Anthropic Says Defense Dept. Smeared It Over AI Red Lines

By Jared Foretek

Potential splits emerged Tuesday between D.C. Circuit judges questioning the legality of the U.S. Department of Defense's move to bar Anthropic from government contracting, with the AI company claiming it had been targeted and smeared as a national security threat for nothing more than a contract dispute.

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VLSI Tells Fed. Circ. To Allow Whistleblower Report After FOIA

By Dani Kass

VLSI Technology LLC urged the Federal Circuit Tuesday to unseal at least part of an anonymous whistleblower report that allegedly shows a connection between Intel Corp. and Patent Quality Assurance LLC, now that a copy has become public though the Freedom of Information Act.

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Apple's Fed. Circ. Review Bid Gets Support In Watch Ban Feud

By Adam Lidgett

Technology industry groups and an organization that often files patent challenges have thrown their support behind Apple's fight against a Federal Circuit panel's finding that the U.S. International Trade Commission properly banned imports of Apple Watches with blood oxygen-monitoring features.

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After Feds' Input, Gilstrap Denies Injunction In $445M IP Case

By Theresa Schliep

U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap on Monday rebuffed Collision Communications Inc.'s bid for an injunction blocking Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. from selling products that a jury said were infringing in a $445 million verdict in a case that the federal government used to argue for broader use of injunctions in patent suits.

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Wachtell Lipton, Goodwin Steer $1.5B Analog Devices Deal

By Hailey Konnath

Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Goodwin Procter LLP are advising semiconductor company Analog Devices Inc. and Empower Semiconductor in a $1.5 billion all-cash tie-up, according to an announcement made Tuesday.

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Seeborg's Term As Calif. Northern District Chief Judge To End

By Bonnie Eslinger

Chief District Judge Richard Seeborg is expected to conclude his time as the top judge for the Northern District of California in July, according to a spokesperson for the judiciary, to be succeeded by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.

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She Has A Point: Sheppard's Michelle Replogle

By Theresa Schliep

When Michelle Replogle of Sheppard and Nitika Gupta Fiorella of Fish & Richardson PC were opponents in a patent case, Fiorella said, Replogle stood out for her expertise and respect, which she showed to everyone regardless of their experience or whom they represented in the litigation.

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Ga. Law Expands Safeguards For Chatbot Users

By Chart Riggall

Georgia became one of the latest states this year to put up new guardrails on AI-powered chatbots, implementing stricter regulations than some of its peers while shutting the door on private litigation arising from practices that violate the new statute.

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NY Worries Verizon Service Shift Will Impact Critical Needs

By Nadia Dreid

Verizon has sought the FCC's blessing to retire older voice and data transmission services in eight different states, but New York state officials want the agency to hold off, arguing the suspension would put "essential public services and critical community functions" at risk.

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Chinese Testing Lab Urges FCC Caution On 'Reciprocal' Rule

By Christopher Cole

A Chinese equipment testing lab says the Federal Communications Commission needs to tread carefully in crafting new rules demanding "reciprocal" agreements to test communications gear, or risk disrupting U.S. supply chains.

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EU Parliament Approves Stricter Steel Duty Regime

By Dylan Moroses

The European Parliament approved a regulation to strengthen the European Union's protections from global steel overcapacity, cutting the tariff-free import quota by 47% while doubling the duty on imports beyond the quota to 50%, according to a news release Tuesday.

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7th Circ. Questions Bid To Revive Wis. Reverse Bias Suit

By Lauraann Wood

A Seventh Circuit panel seemed skeptical Tuesday of four former Infosys Technologies employees' argument that a lower court should have considered their name-recognition expert's opinions before it issued a class certification denial and summary judgment ruling that tanked their reverse discrimination case.

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Alphabet Investors Win Class Cert. In Ad Auction Suit

By Sydney Price

A California federal judge certified a class of Alphabet investors accusing Google and CEO Sundar Pichai of misleading the market about whether its digital ad auctions favored Facebook's advertising network, finding common questions outweigh individualized issues.

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NC Judge OKs DOJ, RealPage Deal In Antitrust Suit

By Grace Dixon

A North Carolina federal judge signed off on the U.S. Department of Justice's settlement with RealPage, the latest development in a suit alleging landlords coordinated to inflate rental prices via the company's algorithmic pricing software.

