Daily Compliance News: May 21, 2025, The I Want You Back Edition
Shout Outs and Rants: Episode 153, The CW 25 Edition
Episode 271 -- Deep Dive into Microsoft's OFAC Settlement for $3 Million
Everything Dynamic Everywhere: Managing a More Collaborative Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 and the Age of Automation
Compliance Into The Weeds - Antitrust Issues in Microsoft Acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Everything Compliance - Episode 93 - The Activision Blizzard Edition
Microsoft Week on Innovation in Compliance -Legal Compliance for The Future with Alan Gibson
Keeping Up with M365 Software Updates
Efficiently and Defensibly Addressing Microsoft Teams Data
M365 in 5 – Part 7: Teams Audio/Video (A/V) Conferencing
M365 in 5 – Part 6: Teams Channels – The virtual collaboration workspace
M365 in 5 – Part 5: Teams Chats – Modern communications
M365 in 5 – Part 4: Teams – An introduction to collaboration
M365 in 5 – Part 3: OneDrive for Business – Protected personal collaboration
M365 in 5 – Part 2: SharePoint Online – The new file-share environment
M365 in 5 – Part 1: Exchange Online – Not just a mailbox
Episode 104 -- A Deep Dive into the Microsoft FCPA Settlement
This Week in FCPA-Episode 164, week ending July 26, 2019 – the Microsoft and Facebook settle edition
Is the Patent Litigation Boom Coming to an End?
After years of litigating its attempt to block Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently dropped its in-house challenge following the Ninth Circuit’s decision affirming...more
On May 7, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court opinion that denied the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) motion for a preliminary injunction against Microsoft’s acquisition of...more
On January 18, 2022, Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision, one of the world’s most-valuable gaming companies, was announced. In April 2023, the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked the deal on...more
DOJ Sees First Merger Win After String of Losses - Penguin Random House’s planned acquisition of rival Simon & Schuster was blocked by Judge Florence Pan of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on November...more
KAUFMAN v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Before Dyk, Reyna, and Taranto. Appeal from the District Court for the Southern District of New York - Summary: An “automatic” method does not require all steps in the method to be...more
On October 31, 2019, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals rejected the Wisconsin Department of Revenue’s (DOR) position in Wisconsin Department of Revenue v. Microsoft Corporation, Case No. 2018AP2024 that Microsoft should “look...more
Federal Circuit Summaries - Before Lourie, O’Malley, and Wallach. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Summary: When a case is dismissed with prejudice for lack of standing,...more
On February 27, 2018, the Supreme Court heard arguments in In re Warrant to Search a Certain Email Account Controlled & Maintained by Microsoft Corp. (Microsoft). At issue is an unsettled question concerning the territorial...more
On May 11, 2017, Magistrate Judge Roy Payne in the Eastern District of Texas recommended that patentee Biscotti’s inter partes review (IPR) estoppel motion be granted–in-part and denied-in-part....more
The technology community took aim at a recent federal magistrate’s ruling that ordered Google Inc. to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored on servers abroad, calling the decision “an impermissible...more
In July 2016, the Second Circuit ruled that the Government could not employ a domestic search warrant, issued pursuant to the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2703 (the “SCA”), to compel disclosure of an email account...more
Alien Tort Statute (ATS)/Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA)/Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) - District Court Dismisses ATS Claim Where Alleged Conduct in US Was Not Directly Linked to Injuries Claimed in Other Countries - ...more
For months, the technology and business communities have been waiting anxiously for a Federal appeals court ruling on whether American companies can be forced to turn over customer information to U.S. law enforcement when...more
On July 30 the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a significant appellate decision that provides guidance regarding obligations imposed on licensors of patents that are required to comply with interoperability...more
In a decision written by Judge Marsha S. Berzon, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appels for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a first-of-its-kind district court judgment relating to royalty rates for standard-essential...more
July has just ended, and SEP and FRAND issues are in the air. On July 8, the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) sought public comments on its proposed amendments to its Guidelines for the Use of Intellectual Property under...more
Although the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has held that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) has the authority to use the broadest reasonable interpretation claim...more
The Ninth Circuit yesterday (July 30, 2015) issued one of the most significant appellate opinions regarding standard essential patents (SEPs) subject to commitments to license on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory...more
The Ninth Circuit has affirmed Microsoft’s $14.5 million jury verdict against Motorola, upholding the first federal bench trial decision setting a fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) licensing rate. Armed with...more
There are now three decisions of the Federal Circuit on appeals from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) on inter partes reviews: - In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC - Belden Inc. v. Berk-Tek LLC and -...more
Inter partes reviews (“IPRs”) are a cheaper and faster alternative to patent litigation, instituted in 2012 by the America Invents Act. IPRs allow parties to challenge the validity of patents in the U.S. Patent and Trademark...more
In only its second substantive decision on an appeal of a final inter partes review (IPR) decision, the Federal Circuit in Microsoft Corp. v. Proxyconn, Inc., signaled its willingness to engage with substantive issues of...more
We recently reported on a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals opinion reversing a district court’s decision to strike class action allegations in a putative class action against Microsoft. Baker v. Microsoft Corp., No. 12-35946,...more
The Ninth Circuit reversed an order striking class allegations against Microsoft reasoning that the Washington district court misapplied its precedent and thereby abused its discretion. Plaintiffs alleged that a design defect...more
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently reversed a district court’s decision to strike the class action allegations in Baker v. Microsoft Corp., No. 12-35946, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 4317 (9th Cir. Mar. 18, 2015). In Baker,...more