How 3 Courts Are Approaching AI Adoption

By Emily Sawicki

The rules surrounding artificial intelligence experimentation in courts run the gamut from court systems offering proprietary tools and training to unwritten policies that essentially amount to don't ask, don't tell.

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With Data And AI, Whistleblowers Set Off An FCA Tidal Wave

By Phillip Bantz

Whistleblowers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to comb through public data in search of potential False Claims Act cases, unleashing a flood of new complaints that are shaking up white collar defense and government enforcement efforts while subjecting more companies to potentially false allegations, experts say.

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Legal Tech Co. Sues US Over Anthropic AI Shutdown Order

By Emily Sawicki

Legal tech company Legion has sued the U.S. government in D.C. federal court over a directive ordering Anthropic to shut down two of its advanced AI models to foreigners, alleging the move caused the company to lose access to one of the models that powers its platform.

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Squires Seeks Patent Ax Explanation In $93M Samsung Row

By Ryan Davis

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has told the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to explain why it found part of a Pictiva Displays organic light-emitting diode patent invalid, after a Texas jury rejected Samsung's invalidity defense and told it to pay $92.6 million for infringing the patent.

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Latest Squires Summary Order Grants 3 Petitions, Denies 1

By Theresa Schliep

A new bulk order from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires granted three petitions for patent challenges and denied one more, while referring three petitions for review on the merits.

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SitusAMC's $5.3M Data Breach Deal Draws Judicial Scrutiny

By Allison Grande

A New York federal judge is asking the plaintiffs suing real estate finance services firm SitusAMC over a 2025 data breach for additional information about the administration and public notice of their newly disclosed $5.3 million deal to resolve negligence and other claims stemming from the incident, saying the details are necessary for preliminary approval. 

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Dem Lawmakers Probe SEC On Brokerage AI Agents

By Sarah Jarvis

Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee have urged U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins to detail the agency's perspective on brokerage and investment advice provided through agentic artificial intelligence, saying agentic trading by retail brokerage platforms "raises serious questions for investor protection, broker-dealer responsibilities, market integrity, and the accountability of AI developers."

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AT&T Tells FCC It's Time To OK End Of Copper In California

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has already found untrue the reasons California has given for why it won't let AT&T stop providing telephone service through legacy copper wires, the telecom giant said Wednesday, arguing the agency should let it go over the state's head and stop using copper lines.

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DirecTV Calls For FCC To Rework Spectrum Sharing Regs

By Nadia Dreid

DirecTV is worried that the revamp the Federal Communications Commission has planned for spectrum sharing rules in two bands critical to satellite operations do not provide enough protection against interference and wants the agency to make a few changes.

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Prison Phone Co. Seeks Rate Cap Waivers From FCC

By Christopher Cole

One of the country's largest prison phone service providers has asked the Federal Communications Commission to waive certain rate caps on inmates' audio and video calls at hundreds of locations, saying it will otherwise be unable to recoup its costs at those sites.

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Brief

New Expert Group Pushes Policies To Foster NGSO Satellites

By Christopher Cole

A new trade group has been created and will advocate in Washington, D.C., for the top priorities of the fast-growing nongeostationary orbit satellite industry, according to a Wednesday announcement.

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4th Circ. Says Cyber Co. Owes Nothing In Licensing Row

By Nadia Dreid

The Fourth Circuit has said a Virginia federal court got it right the second time when dispensing with a long-running dispute between cybersecurity company Vir2us and a cloud-enabled cybersecurity firm that Vir2us says owes it royalties under a patent licensing deal.

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TTAB Says Canceled Registration Can't Save TextNow TM Bid

By Ivan Moreno

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has refused TextNow Inc.'s bid to register "Touch Mobile" for phones and wireless messaging services, ruling in a precedential decision that the company cannot rely on a canceled registration for the same mark to overcome a likelihood of confusion with another company's existing registration for "Mobile Touch."

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Ethical Wall Can't Cure Quinn Emanuel's Conflict, Judge Told

By Craig Clough

An attorney for CoStar on Wednesday urged a California federal judge to disqualify Quinn Emanuel from representing a rival commercial real estate platform in their intellectual property dispute, saying the firm's ethical wall cannot fix the conflict of interest problem over its representation of a CoStar subsidiary in separate litigation.

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Mullen IP Should Be Invalidated In Samsung Case, Judge Says

By Adam Lidgett

A Texas federal judge has recommended letting Samsung escape a lawsuit alleging the location-based services on its mobile devices infringe Mullen Industries patents, finding that claims of the patents were invalid under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice standard.

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PTAB Declines Another Tesla Patent Invalidation Bid

By Elliot Weld

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board found that a patent covering wireless network technology was not unpatentable despite Tesla Inc.'s arguments that it was invalid for obviousness, dealing the company a second blow in two days on its challenges to patents asserted by Intellectual Ventures II LLC.

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Zync Fights Block Of ITC Trade Secret Case Against BMW

By Adam Lidgett

Technology company Zync Inc. wants a California federal court to pause an order blocking it from pursuing a trade secrets case against BMW at the U.S. International Trade Commission, calling the court's decision "extraordinary."

