Technology

  • July 23, 2026

    DraftKings Fights Uphill To Beat Suit Over Calif. Gambling Law

    U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer said Thursday he's inclined to deny DraftKings' bid to toss a putative class action accusing the sportsbook of skirting California gambling laws, saying he thinks the plaintiff consumers have sufficiently alleged a monetary injury — and that the games are likely prohibited by state law.

  • July 23, 2026

    House Panel Summons CEOs Over Private Listing Partnership

    A House antitrust subcommittee requested a briefing with Midwest Real Estate Data CEO Rebecca Jensen and Compass International Holdings CEO Robert Reffkin over their companies' private listing partnership.

  • July 23, 2026

    Abbott Labs Accused Of Lax Security Over Shinyhunters Hack

    Abbott Laboratories and Exact Sciences were hit with a proposed class action in Illinois federal court Wednesday over a cyberattack carried out by a notorious ransomware gang known as "Shinyhunters" that absconded with patients' medical records, which the suit says is far more harmful than standard identity theft.

  • July 23, 2026

    PTAB Eligibility Affirmance Rate Fell After Squires Took Over

    Early data on Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions on patent eligibility determinations by examiners shows a slight dip in the affirmance rate under U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires, according to an analysis by McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP.

  • July 23, 2026

    British Bank Revolut Hits $115B Valuation, Plus More Rumors

    British digital bank Revolut's valuation soared to $115 billion, private equity giant BlackRock leads an at least $12 billion debt sale for Meta's new data center project, and Liverpool FC is in talks with investor Amit Bhatia over a potential stake sale that could value the club at $6 billion.

  • July 23, 2026

    Web Scraper Seeks Toss Of Reddit Copyright Claims

    SerpApi, a company that scrapes online content, asked a New York federal judge Thursday to let it out of a copyright lawsuit from Reddit alleging it illegally looted content at the behest of Perplexity for AI training, contending Reddit doesn't own copyrights on the bulk of the user content on its website and that the protective measures the suit alleged were circumvented belong to Google.

  • July 23, 2026

    Kirkland-Led Francisco Partners Raises $21B Across 2 Funds

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised Francisco Partners on Thursday revealed that it raised $21 billion across its two latest funds, marking the largest fundraise in the firm's history.

  • July 23, 2026

    Lack Of Jurisdiction Dooms $273M 'Rip And Replace' Suit

    The Court of Federal Claims has tossed a complaint from a telecom that says the Federal Communications Commission wrongly denied it $273 million in "rip and replace" funds for replacing Chinese-made equipment, saying that the company's dispute belongs in federal appeals court.

  • July 23, 2026

    EBay Cleared Under Alice In Website Patent Dispute

    A Delaware federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit accusing eBay Inc. of infringing a pair of patents on customizing access to websites, finding the patents only covered abstract ideas without any inventive concept to save them.

  • July 23, 2026

    Pictiva's $93M Trial Win Doesn't Moot Invalidation, PTAB Says

    The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has again invalidated claims of a Pictiva organic light-emitting diode patent, telling U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires that Samsung's invalidity argument differs from one rejected by a Texas federal jury.

  • July 23, 2026

    9th Circ. Urged To Keep Reddit Moderator Subpoenas Alive

    A YouTube creator's production company has pressed the Ninth Circuit to reject a bid by anonymous Reddit moderators to block subpoenas seeking their identities, arguing that a federal judge properly found the company presented sufficient evidence that they facilitated alleged copyright infringement by directing people to livestreamed "watch parties" of its content.

  • July 23, 2026

    Fed. Circ. Partly Undoes Amazon Digital Photo Frame IP Win

    The Federal Circuit on Thursday refused to reboot a trio of digital picture framing patents Amazon was accused of infringing but reversed a California federal judge's finding that another patent was invalid.