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Asus Resolves Patent Case Involving Rare Injunction Request

By Elliot Weld

Sisvel's patent pool has reached a deal with Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus to license its standard essential pool of Wi-Fi multimode patents, resolving litigation that includes a case between one pool member and an Asus unit in which the pool was seeking a rare request for a permanent injunction on standard essential patents.

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Squires Ends Samsung-Requested IPR Over Related PGR

By Dani Kass

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board will no longer conduct an inter partes review into the validity of an Omni MedSci wearable device patent, now that there will be a separate post-grant review.

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Ill. Justices Wary Of Uber's Push To Arbitrate Fatal Crash Suit

By Celeste Bott

Illinois Supreme Court justices on Tuesday pressed an attorney for Uber to explain how a widow's arbitration agreement through her own ride-sharing account is applicable to the wrongful death claims she has filed on behalf of her husband, who died as a passenger on a ride booked through his own Uber app. 

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Pa. Panel Won't Undo Arbitration In Airbnb Death Case

By Y. Peter Kang

The Pennsylvania Superior Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by the estate of a man who died while staying at an Airbnb property, saying a recent state high court ruling bars it from reviewing a trial court's decision to send the case to arbitration.

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Fla. Court Urged To Keep Stay On $15M VPN Piracy Judgment

By David Minsky

A man who found himself on the wrong side of a more than $15 million default judgment for pirating movies through his virtual private network provider and then filed for bankruptcy urged a Florida federal court to continue its stay on enforcing the judgment.

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Intel Says Texas Law Doesn't Support Russian Missile Claims

By Spencer Brewer

Intel and other semiconductor manufacturers asked a Texas federal judge to throw out claims that they negligently sold products the Russian government used to build missiles that killed Ukrainian civilians, saying Tuesday that the civilians' claims have no basis in Texas law.

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Students Defend Hacking Claims Against UMich, Ex-Coach

By David Steele

The students accusing the University of Michigan and a former football coach of sexual harassment and of hacking their accounts insist that the facts favor them and not the school and coach, and that their lawsuit should be allowed to continue.

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Ex-Trader Says Crypto Co.'s Bid For Sanctions Is 'Unfounded'

By Hayley Fowler

A former trader said a cryptocurrency company is using an "unfounded" characterization of his deposition conduct to seek sanctions and lend credence to facts it hasn't otherwise been able to prove in its suit accusing him of usurping $8.1 million in digital assets.

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Google Accused Of Bias Against Dad Who Took Baby Leave

By Gina Kim

Google's former global sales manager was targeted for taking protected medical leave and baby bonding leave and "treated with a lack of empathy and understanding for needing time off as a single father," he alleged in a discrimination lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

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Amazon Unit Twitch Again Accused Of Infringing Gaming IP

By Hailey Konnath

A Utah gaming company has once again lobbed patent infringement claims at Amazon's streaming platform unit, Twitch, claiming that Twitch is infringing four patents covering video game streaming, synchronizing, and related technologies.

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Colo. Co. Seeks More Boeing Discovery In NASA IP Fight

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado aerospace company claimed The Boeing Co. has failed to disclose numerous witnesses and records through discovery in the company's lawsuit accusing Boeing of stealing its patented technology to use on NASA's Artemis moon exploration program, according to a motion to compel filed in Washington federal court Monday.

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Data Security Firm Inflated Subscription Growth, Investor Says

By Taylor Bowie

An artificial intelligence-powered data management and security company overestimated its annual revenue growth by $6 million, leading to inflated stock sales and dramatic losses, according to a proposed investor class action filed in New Jersey federal court Monday.

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Groq, Doctor Strike Deal To End 'Groq Health' TM Suit

By Elliot Weld

Silicon Valley chipmaker Groq has reached a settlement to end a trademark infringement case it brought in New York federal court against an endocrinologist with a similarly named company.

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Medtronic Whistleblower Suit Stayed Amid Settlement Talks

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado state judge granted a 30-day stay in a former Medtronic Inc. executive's wrongful termination lawsuit against the company amid the parties reaching a settlement in principle.

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Trump Admin Asks 9th Circ. To Revive Voter Data Suits

By Bonnie Eslinger

Federal prosecutors urged the Ninth Circuit Tuesday to revive lawsuits against California and Oregon claiming states are required to hand over voter registration lists that include driver's license and Social Security numbers, saying the data would be used to look for noncitizens and others not eligible to vote.

