Senate Version Of Kids' Online Safety Legislation Clears Panel

By Allison Grande

A key U.S. Senate committee Wednesday advanced four legislative proposals designed to shield children from online harms presented by addictive design features and artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, setting up a clash with a package of digital safety bills that has already passed the House but that several senators have blasted as "toothless."

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Interview

Stewart Says Patent System 'Crisis' Fueled USPTO Changes

By Ryan Davis

Coke Morgan Stewart, the deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office who left the agency last week, said in an interview with Law360 this week that new limits on patent challenges and other policy changes she helped lead were driven by a sense that the patent system was in "a pretty significant crisis."

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Analysis

PTAB Filings Crashed After Squires And Stewart's Shake-Ups

By Theresa Schliep

The number of America Invents Act filings with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board cratered at the end of 2025 after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office enacted policies that made the petitions a disfavored route for challenging patents, according to a new report.

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Analysis

These Firms Are Picking Up The Most PTAB Work

By Theresa Schliep

Intellectual property heavyweight Fish & Richardson PC remains the busiest firm in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, as it again secured the top spot on a list of firms with the most PTAB trials over the past three years.

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NYC's Food Apps Data Law Goes Too Far, 2nd Circ. Says

By Lauren Berg

A New York City law that would require DoorDash, GrubHub and other delivery apps to share customer data with the restaurants fulfilling food orders violates the First Amendment, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.

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Fed. Circ. Told Injunction Against Samsung Is Warranted

By Adam Lidgett

Collision Communications Inc. wants the Federal Circuit to undo a Texas federal judge's decision denying its bid to block Samsung from selling products a jury found were infringing, saying the judge "went inexplicably astray" following the $445 million verdict.

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Netlist, Samsung Enter 5-Year Deal To End Extensive IP Feud

By Adam Lidgett

Netlist and Samsung have resolved their multipronged patent fight after reaching a deal in which the South Korean electronics giant agreed to make multimillion-dollar payments to get access to a portfolio of Netlist's patents.

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Product Liability Cases To Watch: Midyear Report

By Emily Field

Social media companies are headed back to court over allegations that their platforms are designed to hook young people, while OpenAI faces claims that ChatGPT has meted out harmful health advice and helped users plan mass shootings. Here's what's on the radar for product liability for the rest of 2026.

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Rising Star: Wachtell Lipton's Justin Orr

By Britain Eakin

Justin Orr of Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz advised OpenAI on parts of its landmark recapitalization, including its internal IP arrangements and a record-setting fundraising round, and led IP work on Honeywell's spinout, earning him a place among the technology attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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CFPB Sends Open-Banking Rule Redo To White House

By Jon Hill

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finished a proposal to overhaul its Biden-era open-banking rule and has submitted it for White House clearance, a move that signals the agency is nearing publication of the highly anticipated draft changes.

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Texas Governor Calls For Data Center Audit

By Isaac Monterose

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit any data centers that are going through ERCOT's electric grid interconnection process, saying that an audit is needed because the demand from data centers seeking to connect to Texas' electric grid could overwhelm it.

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Brief

FCC Returns $881M In Unused TV Broadcaster 'Repack' Funds

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that it has returned $881 million that went unused in the TV Broadcaster Relocation Fund.

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Fed. Circ. Backs Another Lululemon Win On Nike Patent

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday refused to revive claims in a Nike fitness tracker patent challenged by Lululemon, affirming a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that the claims were invalid.

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5th Circ. Wary Again Of FCC's Control Over Subsidy Program

By Christopher Cole

A panel of Fifth Circuit judges on Wednesday raised new questions about the Federal Communications Commission's oversight of the country's $9 billion annual telecom subsidy program after a U.S. Supreme Court decision kept the fund intact last summer.

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CREXi Wants 9th Circ. To Undo Quinn Emanuel CoStar Row DQ

By Bryan Koenig

Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. doesn't want to replace Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP after a California federal judge disqualified the firm from defending a copyright infringement suit by CoStar, seeking Ninth Circuit intervention and a pause on the district court case.

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Deal Reached In Jump Starter Patent Case On Eve Of Trial

By Ryan Davis

A settlement was reached in The Noco Co.'s patent suit against Winplus North America Inc. over portable battery jump starters that was set for trial on Friday, but Noco told the court Wednesday that it still intends to appeal a summary judgment ruling in the case.

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Judge Tosses 'Free' Wi-Fi Calling Fraud Claim Against Carriers

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge blasted a Wi-Fi-calling patent holder's antitrust and RICO suit against the major telecom carriers in court Wednesday, dismissing claims that the carriers misled consumers about their Wi-Fi calling offerings, but he did give the plaintiff a chance to refile its antitrust complaint.

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Pa. Panel Says Screenshots Not Hearsay In Stolen Money Case

By Parker Quinlan

A juvenile who was sentenced to be placed in a secure detention facility after stealing money electronically from his guardian cannot have his conviction overturned after a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled that screenshots showing money transfers in a banking app were not hearsay.

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Shareholders Seek OK Of Deal On Inflated Weedmaps Metrics

By Mike Curley

Shareholders leading a derivative action against executives and directors of the online cannabis marketplace Weedmaps' parent company are asking a California federal court to approve a settlement to end claims the executives inflated user numbers to bump up the stock price.

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Tesla Says Ky. Man's Full Self-Driving Fraud Suit Is Untimely

By Gina Kim

Tesla has moved to nix a customer's proposed class action alleging the company duped him into thinking its vehicles can fully drive themselves, arguing in California federal court Tuesday that his claims are untimely and overlap with a similar consolidated consumer protection action.