  • July 23, 2026

    Blank Rome Breach Suits Dropped Over Jurisdiction Question

    Three class actions accusing Blank Rome LLP of alleged negligence from a data breach have been dismissed by the plaintiffs less than a month after the complaints were initially filed in Pennsylvania federal court.

  • July 23, 2026

    USTR Says EU's Google Actions Cast Cloud On US Trade Deal

    The U.S. trade deal with the European Union may be undermined by European Commission actions against Google owner Alphabet, including penalties totaling over $1 billion and claims that the U.S. technology giant unfairly favored its own services in certain applications, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Thursday. 

  • July 23, 2026

    2026 Marks Banner Year For AI Changes To Insurance Industry

    The first half of 2026 has seen continued development of artificial intelligence systems in the insurance industry, including new coverage terms for policyholders and evolving regulatory scrutiny for insurers. The changes promise to alter the insurance market in the months to come.

  • July 23, 2026

    Another Landlord Exits Kentucky's RealPage Antitrust Case

    Kentucky has settled antitrust claims with another landlord that it had accused of using RealPage's revenue management software for rent price-fixing.

  • July 23, 2026

    Jenzabar Investor Sues Board Over Alleged Power Grab

    A Jenzabar Inc. stockholder has sued three current and former directors of the private education technology company in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of seizing control of the board and awarding themselves outsized pay packages without proper oversight.

  • July 23, 2026

    Orrick Adds Financial Services Partner From Cooley In DC

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has hired a former Cooley LLP partner with years of experience advising clients like emerging financial institutions, retailers and others on financial services regulations, the firm announced Thursday.

  • July 23, 2026

    Crypto Miner Poolin Hits Ch. 11 After China Ban, Market Slump

    Bitcoin miner Poolin Technology filed for Chapter 11 protection in New Jersey bankruptcy court with more than $173 million in liabilities and plans for an asset sale, pointing to price volatility and a Chinese ban on cryptocurrency mining.

  • July 23, 2026

    Google Fined €890M By EU For Restricting Competition

    The European Union fined Google owner Alphabet Inc. a total of €890 million ($1.04 billion) on Thursday after finding that the U.S. technology giant unfairly favored its own services in search results and restricted app developers from directing users to cheaper options.

  • July 22, 2026

    6 Copyright Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2026

    An appeal over whether an AI-powered legal research tool unlawfully used Westlaw material and a long-running fight involving a Miles Davis tattoo could produce some of 2026's most significant copyright rulings. Here is Law360's list of the most notable copyright cases to watch for the rest of the year.

  • July 22, 2026

    OpenAI Says AI Agent Hacked Startup Platform During Testing

    OpenAI disclosed "an unprecedented cyber incident" that occurred when two of its artificial intelligence models broke out of their testing environment and accessed the servers of Hugging Face, a third-party AI and machine learning startup that operates an open-source platform for developers and others to share models and datasets.

  • July 22, 2026

    JPMorgan's Kinexys Infringes Blockchain Co.'s IP, Suit Says

    JPMorgan Chase's blockchain business unit Kinexys, which is built on Ethereum Virtual Machine technology and processes billions of dollars worth of tokenized asset transactions every day, is infringing a Texas company's patented technology covering authentication performances, according to a suit filed Wednesday in the Eastern District of Texas. 

  • July 22, 2026

    Teen Drops Meta Mental Health Suit Ahead Of Bellwether Trial

    A Florida teenager on Wednesday withdrew his suit claiming that Meta Platforms Inc.'s social media products harm young users' mental health, walking away from the litigation five days before his bellwether trial was set to kick off in Los Angeles.

  • July 22, 2026

    Amazon's Deal To End Gambling Suit Draws App Makers' Ire

    Developers of casino-style mobile apps sought to intervene Wednesday in Amazon's tentative deal to end consumers' proposed class action accusing the platform of enabling illegal online gambling, arguing that the settlement would leave the developers on the hook for $140 million while forcing Amazon to pay just $2.5 million.

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 intelligence 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 privilege 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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