Daily Compliance News: April 24, 2025, The Made in Malaysia Edition
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Apple Loses First 'Big' Case to MobileMedia, Lawyer Says
To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more
This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s antitrust sector for March. The following events merit special attention...more
In a recent post about legal issues with the social casino sweepstakes model, we indicated that a recent RICO lawsuit against a social casino sweepstakes model, which also named Apple and Google, was dismissed voluntarily by...more
The "European Antitrust Bimonthly Bulletin” breaks down the major antitrust developments in Europe during the past two months into concise and actionable takeaways. ...more
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), the integration of AI into search engines has marked a significant shift. Recent announcements from major tech events such as Apple’s WWDC 2024 and Google I/O...more
Although Google fought tooth and nail against it, a win for an underdog video game developer means the Google Play Store could likely soon look a lot different for Android users. Google met its match in December when Epic...more
A jury in the Northern District of California in Epic Games, Inc. v. Google LLP found that Google maintained an unlawful monopoly of the Google Play app store and Google Play Billing service in violation of Sections 1 and 2...more
On September 18, in identical opinions issued in separate cases against Google and Apple, EDVA District Judge Michael Nachmanoff ruled that four patents directed toward geolocation of mobile devices claimed patent-ineligible...more
Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - 1. PERSONALIZED MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS, LLC v. APPLE INC. [OPINION] (2021-2275, 1/20/23) (Reyna, Chen, and Stark) - Reyna, J. Affirming district court’s decision that asserted...more
As part of the recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit took steps to return to normal operations. It began requiring live oral arguments in August 2022 and, by November,...more
On February 1, 2023, the Department of Commerce released a report, Competition in the Mobile App Ecosystem, which follows a lengthy inquiry kicked off by President Biden’s 2021 Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the...more
In the cloud-based age where numerous tech giants such as Google, Amazon, and Apple have launched cloud music services, many kept abreast of ongoing legal battles over online service providers’ liability for users’ music...more
In what is considered the largest privacy-related settlement in history, Google will pay $391.5 million to 40 states to settle an investigation by 40 state attorneys general. The bipartisan coalition of attorneys general...more
Precedential Federal Circuit Opinions - UNILOC 2017 LLC v. GOOGLE LLC [OPINION] (2021-1498, 2021-1500, 2021-1501, 2021-1502, 2021-1503, 2021-1504, 2021-1505, 2021-1506, 2021-1507, 2021-1508, 2021-1509, 11/4/2022) (Lourie,...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning systems are powerful driving forces in the modern era—defining new frontiers for complex and advanced software services and products. With significant innovation in the AI...more
On November 4, the Federal Reserve invited public comment on a proposal to publish a periodic list of depository institutions that have access to Federal Reserve and payment services. These accounts are often referred to as...more
In a series of related cases, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed two decisions from the US District Court for the District of Delaware regarding collateral estoppel on standing issues and reversed a...more
As the financial markets continue to struggle, digital health companies are conserving resources, slowing hiring and minding their burn rate given the uncertainty around the current economic slowdown and whether the economy...more
Almost everyone can agree that a freshly baked cookie’s buttery, sweet, and sometimes chocolatey aroma is intoxicating. In marketing, fresh “cookies” can be equally as satisfying, if not more, for your law firm’s prospect of...more
DOJ officials are investigating whether some activist investors—including “prominent short sellers . . . Carson Block and Andrew Left”—crossed lines in their efforts to expose “companies with shoddy or even fraudulent...more
Welcome to the third installment in our eight-part series preparing you for the post-cookie world. In our first post, we provided a deep dive into third-party cookies for a baseline understanding of the technology and the...more
On October 21, 2021, the CFPB sent orders to Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal, and Square requiring them to provide information about their current and planned payments products, practices, and data collection and...more
Everything has a life cycle. Bacteria, insects, people, civilizations, galaxies - all are born, live and pass into eternity eventually. So it goes with technologies....more
Jobs Report Friday, again. Here’s what we’re looking for in the numbers and why economists are generally optimistic about these pre-Omicron figures - NYTimes and WSJ and Bloomberg and MarketWatch Count Thursday as a...more