Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 28, 2023

In 2016, Congress enacted the Defend Trade Secret Act (DTSA). The DTSA ex parte seizure provision wasn’t designed to be used when there’s already an existing lawsuit between the players. Caliber * Trade Secret Owner Penalized For ‘Specious’ Misappropriation Lawsuit–BTS v. Case Citation: Janssen Products LP v.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 11, 2023

Another 3k+ word post about the jurisprudential chaos in online contract formation law. July 31, 2023) This is a lawsuit over Blue Kai’s alleged keystroke logging on ESPN.com. Bleacher Report also argued that it provided users with notice of amendments in 2016, 2020, 2022, and 2023 via interstitial popups onsite.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2024

I summarized: This lawsuit involves the freemium videogame “ Forge of Empires.” She played the game virtually every day from 2016-19–over 10,000 hours worth–and spent over $9,000 on in-game transactions. is it more or less stringent than, or equivalent to, an antitrust law violation?). I previously blogged this case in 2022.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 18, 2023

In 2016, Malwarebytes classified Enigma’s software as “malicious,” a “threat,” and a “potentially unwanted program” (or PUP), because the programs allegedly were “scareware.” The lawsuit’s lengthy duration and high defense cost has significant substantive implications.

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APRIL 22, 2023

The law firm produced the documents but sought reimbursement for over $44,000 spent complying with the subpoena. Although the law firm petitioned for costs under Fed. The court concluded that the law firm was not a “disinterested non-party.” The court denied the reimbursement request. In Jeune v. Civil Action No.

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The North Carolina Journey of Law and Technology

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Here’s everything you need to know about the pending lawsuit: Shein’s ‘egregious intellectual property infringement’ is ‘baked into its business model’ The Plaintiffs’ Claims Designer Krista Perry is accusing Shein of selling wall art and phone cases emblazoned with “mechanical cop[ies]” of her original artwork.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. In Australia, legal tech company Nuix went public in 2020 – an IPO that has been haunted by regulatory investigations and class-action lawsuits over claims that the company misrepresented its financial information.).

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

[Isabel] 01:40 Join us as we sit down with today’s expert guest, Berkeley Law Professor Chris Hoofnagle, to discuss ChatGPT. We’ll explore the potential impacts of ChatGPT not only on everyday life, but also on the legal industry, education, intellectual property law, geopolitics, and more. And that makes sense.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

10] Although the initial patent on Humira expired in 2016, thanks to the over 75 patents filed three years before its expiration, AbbVie is set to hold the monopoly until 2034. [11] 19] The lawsuit ended in a settlement with Gilead agreeing to pay Teva, the supposed infringer, $1.5 have over 100 attempted patents per drug. [8]

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 15, 2024

(Long-time readers may recall that this blog had a several-year arrangement with ShutterStock to use their stock photos to illustrate blog posts; that arrangement ended in 2016). Among other concerns, Thompson pointed to blackface photos in ShutterStock’s photo repository in his racial discrimination lawsuit. –Thompson v.

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LawNext podcast

MARCH 25, 2019

In February, Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini announced the launch of SixFifty , a software subsidiary that will develop automated tools designed to make legal processes more efficient and affordable for individuals, small businesses and emerging companies. NEW: We are now Patreon!

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Pillsbury Law Internet and Technology blog

JULY 12, 2024

The landscape began to shift in 2016 when the Supreme Court ( O’Bannon ) ruled that the NCAA’s bar on student-athletes profiting from the commercial use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL) violated federal antitrust law. With that protection, those entities could in tun effectively govern college athletics.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Our system inherently understands legal relationships and keeps up with changes in the law. Target customer: In-house legal departments and law firm attorneys who serve as outside general counsel. Target customer: Law departments in 2022 and expanding into law firms in 2023. Demo video: Video on page: [link].

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Colin S. Levy

MAY 30, 2023

Peter leads Winston & Strawn ’s Data Strategy, AI & Analytic teams with notable accomplishments across early case assessment, pricing & budgeting, marketing, business development, practice of law, and forecasting. That's when I hit upon the idea of attending law school while continuing to work and raise my family.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 2016, Time “embedded” one of Brauer’s Instagram posts, featuring one of his photos of Hilary Clinton, in its entirety (preserving his username or “handle”, his caption, and his links and hashtags). It is hornbook law that secondary liability of all kinds requires proof that direct infringement is occurring. 94-1476 , at 61 (1976).

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Clio

MARCH 15, 2023

The practice of law is demanding in many ways, one of which is the need to comply with the rules of professional conduct for lawyers. As stewards of the law, they play a vital role in maintaining justice. Therefore, it’s critical to learn the essentials of technological competence for law firms.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. In Australia, legal tech company Nuix went public in 2020 – an IPO that has been haunted by regulatory investigations and class-action lawsuits over claims that the company misrepresented its financial information.).

