Sufficient evidence exists to support a jury’s $1.3 million in damages awarded to a synthetic braid company that said a competitor infringed its trademark, the Fifth Circuit ruled.

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Cox Media Group’s Eric Dodson Greenberg writes that “Legal R&D,” the process of continuously innovating on legal strategies, combined with AI and an integrated legal ops team are the formula for legal departments evolving into strategic assets enterprise-wide.

US President Donald Trump threatened a probe on the European Union that could prompt fresh tariffs, in response to the bloc’s fining of Alphabet Inc.’s Google over findings the company exploited its advantage over rivals.

Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors’ copyright lawsuit over the AI company’s downloading of millions of pirated books, one of the largest settlements over artificial intelligence and intellectual property to date.

Alphabet Inc. won’t get immediate review of a ruling allowing investor claims to proceed in a proposed class action over the fairness of Google’s advertising bidding process.