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August 07, 2025
Tea Dating App Hit With BIPA Suit Over Photo Verifications
Dating safety app Tea has been hit in Illinois state court with proposed class biometric privacy claims by three users who say it illegally analyzes their facial geometry through its identify verification process.
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August 07, 2025
Federal Courts Disclose New Cyberattacks On PACER System
The federal judiciary on Thursday disclosed there have been escalating cyberattacks on its case management system, putting sealed and sensitive case documents at risk, and that it is taking steps to strengthen its security.
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August 07, 2025
PTAB Ordered To Explain Invalidation Of Car Inspection Patent
The Federal Circuit on Thursday faulted the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for invalidating claims in a patent for a radiation-based vehicle inspection system, saying the board's "conclusory assertions and lack of explanation or reasoning" prevent the appeals court from giving its decision a meaningful review.
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August 07, 2025
Crypto Biz Ripple Snags VC-Backed Rail In $200M Deal
Enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company Ripple on Thursday unveiled plans to buy venture capital-backed global payments platform Rail in a $200 million deal.
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August 07, 2025
Ex-Data Co. Execs Charged With $25M 'Round Tripping' Scam
Two executives from bankrupt California data company Near Intelligence Inc. fraudulently inflated the company's revenues by $25 million in a conspiracy that involved a third executive from advertising company MobileFuse LLC, according to a Manhattan federal court indictment unsealed Thursday.
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August 07, 2025
California Anti-Deepfake Law Struck Down By Judge
A California federal judge has agreed to block a California anti-deepfake law as constitutionally and legally invalid, siding with conservative media companies and content creators who argued that the law infringes platforms' First Amendment rights to moderate content on their own and pressures them to censor speech.
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August 07, 2025
Space Tech-Focused Firefly's Upsized $868M IPO Takes Off
Shares of private equity-backed space and defense technology company Firefly Aerospace began trading publicly Thursday after the company priced an upsized $868 million initial public offering, raising upwards of its already once-revised price range.
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August 07, 2025
OpenAI Climbs To $300B Valuation, Plus More Rumors
Tech deals appear to be booming as OpenAI's valuation explodes to $300 billion following an $8.3 billion funding round, Nvidia and CapitalG are rumored to invest in Vast Data in a funding round that could value the artificial intelligence infrastructure provider at up to $30 billion, and AI company Cerebras eyes a $1 billion private capital fundraise.
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August 07, 2025
Haynes Boone Grows NY Office With Ex-Winston Strawn Atty
Haynes Boone has added a litigator previously with Winston & Strawn LLP who once headed the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation division as chair of its financial services investigations and enforcement practice in New York, the firm has announced.
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August 07, 2025
NC Biz Court Bulletin: Divorce Dust-Ups And Judicial Rebukes
Litigation in the North Carolina Business Court is heating up this summer with new complaints centered on fears a former state politician's divorce proceedings will impede his companies' operations and accusations that a climate technology company has failed to pay out a former engineer's ownership interest.
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August 07, 2025
Gig Staffing Cos. Profit By Misclassifying Workers, Court Told
A slew of staffing companies including Instawork misclassify the workers they hire as independent contractors, a nonprofit organization that advocates for workers' rights said in a suit removed to Ohio federal court, accusing the investors backing the companies of racketeering.
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August 07, 2025
State Data Breach Action Against Conn. Firm Dropped
A Connecticut Superior Court judge on Tuesday ordered the withdrawal of a state class action filed by a former Brown Paindiris & Scott LLP client against the 26-attorney firm, as ongoing parallel federal actions alleging a data breach at the firm continue.
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August 06, 2025
Baker Botts Atty Seeks To Trim Patent Exec's Defamation Suit
A Baker Botts LLP intellectual property litigator has urged a Florida federal judge to trim a patent licensing company executive's lawsuit alleging she made defamatory statements about him in news articles, saying some of the claims come too late, and others don't have a basis in facts.