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TikTok Says 'Market Exploitation' Doesn't Give NC Jurisdiction

By Mike Curley

TikTok is pushing the North Carolina Supreme Court to throw out claims by the state's attorney general alleging it deceptively marketed its platform as safe for minors, saying the "market exploitation" theory would in effect allow any business that operates on the internet to be hauled into any state court.

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GAO Backs NASA In Protest Over IT Contract Line Items

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Government Accountability Office said NASA was justified in terminating a company from competition to provide agency-wide IT services, finding the company provided conflicting information over its outside designated providers, thereby failing to satisfy contract line item requirements.

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Winston & Strawn IP Litigator Jumps To Faegre Drinker In SF

By Madison Arnold

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has announced it grew its intellectual property group in San Francisco with a new partner from Winston & Strawn LLP who has a computer engineering background.

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Cooley Adds Privacy Duo From Perkins Coie In DC, Denver

By Andrea Keckley

Cooley LLP announced on Tuesday that it has welcomed two attorneys to its cyber, data and privacy practice from Perkins Coie LLP, one of whom had cochaired that firm's privacy and security practice.

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What Model Risk Guidance Update Means For Banks

Federal prudential regulators recently issued new model risk management guidance for banks that is designed to reduce prescriptive supervisory expectations and instead focus more on material financial risk, so banking organizations should reassess their model inventories, apply the new materiality framework and update their internal policies, say attorneys at Orrick.

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DTSA Data Shows Hidden Value Of Ex Parte Seizure Filings

Ten years of Defend Trade Secrets Act data indicate that although there is a low success rate for civil seizure applications, intellectual property litigators should continue filing them anyway in order to better their odds of obtaining other provisional relief, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

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A Fed. Circ. Blueprint For Drafting Medical Device Patents

The Federal Circuit's decision in Constellation Designs v. LG last month, among other recent rulings, underscores the importance of emphasizing engineering, rather than clinical goals, when drafting patent claims for medical devices and software as a medical device, says Brandon Theiss at Volpe Koenig.

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Operational AI Washing: The Section 220 Information Strategy

Plaintiffs filing AI washing claims will likely use Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law to obtain internal board records, but 2025 amendments have fundamentally changed the landscape of presuit shareholder document demands in ways that create both risk and opportunity for companies, say attorneys at Akerman.

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AI Regulatory Gaps May Fuel FCA Enforcement Action

The intersection of artificial intelligence and False Claims Act enforcement presents legal risk for government contractors across several industries, particularly in the absence of a federal regulatory framework explicitly governing its development and use, say attorneys at O’Melveny.

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Becoming The Biz-Savvy GC That Portfolio Companies Need

Candidates for general counsel roles at private equity-backed portfolio companies should prioritize proving their sector-specific experience, commercial judgment and ease with uncertainty — and attorneys hoping to be candidates in five to 10 years should start working on those skills now, says Dimitri Mastrocola at Major Lindsey.

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The 2026 Summer Associates Survey

By Daniela Porat

Law students hoping to land summer associate roles at their dream firms have to start applying earlier and earlier, forcing students to strike a difficult balance between focusing on academics and completing applications. Find out how students navigated the ever-competitive process and which firms topped students’ wish lists in the latest survey from Law360 Pulse.

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2nd Circ. Nixes $900M Suit Against Boies Schiller, Dentons

By Caroline Simson

The Second Circuit Tuesday refused to revive a racketeering lawsuit seeking up to $900 million in damages from Dentons and Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, in which the BigLaw firms were accused of misleading a former client in relation to a deal, and later arbitration, involving Senegal's state-owned energy company.

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$1.8B IRS Deal Fund 'Not Slush Fund,' Blanche Tells Senators

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche argued before a Senate committee on Tuesday that the nearly $1.8 billion settlement fund announced on Monday as part of the president's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax documents "is not a slush fund."

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Quinn Emanuel Owes More Sanctions In Guardant Fight

By Lauren Berg

Quinn Emanuel and its team representing medical testing company Natera will shoulder further sanctions on top of the $3 million already imposed over the firm's misrepresentations concerning an expert witness in Guardant Health's false advertising case, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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Nelson Mullins Partner Confirmed To SC Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 52-38 on Tuesday to confirm Sheria Clarke, a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, as a judge for the District of South Carolina.

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Brother May Pay Ex-BigLaw Atty's Legal Fees In Insider Case

By Julie Manganis

A former BigLaw associate charged with orchestrating a sweeping insider trading scheme can have his legal expenses covered by his co-defendant brother if the two waive potential conflicts, a Massachusetts federal magistrate judge said Tuesday.

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