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Japan’s Reemergence in Global SEP Disputes

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The Tokyo District Court recently released Guidelines for Standard Essential Patent (SEP) Infringement Litigation and SEP Mediation Procedures. Our Antitrust Team is tracking the potential impact these developments may have...more

Troutman Amin LLP

JUST GETTING STARTED?: ETN America Settles TCPA Class Action With Wolf– Ordered To Give Up Name of Lead Supplier

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You folks might remember I covered a story about ETN America and officer Shlomi Cohen being sued by the Wolf in a TCPA class action. ETN responded by issuing a press release doubling down on its TCPA compliance efforts, which...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Not So Fast: Judge Hellerstein Seeks More Evidence Before Finding Inequitable Conduct

Recently, United States District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein accepted in part the report and recommendation of Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo. A detailed summary of Judge Figueredo’s decision was the subject of a prior...more

Butler Snow LLP

Flood Claims Under the SFIP: How Failing to Comply with Strict Policy Deadlines Can Sink Your Flood Claim

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Many insureds—including sophisticated corporate policyholders—assume that FEMA’s Standard Flood Insurance Policy (“SFIP”) functions like a traditional commercial property policy. It does not....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Method steps must be done in order where there is logical dependency

In a second appeal, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court’s summary judgment of noninfringement based on an implicit ordering of steps in a method claim after disagreeing with the lower...more

K&L Gates LLP

Litigation Minute: Is AI-Generated Content Discoverable? What Companies Need to Know in 2026

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Artificial intelligence tools are rapidly reshaping how ESI is created and stored, particularly with respect to content generated by large language models. As companies adopt generative AI (GenAI) tools for drafting,...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

TRAIN Act targets transparency in generative AI training practices

Representatives Madeleine Dean (D-PA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) introduced a bipartisan bill entitled the Transparency and Responsibility for Artificial Intelligence Networks (TRAIN) Act in the US House of Representatives....more

Cozen O'Connor

Carriage, Control, and Coordination of Subrogated Lawsuits in Ontario and Beyond

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Subrogation is often considered a technical doctrine; it allows an insurer to ‘step into the shoes of its insured.’ In practice, however, control of the litigation is anything but technical. The party with carriage decides...more

DLA Piper

Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Moelis Decisions: Key Takeaways

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The Delaware Supreme Court recently reversed two Court of Chancery decisions in West Palm Beach Firefighters’ Pension Fund v. Moelis & Company, which had already prompted swift action by the Delaware General Assembly....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Blackbeard’s revenge: State sovereign immunity ends long running copyright battle

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a 2021 district court ruling and vacated a subsequent 2024 ruling in a decade-long legal battle over copyright infringement claims related to the pirate Blackbeard’s...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Love Was Not in the Air — and the EEOC and a Jury Took Notice

On January 16, 2026, a federal jury in Atlanta awarded $5.5 million to a security guard who alleged that her security company’s vice president of operations sexually harassed her....more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

A.I. Documents Deemed Not Privileged

In AI Docs Sent By Exec To Attys Not Privileged, Judge Says – Law360 (Feb. 10, 2026), Pete Brush reported a bench ruling holding that “a Texas financial services executive accused of a $150 million fraud cannot claim...more

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Assaults at the Workplace – The Defenses May Not Be What You Think

For some odd reason, we have had several workplace assault claims come to us recently. As a result, we have had to dust off and update our research into the compensability of the claims and the injuries sustained. The...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

The Committee Minutes That Save You in a Lawsuit

When a 401(k) lawsuit is filed, the first thing plaintiffs’ counsel asks for isn’t your investment returns. It’s your committee minutes....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

ADA Title III Federal Lawsuit Filings Fall Slightly to 8,667 in 2025

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ADA Title III lawsuit filings in federal courts remained steady in 2025, with California, Florida, and New York retaining the top three spots for filings, and no slowdown in sight. We’ve been tracking ADA Title III cases in...more

Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC

Over Thirty Years After Its Passage, Governments Are Still Adjusting to the Effects of Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights

Over Thirty Years after its Passage, Governments are Still Adjusting to the Effects of Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights... Less than a month into the second regular session of the 75th General Assembly, discussion of...more

Baker Donelson

Copyright Law in 2025

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Courts Begin to Draw Lines Around AI Training, Piracy, and Market Harm - In 2025, U.S. courts issued the first substantive, merits-stage decisions addressing whether the use of copyrighted works to train generative artificial...more

Mayer Brown

New York Court Draws Limits to Encroachment on Sacred Rights in STG Logistics

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On January 3, 2026, the New York State Supreme Court delivered a win to a group of minority lenders to STG Logistics (“STG”), denying four motions to dismiss the minority lenders' lawsuit seeking to unwind or be awarded...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Uncertainty Continues in California on CIPA Section 638.51 Claims

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The wave of California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) Section 638.51 cases (i.e., pen register or trap-and-trace claims) against companies using web tracking technologies such as Meta and TikTok pixels shows no sign of...more

McGinnis Lochridge

A Trial Lawyer in the Jury Box: Observations on Persuasion and People

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They say lawyers never get picked for juries. I believed that—right up until I served 10 days as a juror in a civil trial involving aggravated sexual assault allegations and defamation counterclaims....more

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Court Backs Off Strict “Need-To-Know” Standard

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Many judicial decisions explain that intra-corporate disclosure of privileged communications can waive that protection if shared with corporate employees having no “need to know.” That warning almost always appears in the...more

Alston & Bird

Patent Case Summaries | Week Ending February 6, 2026

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Our Patent Case Summaries provide a weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent Trial...more

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Georgia Court of Appeals holds only material terms required to form a settlement agreement are those within statute

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A recent opinion from the Georgia Court of Appeals enforced a settlement agreement under the 2024 version of O.C.G.A. § 9-11-67.1. The underlying facts of this case arise out of a motor vehicle accident involving Abriel...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Allen v. Cooper (4th Cir. 2026)

Dickens’s Bleak House has long stood as an exemplar for the perils of interminable litigation where no one benefits (except, perhaps, the lawyers; see Jarndyce v. Jarndyce). In a case already somewhat notorious for its...more

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Is Finality Still Useful in False Claims Act Litigation?

All of us were treated recently to the latest statistics from the Department of Justice for 2025. By all accounts it was a record year for both the Department of Justice and relators, over $6.8 billion in total recoveries,...more

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