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July 17, 2025
SEC Fraud Suit Against Ex-Online Pharmacy Execs Advances
A New York federal judge has declined to dismiss a majority of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's claims against former executives of a now-defunct online pharmacy called Medly, finding the agency adequately pleaded that the executives made false statements or acted recklessly, among other misconduct.
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July 17, 2025
Lenovo, Quectel Added To Avanci Patent Pool List
Avanci has reached deals with Lenovo and Quectel to allow the China-based companies to be part of programs where automakers license their technologies for 4G and 5G connected vehicles, the patent pool operator announced Thursday.
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July 17, 2025
Public Advocates Voice Concern At FCC Regulation Cut Plan
Nearly two dozen public interest groups told the Federal Communications Commission's leader Thursday they are worried about an FCC plan to cut rules from its books using staff authority as a way to get around public notice and comment.
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July 17, 2025
Public, Tribal Stations Face Shutdown As Senate Cuts Funds
America's Public Television Stations says it is "devastated" by the U.S. Senate's decision to pass a bill that would claw back $9 billion in congressionally appropriated funds, including all the money allocated for local public television stations.
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July 17, 2025
Stanford Trims Roche IP Suit, But Others Face Most Claims
Stanford University was let out of all but one claim brought by subsidiaries of F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG over alleged trade secret theft, but a California federal judge allowed most claims to move forward against several Stanford professors and a startup they founded.
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July 17, 2025
6 Cases For Patent Attys To Watch In The Second Half Of 2025
The Federal Circuit is considering major questions about when delays in prosecuting patents become bad faith and whether the acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director is legally allowed to apply new rules retroactively. Here's what you need to know about these cases and others that attorneys are keeping an eye on for the rest of the year.
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July 17, 2025
Former Club Rugby Champ Jailed For Crypto Ponzi Scheme
A Seattle federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a former national champion club rugby player to 30 months in prison for wire fraud after he defrauded investors with promises of building a new cryptocurrency mining operation.
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July 17, 2025
Senate Moves Closer To Confirming Trump's NTIA Chief Nom
The U.S. Senate stepped closer Thursday to confirming President Donald Trump's choice to lead the government agency that manages federal use of spectrum.
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July 17, 2025
FCC Approves Alaska Telecom's Performance Revisions
With improved backhaul access in hand, GCI Communication Group is committing to deliver 10/1 megabits per second 4G LTE service to an additional 7,500 Alaskans, according to an Alaska Plan individual performance revision approved by the Federal Communications Commission.
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July 17, 2025
Authors Win Cert. In Copyright Suit Against Anthropic
A California federal judge on Thursday certified a class of copyright owners of books in the online pirate libraries Library Genesis and Pirate Library Mirror that were downloaded by artificial intelligence firm Anthropic for training its Claude generative text model.
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July 17, 2025
PE Firm Is Denied FDA Docs For Defense In Deal Challenge
An Illinois federal court on Wednesday denied a request from private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings LLC to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce more than a decade's worth of medical device approval applications as the firm fights a merger challenge from enforcers.
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July 17, 2025
Robotics Co. Investors Settle De-SPAC Suit For $7.5M In Del.
Investors in a special purpose acquisition company that took artificial intelligence company Berkshire Grey Inc. public for $2.25 billion in mid-2021 have reported a $7.5 million proposed settlement intended to end a breach of fiduciary duty suit in Delaware's Court of Chancery.
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July 17, 2025
Ga. AG Asks 11th Circ. To Review Social Media Age Limit Case
The state of Georgia has appealed a preliminary injunction that halted enforcement of Georgia's new restrictions on minors' use of social media on constitutionality grounds to the Eleventh Circuit.
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July 17, 2025
Albright Clears Cisco In $121M Network Patent Case
Western District of Texas Judge Alan Albright has finalized his decisions clearing Cisco in a suit alleging it owed $121 million for infringing Corrigent Corp. communications network patents, memorializing earlier orders that Cisco didn't infringe some patents and that others were invalid.
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July 17, 2025
Google Lands $2.4B Windsurf Tech Deal, And More Rumors
Google has agreed to pay $2.4 billion to license the technology of Windsurf, a private equity investment will value PCI Pharma Services at $10 billion, and KKR is mulling a potential buyout of Italian healthcare technology firm GPI SpA. Here, Law360 breaks down these and other deal rumors from the past week:
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July 17, 2025
Davis Polk Steers Verisk On $162.5M SuranceBay Acquisition
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is guiding data analytics and technology provider Verisk on an agreement announced Thursday for the $162.5 million all-cash acquisition of life and annuity industry service provider SuranceBay, which is represented by Wiggin and Dana LLP.
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July 17, 2025
Fla. Law Firm Zumpano Patricios Hit With Data Breach Suit
Miami-headquartered national law firm Zumpano Patricios is facing a proposed class action in Florida federal court accusing the firm of failing to protect sensitive information, including dates of birth and healthcare payments, that was compromised in a May data breach.
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July 17, 2025
EU Lawmakers Push For Tax Data Hub To Combat Evasion
Members of the European Parliament approved proposals for tax changes across the European Union, including a tax data hub to streamline compliance across the bloc and help combat tax avoidance and evasion.
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July 17, 2025
USDA Should Revisit $22M IT Deal, GAO Says
The U.S. Government Accountability Office urged the Department of Agriculture to reconsider a $22.8 million task order for IT services, saying the agency had failed to meaningfully respond to claims that it was unfair in its evaluation of proposals for the award.
