Wilson Sonsini, Freshfields Advise Anthropic's IPO Filing

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Claude developer Anthropic PBC on Monday filed plans for its long-anticipated blockbuster initial public offering steered by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Freshfields LLP.

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Anthropic Pilfered Elvis Presley Songs To Train AI, Suit Says

By Ivan Moreno

Owners of copyrights in 274 songs recorded by Elvis Presley have sued Anthropic for nearly $50 million, alleging the artificial intelligence company used their lyrics for training data, stripped identifying information and enabled its chatbot Claude to generate infringing material.

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Meta Docs Reveal Plan To Discredit Teen-Harm Critic Haidt

By Dorothy Atkins

Meta internally set a goal to "get the academic community to disavow" and "turn against" professor Jonathan Haidt, who has linked social media use to mental health decline, as it in-house rebuffed internal efforts to study social media's impact on teen health, according to recently unredacted documents filed publicly Friday.

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Analysis

Whistleblower 'Gold Rush' Might Strain DOJ, Experts Warn

By Phillip Bantz

A new federal program offering cash for tips that result in criminal fraud charges is poised to set off a whistleblower "gold rush" that could uncover more fraudsters, but might also invite a high number of low-quality claims that burden businesses and strain limited U.S. Department of Justice resources, experts say.

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Hewlett Packard Hits Exec With AI Trade Secret Suit

By Adam Lidgett

Hewlett Packard Enterprise says in a Colorado federal court suit that an executive it has placed on administrative leave is improperly in possession of trade secrets covering an artificial intelligence tool he oversaw the development of.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week approved a $250 million settlement of litigation over Microsoft Corp.'s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc., while Albertsons Cos. Inc. accused Kroger Co. of rejecting changes that could have saved their $24.6 billion merger, and the Delaware Supreme Court ordered Verisk Analytics Inc. to keep pursuing a $2.35 billion acquisition.

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DOJ Says US Can Ax NAACP Suit Over X.AI Pollution

By Madeline Lyskawa

The federal government continued to argue that it can dismiss a NAACP citizen suit alleging X.AI Corp. unlawfully installed dozens of polluting gas turbines to power a data center days after a Mississippi federal judge found no support for such an assertion.

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Colo. AI Rules Face Calls For Longer Compliance Window

By Allison Grande

Business groups across the tech, banking and other industries pushed Colorado's attorney general Monday to revisit his proposed rules for the use of artificial intelligence to make consequential decisions and to fuel chatbots in order to address concerns such as their potential conflict with existing laws and the tight window for implementation.

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Treasury Seeks To Expand Curbs On AI And Biotech Deals

By Dylan Moroses

The U.S. Treasury Department is looking to expand its security program for foreign-based investments to cover new technologies and countries of concern, proposing rules that would prohibit certain investments in artificial intelligence and biotechnologies while also creating new exceptions for the program.

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FCC Asked To Combine Study Areas For 4 Iowa Telecoms

By Christopher Cole

Four Iowa local exchange carriers will be joined into one corporate entity, and they have asked the Federal Communications Commission to sign off on the combination of their coverage areas for purposes of federal aid.

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South Carolina AG Backs FCC's Prison Phone Jamming Plan

By Christopher Cole

South Carolina's attorney general wrote to the chief of the Federal Communications Commission to support a proposal that would allow prisons to jam the signals of contraband cellphones.

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Amazon Can't Exit Liquidator's Alleged $140M Overcharge Suit

By Rachel Riley

A federal judge in Seattle has refused to throw out liquidator Xcess Ltd.'s lawsuit seeking to recoup nearly $140 million in alleged overpayments to Amazon, concluding the plaintiff has shown the e-commerce giant "intentionally and knowingly ignored its contractual obligation" under a deal to sell surplus inventory to Xcess.

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Data-Scraping Co. Says Reddit Must Face Counterclaims

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A data-scraping company accused of acting like "would-be bank robbers" in taking in copyrighted data from Reddit that is then used to train AI said in a brief defending its antitrust counterclaims that the content in question actually belongs to Reddit users, and that Reddit anticompetitively restricts access to it.

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Apple, Microsoft Accused Of Infringing Cybersecurity Patents

By Elliot Weld

Tech giants Apple Inc. and Microsoft have each been sued in Texas federal court by a cybersecurity firm with claims of infringing two patents that cover the detection of memory corruption.

