Bloomberg Law The Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok is battling a potential US ban with the signature tools of American democracy — lawyers, lobbyists and money. TikTok has deployed Washington power brokers and $1,500-an-hour attorneys to fend off a new law barring the app unless its Beijing-based parent, ByteDance Ltd., divests. Read more…
Bloomberg Law “OpenAI Inc. escaped a copyright lawsuit from a group of open-source programmers after they voluntarily dismissed their case against the company in federal court. The programmers, who allege the generative AI programming tool Copilot was trained on their code without proper attribution, filed their notice of voluntary dismissal Thursday, Read more…
Bloomberg Law ” Volkswagen Group of America Inc.—a subsidiary of Volkswagen AG—is entitled to attorneys’ fees from a dismissed VDPP LLC lawsuit that accused the German automaker of incorporating patented camera-related technology into surround-view monitoring systems in its vehicles. VDPP and its attorney, William P. Ramey III of Ramey LLP, engaged in abusive Read more…
Bloomberg Law “HP Inc. convinced a federal judge in Austin, Texas, to transfer a patent monetizer’s suit over allegedly infringing laptops, desktops, monitors, and docking stations to Northern California where the company is headquartered. Universal Connectivity Technologies Inc., a unit of Canadian patent owner Wi-LAN Inc., sued HP in late Read more…