behind academic file sharing website Course Hero could owe Post University billions of dollars in damages for infringing the copyrights of nearly 2,200 learning documents, a federal jury in Hartford, Connecticut, heard Tuesday during opening statements in a trial five years in the making.
A certified class of former Twitter investors accusing Elon Musk of tanking the social media platform's stock during acquisition negotiations can't bring up the billionaire's political beliefs during the trial scheduled to start next month if it's outside the 2022 time period at issue, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Progressives called the Federal Communications Commission's rollout of equal-time policies against late-night talk shows slanted after Stephen Colbert blamed the FCC for being forced to move an interview with a Democratic Senate candidate off the air.
Federal aviation experts are working closely with the wireless industry to develop a "consensus framework" for next-generation aircraft safety gear to avoid congestion of 5G and flight signals in the C-band, a carriers' group says.
Counsel for an audio-video network transmission company on Tuesday pressed an aerospace manufacturer's trade secrets expert on why he reviewed only select portions of a disputed AVoIP patent, setting up the first of a three-day bench trial over a soured $1 million technology deal.
A California federal judge mostly sided with the Justice Department on Tuesday on the latest discovery disputes in state attorneys general's challenge to a DOJ settlement greenlighting Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion Juniper acquisition, ruling that HPE doesn’t need to reveal who's bidding for divested assets, and refusing to delay deadlines.
A 3D printing technology company has urged a Washington federal court to toss a breach of contract lawsuit brought by its former law firm, Lee & Hayes PC, arguing it agreed to a flat fee ahead of a patent settlement, while Lee & Hayes says it only waived a contingency fee because of its onetime client's "underhanded misrepresentations."
Reddit wants out of a proposed investor class action accusing it of downplaying the impact that Google's artificial intelligence-generated search results have had on the forum website's traffic and ad revenues, arguing it has always been up-front with the public about the potential competition from Google.
Sports technology company Panda Interactive has settled its patent dispute with its rival Sportradar and asked a Texas federal judge to stay all activity in the case for 30 days while the parties finalize the agreement.
A California battery company accusing Energizer and Walmart of colluding to fix retail battery prices said Energizer's counterclaims of inducing an account manager to steal trade secrets were "tactical and meritless" and has asked a federal judge to dismiss them.
A rival accusing CoStar of blocking competition for commercial real estate listing services is urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to review a ruling that revived the rival's counterclaims, saying that CoStar just disagrees with how the appeals court viewed the allegations.
Delaware's highest court has revived a bid by a group of insurers to recover expenses incurred for clients of Blackbaud Inc. following a major ransomware attack on the software developer's systems, saying the insurers adequately alleged that Blackbaud breached agreements to protect the clients' sensitive data.
A South Dakota hotel and its owner are pressuring defense counsel provided by an insurance carrier in an underlying racial discrimination lawsuit to submit filings relying on artificial intelligence that could potentially violate legal ethics rules, the insurer alleged in Nebraska federal court Tuesday.
A California federal judge on Tuesday gave Airbnb Inc. a win in a suit brought by a Montana family who claimed their baby suffered permanent brain damage from carbon monoxide exposure at a vacation rental, finding their allegations were speculative and lacked sufficient evidence.
The former shareholders of Valtech Cardio Ltd. have sued the company and its parent Edwards Lifesciences Corp. in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the medical device giant of deliberately stalling development of a heart valve repair system to avoid paying up to $300 million in earn-out consideration tied to the 2016 acquisition.
Videos depicting a teenage girl being sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend were not properly authenticated, New York's highest court ruled Tuesday, reversing a Family Court determination that the mother abused her children by failing to protect them.
Uber can get $30,000 from an opposing attorney as "partial reimbursement" for the ride-hailing company's attorney fees in multidistrict litigation over sexual assault liability, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday, ordering the payment as a sanction against the attorney for disclosing confidential Uber information in other lawsuits.
Danaher Corp. said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire Masimo Corp. in a deal valued at about $9.9 billion, including debt, with Kirkland & Ellis LLP advising Danaher and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and White & Case LLP representing Masimo.
