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April 15, 2026
The newest bulk order from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has rejected 10 petitions for America Invents Act patent reviews while granting a couple others, including a Google challenge to a patent owned by Headwater Research LLC.
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April 15, 2026
A private women's healthcare system is facing a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court that alleges it allowed third parties to use sensitive patient information without consent or notice.
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April 15, 2026
A group of Amazon Alexa users has urged a Washington federal judge to reinstate their class consumer protection claims based on allegations the devices secretly recorded their personal conversations, contending the court ignored competing evidence when determining Amazon clearly disclosed the possibility of accidental activations.
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April 15, 2026
A California federal judge Wednesday held that the Palisades Fire arson suspect cannot suppress all evidence discovered via search warrants — including ChatGPT images on his phone depicting a city on fire — finding the government didn't rely only on his mere presence near the crime scene to obtain the warrants.
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April 15, 2026
A Seventh Circuit judge on Wednesday pressed an attorney for a resort company that is arguing a lower court incorrectly found it waived its right to arbitrate Telephone Consumer Protection Act claims against more than 1,000 class members to address why it didn't raise the subject of arbitration earlier as it litigated the case over seven years.
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April 15, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission is admitting that it once again may have been too hasty in putting all foreign-made routers and drones on the so-called covered list of technology deemed to be a risk to national security, and it will be carving out some exceptions.
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April 14, 2026
Google's "anticompetitive chokehold" over Android app distribution and in-app billing markets has kept Portugal-based Android app store alternative Aptoide from being able to compete with the tech giant, Aptoide alleged in a complaint filed Tuesday in California federal court challenging Google's "interrelated web" of monopolies.
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April 14, 2026
EchoStar is coming out swinging against a $54 million Comcast lawsuit accusing the company of wrongly asserting force majeure to escape a contract between Comcast and Dish Wireless, telling the court that the government probe it was caught up in counts as an unforeseen event.
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April 14, 2026
Virginia has become the third state to ban the sale of consumers' precise geolocation data, following the governor's signature on Monday of legislation that received overwhelming backing from lawmakers and consumer advocates, and backlash from the advertising industry.
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April 14, 2026
Phone users who accuse Google of suppressing rival search engines with anticompetitive deals slammed Apple's bid for sanctions over their counsel's allegedly "unrelenting and increasingly egregious" subpoena efforts, telling a California federal judge that the tech company's motion is based on a "distorted account of the discovery record."
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April 14, 2026
A key U.S. Senate committee passed a pair of bills Tuesday aimed at improving satellite network security, in part by restricting market access in the U.S. to prevent authorizations for foreign actors deemed as risky.
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April 14, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission isn't done with the covered list yet — later this month the agency will consider changing its rules to expand the reach of the list, so any entity placed on it will no longer be able to provide interstate communications services.
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April 14, 2026
An Illinois federal judge refused to let Comcast seek immediate Seventh Circuit intervention against an order teeing up Viamedia's antitrust claims accusing it of forcing advertisers to use its internal ads system, concluding that nothing about the contested midcase question of market definition would speed up resolution.
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April 14, 2026
Industry groups joined forces to tell federal lawmakers that it is time to pass a Republican-led package of permitting reforms to cut "red tape" and spur broadband development.
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April 14, 2026
OpenAI is pushing back after Elon Musk said he would seek to have Sam Altman removed as the artificial intelligence company's CEO in a case challenging its conversion to a for-profit entity, telling a California federal court that the last-minute change adds a host of issues just weeks before trial.
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April 14, 2026
Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed to purchase Globalstar Inc. for about $11.6 billion, part of an effort to build out its nascent Leo satellite internet business, with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP providing legal counsel on the deal.
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April 13, 2026
Clothing retailer Destination XL Group Inc. urged a Seattle federal judge to strike down a putative class action accusing it of barraging shoppers with false and misleading spam emails, arguing that a Washington state law's $500-per-email penalty is unconstitutionally excessive.
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April 13, 2026
A D.C. Circuit panel tore into a Federal Trade Commission lawyer on Monday as the agency fought to convince the three judges that a lower court had no right to block it from investigating a left-leaning media watchdog, a probe the group claims is retaliation for publishing anti-Nazi content.
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April 13, 2026
Meta's recent state jury losses in suits over social media's harms to mental health provide clues as to what will happen this summer when a school district's suit against social platforms goes to trial in the first federal bellwether — and down the road in appeals some believe will reach the nation's high court.
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April 13, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote this month to make changes to the E-rate program, which subsidizes internet service for schools and libraries, that it says will simplify the program and make it harder for people to commit fraud.
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April 13, 2026
An attorney representing a doctor and patient challenging California's law severely limiting interstate telehealth medical consultations urged a Ninth Circuit panel Monday to reverse a lower court's order dismissing the suit, saying the Supreme Court's recent decision nullifying Colorado's ban on "gay conversion therapy" applies to the case.
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April 13, 2026
After a federal judge tossed a Washington man's suit accusing Twitter of illegally collecting his phone number, the user argued the case shouldn't have been moved to federal court anyway, and the federal courts have wrongly extended Article III jurisdiction to the lawsuit. Here's a breakdown of the problem over standing that some officials say they see coming.
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April 13, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission has selected a nonprofit group focused on security of the Internet of Things as the next entity to run the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a government-endorsed seal of approval for devices.
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April 13, 2026
A D.C. federal judge on Monday declined to pause a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's termination of broadband infrastructure grants while the D.C. Circuit considers a separate challenge over environmental grant cuts, saying the cases are substantially different.
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April 13, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission has approved a rule waiver for Hitachi Rail that will let Bay Area Regional Transportation upgrade a half-century-old train control system.