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July 17, 2025
Watchdog Raises Concerns On 9th Circ. Nominee's Crypto Work
President Donald Trump's nominee for the Ninth Circuit has a long record of representing cryptocurrency companies, which a watchdog group fears could aid what it calls the president's "self-enrichment" with digital currency.
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July 17, 2025
Meta, Stockholders Settle $8B Privacy Breach Suit
Attorneys for Meta stockholders reported a midtrial agreement Thursday to settle an $8 billion-plus Delaware Court of Chancery suit accusing the company's directors and officers of breaching privacy regulations and corporate fiduciary duties tied to allegations dating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal more than a decade ago.
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July 16, 2025
OpenAI, Microsoft Challenge Authors' Proposed Class Action
OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft each have lodged challenges in New York federal court to a consolidated proposed class action from a group of best-selling authors who claim their works were used to train ChatGPT, saying the consolidated litigation went beyond the court's permissible scope.
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July 16, 2025
Telehealth Co. Says SEC Has Wrapped Securities Investigation
Fruit Street Health PBC announced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has closed an investigation into the telehealth company for which the agency previously sued it to comply with a subpoena.
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July 16, 2025
Expert Calls Tesla Autopilot Defective For Lack Of Geofencing
An expert on autonomous systems told jurors Wednesday in a wrongful death suit over a fatal Florida Keys crash that Tesla's autopilot system is defective because the company allows the autopilot to be engaged on roads for which it is explicitly not designed.
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July 16, 2025
Property Evaluation Patent Case Allowed To Move Forward
A federal judge has refused to toss a suit claiming an artificial intelligence property risk assessment company infringed patents used to evaluate properties, saying the patents cleared the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test.
Expert Analysis
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How Calif., NY Could Fill Consumer Finance Regulatory Void
California and New York have historically taken the lead in consumer financial protection, and both show signs of becoming even more active in this area during the second Trump administration amid an enforcement pullback at the federal level, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Series
Volunteer Firefighting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
While practicing corporate law and firefighting may appear incongruous, the latter benefits my legal career by reminding me of the importance of humility, perspective and education, says Nicholas Passaro at Ford.
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Unpacking FTC's New Stance On Standard-Essential Patents
Under its new chairman, Andrew Ferguson, the Federal Trade Commission is likely to bring more stand-alone Section 5 cases to challenge anticompetitive conduct, and it will be important for companies to see how the FTC responds to allegations of patent holdup by standard-essential patent holders committed to fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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Digesting A 2nd Circ. Ruling On Food Delivery App Arbitration
The Second Circuit recently rejected Grubhub's attempt to arbitrate price-fixing claims, while allowing Uber Eats to do so, reinforcing that even broad arbitration clauses must connect to the underlying dispute and suggesting that terms of service litigation may center on websites' design and content, say attorneys at Greenspoon Marder.
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Bid Protest Spotlight: Instructions, Price Evaluation, Standing
In this month's bid protest roundup, Caitlin Crujido at MoFo looks at three recent decisions that consider a contractor's attempt to circumvent unambiguous solicitation instructions, the fairness of an agency's price evaluation and whether a protestor that would be unable to perform even if sucessful has standing.
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5 Ways Banking Has Changed In 5 Years Since COVID
Since the start of the pandemic five years ago, technology, convenience and shifting expectations have transformed compliance for the financial services industry in several key ways, from the shrinking role of the traditional bank branch to the rise of fintech and mobile payments, says Christopher Pippett at Fox Rothschild.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols
Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Mastering The New TCPA Opt-Out Regulations
On April 11, the Federal Communications Commission's new rules concerning the handling of opt-out requests for robocalls and text messages became effective, so companies should prioritize high-value messaging, offer consumers regular opportunities to reconsent to communications, and more, says Aaron Weiss at Carlton Fields.
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A Look At M&A Trends In An Uncertain Deal Environment
Dealmakers are adopting more cautious and deliberate merger and acquisition practices, such as earnout agreements, joint ventures and strategic partnerships that mitigate risk and bridge valuation gaps, amid the slower pace so far in 2025, says Louis Lehot at Foley & Lardner.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work
Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.
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Takeaways From Gov't Report On AI Copyrightability
A recent report from the U.S. Copyright Office is a critical step toward establishing a framework for determining the copyrightability of work created in whole or in part by artificial intelligence systems, solidifying the office's positions on AI tools and advanced prompt techniques, say attorneys at Skadden.
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FTC Focus: Synthetic Data Yields Antitrust Considerations
Attorneys at Proskauer explore the burgeoning world of synthetic data, the antitrust implications involved, the Federal Trade Commission's role in regulating this space and practical takeaways from these emerging issues.
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DeepSeek's Emergence And What It Suggests For AI Use
While usage of foreign AI models like DeepSeek could streamline operations and improve efficiency for companies, such AI technologies also bring significant legal and cybersecurity risks that cannot be overlooked, say attorneys at Polsinelli.
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Opinion
The SEC Must Protect Its Best Tool For Discovering Fraud
By eliminating the consolidated audit trail's collection of most retail customer information, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may squander a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deter securities market fraud and abuse, something new Chair Paul Atkins must ensure doesn't happen, says former SEC data strategist Hugh Beck.
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3 Red Flags To Watch For When Valuing Patent Portfolios
As forward-looking intellectual property valuations become increasingly popular, recognizing potential concerns during the due diligence process can help develop a more accurate understanding of a portfolio's true value and potential risk, says Keegan Caldwell at Caldwell Law.