SAP Reaches $480M Deal In Antitrust, IP Row With Teradata

By Matthew Perlman

German software giant SAP has agreed to pay Teradata $480 million to end a long-simmering dispute between the companies, including claims that SAP violated antitrust law and stole trade secrets, along with patent infringement claims against Teradata.

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3 More Challenges To PTAB Policy Shifts Tossed By Fed. Circ.

By Theresa Schliep

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday spurned three more cases seeking relief from new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policies that make it more difficult to get Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings instituted, bringing the total number of denied petitions to 10.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive AI Patent After Alice Invalidation

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday backed a New York federal judge's finding that a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute artificial intelligence-related patent was invalid as abstract, handing a win to Amazon in the case targeting its Alexa virtual assistant.

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Meta's Win Upheld In Investor Row Over Apple's Ad Changes

By Allison Grande

The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the toss of a putative investor class action accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of hiding the financial impact of Apple's privacy changes on its business, finding that the plaintiffs had failed to plead the necessary elements to sustain their fraud claims.

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OpenAI Beats XAI's 'Conclusory' Trade Secrets Suit, For Now

By Bonnie Eslinger

A California federal judge dismissed a suit Tuesday from Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI Corp. that accuses OpenAI Inc. of poaching its workers to steal trade secrets, saying "notably absent" from the current suit's "conclusory" claims are allegations showing misconduct by OpenAI and that she would allow xAI to submit a bolstered complaint.

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Boeing Wins Discovery Battle Over Document Clawbacks

By Elaine Briseño

A Seattle federal judge sided with The Boeing Co. in its discovery dispute with a Colorado technology company, finding that the plaintiff did not take reasonable steps to prevent disclosing privileged information in hundreds of documents it now seeks to claw back.

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Judge Tosses Fitch Suit Against Ex-Client In Malpractice Row

By Elliot Weld

An Illinois federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by intellectual property law firm Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP against the co-founder of a former patent client that accused it of malpractice, saying the firm was improperly seeking a declaration on state law claims without raising a federal question.

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Meta Encrypted Messages At Expense Of Safety, Jury Hears

By Cara Salvatore

Meta made it harder to take action on conversations between predators and teens by instituting higher message encryption over the objections of the nation's child exploitation coordinating body, an executive of that group testified Tuesday in the New Mexico attorney general's mental health trial against the social media giant.

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YouTube-Watching Plaintiff Saw 17K Ads In 1 Year, Jury Hears

By Craig Clough

A YouTube executive testifying in a California bellwether trial over allegations the platform and Instagram harm children confirmed Tuesday that the company's data found the plaintiff viewed over 17,000 advertisements in one year, with her lawyer suggesting the number reflects that she spent an extraordinary amount of time on the platform.

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Firm Ordered To Show Proof In Google Teen‑Harm Fee Fight

By Y. Peter Kang

A Florida federal judge has ordered an Orlando firm to submit documents substantiating its claims that it is owed a cut of a pending settlement in a suit accusing Google LLC and a chatbot company of causing the suicide of a teen, after a former attorney said the firm's claims were "baseless."

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Trump Says Countries Will Keep Deals Despite Tariff Ruling

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump said trade deals reached with countries underpinned by tariffs invalidated by the U.S. Supreme Court would continue to be honored during his State of the Union on Tuesday evening, although it remained unclear precisely how those duty terms will be reimposed domestically.

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Trump Declares 'War On Fraud,' Led By VP Vance

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump declared at his State of the Union address on Tuesday night that Vice President JD Vance will lead the "war on fraud."

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Key Details To Know As Judiciary Rules Face Decisive Votes

By Jeff Overley

Judiciary panels are poised for pivotal votes on controversial rules governing wide-ranging topics — from the age-old and analog to the newfangled and high-tech — after a six-month stretch of public hearings and trade group mobilization climaxed with an influx of impassioned opinions.

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Feds' White Collar Crime Enforcement 'Retreat' Raises Alarms

By Phillip Bantz

Money laundering-related fines and tax fraud investigations plummeted last year as President Donald Trump shifted federal agents away from combating financial crime to focus on the immigration crackdown, according to recent reports that have raised alarms among experts about the state of white collar enforcement in the U.S.

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House Votes Down Aviation Safety Bill After DCA Collision

By Linda Chiem

The House on Tuesday defeated legislation that would've mandated aircraft-tracking technology in all aircraft, alongside fresh audits of Federal Aviation Administration and military procedures, in response to last year's deadly midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet near Washington, D.C.

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Senate Dem Seeks Info On FCC's Equal Time Enforcement

By Christopher Cole

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., demanded documents on the Federal Communications Commission's equal time rules and what he called the "alarming prospect" of CBS owner Paramount Skydance Corp. expecting favoritism from agencies as it tries to buy Warner Bros. Discovery.