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Our system inherently understands legal relationships and keeps up with changes in the law. Target customer: In-house legal departments and law firm attorneys who serve as outside general counsel. Target customer: Law departments in 2022 and expanding into law firms in 2023. Demo video: Video on page: [link].

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

as of 2016, behind heart disease and cancer. While medical malpractice generally does not lead to criminal charges, it can result in a lawsuit against a healthcare provider. The Medical Malpractice Law Center in the Justia Legal Guides describes many of the forms that malpractice can take.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Calling all cyberlaw nerds: here is a bona fide “ Law of the Horse ” case. The plaintiff is an Oregon law firm practicing equine law. In 2016, the defendant licensed the plaintiff’s Equine Boarding Forms Package, consisting of form releases for adults and minors. The defendant runs a Florida horse ranch.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Bell has filed at least 25 copyright lawsuits. While this court might ordinarily suspect that such an assertion was made in jest, there is nothing funny about the dozens of lawsuits which plaintiff has filed against numerous entities which, as the Fifth Circuit noted in Eagle Mountain, were mostly public schools or nonprofits.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

“Cruise”ing for “Waymo” Lawsuits: Liability in Autonomous Vehicle Crashes By Caroline Kropka On October 2, 2023, a driverless vehicle traveled down a San Francisco street. [1] AV-based companies are feeling exposed to not just an unfavorable verdict in a court of law, but a poor verdict in the court of public opinion as well. [28]

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Colin S. Levy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

After working overseas for a mining company on various transformational projects, I trained as a mediator and also in collaborative law. Applying collaborative family law principles to business and construction disputes has been done in the US but it is not a widespread practice. Lisa Blomgren Amsler, Janet K. Martinez, Stephanie E.

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The BTLJ Podcast team sits down with ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Matt Cagle to discuss the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) by police departments and other law enforcement entities. Podcast Transcript: [Tiffaney] 0:12 You’re listening to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast. I’m Tiffaney Boyd.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 20, 2023

To fully understand these conflicting views of the majority opinion, it is necessary to understand both the specific facts of the case and the history of the Supreme Court’s case law concerning the fair-use doctrine. 102(a)(5) , a category that is defined to include photographs, 17 U.S.C. Fast-forward three decades.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Will they get the message? * * * Background Lerner and Rowe is an Arizona law firm. Brown Engstrand is a start-up rival law firm (operating under the brand “Accident Law Group”). Here’s an example: Competitive keyword advertising by law firms has been a source of trouble for years.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

JULY 24, 2023

But a]longside the benefits, AI will also bring dangers.” – Stephen Hawking (2016) [2] Two years ago, various news outlets reported that Amazon uses artificial intelligence (“AI”) “not only to manage workers in its warehouses but [also] to oversee contract drivers, independent delivery companies and even the performance of its office workers.”

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Eric Goldman

MAY 29, 2025

When I wrote on this topic in 2016 , I thought the issue was already resolved. Simply entering an attorney’s full proper name or a law firm’s name will rarely yield a precise, exclusive result. Colibri * Competitive Keyword Ad Lawsuit FailsDespite 236 Potentially Confused CustomersLerner & Rowe v.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I did another interview on emoji law that I thought was worth sharing here. * * * 1. What early traumas or triumphs led you to internet law? Around 2016, I spotted a legal opinion that referenced emoticons–something I hadn’t noticed before. When did you decide that emoji law would be a thing? Is that true?

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Regulations, laws and advanced detection technology are still lacking but urgently needed. States will likely pass a patchwork of laws to regulate AI-generated images. And I think, to me, this really like this technology really dragged the legal industry into, like a similar post truth era that we found politics to be in 2015 2016.

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Legal Talk Network

JULY 10, 2024

“This will go down in history reading as a 6-3 opinion, but it was actually 5-4 because Justice Amy Coney Barrett actually did set out one of the key arguments, which is that you can’t criminally prosecute over official versus unofficial acts,” said Joe Patrice, an editor of Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like a Lawyer.

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lennyesq

MAY 2, 2025

WASHINGTON A federal judge on Friday struck down President Donald Trumps executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie in a blistering opinion calling the presidents efforts an unprecedented attack on the U.S. judicial system.

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lennyesq

MARCH 31, 2025

Peters The writers are the senior partners at the law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters. President Trump this month issued an executive order clearly intended to destroy the venerable law firm Perkins Coie, a firm that has zealously represented clients large and small for more than a century. At a hearing the next day, Judge Beryl A.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 28, 2023

Regulations, laws and advanced detection technology are still lacking but urgently needed. States will likely pass a patchwork of laws to regulate AI-generated images. And I think, to me, this really like this technology really dragged the legal industry into, like a similar post truth era that we found politics to be in 2015 2016.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

My ranking of the top 10 Internet Law developments of 2024. There are supposed to be conflicts-of-interest laws that prevent this, but America has become a post-conflicts kleptocracy). 9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. 10) X/Twitter Embraces Partisan Bias. FOLLOW ME THERE!

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