Technology

  • June 10, 2026

    IP Notebook: Cox's Reach, 'Top Gun' Appeal, 'Lazy' Videos

    This round of Law360's review of emerging copyright and trademark issues looks at the ripple effects from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on secondary copyright liability and highlights looming high court bids over "Top Gun" and Roberto Clemente's likeness on commemorative license plates.

  • June 10, 2026

    PTAB Upholds 1 Stratasys Patent, Axes Claims In Another

    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated certain claims in a 3D printing patent owned by U.S.-Israeli company Stratasys, but agreed to keep the claims in another patent alive in challenges launched by a Chinese company accused of infringement.

  • June 10, 2026

    Warren Asks SEC To Delay SpaceX IPO Over 'Troubling' Risks

    U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to delay SpaceX's anticipated $75 billion initial public offering until steps are taken to protect investors and market integrity, expressing concerns that the company's books contain "troubling gaps," and the IPO poses "unique and precedent-setting" risk.

  • June 10, 2026

    5 Firms Guide AI Startup Robseek's $1B SPAC Merger

    Robseek Intelligence Inc. has agreed to go public through a merger with blank-check company QuasarEdge Acquisition Corp. in a deal valuing the AI company at about $1 billion pre-money equity, with five law firms advising across the U.S., China and offshore jurisdictions. 

  • June 10, 2026

    Data Security Biz Valued At $12B After $600M Funding Round

    Data security company Cyera announced Wednesday that it reached a $12 billion valuation after raising $600 million from investors in its latest funding round, quadrupling the company's valuation over the last 18 months.

  • June 10, 2026

    Zillow-Redfin Noncompete Deal Sank Stock, Investor Claims

    A proposed class of Zillow Group Inc. shareholders accused the property listings company of making an anticompetitive noncompete agreement with rival Redfin Corp., which caused the federal government to file an antitrust suit and Zillow's common stock value to drop.

  • June 10, 2026

    Figure, Sixth Street Team Up On $717M Kiavi Mortgage Deal

    Figure Technology Solutions said Wednesday it is acquiring residential real estate lender Kiavi in a $717 million deal that pairs a blockchain-native capital markets platform with an AI-driven mortgage origination engine, with the backing of private credit firm Sixth Street and three law firms advising. 

  • June 09, 2026

    XAI, SpaceX Sued Over Data Center Plant's 'Intrusive' Noises

    Residents of a Mississippi suburb have accused Elon Musk's xAI and SpaceX companies of upending their community's "small-town charm" by operating a noisy power plant to power massive artificial intelligence data centers, saying in a proposed federal class action that the operations diminish their home values and quality of life.

  • June 09, 2026

    Judge Pans Uber's 'Nonstop' Discovery Violation In FTC Fight

    A California federal magistrate judge refused Tuesday to give Uber more time to produce data to the Federal Trade Commission in litigation alleging the ride-hailing company dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, saying during a hearing that Uber "has been in nonstop violation" of the court's April 10 data production deadline.

  • June 09, 2026

    Fox Rothschild Sued Over Data Breach Tied To Ransom Group

    Fox Rothschild LLP was hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday accusing the national law firm of failing to adequately protect the "highly sensitive and confidential" personal data entrusted to it from being exposed to a prominent ransomware group in a data breach last month. 

  • June 09, 2026

    Anthropic, Other Tech Giants Get Authors' Copyright Suit Split

    A group of writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou, will have to pursue their claims of copyright infringement against Anthropic, Apple, Google, Perplexity AI, Nvidia and xAI in separate lawsuits, a California federal judge ruled, siding with the tech giants.

  • June 09, 2026

    Morrison Foerster Brings On Sidley Patent Litigation Duo

    A pair of Sidley Austin LLP patent and trade secrets litigators, including the firm's co-leader of its global intellectual property practice, have departed for Morrison Foerster LLP, according to an announcement made Tuesday.

  • June 09, 2026

    ITC Judge Won't Let Everspin Out Of Memory Chip IP Case

    An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has denied Everspin Technologies' request to shut down a case brought by Avalanche Technology Inc. related to its memory chip patents, after Everspin alleged Avalanche had wrongly paid discounted fees meant for small businesses for years.