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FCC Says Watchdog 'Rushed To Court' In Suit For DOGE Docs

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission told the D.C. federal court that it has sought to comply with a watchdog group's request for records tied to Elon Musk's government-slashing effort but that it would be "unwarranted" to conduct discovery to find out what might still be held back.

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2nd Circ. Axes Diagnostic Test Fraud Suit Against Siemens

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Second Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit accusing Siemens of defrauding the government, saying there's no example of a single diagnostic medical test rendered unreliable from the company's alleged shipping practices.

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Verizon Tells Fed. Circ. USPTO Ax Of Finished IPR Is 'Unlawful'

By Adam Lidgett

Verizon has told the Federal Circuit that former acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart's decision to wipe out the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of a patent it challenged was irrational and "drastic."

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DJI Asks 9th Circ. To Strike Down FCC 'Covered List' Ruling

By Nadia Dreid

Drone maker DJI has decided not to wait to find out whether the Federal Communications Commission will reconsider its decision to place many of its products on the "covered list" before appealing to the Ninth Circuit the ruling declaring its products suspect.

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PowerSchool, Chicago Schools Reach $17M Student Data Deal

By Hailey Konnath

PowerSchool and the Chicago Board of Education have reached a $17.25 million settlement resolving a proposed class action accusing them of violating students' privacy by surreptitiously monitoring their communications, according to a motion filed in Illinois federal court.

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Judge Won't Grant Win To Tech Co. In Accent Translation Case

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has refused to grant a favorable judgment to Krisp Technologies Inc. in a case brought against it by Sanas.AI Inc. alleging the former stole trade secrets relating to an accent translation technology during a brief collaboration and is now infringing patents covering that technology.

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IPhones Are Radios, Not Phones, Under Wash. Consumer Law

By Ben Adlin

A federal judge tossed a case accusing Apple, Best Buy and Walmart of breaking a Washington state law meant to protect telephone buyers, ruling in a matter of first impression that iPhones qualify as radio equipment, not telephone handsets, for the purposes of the state's Telephone Buyers' Protection Act.

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Software Co. Five9 Can't Shake Investor's Growth Slash Suit

By Emilie Ruscoe

Call center software company Five9 Inc. must face a proposed investor class action alleging it concealed struggles to meet its revenue guidance, hurting investors when trading prices fell in 2024 after it abruptly slashed its financial projections for the year.

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Insurer Can't Cap Pizza Chain's Cyberattack Payout At $250K

By Hope Patti

A cyber insurer can't rely on a ransomware endorsement to limit Cicis Pizza's claim for coverage of a cyber extortion event to $250,000, a Texas federal court has ruled, saying the policy's $3 million limits are still in play.

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Tesla Gets Worker's Retaliation Suit Kicked To Arbitration

By Grace Elletson

A worker will have to arbitrate his claims that Tesla harassed him into resigning for complaining about alleged racial discrimination at the electric vehicle maker's Fremont, California, factory, a federal judge ruled, rejecting his argument that an arbitration pact he signed wasn't enforceable.

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Runway AI Faces Suit Alleging YouTube Content Scraping

By Adam Lidgett

Artificial intelligence platform Runway AI has been hit with a proposed class action in California federal court accusing it of wrongfully scraping YouTube videos to train its generative platform, the latest company to be named in such a suit.

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Terraform Says Jane Street 'Insider Trading' Led To Ch. 11

By Emily Lever

The administrator for bankrupt cryptocurrency company Terraform Labs has sued trading firm Jane Street in New York federal court over what Terraform says was an insider trading scheme to "front-run trading that hastened the collapse of Terraform."

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Human Resources Co., Recruiters Settle OT Suit For $285K

By Benjamin Morse

A payroll and human resources company will pay $285,000 to resolve a collective action alleging it stiffed recruiters on overtime wages, according to a filing in California federal court.

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Paramount Revises WBD Offer As Netflix Bid War Goes On

By Al Barbarino

Paramount Skydance said Tuesday it has submitted a revised proposal to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery, with WBD stating that the new bid could represent a "superior proposal" to its existing merger agreement with Netflix. 

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Medtronic's Diabetes Spinoff MiniMed Seeks $742M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Diabetes-focused MiniMed Group on Tuesday launched plans to go public by raising an estimated $742 million in an initial public offering, a move that is part of a previously announced plan by parent company Medtronic to spin its diabetes business into an independent public company.

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European Semiconductor Co. Snags $250M In New Funding

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

European artificial intelligence semiconductor company Axelera AI on Tuesday revealed that it has secured more than $250 million in new funding in a round led by Innovation Industries.

