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Telecommunications

  • May 05, 2025

    Apple Hit With Developer Suit After App Store Contempt Order

    Apple has been hit with a developer's proposed class action after a California federal judge last week agreed with Epic Games that the tech giant violated her order prohibiting App Store rules that prevent developers from steering users to alternative payment options.

  • May 05, 2025

    OpenAI Abandons For-Profit Plan After Musk Suit Is Preserved

    OpenAI announced Monday that it was no longer pursuing plans to transition the ChatGPT maker into a for-profit enterprise, changing course just days after a California federal judge refused to throw out the bulk of Elon Musk's suit challenging those plans.

  • May 05, 2025

    'Punish' NSO For WhatsApp Hack, Meta Tells Jury In Closings

    Meta's counsel urged a California federal jury during trial closings Monday to "punish" Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group by awarding "significant" punitive damages, plus $445,000 in compensatory damages, for "vile" conduct hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, while NSO's counsel argued Meta never lost money and its demands are a PR stunt.

  • May 05, 2025

    Officials Seek More Depo Time In Live Nation Antitrust Suit

    U.S. officials have asked a Manhattan federal court to extend deposition time in a lawsuit accusing Live Nation of anticompetitive practices in ticket sales to live entertainment events, saying they need more hours to seek testimony from several entities and individuals who were recently disclosed in the case.

  • May 05, 2025

    Traxcell Fights $500K Atty Fee Owed To Verizon At Fed. Circ.

    A bankrupt patent-holding company that owes more than $500,000 in attorney fees to Verizon Wireless has told the Federal Circuit that Verizon waited too long after beating its telecommunications patent case to request the fees.

  • May 05, 2025

    Calif. Stations Must Pay $32K Over File Failings, FCC Says

    Two California TV stations have agreed to pay over $30,000 and to enter compliance plans after the Federal Communications Commission said they broke agency rules by failing to maintain and upload records regarding commercial limits in children's programming.

  • May 05, 2025

    Stewart Revives Vehicle Tracking Patent, But May End IPR

    The acting head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has found that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board flubbed its analysis when it invalidated claims in a vehicle tracking technology patent challenged by Verizon Connect in an inter partes review.

  • May 05, 2025

    Meta Users Refused 9th Circ. Appeal On Data Pay Cert Denial

    A Ninth Circuit panel summarily refused to permit Meta Platforms Inc. users to immediately appeal a district court decision rejecting class certification for their antitrust case alleging the social media giant would have had to pay for their data if it didn't lie about privacy safeguards.

  • May 05, 2025

    Google Ads Advertisers Ask For Class Cert. In MDL

    A group of advertisers in multidistrict litigation accusing Google of violating antitrust law through its control over key ad technology has asked a New York federal court to certify it as a class.

  • May 05, 2025

    EchoStar Says CBRS Revamp Won't Hurt Incumbents

    EchoStar said a cable and broadband industry group was wrong to portray a plan to raise power levels in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service as possibly detrimental to existing users.

  • May 05, 2025

    NetChoice Sues Over Ga.'s New Social Media Age Limit Law

    Internet trade group NetChoice has sued the state of Georgia over a new law set to take effect this summer that would limit minors' access to social media, arguing the bill unconstitutionally infringes upon the First Amendment rights of both adults and the children the measure is purported to protect.

  • May 05, 2025

    Ex-Twitter Execs Can See Some Musk Texts In Severance Row

    Four former Twitter executives claiming they are owed $200 million in severance will be able to conduct a search of Elon Musk's text messages, but only when it comes to iMessage and not other messaging platforms like Signal, a California federal judge ruled.

  • May 05, 2025

    FB Exec Saw Messaging Apps As Threat, But Not WhatsApp

    A former top Meta executive for Facebook Messenger and Instagram provided limited backing Monday for Federal Trade Commission allegations the company bought WhatsApp and Instagram to squelch competition, telling a D.C. federal judge that while he saw messaging apps as a real threat, those worries didn't include WhatsApp.

  • May 05, 2025

    Insurance Key Concern In Fighting Cyberattacks, Panel Says

    Companies need to consider a wide range of protections and policies to stem the growing risks posed by social engineering, wire transfer fraud and other forms of cyberattacks, panelists at a risk conference said Monday.

  • May 02, 2025

    Spyware Maker NSO Can't Cite Zuck In WhatsApp Hack Trial

    The California federal judge overseeing the damages trial to determine how much Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices on Friday beefed up many jury instructions in Meta Platforms Inc.'s favor, and also barred NSO from invoking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and ex-Meta executive Sheryl Sandberg to defend itself.

  • May 02, 2025

    Gores Group's Latest SPAC Leads 3 IPOs Totaling $792M

    Gores Holdings X Inc., the latest of several special purpose acquisition companies formed by private equity firm The Gores Group, began trading Friday after pricing an upsized $312 million IPO, the largest of three new SPAC listings totaling $792 million.

  • May 02, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Backs Google, Apple Win Over Geolocation IP

    The Federal Circuit refused to revive claims in a series of patents relating to the geolocation of mobile devices that patent owner Geoscope Technologies accused Google and Apple of infringing.

  • May 02, 2025

    Mozilla Says Google Search Remedies Are Major Threat

    A Mozilla executive told a D.C. federal court on Friday that preventing Google from sharing revenue from its search ads would eliminate the nonprofit browser developer's primary source of income.

  • May 02, 2025

    Epic Says Google, Samsung Can't Ignore Its Earlier Jury Win

    In its litigation claiming that Samsung colluded with Google to dodge a Play Store court order, Epic Games has pressed a California federal court to adopt the jury findings from a similar case it won against Google, arguing that there is "little to be gained from relitigating these issues."