  • June 09, 2026

    Kalshi To Start Requiring Employer Info For Certain Markets

    Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will start requiring users to verify their employer before they can trade on certain markets, and will further implement features allowing users to directly report suspicious trading activity.

  • June 09, 2026

    Agensys Sues Biopharmas For Alleged Trade Secret Theft

    Agensys Inc. filed a trade secret misappropriation suit in California federal court Tuesday against a U.S.-based cancer research firm and two alleged Chinese affiliates, claiming they stole confidential information for oncology antibodies developed at Agensys and that the theft was "willful and malicious."

  • June 09, 2026

    Former XAI Engineer Says He Was Fired Over Safety Warnings

    A former engineer at Elon Musk's xAI claims he was fired after repeatedly raising concerns about safety, discriminatory bias and other risks associated with the artificial intelligence company's chatbot Grok, according to a lawsuit lodged Tuesday in California state court.

  • June 09, 2026

    FCC Looks To Spur Submarine Cables With New Security Reg

    The Federal Communications Commission will start presuming that submarine cable applications that meet certain qualifications don't have to be referred to the executive branch for national security reviews, if the agency votes yes later this month on the order it'll have before it.

  • June 09, 2026

    Microsoft Looks To Ax 3D Artist's Copyright Info AI Suit

    Microsoft Corp. urged a Washington federal court to throw out a Los Angeles-based 3D artist's proposed class action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying the artist failed to allege that the company ever removed copyright information from his content or shared his copyright-protected works.

  • June 09, 2026

    EU Orders Meta To Give Rival Chatbots Free WhatsApp Access

    European enforcers ordered Meta Platforms to give rival artificial intelligence chatbots free access to WhatsApp amid an antitrust investigation into the messaging service, despite Meta taking steps to provide access for a fee after previously blocking rival assistants.

  • June 09, 2026

    DOJ Says Timing, Lack Of Injury Doom TikTok Deal Challenge

    The U.S. Department of Justice has urged the D.C. Circuit to toss a challenge to the Trump administration's approval of TikTok's sale to American investors, arguing the engineers seeking to stop the deal filed their challenge too late and lack standing.

  • June 09, 2026

    Mayors Rally To Fight Permit 'Shot Clocks,' This Time At FCC

    U.S. mayors are back fighting proposals to impose strict deadlines on local reviews of broadband projects, but this time their focus is not just on Capitol Hill but on the Federal Communications Commission.

  • June 09, 2026

    BOTS Act Judge Reverses, Tosses Challenge To FTC Case

    A Maryland federal judge reversed course Tuesday and dismissed a preemptive lawsuit challenging one of the Federal Trade Commission's first online ticketing cases, concluding the ticket resellers can raise their constitutional arguments in addressing the FTC's allegations rather than pursuing a separate suit of their own.

  • June 09, 2026

    Fed. Circ. Upholds $37.5M Patent Verdict Against TP-Link

    The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a $37.5 million patent infringement verdict against two companies selling TP-Link wireless network devices that were sued by patent licensing company Atlas Global Technologies LLC.

  • June 09, 2026

    OnlyFans Users Ask 9th Circ. To Revive Calif. Auto-Renew Suit

    OnlyFans subscribers on Tuesday urged the Ninth Circuit to revive a proposed class action alleging unlawful subscription auto-renewals, arguing California courts have jurisdiction over the platform's U.K. parent company because it auto-renews thousands of Golden State subscriptions and generates $400 million from the state annually.

  • June 09, 2026

    PTAB Rules Micron Didn't Show Yangtze Patent Is Invalid

    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Tuesday found that Micron Technology Inc. failed to prove a Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. integrated circuit patent was invalid, the latest episode in a patent fight between the companies spanning the board and federal court.

Expert Analysis

  • Unpacking The Take It Down Act's Compliance Ambiguities

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    The Federal Trade Commission’s recent guidance concerning the Take It Down Act suggests that covered platforms should build removal systems immediately and prioritize compliance, but until courts or regulators provide additional clarity, companies will be navigating a statutory framework that is urgent and uncertain, says Laura-Kate Bernstein at Zwillgen.