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Claritev Can't Use 'Unclean Hands' Defense In Antitrust MDL

By Gianna Ferrarin

Healthcare data firm Claritev and a group of major insurers can't assert an unclean hands defense in multidistrict litigation accusing payors of scheming to fix reimbursement rates through the data firm's pricing tools, an Illinois federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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DraftKings Tracks Users, Shares Data With Brokers, Suit Says

By David Steele

DraftKings illegally installed tracking code that shared users' personal information with third-party data brokers without the users' knowledge or consent, according to a suit against the sports betting platform in California federal court.

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EV Charging Co. Lenders, Ex-CEO Escape Liquidity Woes Suit

By Katryna Perera

A New York federal judge has trimmed claims and dismissed several defendants from a proposed investor class action against the current and former executives of bankrupt electric-vehicle charging infrastructure company Charge Enterprises Inc., who they allege concealed a liquidity crisis involving the company's founder and his investment advisory firm that allegedly precipitated Charge's bankruptcy.

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3D Printing Co. Settles Ex-Operator's Misclassification Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A Colorado-based 3D concrete printing company settled a proposed collective action alleging it misclassified equipment operators as overtime-exempt and paid them a salary without overtime premiums, according to a notice filed in Colorado federal court.

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Cleary-Led Korean Tech Giant SK Hynix Targets $29B US IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

South Korea-based flash memory chipmaker SK Hynix on Wednesday filed plans with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering that could raise up to $29.4 billion.

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Qualcomm To Acquire AI Software Startup Modular For $3.9B

By Al Barbarino

Qualcomm Inc. said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire software developer Modular Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $3.9 billion, as the chipmaker moves to expand its artificial intelligence software stack from connected devices into data center and cloud environments.

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Latham, Willkie Lead $2.5B Agility Robotics SPAC Merger

By Al Barbarino

Agility Robotics said Wednesday it has agreed to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Churchill Capital Corp XI, with Latham & Watkins LLP advising Agility and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP representing the SPAC on a deal valuing the humanoid robotics company at $2.5 billion.

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Brief

Fed. Circ. Won't Revisit Ruling On $1.5B IT Contract Correction

By Elaine Briseño

The Federal Circuit declined an IT contractor's request to rehear a case that led to the U.S. Department of Commerce taking corrective action over a $1.5 billion procurement during litigation.

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Engineer Traded Off Microsoft's Nuclear Plans, Feds Say

By Sydney Price

An ex-Constellation Energy engineering manager was accused in an indictment in Delaware federal court and by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of trading securities using nonpublic information about the company's confidential plans with Microsoft Corp. to potentially relaunch an inactive nuclear reactor.

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Winston Taylor Taps DLA Piper ITC Atty As Practice Chair

By Jack Rodgers

Winston Taylor has hired a DLA Piper partner in Washington, D.C., who is joining the firm to chair its U.S. International Trade Commission practice, the firm has announced.

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Trump AI Order: Voluntary Framework, Mandatory Implications

President Donald Trump's recent executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a new framework for government collaboration with the AI industry, but its classified benchmarking criteria, prerelease framework terms and operational rules will determine whether it establishes de facto compliance expectations, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

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Agentic AI And Securities Law: The Machine As A Manipulator

The market manipulation doctrine that emerges following the rise of agentic artificial intelligence may be more focused on market effects than on individual states of mind, and more attentive to system design than to discrete acts of deception, says Joseph A. Hall at Davis Polk.

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Steps For Employers After 7th Circ. BIPA Retroactivity Ruling

The Seventh Circuit's recent ruling in Clay v. Union Pacific sharply limits per-scan statutory damages theories in pending Biometric Information Privacy Act cases by retroactively applying a 2024 amendment, but employers should not mistake the holding for a broad safe harbor, say attorneys at Thompson Coburn.

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Why Highly Specialized Experts May Risk Exclusion At Trial

Expert witnesses with highly specific areas of focus may be vulnerable to exclusion in court, making it important for attorneys to check how potential witnesses' qualifications can be bolstered by their publications and other professional activities, say Evan Weisberg and Christopher Cunio at Hunton, and Kevin Cahill at FTI Consulting.

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Tracking The Rare 'Quick Look' Win In FTC's Zillow-Redfin Suit

The Federal Trade Commission’s suit claiming that Zillow illegally paid Redfin to exit the apartment rental market is one to watch because its early success under the less rigorous “quick look” standard of antitrust review could turn into a rare case won under the doctrine, say attorneys at Axinn.

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Conn. Justices Threaten Sanctions For AI Errors

By Andrea Keckley

The Connecticut Supreme Court has threatened to sanction GLG Law LLC and one of its attorneys for submitting documents in two cases "that misrepresented the law through the use of generative artificial intelligence," according to a Tuesday order that summoned them to appear in court next month.

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Atty DQ Over Inadvertent Doc Disclosure Overturned

By Y. Peter Kang

A California state appeals court has upended the disqualification of defense counsel in a sexual battery suit, saying documents undermining the case that were accidentally produced via a Dropbox link were not privileged.

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DOJ Nominee Questioned About Deleted Social Media Posts

By Courtney Bublé

A nominee for a top U.S. Department of Justice position, who is a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur, came under fire on Wednesday for past social media posts that he's now deleted.

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Booker, Cassidy Press DOJ On Trump Immunity Deal

By Courtney Bublé

Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., wrote to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday expressing "serious concerns" about the alleged immunity for President Donald Trump, his family and businesses in the controversial settlement he reached with the IRS.

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