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August 06, 2025
FCC Blocks 185 Voice Providers For Breaking Robocall Regs
Nearly 200 voice service providers will no longer be able to connect to U.S. networks because they refused to comply with Federal Communications Commission regulations aimed at stemming the flood of robocalls being made to people's phones, the agency said.
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August 06, 2025
Calif. Privacy Agency Takes Retailer To Court Over Subpoena
The California Privacy Protection Agency initiated a legal action Wednesday to force Tractor Supply Co. to comply with an investigative subpoena seeking information about the retailer's compliance with the state's data privacy regime dating back to 2020, a demand that the company has contended sweeps too broadly.
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August 06, 2025
Gray TV Urges FCC To Stick With Next-Gen Transition
Broadcast behemoth GrayTV says it's time for the Federal Communications Commission to force the finalization of transition to the next generation of television broadcasting, arguing that the old generation services "place broadcasters at a technological disadvantage."
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August 06, 2025
USPTO's Stewart Suggests Org. Is Eyeing Patent Fee Changes
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart addressed rumors that the Trump administration is considering a new fee on the values of patents on Wednesday, saying Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is "very concerned" about the "disconnect" between the low costs of obtaining patents and their huge worth.
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August 06, 2025
Pomerantz Tapped To Lead MicroStrategy Securities Suit
Pomerantz LLP will serve as lead counsel and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC as liaison counsel for the proposed class of investors in a suit in Virginia federal court alleging that analytics software company MicroStrategy downplayed the risk of major financial losses that followed an update to its crypto accounting methodology.
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August 06, 2025
Judge Says No New Trial In Fleet Monitoring Patent Fight
A California federal judge said Tuesday there is no basis for a new trial after a jury in April cleared Motive Technologies of allegations that it infringed a series of fleet monitoring patents, but ruled that claims in two of the patents were ineligible for patent protection to begin with.
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August 06, 2025
Local Gov'ts Oppose FCC's Fast-Track Rule Cut Process
Local governments banded together Wednesday to oppose a new rulemaking procedure that lets the Federal Communications Commission more deftly slash telecom regulations that it views as outdated.
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August 06, 2025
Feds Give Amazon's Zoox Robotaxis Green Light
Amazon's self-driving car unit, Zoox Inc., has received federal approval to deploy fleets of robotaxis, making the company the first to receive an exemption from Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards for U.S.-built autonomous vehicles under a newly expanded program, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday.
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August 06, 2025
Valve Won't Pay $21M Arb. Fee In Antitrust Fight, Gamers Say
About 15,000 users of Steam, one of the largest online sellers of video games, have accused the platform's operator, Valve, in a new proposed class action in Washington federal court of refusing to pay its nearly $21 million share in arbitration fees stemming from a series of individual antitrust disputes, in which consumers alleged the company inflated the price it charged for games.
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August 06, 2025
Broadcasters Worry Upper C-Band Moves Could Cause Harm
Broadcasters are concerned about a federal plan to turn over more midband airwaves for next-generation mobile use since networks depend on satellites in the existing band to deliver interference-free programs to affiliate stations.
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August 06, 2025
Rev Up Unlicensed Device Power In 6 GHz, FCC Told
Now that the Federal Communications Commission has made 6 gigahertz spectrum more widely available to low-power unlicensed devices, the FCC should raise the devices' allowed power levels to make the band even more useful, a wireless group said.
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August 06, 2025
Texas Judge Axes Wellhead Patent Allegations Over Alice
A Texas federal judge threw out allegations that fracking equipment maker Downing Wellhead Equipment infringed a pair of wellhead control mechanism patents, finding the patents do not pass muster under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.
Expert Analysis
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Learning From Failure
While law school often focuses on the importance of precision, correctness and perfection, mistakes are inevitable in real-world practice — but failure is not the opposite of progress, and real talent comes from the ability to recover, rethink and reshape, says Brooke Pauley at Tucker Ellis.
