Innovations in technology and media are transforming every aspect of society, leading to increased regulatory scrutiny, high-stakes litigation, and significant merger activity. Arnold & Porter’s globally recognized Technology & Media team draws on integrated transactional, litigation, legislative, and regulatory experience to advise forward-thinking technology and media companies on all aspects of their businesses. Our team of more than 90 lawyers, including former scientists, engineers, coders, journalists, and senior government officials, brings exceptional technical depth and policy insight to help our clients mitigate risk, capitalize on opportunities, and navigate shifting trends that may require course correction.
Our clients rely on us to handle complex AI governance and data use issues, to enforce and defend their most critical intellectual property, to negotiate their most significant technology collaborations, to obtain favorable regulatory and legislative treatment for cutting-edge technologies, to guide them through the most prominent mergers in history, and to protect their free speech rights. These clients routinely turn to us for help in conceiving, building, financing, commercializing, and protecting their most important assets.
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Business and Technical Savvy: Our in-depth understanding of our clients’ business imperatives and technology enables us to develop and execute on practical legal strategies and tactics.
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Groundbreaking Precedents: From successfully representing a leading AI company in a copyright class action with significant implications for the AI industry to winning a landmark decision in New York’s highest court protecting journalists’ sources, we help define the legal frontiers of technology and media.
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Regulatory Expertise: With one of the deepest benches of regulatory lawyers and lobbyists in D.C., we are at the forefront of the laws and rules shaping digital innovation, connectivity, and information integrity through regulatory advocacy and strategic legislative engagement.
Experience Highlights
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Adobe in multiple IP matters across several jurisdictions, including patent, copyright, trademark, and trade secret matters. We have successfully defended Adobe in numerous patent matters across e-commerce platforms and systems, electronic signatures, real-time animation, and other technologies. We also represent Adobe in the protection of its IP rights against infringers.
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Anthropic in the closely-watched Bartz v. Anthropic copyright class action concerning the use of books to train generative AI models.
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Entain and BetMGM, the second largest online gaming company in the country, in the successful defense of a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Beteiro LLC. The decision was upheld in a precedent-setting ruling at the Federal Circuit, and will have wide-ranging implications for our client, the online gaming industry, and for future technology industry defendants in patent lawsuits.
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Fullpower Technologies, a developer of AI-powered sensing solutions, in its strategic collaborations with Serta Simmons and Tempur Sealy on a new smart-bed system.
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Google LLC in intellectual property matters across multiple jurisdictions, including patent infringement cases related to data processing systems, signal monitoring and analysis, and secured network data transport and storage, as well as trademark matters.
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HarperCollins Publishers in various antitrust actions involving the pricing of e-books, as well as in private class action and retailer litigation brought against various publishers and Apple.
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Intel, in its acquisition of Silicon Mobility, a fabless silicon and software company that specializes in software-defined vehicle system-on-chips for intelligent electric vehicle energy management.
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Microsoft Corporation in connection with the recapitalization of OpenAI into a public benefit corporation, following which Microsoft holds an investment in OpenAI Group PBC valued at approximately $135 billion.
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Premium TV network and digital media content provider in privacy and data security compliance and design for its app, data risk management issues, and updated privacy and security program and related documents.
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Samsung in high-stakes defensive and offensive patent litigation across the U.S. and in post-grant proceedings, with a strong record of success protecting its most complex, cutting-edge technologies, including semiconductors, mobile phones, televisions, and other connected devices.
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Recognition
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BTI Consulting GroupGen AI Litigation Leaders (2026)
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Chambers USATechnology (California) (2022-2025)
Technology: Outsourcing (California) (2006-2025)
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The Legal 500 UKTMT Intellectual Property: Patents (Contentious and Non-Contentious (2021-2026)
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The Legal 500 USAdvertising and Marketing: Transactional and Regulatory (2023-2024)
Cyber Law (including Data Protection and Privacy) (2016-2025)
Telecoms and Broadcast: Transactions (2020-2025)
Telecoms and Broadcast: Regulatory (2008-2025)
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Best Law Firms Ranked by Best LawyersInformation Technology Law (Los Angeles) (2010-2026)
Information Technology Law (National) (2013-2026)
Media Law (National) (2026)
Media Law (Washington, D.C.) (2026)