  • May 02, 2025

    Ex-Worker Says DirecTV Fired Her In Biased Force Reduction

    DirecTV's former senior director of e-commerce has sued the company in Georgia federal court, alleging she was let go during a workforce reduction because of her age and gender.

  • May 02, 2025

    Opening Upper C-Band Poses Air Safety Concerns, FCC Told

    The Federal Communications Commission needs to scrutinize how a plan to open the upper C-Band airwaves for commercial wireless would affect aircraft safety equipment before moving toward new rules, airline pilots said.

  • May 02, 2025

    US, China Battling Over Entrenched Economies, Experts Say

    Differing economic philosophies are contributing to the escalating trade war between the United States and China, according to professionals who follow the countries' relations, with the Chinese government's supply-side ideology rooted in exports and U.S. deficit spending driving demand for imports.

  • May 02, 2025

    'Smart' Glass Maker Settles SPAC Merger Suit For $11M

    "Smart" glass manufacturer View Inc. and investors have reached an $11 million deal to resolve a proposed class action over an internal probe the company announced following its go-public merger with a special purpose acquisition company.

  • May 02, 2025

    Ad Tech Judge Mulls Possible Google Exchange Divestiture

    A Virginia federal judge expressed interest Friday in potentially forcing Google to divest a key piece of its advertising placement technology business, while voicing reservations with a U.S. Department of Justice proposal to also force another sale to address the search giant's ad tech monopoly.

  • May 02, 2025

    Musk Can Pursue Most Claims Against OpenAI, Microsoft

    Microsoft, OpenAI and several of their affiliates cannot escape the bulk of Elon Musk's lawsuit accusing the companies of swindling him by transitioning the ChatGPT maker into a for-profit enterprise, a California federal judge ruled.

Expert Analysis

  • Data Privacy Landscape After Mass. Justices' Wiretap Ruling

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    In Vita v. New England Baptist Hospital, Massachusetts’ highest court recently ruled that the state’s wiretap law doesn’t prohibit all tracking of website user activity, but major financial and reputational risks remain for businesses that aren't transparent about customer’s web data, says Seth Berman at Nutter.

  • Gov't Scrutiny Of Workplace Chat Apps Set To Keep Growing

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    The incoming Trump administration and Republican majorities in Congress are poised to open numerous investigations that include increasing demands for entities to produce communications from workplace chat apps, so companies must evaluate their usage and retention policies, say attorneys at Orrick.

  • When US Privilege Law Applies To Docs Made Outside The US

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    As globalization manifests itself in disputes over foreign-created documents, a California federal court’s recent trademark decision illustrates nuances of both U.S. privilege frameworks and foreign evidentiary protections that attorneys must increasingly bear in mind, say attorneys at Hunton.

  • Notable 2024 Trademark Cases And What To Watch In 2025

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    Emerging disputes between established tech giants and smaller trademark holders promise to test the boundaries of trademark protection in 2025, following a 2024 marked with disputes in areas ranging from cybersquatting to geographic marks, says Danner Kline at Bradley Arant.

  • What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025

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    The state of hiring in legal industry marketing, business development and communications over the past 12 months was marked by a number of trends — from changes in the C-suite to lateral move challenges — providing clues for what’s to come in the year ahead, says Ben Curle at Ambition.

  • How Trump's Tariff Promises May Play Out In 2nd Term

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    While it is unclear which of President-elect Donald Trump's promised tariffs he intends to actually implement in January, lessons from his first administration, laws governing executive action and U.S. trade agreements together paint a picture of what may be possible, say attorneys at Butzel.

  • Series

    Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay grounded, improve my communication skills, and develop a deeper empathy for clients and colleagues, says Jessica Shpall Rosen at Greenwald Doherty.

  • 7th Circ. Ruling Muddies Split On Trade Secret Damages

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    The Seventh Circuit's recent endorsement in Motorola v. Hytera of a Second Circuit limit on avoided-cost damages under the Defend Trade Secrets Act contradicts even its own precedents, and will further confuse the scope of a developing circuit conflict that the U.S. Supreme Court has already twice declined to resolve, says Jordan Rice at MoloLamken.

  • Opinion

    6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School

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    Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.

  • How ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵ Rule Would Affect Data Brokers And Beyond

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    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently proposed a rule that would not only expand data broker oversight by classifying many as consumer reporting agencies, but would also impose new limitations on companies seeking to obtain information from them, potentially requiring such entities to alter their business models, say attorneys at Orrick.

  • Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware

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    Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

  • Reviewing 2024's State Consumer Privacy Law Enforcement

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    While we are still in the infancy of state consumer privacy laws, a review of enforcement activity this year suggests substantial overlaps in regulatory priorities across the most active states and gives insight into the likely paths of future enforcement, says Thomas Nolan at Quinn Emanuel.

  • Preparing For The New Restrictions On Investment Into China

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    In light of a new regulatory program governing U.S. investments in China-related technology companies of national security concern, investors should keep several considerations in mind, including the rules' effect on existing and new investments, compliance hurdles, and penalties for noncompliance ahead of the rules' January implementation, say attorneys at Gunderson Dettmer.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out

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    In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Fed. Circ. Ruling Shows Importance Of Trial Expert Specificity

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    The Federal Circuit’s recent ruling in NexStep v. Comcast highlights how even a persuasive expert’s failure to fully explain the basis of their opinion at trial can turn a winning patent infringement argument into a losing one, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.

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