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AI Blockchain Co. Accused Of Covering Up CEO's Past

By Jessica Corso

A company that says it uses artificial intelligence to tokenize data was sued in Pennsylvania federal court Wednesday by an investor who claims the company failed to alert shareholders that its CEO had previously settled a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action.

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Brief

High Court To Hear Intel 401(k) Suit Arguments In October

By Patrick Hoff

The U.S. Supreme Court has set an October date for oral arguments in an appeal from Intel workers who argued the Ninth Circuit imposed too strict a standard when it upheld the dismissal of their lawsuit alleging their retirement savings were dragged down by underperforming investment options.

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G Squared Closes Largest Fund Yet With $2.3B In Tow

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Private secondary market-focused venture capital firm G Squared revealed Wednesday that it wrapped its seventh flagship fund with $2.3 billion in capital commitments, marking the firm's largest fund to date.

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PE-Backed Chemicals-Maker GChem To Be Sold In $850M Deal

By Al Barbarino

ContextLogic Holdings Inc. and affiliates will purchase chemicals-maker gChem from EagleTree Capital and co-investors at an $850 million enterprise value, the companies announced Wednesday. 

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Taiwan LED Maker To Pay $5.15M In Customs Fraud Deal

By Dylan Moroses

Taiwanese-based Everlight Electronics will pay the U.S. government $5.15 million to resolve duty evasion allegations in a dispute brought under the False Claims Act, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland announced Wednesday. 

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T-Mobile Asks Judge To Reconsider Data Breach Ruling

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

T-Mobile has asked a Washington judge to address issues that the company says were overlooked in his June ruling finding that T-Mobile committed more than 722,000 violations of a state data breach notification law.

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Canadian Man Cops To Extensive Hacking, Extortion Scheme

By Gina Kim

A Canadian man pled guilty Wednesday in Washington federal court over his involvement in a widespread fraud scheme where he and other co-conspirators hacked into computer networks belonging to more than 165 organizations before threatening to leak stolen information unless they made ransom payments.

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Holland & Knight Hires Energy Finance Advisers In DC

By Jack Rodgers

Holland & Knight LLP has hired a trio of advisers from lobbying and consulting firm Boundary Stone Partners to bolster its work on energy, technology and infrastructure funding and finance in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Tuesday.

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Inside SEC Crypto Vault Statement's Securities Law Warning

Although the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's posture toward crypto products and activities has been more favorable under the current administration, Commissioner Hester Peirce's recent statement on crypto vaults highlights why that posture does not eliminate the need for careful securities law analysis, say attorneys at Skadden.

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Brown Rudnick Adds 34 Attys, Will Open Silicon Valley Office

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Brown Rudnick LLP announced on Wednesday that it had lured a 34-attorney intellectual property litigation group from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP and would be opening a Silicon Valley office with many of those lawyers.

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Law Grad Employment Remains High As BigLaw Drives Hires

By Aebra Coe

Class of 2025 law school graduates posted near-record high employment rates, with large law firms hiring more graduates than any other industry category as federal government hiring experienced a significant decline, according to new data released Wednesday.

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Murdaugh Loses Jury Tampering Suit Against Ex-Court Clerk

By Jake Maher

A South Carolina federal judge on Wednesday dismissed disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh's jury tampering suit against a former court clerk who was found to have interfered in his murder trial, ruling there was no connection between his alleged damages and the ex-clerk's misconduct.

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New Mexico Joins States With Alternative Atty License Paths

By Jack Karp

Law school graduates will soon be able to earn their license to practice in New Mexico by working under an attorney's supervision and demonstrating their legal skills rather than by taking the bar exam, the state's Supreme Court chief justice told Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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New Mexico Says Blanche, DOJ Blocked Epstein Ranch Probe

By Lauren Berg

The state of New Mexico asked a Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday to force the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over unredacted Jeffrey Epstein investigative files, saying it needs the materials for its own investigation of alleged crimes at the late sex offender's Santa Fe County ranch.

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Texas Firm Lands $150M HHS Services Deal For Migrant Kids

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said it has entered into a $150 million contract with a small Texas law firm to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children, raising concerns from former subcontractors about the firm's experience with immigration matters.

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Simpson Thacher Witness Takes Aim At PIPE Stocks Claim

By Madison Arnold

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP wrapped up its defense Wednesday to a Florida state malpractice suit from the founder of Patriot National Inc. over the firm's handling of a private investment in public equity transaction, with a stock market expert testifying that short selling stock allowed under the deal didn't lead to the insurance services company's downfall.

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Conn. Atty To Fork Over $3,500 For AI Errors In Taco TM Beef

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge imposed a $3,500 fine on a defense attorney who submitted two motions riddled with AI-generated mistakes in a taco restaurant's trademark battle, finding that although the lawyer expressed remorse and promised to make changes to his verification process, he still showed "subjective bad faith."

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Sierra Leone Isn't Responding To Its Own Attys, Judge Told

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A second law firm now says it is being iced out by the government of Sierra Leone in a yearslong legal battle that began over the country's dispute with a U.K.-based mining company.

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NY Legal Aid Union Averts Strike After 4 Months Of Talks

By Andrea Keckley

Another New York legal aid union has reached a deal with its organization's management, averting the possibility of a strike after its contract and those of four other unions expired at the end of June.

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