Google's antitrust trial, Yale students end retaliation suit, '#LAW' trademark bid to be revived, and more ??

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?? US takes on Google in much-anticipated antitrust trial

The U.S. Justice Department is expected to detail on Tuesday that Google?paid billions of dollars annually to Apple, AT&T,?and browser makers like Mozilla to keep Google's search engine atop the leader board.

Google's defense is simple: It will argue that its overwhelmingly high market share is not because it broke the law, but because it is a fast, effective search engine. It is also free.

If Google is found to have broken the antitrust law, Judge Amit Mehta?will then decide how best to resolve it. He may decide simply to order Google to stop practices he has found to be illegal or he may order Google to sell assets.

The legal fight has huge implications for Big Tech, which has been accused of buying or strangling small competitors but has insulated itself against many accusations of breaking antitrust law because the services the companies provide to users are free, as in the case of Google, or inexpensive, as in the case of Amazon.

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??? Yale law students end retaliation suit against school officials

A federal judge dismissed a nearly two-year-old retaliation lawsuit brought by two Yale law students, Sierra Stubbs and Gavin Jackson, against the school’s dean and a number of other administrators.

Stubbs and Jackson sued Yale in November 2021, alleging they lost networking and career opportunities after they refused to make a statement against professor Amy Chua in an investigation into whether she violated an agreement to not socialize with students off campus earlier that year.

The plaintiffs along with the Yale defendants, jointly requested dismissal of the case on Sep. 7.

Stubbs and Jackson, who unsuccessfully tried to proceed with the case under pseudonyms, said in court papers that they were the focus of a “dossier” created by another law student that sought to prove Chua was hosting students at her home in the spring of 2021. Chua has denied any wrongdoing.

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?? Law firm Morgan & Morgan convinces USPTO to revive '#LAW' trademark bid

Plaintiffs' law firm Morgan & Morgan has agreed to end a lawsuit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after making progress in its bid to register the trademark "#LAW," the two sides said in a Florida federal court filing.

The firm in 2017 applied to register a federal trademark for #LAW — spoken as "pound law" and meant as a telephone number, according to the firm's lawsuit. Morgan & Morgan said it spent millions of dollars on #LAW advertising and that the term had become a trademark-eligible source identifier for the firm's services.

The filing said the PTO would approve Morgan & Morgan's application after receiving new supporting evidence from the firm.

The trademark will now be published in the PTO's Trademark Gazette, where other parties will have 30 days to challenge it before it is registered.

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?? US CFTC official pushes for national financial fraud database

Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Christy Goldsmith Romero, proposed the creation of a federal registry to make it easier for investors and law enforcement to dig up information on past financial fraud convictions and civil fines.

"This would be a comprehensive record that the public can easily check before giving someone their money, their trust and their business," she said at an industry conference.

While some regulators compile databases of disciplinary actions or consumer complaints, there is no national database to make it easier to search across federal agencies or state regulators.

A centralized registry would make it easier for the government to identify repeat offenders and deter potential fraudsters, Goldsmith Romero said. But, finding a single agency to host the database and securing the initial funding to get it off the ground would be a challenge though, she added.

Read more: https://reut.rs/45OeNU7

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