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23andMe Fine Signals ICO's New GDPR Enforcement Focus
Many of the cybersecurity failures identified by the Information Commissioner’s Office in its investigation of 23andMe, recently resulting in a £2.3 million fine, were basic lapses, but the ICO's focus on several new U.K. General Data Protection Regulation considerations will likely carry into the future, say lawyers at Womble Bond.
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Midyear Rewind: How Courts Are Reshaping VPPA Standards
The first half of 2025 saw a series of cases interpreting the Video Privacy Protection Act as applied to website tracking technologies, including three appellate rulings deepening circuit splits on what qualifies as personally identifiable information and who qualifies as a consumer under the statute, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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Tips For Crypto AI Agent Developers Under SEC Watch
With agents powered by artificial intelligence increasingly making decisions in the cryptocurrency world, there's a chance the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could use the Investment Advisers Act to regulate this technology in financial services, but there are ways developers can mitigate regulatory risks, say attorneys at Morrison Cohen.
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How The Healthline Privacy Settlement Redefines Ad Tech Use
The Healthline settlement is the first time California has drawn a clear line in the sand around how website tracking must function in practice, so if your site uses tracking technologies, especially around sensitive content like health or finance, regulators are inspecting your website's back end, not just its banner, say attorneys at Baker Donelson.
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AI Infrastructure Growth Brings Unique IP Considerations
The explosive rise of artificial intelligence has triggered an equally dramatic transformation in the supporting infrastructure required to meet growing AI demand, and the technology used in these data centers has its own intellectual property considerations to navigate, says Vincent Allen at Carstens Allen.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From ATF Director To BigLaw
As a two-time boomerang partner, returning to BigLaw after stints as a U.S. attorney and the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, people ask me how I know when to move on, but there’s no single answer — just clearly set your priorities, says Steven Dettelbach at BakerHostetler.
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Tips For US Investors Eyeing Middle East Data Centers
While Middle East data center investment presents a compelling opportunity in light of renewed U.S.-Gulf cooperation on artificial intelligence and critical technologies, these projects require a nuanced understanding of regional legal and regulatory regimes, says Haykel Hajjaji at Covington.
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Influencer Marketing Partnerships Face Rising Litigation Risk
In light of recent class actions claiming that brands and influencers are misleading consumers with deceptive marketing practices — largely premised on the Federal Trade Commission's endorsements guidance — proactive compliance measures are becoming more important, say attorneys at Olshan Frome.
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5 Consumer Protection Compliance Issues In NY State Budget
Companies that engage with New York consumers should promptly familiarize themselves with new state budget provisions that require finance and retail companies to make certain business practices more transparent and easier for customers to execute, say attorneys at Mintz.
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Balancing The Promises And Perils Of Tokenizing Securities
Tokenizing listed securities offers the promise of greater efficiency, accessibility and innovation, but a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission statement makes clear that the federal securities laws continue to apply to tokenized securities, so financial institutions and technology developers must work together to create clear rules, say attorneys at Orrick.
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How To Increase 3rd-Party Preissuance Patent Submissions
Attorneys Marian Underweiser and Marc Ehrlich, who helped draft the America Invents Act, discuss changes that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office could potentially implement to facilitate its hopes for increased participation in front-end patent challenges.
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How Cos. In China Can Tailor Compliance Amid FCPA Shifts
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recently updated Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement guidelines create a fluid business environment for companies operating in China that will require a customized compliance approach to navigate both countries’ corporate and legal systems, say attorneys at Dickinson Wright.
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7 Ways Employers Can Avoid Labor Friction Over AI
As artificial intelligence use in the workplace emerges as a key labor relations topic in the U.S. and Europe, employers looking to reduce reputational risk and prevent costly disputes should consider proactive strategies to engage with unions, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.
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Open Banking Is On Ice As CFPB Seeks To Toss Its Own Rule
Even as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's efforts to toss its open banking rule play out in Kentucky federal court, it remains statutorily required to effectuate consumer access to data, raising questions about how it would replace the previously finalized standard, say attorneys at Cooley.