Eric Goldman

JUNE 18, 2023

In 2016, Malwarebytes classified Enigma’s software as “malicious,” a “threat,” and a “potentially unwanted program” (or PUP), because the programs allegedly were “scareware.” The lawsuit’s lengthy duration and high defense cost has significant substantive implications.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 11, 2024

I summarized: This lawsuit involves the freemium videogame “ Forge of Empires.” She played the game virtually every day from 2016-19–over 10,000 hours worth–and spent over $9,000 on in-game transactions. I previously blogged this case in 2022. The plaintiff, Penny Quinteros (a/k/a TwoCents), claims she became addicted to the game.

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Colin S. Levy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This situation often resulted in threatened or actual litigation and always meant a war of words in the form of contract letters numbering in the hundreds from both sides. And then any actual litigation would drag on for years after the project ended. Lisa Blomgren Amsler, Janet K. Martinez, Stephanie E.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. In Australia, legal tech company Nuix went public in 2020 – an IPO that has been haunted by regulatory investigations and class-action lawsuits over claims that the company misrepresented its financial information.).

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Eric Goldman

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The flagship law in this area is the Consumer Review Fairness Act, enacted by Congress in 2016. That’s a litigation strategy, I guess. violations; but I also think it’s clear this lawsuit is going to fail eventually. This pernicious business practice emerged around 15 years ago. My primer on that law.

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

10] Although the initial patent on Humira expired in 2016, thanks to the over 75 patents filed three years before its expiration, AbbVie is set to hold the monopoly until 2034. [11] 19] The lawsuit ended in a settlement with Gilead agreeing to pay Teva, the supposed infringer, $1.5 have over 100 attempted patents per drug. [8]

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 11, 2023

In re: StubHub Refund Litigation , No. July 31, 2023) This is a lawsuit over Blue Kai’s alleged keystroke logging on ESPN.com. Bleacher Report also argued that it provided users with notice of amendments in 2016, 2020, 2022, and 2023 via interstitial popups onsite. This legal standard ensures lots of meritless litigation.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

In 2016, Time “embedded” one of Brauer’s Instagram posts, featuring one of his photos of Hilary Clinton, in its entirety (preserving his username or “handle”, his caption, and his links and hashtags). The Facts The facts are relatively straightforward. Neither Time nor BuzzFeed sought or obtained authorization from the photographers to do so.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 20, 2023

When Prince died in 2016, Condé Nast contacted AWF for permission to re-publish the 1984 illustration in a special issue devoted to Prince. Two months later, in November 2016, she registered her copyright in the photograph with the U.S. Fast-forward three decades. Copyright Office. 3d 319, 324 (S.D.N.Y. 2019) (citations omitted).

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Colin S. Levy

MAY 30, 2023

It’s now 2016, I have earned my JD and Winston & Strawn provides me with an opportunity to become one of the first JD/MBA/Data Scientists to work at an AmLaw 100 firm. As part of architecting the solution, we ended up putting together a near-real time database of every lawsuit filed in the US.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Here are my prior years’ lists of the most important developments: 2020 , 2018 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013. In Australia, legal tech company Nuix went public in 2020 – an IPO that has been haunted by regulatory investigations and class-action lawsuits over claims that the company misrepresented its financial information.).

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I wrote a whole paper just about that in 2016–we’re still discussing it 8 years later. The court is telling trademark owners, as plain as it can, to stop bringing competitive keyword advertising lawsuits. Google was a major player in this lawsuit by proxy. Is This Opinion Good or Bad News for Google?

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We could also see systems like ChatGPT being used as the first draft, the first draft of this, that or the other, a lot of what we do as lawyers is not, you know, actually litigating. So for instance, in the area where I practice, which is startups and venture capital, there’s a very strong bias against litigating.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Bell has filed at least 25 copyright lawsuits. Two prior blog posts on Bell’s litigation efforts: Fair Use Protects High Schools Use of Inspirational MemeBell v. It contained a passage that has become a meme in the sports community. Bell has separately registered a copyright in the passage.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 18, 2024

Thousands of SAD Scheme lawsuits have been filed because the TROs take the online merchant off the marketplace entirely and usually extract some cash. 4) Social media “defective design” lawsuits go forward. If so, as I predicted in 2019 , the UK Online Safety Act will accelerate the end of Web 2.0

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Berkley Technology Law Journal

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Matt also conducts public records investigations and litigates cases challenging government surveillance. The law was passed around 2016. Matt has led efforts to pass surveillance legislation including San Francisco’s first-of-its-kind ban on facial recognition. Thank you for taking out the time for this and welcome to our podcast….

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Richmond Journal of Law and Technology

JULY 24, 2023

But a]longside the benefits, AI will also bring dangers.” – Stephen Hawking (2016) [2] Two years ago, various news outlets reported that Amazon uses artificial intelligence (“AI”) “not only to manage workers in its warehouses but [also] to oversee contract drivers, independent delivery companies and even the performance of its office workers.”

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Trial Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Trump, taken June 6, 2016. On Friday, September 30, 2016, Washington, D.C. You will find the following note: A fully licensed copy of this incredible software has been reserved for you, free of charge, courtesy of: Litigation-Tech LLC, 888-907-4434, www.litigationtech.com. Here is a link to the CNN article.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Elevator pitch: Judges are like the umpires of the courtroom, but litigators lack the information they need to understand the parameters of each umpire’s strike zone. As a private-public partnership through the UC Berkeley Skydeck, we have been connecting over 10,000 attorney and 12,000 litigation support providers in real time.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Elevator pitch: Judges are like the umpires of the courtroom, but litigators lack the information they need to understand the parameters of each umpire’s strike zone. As a private-public partnership through the UC Berkeley Skydeck, we have been connecting over 10,000 attorney and 12,000 litigation support providers in real time.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JUNE 28, 2023

Isha Marathe , a tech reporter for American Lawyer Media, joined the podcast to discuss her recent article on how deep fake technology is coming to litigation and whether the legal system is prepared. Deep fakes are coming to a court, our judges and lawyers ready, where she delves into the implications on litigation.

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Legal Tech Monitor

JUNE 28, 2023

Isha Marathe , a tech reporter for American Lawyer Media, joined the podcast to discuss her recent article on how deep fake technology is coming to litigation and whether the legal system is prepared. Deep fakes are coming to a court, our judges and lawyers ready, where she delves into the implications on litigation.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 9, 2025

9) Supreme Court Tamps Down on Jawboning and Government Social Media Lawsuits. If any of those lawsuits succeed, they pose a potential existential threat to the entire industry. If you haven’t been watching the litigation tsunami over Meta Pixels, it’s been a sight to behold. FOLLOW ME THERE! Pixel Cases.

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