Five years of class-action litigation over a Takeda Pharmaceutical gastrointestinal drug culminated this week in a jury awarding nearly $885 million in damages to pharmacies and wholesalers who had alleged that one such settlement illegally kept generic competition from entering the market.
An internal alert titled "Gen1 printers losing connection to Web Services," along with notes attributing the failure to "a server update affecting connectivity to HP Instant Ink" combined with the printer being "likely at end of service life."
The owner of the Danziger Gallery has released a statement defending his actions after putting an AI-generated version of Ansel Adams' Moonrise on sale at The Photography Show in New York. PetaPixel reported yesterday that the Ansel Adams Publishing Right Trust put out a statement over the weekend making clear that it did not authorize, endorse, consent to, or acquiesce in the AI-generated color version' of Moonrise presented by Danziger Gallery at AIPAD. Rather than this being about the AI tools used by Danziger, the Adams Trust says it's fundamentally about artists' rights and moral rights.
The owner of music used in Peanuts animated specials, including the memorable holiday classic O Tannenbaum and the unmistakable Linus and Lucy tunes, sued three companies and the U.S. Department of the Interior on Wednesday. It accused them of using its captivating bops in social media posts and a video game without permission. Lee Mendelson Film Productions filed the copyright infringement suits in federal courts in New York and Washington, D.C.
The American Dollar has brought suit against AI music platform Suno, alleging that the AI company used their songs as training material for Suno's AI music-creation models. The music group is represented by Poseidon Wave Media, a music rights management company.
Bitgo is seeking at least the $100 million reverse breakup fee written into the merger agreement, and argues actual damages may exceed that figure. This was incredibly damaging, Belshe is cited as saying in court, according to Bloomberg's Sabrina Willmer. Bitgo disputed that position. According to Bloomberg, CEO Mike Belshe testified that Bitgo provided the required documentation and that Galaxy's termination claims caused direct harm to the company.
Wingtech Technology has sued its subsidiary Nexperia in a Chinese court, seeking at least 8 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) in damages over the Dutch government's seizure of the chipmaker. The lawsuit invokes China's Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, making it a test case for how Chinese companies can push back against Western semiconductor restrictions.
California requires AT&T to spend $1 billion each year to maintain a century-old telephone network that almost no one uses. The copper wires that once served every home now serve just three percent of households in AT&T's California territory, with consumers fleeing every day to modern broadband services that are more affordable, reliable, and energy-efficient.
For years, owners of Vizio smart TVs have had little control over the software running on their sets-software that can track viewing habits, push ads, and generally shape the experience of using the device.
Kickstarter has reverted the restrictive NSFW rules it had previously put in place, and, in a titled "An Apology: Rethinking Our Mature Content Guidelines," has outright confirmed that the "botched" guidelines were "primarily driven by requirements from [Kickstarter's] payments processor, Stripe."
Two Finnish sports-tech companies have been litigating U.S. Patent No. 6,537,227 in a Utah federal court since 2017. Polar Electro Oy - the heart rate monitor maker - owns the patent, which claims a process for estimating energy expenditure during exercise by combining a measured heart rate with a personalized physiological reference value tied to VO2max. Firstbeat Technologies Oy, a physiological analytics company acquired by Garmin in 2020, moved for summary judgment of patent ineligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101 but, according to the record, supplied no prior art, no expert testimony, and no developed conventionality theory.
