Intelligent machines won’t be ruling the world anytime soon – but what happens when they turn you down for a loan, crash your car or discriminate against you because of your… Read More
Alex Guirguis has gotten several speeding tickets in his lifetime and he has contested all of them. But a Labor Day trip to Oregon with friends a couple of years ago… Read More
Text-message senders, beware: U.S. courts are moving ever-closer to blaming the sender of a text for car accidents that occur when the recipient is driving and texting back. How could… Read More
In the week since Apple went head to head with the FBI over encryption and hacking, people from across the tech sector have offered a wide spectrum of support for the… Read More
Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith spoke to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee today, and he brought an antique piece of technology to prove his point. Smith was part of a… Read More
Washington state residents now have the freedom to use restrooms and locker rooms based on identity, rather than anatomy. On Dec. 26, the state’s Human Rights Commission adopted policies that “shall… Read More
Seattle has been on the leading edge of many of the cultural shifts transforming our nation for nearly a quarter century – from the music we listen to, to the… Read More
Author Dylan Adams is a patent attorney at the Seattle law firm Davis Wright Tremaine. He holds a master’s in electrical engineering and a bachelor’s in biochemistry. An excerpt from… Read More
Hey parents: You won’t believe the contracts your kids have been roped into. Like a fine print virus spreading quickly around the globe, under-aged teenagers are suddenly being shrink-wrapped into… Read More
Patent attorney Priya Cloutier wasn’t all that surprised when she caught the entrepreneurship bug earlier this year. After all, she has been representing startups for more than a decade. She left a… Read More
Anonymous commenting has won in Washington state. A state appeals court sided with Avvo on Monday in the lawyer review site’s legal fight against a lawyer who sought to reveal the identity of an anonymous commenter… Read More
—Two of Seattle’s top startup lawyers are taking their talents to a new firm. Joe Wallin, a former partner at Davis Wright Tremaine, and Mike Schneider, an app developer and… Read More
Zillow has filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to dismiss a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by one of its former employees. The… Read More
A Washington initiative to increase background checks for gun purchases that was supported by the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Paul Allen passed on Tuesday evening. Initiative 594, which requires background checks… Read More
Zillow’s recently-launched “Coming Soon” feature has been controversial from the start, with some real estate professionals proclaiming that it is a method to bypass traditional listing agencies. In fact, the… Read More
A federal judge today ruled that Microsoft must comply with a warrant ordering the company to turn over email account data stored in Dublin, Ireland, marking a second setback for… Read More
Not everyone is happy about today’s $32 million acquisition of Scout Analytics by ServiceSource. A group of series A preferred stockholders filed suit last week in King County Superior Court alleging… Read More
The world changes for startups on September 23. How? On that date, thanks to the JOBS Act, it will become legal for startups to “generally solicit” and “generally advertise” their securities… Read More
Flipboard and Flowboard are two companies with names that start with “F,” and end with “board,” but the comparisons pretty much stop there. But Flipboard, the San Francisco-based popular digital… Read More
You may have missed this — as we did. But last month, the New York private equity firm Siris Capital Group quietly purchased Bellevue-based Applied Discovery from LexisNexis. At the time… Read More
There are all multiple ways to measure if the startup tech market is booming: IPOs, venture capital, inflated valuations in M&A deals. But Avvo, the Seattle online directory of lawyers,… Read More
Intellectual Ventures, the patent holding firm operated by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold, has inked a deal with BlueCat Networks of Toronto. As part of the agreement, BlueCat… Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a California law that attempted to ban the sale of violent video games to minors. In a 7-2 decision led by Justice Antonin… Read More
Stanford University has minted plenty of Silicon Valley high-tech millionaires and billionaires over the years. But Microsoft money helped pay for Stanford Law School’s newest building. The university this week… Read More