Brett Trout

JULY 9, 2025

While there is no guarantee that even a trademark attorney will not run into issues in the registration process, engaging an experienced trademark attorney to ensure your application is thorough, vetted, strategic, and legally sound increases the chances the registration process will avoid pitfalls before the Trademark Office.

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Brett Trout

APRIL 21, 2025

Gone are the days when judges were unaware that AI is simply a tool that one may apply to many generic problems. Implications for Patent Filings This decision underscores the importance of claim drafting in patents covering new applications of artificial intelligence.

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Clio

APRIL 17, 2025

Further insights could be gleaned based on the type of case, jurisdiction, judge, or even opposing counsel. If your plaintiffs firm is consistently appearing before a judge that statistically favors motions to dismiss from defendants, you can factor that into your revenue projections and estimated timelines. The result?

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Eric Goldman

MAY 20, 2025

But I’m pretty sure getting 8-75 likes at Instagram, especially for posts that might be considered thirst traps, isn’t impressive, and I think the court is silently judging that. We’ll get more information about the legitimacy of this case if Lil Nas X requests and gets a 505 fee shift.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Back in the old days, judges were baffled by keyword advertising. ” Wow, talk about appellate judge making up facts. The Concurrence In her concurrence, Judge Desai would have gone further to say that competitive keyword advertising isn’t a trademark use in commerce. ” More manufactured empiricism.

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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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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

I imagine many judges would have been less sanguine about the defendant’s mistakes/sloppy practices. However, the court also says that the plaintiff can get its costs and attorneys’ fees, which will dwarf the damages. Will the attorneys’ fee shift be enough to make this case worthwhile to the plaintiff?

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Clio

APRIL 2, 2025

As a personal injury attorney, you’re driven by these human stories. million lawyers in the United States, over 135,000 are personal injury lawyersroughly 10% of all practicing attorneys. For personal injury attorneys, these trends highlight important areas where specialized knowledge will be increasingly valuable.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 22, 2025

Online addiction lawsuits are proliferating across the country, a trend that will continue so long as plaintiffs think they can win. What happens at the end of these lawsuits remains to be seen. That, combined with the novelty of Generative AI and the judge’s uncertainties about the technology, flummoxes the judge.

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lennyesq

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Order requires destruction of departmental data accessed by Musky men Simon Sharwood Trump administration policies that allowed Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access systems and data at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) have left the org more vulnerable to hacking according to federal Judge Paul A.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

APRIL 12, 2025

3] The city of Norfolk has deployed 172 ‘Flock Safety’ ALPRs, resulting in numerous lawsuits. [4] 6] The lawsuit seeks declaratory and injunctive relief that would constitute the use of these cameras as a Fourth Amendment violation and would permanently enjoin the City of Norfolk and its police department from operating the Flock cameras. [7]

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2025

In the last month, two more copyright lawsuits over city council videos have triggered my alerts. 14, 2024) A magistrate judge recommends sending a 512(f) case to trial. On January 6, 2025, the supervising judge summarily approved the magistrate judge’s recommendations. Kilgore , 2024 WL 5295080 (W.D.

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lennyesq

MARCH 28, 2025

Carpenter did not respond to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ‘s lawsuit accusing her of illegally dispensing abortion-inducing medication in Texas that he says killed a fetus and caused the mother to suffer serious medical complications. Margaret Daley Carpenter of New Paltz, N.Y., The New York Times reported.

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lennyesq

JULY 10, 2025

By Devan Cole and John Fritze , CNN Concord, New Hampshire CNN — A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“We’re trying to solve a longstanding problem in the legal field, and that is that judges only write judicial opinions for 3% of rulings,” Ovbiagele said. “They tell you what judges have done, but they don’t tell you why judges did what they did. The Toronto-based company recently closed a $2.1

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Above the Law - Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The firm based its lawsuit on DoNotPay’s claims that it allows consumers to “[f]ight corporations, beat bureaucracy and sue anyone at the press of a button,” even though it is not licensed to practice law. District Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel. A second California lawsuit, Lee v.

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lennyesq

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

BY SAUL ELBEIN AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to block a voter registration drive in one of his state’s most populous urban counties — and biggest Democratic strongholds — has failed in state district court.

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Eric Goldman

MARCH 10, 2023

Represented by lawyers Maria Cristina Armenta and Credence Elizabeth Sol (who keep expanding their oeuvre of failed lawsuits against Internet services), Daniels claimed YouTube had to comply with 1983 because YouTube became a state actor. Google requested attorneys’ fees for its 1983 victory. My blog post on that ruling.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Last Friday, the parties stipulated to dismiss their lawsuit, with Meta formally waiving its right to appeal the controversial January 23rd decision from Judge Chen. Given that most observers in this space were surprised by Judge Chen’s summary judgment decision, Meta’s decision not to appeal seems even more surprising.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

After applying statutory damages caps, the judge awarded over $10 million, which was affirmed on appeal. However, they may eventually consider bringing a lawsuit against the facility and any individual employees at fault. Some incidents of financial abuse involve an instrument called a power of attorney.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 4, 2024

After a couple of defendants showed up, the judge denied a TRO extension because of the possible lack of merit in the plaintiff’s infringement allegations. The court ruled on Hyponix and NinjaSafe’s requests for damages from the bond, dismissal with prejudice, and attorneys’ fees. Then, the case fell apart.

