Bloomberg Law ” Google LLC‘s expansion of its “Gemini” AI brand into hardware products infringes a decades-old trademark registration, a speakers and headphones company said in a new complaint. P2B Trading Co. argued using “Gemini” to market Google’s AI-powered speakers will subsume its longstanding brand, leaving consumers linking its products Read more
Bloomberg Law “An international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms, Inc. alleging that the company has made false claims about the privacy and security of its WhatsApp chat service. Meta has made so called “end-to-end” encryption a central part of WhatsApp’s feature set, offering a kind of encryption that means a message Read more
Bloomberg Law “Google LLC’s $30 million settlement to resolve a privacy suit over allegedly collecting data from young YouTube viewers and targeting them with behavioral advertising received final approval from a federal court. Plaintiffs sued Google after the Federal Trade Commission and New York issued an enforcement action over the alleged data collection Read more
Bloomberg Law “Social media platform X Corp. on Friday sued the largest music publishers in the US and their trade associations, with claims that the group leveraged its power to monopolize the market for licenses to copyrighted musical compositions. X Corp., Elon Musk’s social media company, alleges the National Music Publishers’ Association Read more
Bloomberg Law “Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. plans to once again reject a takeover bid from Paramount Skydance Corp. after the rival media company amended the terms of its offer, according to people familiar with the company’s thinking.The Warner Bros. board hasn’t made a final determination, but will meet next week, said the people, Read more
Bloomberg Law “Tesla persuaded a federal court to dismiss a California resident’s proposed class suit that alleged the automaker’s use of online trackers from Google and X violated the state’s Invasion of Privacy law. The US District Court for the Central District of California lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the dispute, as Read more
Bloomberg Law “DC Comics Inc. and Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. are likely to retain the foreign rights to Superman after a Manhattan judge said Thursday one of the heirs of the superhero’s creator gave away the rights permanently. The nephew of of Superman comics co-creator Joseph Shuster wants the New Read more
Bloomberg Law “A dog-fashion magazine titled “Dogue” infringed media behemoth Condé Nast’s trademarks for its famed monthly fashion magazine, “Vogue,” the company told a federal court. Tasty Work LLC publishes Dogue, a “periodical focusing on dogs, dog fashion and celebrity dog owners,” Advance Magazine Publishers Inc., which does business as Read more
Bloomberg Law “The Coca-Cola Co. created an advertising campaign that seems to feature the voice of Johnny Cash without authorization or providing compensation, the country music star’s estate claims. The estate’s case, grounded in a Tennessee law dubbed the ELVIS Act, arises from a national ad campaign launched by the soft Read more
Bloomberg Law “In-house legal departments have bought artificial intelligence tools to churn through contracts, speed up workflows, and analyze documents. Now comes the hard part: Proving the software is worth the cost. Some legal departments say AI software is improving how their lawyers work and boosting quality, but those enhancements can be Read more