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Tech Giants Amazon, Google And Meta Ink Major AI Deals

By Al Barbarino

Amazon.com Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC have each unveiled plans to pour tens of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence infrastructure, as AI's computing and energy needs continue to drive Big Tech's spending strategies.

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Agri Stats To Face DOJ In May Info-Sharing Antitrust Trial

By Bryan Koenig

A Minnesota federal judge refused Tuesday to let Agri Stats duck the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust case alleging the companies' protein industry reports help major producers hike prices, teeing up the case for trial and at the same time allowing the government to take over an early May trial slot.

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Amazon Should Be Barred From Price Fixing, Calif. AG Says

By Rae Ann Varona

California's attorney general urged a state court in San Francisco to bar Amazon from engaging in price fixing, citing newly "uncovered" evidence in the state's unfair competition lawsuit that the e-commerce giant allegedly pressured vendors to raise prices on competing retailers' websites.

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Freshfields Bicoastal M&A Tech Duo Move To Covington

By Tracey Read

Covington & Burling LLP has strengthened its mergers and acquisitions group on both coasts with the additions of two former Freshfields LLP tech M&A partners.

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3 Cases Highlight SEC Distinction Between Exec, Co. Liability

Three recent enforcement actions against Spero Therapeutics, Lottery.com and Archer-Daniels-Midland demonstrate that while public companies are subject to liability for misrepresentations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is focused on individual liability when disclosure violations involve so-called half-truths, say attorneys at Cooley.

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AI-Generated Doc Ruling Guides Attys On Privilege Risks

A New York federal court's ruling, in U.S. v. Heppner, that documents created by a defendant using an artificial intelligence tool were not privileged, can serve as a guide to attorneys for retaining attorney-client or work-product privilege over client documents created with AI, say attorneys at Sher Tremonte.

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Tom Goldstein Guilty On Tax Evasion, 11 Other Counts

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder and famed U.S. Supreme Court advocate Thomas Goldstein was found guilty of tax evasion, as well as aiding in the filing of false tax returns and lying on loan applications, by a Maryland federal jury Wednesday. 

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Patterson Belknap Adds Ex-SDNY Prosecutor Maurene Comey

By Alison Knezevich

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who handled some of the nation's highest-profile cases before she was fired by the Trump administration, has joined Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.

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Cat Cover Story In Ginsburg Health Hack Gives Judge Pause

By Hayley Fowler

A Fourth Circuit jurist on Wednesday seemed fixated on the feline excuse a former hospital transplant coordinator gave FBI agents when he was questioned in 2019 about accessing U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's healthcare records.

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Democrats Cast Doubt On New DOJ Fraud Role

By Courtney Bublé

During the confirmation hearing on Wednesday for President Donald Trump's nominee for the new assistant attorney general for fraud role, Democrats expressed anxiety about the White House's involvement in the fraud crackdown and how genuine the effort is.

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Dems Demand Explanation For DOJ Antitrust Chief's Exit

By Lauren Berg

Two Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee demanded Wednesday that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi explain to lawmakers why the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust chief was forced to resign, expressing concern about the administration's potential interference with merger reviews and antitrust litigation.

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Florida Co. Blames Holland & Hart For $21M Judgment

By Zach Dupont

A Florida-based company claimed in Colorado federal court Wednesday that a Holland & Hart LLP attorney was negligent in representing it in a lawsuit from the city of Fort Collins that eventually ended in a more than $21 million judgment against the company.

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'Do Not Lie To Me': Calif. Judge Panel Agrees Credibility Is Key

By Bonnie Eslinger

California federal judges speaking at a Federal Bar Association panel in San Francisco have urged attorneys to protect their credibility in the courtroom, with one judge bluntly telling lawyers "do not lie to me" and another revealing it's "shocking" how frequently judges share notes about lawyers.

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Justices Set New Limits On Recess Testimony Talks

By Cara Salvatore

A unanimous Supreme Court set limits Wednesday on the right to counsel during overnight breaks in a defendant's testimony under the Sixth Amendment, ruling that prohibiting talk about "testimony for its own sake" strikes an appropriate constitutional balance.

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Netflix Swaps Out Latham For Munger Tolles In Antitrust Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Latham & Watkins LLP withdrew Wednesday as defense counsel for Netflix in a proposed consumer class action in Illinois federal court claiming Meta cut an illegal deal ceding the video streaming market to Netflix, which is now represented by Munger Tolles & Olson LLP.

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Foley & Lardner Wants 'Scattershot' Malpractice Suit Tossed

By Rose Krebs

Foley & Lardner LLP is urging the Delaware Superior Court to toss a malpractice suit accusing the firm of negligence in representing an officer of a now-defunct food recycling company in a Chancery Court case that led to a $1.6 million judgment, saying it "suffers from basic pleading defects."

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