LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Superior Court Judge Juliet J. McKenna disagreed.

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Eric Goldman

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

.” In order to add AR effects and filters to images and video, the software must compute the depicted individuals’ face geometry (i.e., the software needs to know where to put the bunny ears or cat whiskers). Selected BIPA Blog Posts AWS Can’t Shake BIPA Lawsuit for Providing Services to NBA 2K–Mayhall v. Martell v.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I remain unclear why the court granted cert in this case. The court’s exact reasoning will make a huge difference, and there are many ways it could go sideways. Two that jump out at me: How often will plaintiffs bring lawsuits if 230 is lifted? The justices really struggled with parsing the statutory wording.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 17, 2023

is one of the first major class-action lawsuits to dive into questions of online collection of “public data” and generative AI training data sets. On May 11th, the court ruled on the Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss , granting in part and denying in part. The court also held that plaintiffs were permitted to proceed pseudonymously.

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CaseFox

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Exposure lawsuits, a legal avenue that addresses harm resulting from exposure to hazardous substances or conditions, have witnessed a dynamic evolution over the years. In this blog post, we will take you on an interesting journey embarking on the trends, challenges, and future possibilities related to exposure lawsuits.

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Eric Goldman

OCTOBER 5, 2024

eBay defeats the lawsuit. The court concludes that “to ‘sell’ an item one must either possess the physical item or its title,” neither of which eBay does. Presumably the downplayed language was designed to discourage class action lawsuits). Is eBay the “Seller”? This ruling resembles the US.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 21, 2023

The court outlines the plaintiff’s legal theory: because YouTube has automated software that scans videos to help users identify potentially infringing clips, Plaintiff’s DMCA notices imputed on YouTube knowledge of each and every single clip that infringed on a noticed film. Its complaint covers about 7,000 clips from 570 films.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 18, 2023

This case involves two anti-threat software vendors, Enigma and Malwarebytes. In 2016, Malwarebytes classified Enigma’s software as “malicious,” a “threat,” and a “potentially unwanted program” (or PUP), because the programs allegedly were “scareware.” It’s not binary at all.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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MatterSuite

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Legal assistants may perform tasks such as sorting or filing documents, preparing appointments and calendars, including trail schedules, and contacting clients and all other parties to lawsuits. This can include preparing or handling legal papers and even assisting an attorney in court.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Attorneys at Akin Gump declined to discuss the lawsuit.

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LawSites

JANUARY 4, 2023

This is Stodder’s perspective on the lawsuit. As you may have heard , my company, Xcential Legislative Technologies , has found itself playing the role of David in a David & Goliath battle over our patent application for a software invention that automates key aspects of federal lawmaking.

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Eric Goldman

JUNE 27, 2023

.” That’s not exactly the answer a court gave, but perhaps close enough. The court displayed the respective artworks: Morford sued Cattelan for copyright infringement. Somewhat surprisingly, the district court denied Cattelan’s motion to dismiss. On summary judgment, the court rules for Cattelan.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 12, 2024

It was an audaciously mockable pivot…and yet, the district court judge shockingly bought the argument. Unfortunately, the court expresses this intuitively obvious result in a baroque, technical, and inaccessible opinion. The district court said the “website” was the chattel. ” That’s true.

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Eric Goldman

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

There are hundreds of pixel lawsuits in the courts right now (and surely more to come after a ruling like this). I’m going to focus on the court’s ruling on trespass to chattels doctrines. Note: the court cites Facebook v. ” However, the court doesn’t analyze this aspect at all.

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Eric Goldman

JANUARY 23, 2024

And even though the creators of popular services know, and you know, and I know, and the Supreme Court knows , and every judge that decides every opinion on these issues knows, that no one is reading these documents, the legal system has collectively decided this system sufficient to bind everyone to a legal agreement.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The path of every single lawsuit is filled with multiple inflection points, moments where attorneys have to make decisions about how the future is likely to unfold. The problem, however, was that these insights were impossible to access, especially for attorneys at the state trial court level. The pace of litigation is dizzying.

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Percipient

JANUARY 20, 2025

For litigation lawyers, it can predict how a case might play out in court, which makes it easier to decide if its worth settling or going all the way. Theyre especially helpful for lawsuits or investigations that involve large amounts of information. What is the best legal AI software? Not really.

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Eric Goldman

DECEMBER 13, 2023

But that undersells the level of inconsistency in courts’ interpretations of the law of copyright preemption. At the circuit court level, the law of copyright preemption of contracts is a circuit split-plus, with at least two and as many as four differentiating positions on what might constitute preemption. 2d 426, 433 (8th Cir.1993)

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Legal Tech Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Pre/Dicta , claiming itself the only litigation analytics platform that makes predictions about the outcome of federal lawsuits, announced the acquisition of Gavelytics, a pioneering judicial analytics platform for state court cases. take place.