MTN Group said Tuesday that it will pay about $2.2 billion to acquire the remaining shares of IHS Towers it does not already own, a transaction that values the company at an enterprise value of about $6.2 billion.
President Donald Trump's son, Eric Trump, is among a group of investors backing a $1.5 billion merger between Florida real estate company JFB Construction Holdings and Israeli drone-maker Xtend that would take the latter company public.
Xerox, represented by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, announced Tuesday that it has created an intellectual property licensing joint venture with global alternative asset management firm TPG, advised by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, to strengthen the workplace technology company's balance sheet.
Lehotsky Keller Cohn LLP is asking a Texas bankruptcy judge to sanction members of the board of bankrupt cryptocurrency miner Rhodium Encore LLC and their attorneys, saying they used false claims of misconduct to delay an $8.9 million fee payment.
A consumer advocacy group is pushing the Federal Trade Commission and nearly a dozen state enforcers to shut down Meta's reported plans to add facial recognition capabilities to its smart glasses, arguing that the feature would pose "a grave risk to privacy, safety and civil liberties."
The Federal Communications Commission said it will yank the licenses for seven Michigan radio stations if the company that holds the licenses fails to pay the regulatory fees it has been delinquent on for several years.
Lifeline providers in states that were allowed to opt out of the federal verification process might soon find themselves in the hot seat, as the Federal Communications Commission revealed Tuesday it has launched investigations into certain providers from three states.
McGuireWoods LLP is expanding its transactional team, announcing Tuesday that it is bringing in a Sidley Austin LLP private equity expert as a partner in its Los Angeles office.
As thousands of artificial intelligence data center constructions continue to pop up across the U.S., such projects must be treated not as simple real estate developments, but as infrastructure programs where power, supply chains and technology integration all drive both schedule and risk, say attorneys at Cozen O’Connor.
Significant procedural changes at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last year have reshaped patent litigation and business strategies and created uncertainty around the USPTO's governing rules, but an accounting of the decisions the office designated as precedential and informative sheds light on the agency's new approach, say attorneys at Sterne Kessler.
Careful attention to policy language and real-world operational realities can mean the difference between a partial and a full recovery after a cyberincident — particularly, how long the insurance policy will cover lost income and extra expenses incurred, and when that period ends, says Scott Godes at Barnes & Thornburg.
The European Data Protection Board-European Data Protection Supervisor’s recent joint opinion, posted in response to the European Commission’s proposal to delay EU Artificial Intelligence Act implementation, captures some of the core worries raised that postponement may affect fundamental rights protections and further undermine legal certainty, say lawyers at ZwillGen.
A new program that will allow certain foreign investors to be prevetted and admitted to fast-track approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States will likely have tangible benefits for investors participating in competitive M&A, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
Geoffrey Starks, who stepped down from the Federal Communications Commission last year after 10 years at the agency, has joined Latham & Watkins LLP as a partner, where he'll advise clients on a range of communications matters such as broadband policies, data security and artificial intelligence.
State supreme court leaders said Wednesday they will conduct a thorough review of law school accreditation practices this year, a move that comes after state justices in Texas and Florida recently ended the American Bar Association's longstanding accreditation monopoly in those states.
The American Bar Association's ethics committee is guiding judges to maintain the same level of neutrality and impartiality in working with court staff that they exercise when presiding in the courtroom, according to its latest formal opinion on Wednesday.
Lawmakers are trying again to rein in third-party litigation financing, a multibillion-dollar industry that critics argue allows foreign entities to assert control of the U.S. legal system.
A county in eastern Texas has asked a federal judge to dismiss it from a lawsuit because it is not responsible for a telephone call from a local justice of the peace who was trying to convince a defendant to plead guilty in a criminal case.
Answering a question about abortion rights during a renomination hearing Wednesday, a cautious Connecticut Supreme Court justice said courts must be mindful when overruling past decisions, questioning whether the doctrine of stare decisis, or allowing past opinions to stand, could become "not much of a doctrine at all."
The jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion trial will finally begin to deliberate on a 16-count verdict form, after federal prosecutors on Wednesday recounted lies they said he admitted to, and the defense slammed what it described as a shoddy investigation into the charges.