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lennyesq

APRIL 12, 2024

By Charles Lane A federal judge on Friday tossed out a pre-emptive lawsuit from Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who sought to stave off legal action by New York Attorney General Letitia James over his decision banning transgender women from playing sports at county-owned facilities, James’ office said.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In the lawsuit I’m covering today, Roblox named over 250 defendants. I bet most of Roblox’s lawsuit would unravel if the judge simply asked Roblox the obvious follow-up question, i.e., “what evidence do you have for each of the other 250 defendants that they sold infringing items in Illinois? Seriously, Roblox?

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Kevin O'Keefe

DECEMBER 6, 2023

With the insertion of the url, asking that the summary be bulleted and be writtten in the tone of the source (the clerk or judge who wrote the decision), I receive the below. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company’s defamation claim against attorney Kevin O’Keefe and his law firm, Parke O’Flaherty, Ltd., was dismissed by the court.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The path of every single lawsuit is filled with multiple inflection points, moments where attorneys have to make decisions about how the future is likely to unfold. In the past, attorneys navigated these twists and turns by relying on intuition, experience and anecdotal evidence. It all starts with a judge dashboard.

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CaseFox

MARCH 23, 2023

Here are the key steps involved in the personal injury claim process: Consultation with an attorney: The first step in filing a personal injury claim is to consult an experienced attorney who can evaluate the circumstances of your case and advise you on your legal options.

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Lawmatics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

There are more than 40 million lawsuits in the United states alone every year. And only 2% of those will ultimately proceed with a lawsuit. Contract and small claims cases comprise the bulk of the civil caseload, and unfortunately, most of these lawsuits are baseless claims, also known as frivolous lawsuits.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 23, 2023

His lawsuit against Facebook was dashed by Section 230 in the district court. The judge’s response might be characterized as: WTF = What The Fyk? Fyk’s alleged injury has no connection whatsoever to any conduct by the United States, the only defendant in this lawsuit. The Supreme Court denied cert.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Superior Court Judge Juliet J. McKenna disagreed.

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Legal Tech Monitor

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We’re trying to solve a longstanding problem in the legal field, and that is that judges only write judicial opinions for 3% of rulings,” Ovbiagele said. “So They tell you what judges have done, but they don’t tell you why judges did what they did. What we offer are explanatory insights into judges’ rulings.” 31, 2021.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Fearing overseas defendants will abscond with ill-gotten gains if served with a lawsuit, plaintiffs seek an ex parte temporary restraining order (“TRO”) to freeze funds held by online merchants, then follow up with a request for a preliminary injunction. The defendant sold the flag below it. ” [note: Jones refers to Patrick M.

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lennyesq

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Tim Boucher objects to the mischaracterization of his work in authors’ copyright claim Thomas Claburn INTERVIEW Tim Boucher, a Canadian artist, author, and AI activist, sent a letter to the San Francisco judge overseeing an authors’ lawsuit against AI firm Anthropic to object to the way the legal filing characterizes his work.

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Eric Goldman

JULY 29, 2023

Invoking the law, he sought an injunction to restore his deactivated accounts, remove all account restrictions, and get his (self-represented) attorneys’ fees. Indeed, As a practicing attorney, Davis is more sophisticated than many of the individual consumers against whom forum-selection clauses are regularly enforced.

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pre/Dicta, which launched within just a few days of Gavelytics’ closure, claims to predict how a judge will rule on a motion to dismiss in federal with an accuracy rate of 86.7%. Later, he served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice; general counsel to a Washington, D.C.

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Martindale-Avvo

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

We have all heard about the lawsuit involving Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. After all, one cannot simply turn over their phone to the Court and have a Judge read all the communications between parties. The post Ask Attorney Jennifer B: Are Text Messages Admissible in Divorce Court? Brandt at www.cozen.com.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 24, 2021

District Judge Randolph Moss of the District of Columbia allowed two married former Jones Day associates to add a retaliation claim to their bias lawsuit over the firm’s parental leave policy. The retaliation claim is based on a firm press release about the lawsuit after it was filed. Don’t issue a press release!) .

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The firm based its lawsuit on DoNotPay’s claims that it allows consumers to “[f]ight corporations, beat bureaucracy and sue anyone at the press of a button,” even though it is not licensed to practice law. District Chief Judge Nancy Rosenstengel. Another lawsuit alleging unauthorized practice of law by DoNotPay, Faridian v.

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