The Supreme Court should dismiss a case involving Patent Act Section 112 to “protect innovation” in fields like telecom, software, computing and electronics, tech groups argued this week in Amgen v. Sanofi (21-757).
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Karl Herchenroeder, Associate Editor, is a technology policy journalist for publications including Communications Daily. Born in Rockville, Maryland, he joined the Warren Communications News staff in 2018. He began his journalism career in 2012 at the Aspen Times in Aspen, Colorado, where he covered city government. After that, he covered the nuclear industry for ExchangeMonitor in Washington. You can follow Herchenroeder on Twitter: @karlherk
The Supreme Court should hear a case against Texas’ social media law because circuit courts are split over First Amendment issues for laws in Texas and Florida, the Computer & Communications Industry Association and NetChoice argued Tuesday in docket 22-555.
Google will pay $9.5 million to settle claims the company manipulated users to gain access to location data and made it “nearly impossible” for users to stop location tracking, Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine (D) announced in a settlement Friday.
The Supreme Court should “narrow the scope” of Communications Decency Act Section 230 and reverse the 9th Circuit’s decision shielding YouTube from liability in Gonzalez v. Google (docket 21-1333), Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) wrote in a merits-stage amicus brief announced Thursday (see 2212070026).
An inter partes review (IPR) proceeding related to VLSI Technology’s $2.1 billion jury verdict against Intel can proceed, Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal said Dec. 22, calling the merits in two related cases “compelling.”
Facbook will pay $725 million to settle a U.S. class action lawsuit over its 2018 Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, parent company Meta said Thursday in a filing before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 18-md-02843-VC.
Epic Games violated children’s privacy law and used dark patterns to trick millions of gamers into making unintentional purchases, the FTC said Monday in a record-breaking $520 million settlement with the Fortnite creator.
A woman who shared social media posts of two California high school students allegedly engaging in racist, blackface activity after the 2020 killing of George Floyd isn’t liable for defamation of the students because she’s protected by Communications Decency Act Section 230, California’s Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District ruled Thursday, affirming a trial court’s decision.
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied Twitter’s request for a rehearing in the company’s lawsuit against Texas over a state investigation related to the platform’s suspension of ex-President Donald Trump (see 2205250040 and 2204120056).
California’s age-appropriate social media design law violates the First Amendment by telling sites how to “manage constitutionally protected speech,” NetChoice said Wednesday in a lawsuit seeking to invalidate AB-2273 (see 2209150070). The tech group drew comparisons to its free speech challenges against social media content moderation laws in Texas and Florida.