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

Elevator pitch: Akroda is a project management and communication hub that centralizes collaboration, workflows and reporting for legal teams that lack software tools built specifically for legal function. We’re a team of young and ambitious software engineers who have worked at places like Amazon, Salesforce, Bridgewater, DocuSign, U.S.

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Clio

JUNE 13, 2024

A court case might involve reviewing a client’s social media account, emails, and digital documents to determine the merits of an intellectual property lawsuit. Data security: Proper processes maintain the integrity of electronic evidence, ensuring it’s admissible in court. Managing a team of reviewers if necessary.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

The software uses clustering to group cases that have similar characteristics — including characteristics specific to the vehicle as well as extraneous characteristics, such as the judge or jurisdiction. .” If a lawsuit is filed, iPAT provides guidance on settlement offers, including civil penalties and attorneys’ fees.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The startup has been featured on Fox Business News , Good Day LA and Good Day NY , Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and Forbes , and have ruffled quite a few feathers, receiving multiple lawsuit threats and at least one cease and desist from incumbent industry participants.

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CaseFox

JUNE 29, 2023

Legal motions allow parties to assert their rights, and seek relief from the court regarding certain cases. They can also present arguments in front of the court with the help of legal motions. The process of legal motion requires the submission of a written formal request to the court.

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Eric Goldman

AUGUST 1, 2023

Instead, Hunley and Brauer filed a class-action lawsuit against Instagram, alleging that Instagram was vicariously liable for, or was liable for encouraging or contributing to, the alleged direct infringement by others, by providing an “embedding” tool that easily could be used to facilitate public display of their photos. Supreme Court.

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Clio

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The software could collect the gamers neural data for the purpose of targeted advertising, perhaps even picking the perfect moment to induce some type of in-app purchase. Nonetheless, we can foresee future legal battles, even class action lawsuits, arising in this arena. states have enacted their own policies on neurorights.

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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. There were two other court decisions from just outside of the city that were persuasive as well. Download: The Complete Guide of Document Automation Software for Law Firms.

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Clio

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With the advent of technology in the legal industry, forward-thinking trial lawyers are getting ahead and practicing more efficiently and effectively in the office, while working remotely, and even in court. Stay on top of filing deadlines, case milestones, court dates, and more. Never miss an appearance with firm-wide calendars.

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Ikigai Law

JUNE 30, 2023

The term “person” has also been interpreted conservatively by the Courts in respect of copyright law. In 2019, the Delhi High Court rejected a copyright claim over a list compiled by a computer, on the grounds of, inter alia, lack of human intervention. [8] Few of the cases are discussed below.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 15, 2022

Of course, there are other collaboration software tools available. Tracking lawsuits. Archiving beneficial precedent decisions of the supreme court and other valuable legal content. I also set goals on Trello so my team can make sure that we are all working toward the same goals. Managing to-do lists.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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Debevoise Data Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

Since the implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) 18 months ago, more than 75 lawsuits have been filed seeking damages using the Act’s private cause of action. The CCPA provides a cause of action to “[a]ny consumer whose nonencrypted and nonredacted personal information. In Rahman v. Marriott Int’l, Inc.,

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Simple Legal

JUNE 22, 2023

Event management deals with activities that have a start time, an end time, a location, and invitees like a court hearing or an expert interview. Legal task management software can help make matters manageable. Task management software lets you assign tasks to both internal and external users so everybody is on the same page.

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LawSites

JANUARY 26, 2022

The software uses clustering to group cases that have similar characteristics — including characteristics specific to the vehicle as well as extraneous characteristics, such as the judge or jurisdiction. .” If a lawsuit is filed, iPAT provides guidance on settlement offers, including civil penalties and attorneys’ fees.

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Colin S. Levy

MAY 30, 2023

In fact, it released one of the first software packages that provided a comprehensive suite of statistical analysis and predictive modeling techniques, making it easier for organizations and individuals to access and use data analytics tools. I had asked her … “How does the BD team support the firm’s partners?”

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

AUGUST 22, 2023

I think prior to this, obviously, I was a software engineer inside the engineering team, we did focus heavily on AI as well, we actually won an award for a cog x with our platform s Turner, which was a review and labeling platform for reviews that we would do internally. And the chance of that happening is low. Shawn Curren 33:12 Yeah, yeah.

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