  • Protecting AI-Driven Innovation In Life Sciences IP

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    Recent developments, including the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's evolving inventorship standards, and the impact of artificial intelligence on the "person of ordinary skill in the art" standard demand that life sciences companies elevate AI patent strategy to a top priority, says Sandra Haberny at Quinn Emanuel.

  • Opinion

    Agentic AI And Securities Law: Steps Congress Should Take

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    Agentic artificial technology doesn't fit comfortably into the existing securities regulatory landscape, so Congress should avoid repeating the mistakes that led to the legal uncertainty crypto companies and investors have faced over the past decade-plus by providing a legislative framework before AI fully matures, says Joseph A. Hall at Davis Polk.

  • What Colorado AI Law's Major Rewrite Means For Employers

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    Colorado's landmark law regulating employers' use of artificial intelligence tools was recently replaced with a narrower regime that eliminates many burdensome obligations, but still imposes a host of requirements focused on transparency and accountability, say attorneys at Proskauer.

  • Operational AI Washing: The Next Frontier Of Fiduciary Risk

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    While there are still no final Delaware decisions applying Caremark specifically to artificial intelligence governance failures, previous case law provides a blueprint, so the question for boards is whether their governance architectures will satisfy Caremark when the first cases are decided, say attorneys at Akerman.

  • A Look At The Court's Next Steps In Live Nation Antitrust Case

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    Following a recent jury verdict that Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly to fix ticket prices, a New York federal court stands to weigh Live Nation's bid for a new trial, approve the U.S. Department of Justice's March settlement with the defendants, and impose remedies that include full structural separation, say attorneys at Crowell.

  • Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

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    A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

  • Green Card Memo Warps Long-Standing Adjustment Process

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    A recent policy memorandum that treats a nonimmigrant visa holder’s decision to seek adjustment of status in the U.S., rather than at a U.S. consulate, as an adverse factor reinterprets existing discretionary frameworks, compounds risks for applicants required to apply abroad and changes practitioner approaches to application preparation, says attorney Jack Jrada.

  • Tips For Protecting Privilege On Multinational IP Teams

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    As recent court rulings illustrate how fact-specific privilege determinations have become in modern legal workflows, corporations with multinational intellectual property teams must take steps to deliberately preserve attorney-client privillege through clear roles, confidentiality controls and disciplined communication practices, say Taylor Stemler and Grace Neumann at Merchant & Gould.

  • Series

    The Biz Court Digest: Shoring Up Corporate Law In Maryland

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    Launched more than 20 years ago to improve complex corporate adjudication, Maryland's Business and Technology Case Management Program has been a solid success in some areas, but there always is room for improvement, says Bill Krulak at Miles & Stockbridge.

  • 2nd Circ.'s Embedded Video Ruling May Protect Publishers

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    The Second Circuit's recent decision in Richardson v. Townsquare, dismissing an infringement claim arising from an embedding of a YouTube-hosted interview, reaffirms a potent defense for publishers who regularly use social media platforms' embed functionality, says Amanda Harris at Jassy Vick.

  • Product-Or-Content Question Is Pivotal In AI Litigation

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    A growing range of civil cases against OpenAI address the question of whether the output of a generative artificial intelligence system is a product, subject to traditional tort doctrine, or third-party content — and the framing courts adopt will shape software liability well beyond AI, says David Meldofsky at Lawsuit Informer.

  • Citron Founder Verdict Tests Reach Of 'Half-Truth' Fraud

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    A California federal jury's conviction this week of Citron founder Andrew Left may be remembered less as a conventional manipulation prosecution than as a case about how far the "half-truth" doctrine can reach when applied to modern market speech, says Elisha Kobre at Sheppard.

  • Series

    Competing At Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing poker in male-dominated rooms taught me to treat skepticism as background noise when my opponents seem to underestimate me, to apply pressure when it matters and to adapt without losing strategic discipline — skills that are all indispensable in restructuring and insolvency matters, says Alexis Gambale at Pashman Stein.

  • FTC Sweep Signals Increased 'Made In USA' Claim Scrutiny

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    After the Federal Trade Commission's recent enforcement sweep targeting allegedly deceptive "Made in USA" claims, companies should expect continued scrutiny of both traditional and digital marketing channels, coupled with sustained focus on supply chain transparency and claim substantiation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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