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Legal Tech Co. Clio Says AI Co. Can't Revive Lapsed Data Deal

By Matt Perez

Legal tech company Clio has asked a Virginia federal court to declare it doesn't have to re-up the case law data feed it once shared with artificial intelligence research platform Ross Intelligence, saying the deal became inactive after Ross let its $50,000 annual payments fall by the wayside in 2020 shortly before shutting down its platform.

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Empery Faces Limited Restrictions In ATG Proxy Fight

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court ruled Monday that Empery Digital Inc. must provide activist investor ATG Capital Opportunities Fund LP five business days' notice before taking certain major corporate actions while the parties fight over a disputed board seat, rejecting broader restrictions that could give ATG outsized influence over the company's operations.

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Pa. Panel Revives Clarks Website Visitor's Wiretap Suit

By Allison Grande

A Pennsylvania appellate court has reversed the toss of a proposed class action accusing shoe retailer Clarks of violating the state's wiretap law by sharing website visitors' information with a third-party analytics provider, finding that it wasn't clear whether consumers had adequate notice of the company's data practices.

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6 Firms Steer $5.7B Surgery Partners Take-Private Deal

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Healthcare services organization HealthSpan Partners on Monday announced plans to acquire short-stay surgical facility owner and operator Surgery Partners in an all-cash take-private deal valued at $5.7 billion that was built by six law firms.

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Mawson Creditor Says $1.5M Bond Defeats Contempt Bid

By Jarek Rutz

An Australian creditor that helped force cryptocurrency miner Mawson Infrastructure Group Inc. into bankruptcy has urged the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware to reject the company's bid to hold it in contempt and fine it $10,000 a day, arguing another creditor has already posted the full $1.5 million bond required by the court.

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Google Says DOJ Overreaching With Proposed Antitrust Fixes

By Nadia Dreid

Google has told a D.C. federal court that the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers are trying to force it into unreasonable antitrust measures that go beyond what the court imagined when it handed down its remedies order in the monopolization suit.

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Sterlington Nabs 9-Member Patent Team From Holland & Hart

By Tracey Read

Sterlington PLLC has hired a nine-member patent team led by two former Holland & Hart LLP partners, the firm announced Monday.

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Tort Liability When AI Goes Rogue: Negligence Theory

If reasonable care in the use of artificial intelligence agents cannot eliminate the risk of third-party harm, then AI companies and users of AI agents must consider whether negligence theory provides an adequate framework for assessing harm caused by agents that go rogue, says Donald Hawthorne at Carter Ledyard.

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Why Inter Partes Reviews May Be On The Rebound

Recent inter partes review data shows that rates of referrals and institution rates at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office are increasing, potentially indicating, among other reasons, that patent challengers are adjusting to the USPTO's policy changes, say attorneys at Sterne Kessler.

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2nd Circ. EFAA Ruling Shifts Employer Litigation Strategy

In Diaz-Roa v. Hermes Law, the Second Circuit recently held that, under the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, employers can't carve out nonharassment claims and send them to arbitration, which has implications for discovery, litigation costs and resolution strategy in EFAA-covered disputes, say attorneys at Krevolin Horst.

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At 4th Circ., DOJ Admits But Downplays Goldstein Trial Errors

By Jeff Overley

The U.S. Department of Justice late Tuesday acknowledged that it confused key statutory terms related to jury instructions at famed appellate advocate Tom Goldstein's criminal trial, while also insisting "the government's mistake here was understandable" and shouldn't upend a jury's guilty verdict.

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Brief

Fenwick & West To Match $235K Salary Scale For Associates

By Tracey Read

Fenwick & West LLP is reportedly the latest firm that will raise associate pay in the new year.

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Ex-Fla. Bar Prez Accused Of Botching $350M Estate Claim

By Carolina Bolado

The widow of a Miami real estate investor is suing a former president of the Florida Bar for malpractice, claiming his botched representation left her without a claim to her late husband's $350 million estate.

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Analysis

3 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In November

By Ryan Davis

A high-stakes case that will determine whether the U.S. government should face patent infringement claims over Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines and Labcorp's appeal of a nine-figure patent verdict against it are among the arguments the Federal Circuit will hear in November.

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4th Circ. Says W.Va. Daniel's Law Is Unconstitutional

By Rose Krebs

The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a district court determination striking down as unconstitutional West Virginia's law restricting the publication of the home addresses and phone numbers of law enforcement and judicial officials, saying the district court applied "well-established" First Amendment principles.

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