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Innovation Interchange: Unlocking the Potential of Crowdsourced Intelligence Across Defense, Healthcare and Financial Services...

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In the contemporary landscape of intelligence gathering, the emergence of crowdsourced data has paved the way for revolutionary approaches to information acquisition. ...more

Firesign | Enlightened Legal Marketing

Starting Your Own Firm? Three Costly Marketing Mistakes to Avoid

Sitting square among the AmLaw 200 is Boies Schiller Flexner, a litigation boutique that not only boasts annual revenue of $246 million, but also is a role model for the aspiring entrepreneurs working in Big Law. It all...more

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The Case for Scientific Jury Experiments

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For decades, litigators have relied on focus groups. While this approach can help identify issues for further exploration, attorneys often use focus groups to shape trial strategy or even predict outcomes. But focus groups...more

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Tasking One Human vs. Asking a Crowd: Information-Gathering in the Era of Crowdsourced Data

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In the evolving landscape of technology-based information-gathering, the distinctions between tasking an individual source and asking a crowd have become more pronounced. Why does this matter?...more

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Crowdsourced Data vs. Traditional Human Intelligence (HUMINT)

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Crowdsourced data providers are revolutionizing data collection, analysis, and decision-making, and play a pivotal role in gathering information that can be used to inform business and government intelligence requirements to...more

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Unlocking the Potential of Crowdsourced Data: Policy Guidance for the Information Revolution

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In an era characterized by rapid technological evolution, traditional approaches to data collection and analysis have undergone a remarkable transformation. Crowdsourced data and services have emerged as powerful tools that...more

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Prior Art Wanted—Cash Reward

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Recently, Cloudflare Inc. succeeded in convincing the PTAB to institute in IPR2021-00969 against a Sable Network, Inc.’s patent directed toward data flow. While the institution itself is not out of the ordinary—the...more

K&L Gates LLP

Using a GoFundMe Campaign to Donate Money? More Complicated Than You Think.

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Crowdfunding – a mechanism which connects people in need directly to those who are able to provide support – has completely revolutionised the traditional fundraising landscape. But it can come at a cost if the fundraising is...more

Freeman Law

Recent IRS Cryptocurrency Memorandum: Surprise, Surprise, It’s Still Taxable

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As tax time approaches for many, taxpayers and tax professionals alike are engaging in the annual ritual of gathering their cryptocurrency transactions and seeking out the latest and greatest guidance from the IRS on the...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Federal Circuit: Crowdsourcing Patent Directed to Invalid, Abstract Idea

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A pro se applicant appealed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision affirming the rejection of the application's claims. The application entitled, "Method and System for Developing and Evaluating and Marketing...more

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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Winter 2018

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Crowdsourced Content in Video Games: How Ownership Issues Almost “Ganked” a Copyright Case - In Blizzard Entertainment v. Lilith Games (Shanghai) Company, a federal court denied a motion for partial summary judgment for...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Day 20 of One Month to 360 Degrees of Communication in Compliance - What have we learned?

I entitled this month’s podcast series as “360-degrees of communication in compliance” because it has occurred to me that you can have an ongoing discussion about compliance at all times. Previously, I had thought of...more

Butler Snow LLP

Pro Te: Solutio - Vol. 10 No. 3 – Summer 2017

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Every summer vacation (or, at least, the ability to take the weekend off!) should include a good read. Whether your preference runs toward a memoir with words of wisdom, a review of new technical advancements, issues of...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

NAD Hangs up on Wireless Carrier’s Crowdsourced Data Claims

Declining to rely on crowdsourced data, the National Advertising Division recommended that T-Mobile USA discontinue advertising claims about the speed of its network....more

NAVEX

Crowdsourced Core Values: Beware

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So there I was reading Twitter, and saw an item about online dating site OKCupid: it had imposed a lifetime ban on white supremacist Chris Cantwell, after other site members alerted OKCupid to Cantwell’s presence. A person...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance and Internal Crowdsourcing

I began my in-house legal career at a large energy services company where the law department felt it was the only thing stopping the business folks from destroying the company. That is one of the more extreme examples of the...more

King & Spalding

California Attorney General Makes Privacy Public With New Crowdsourcing Tool For Reporting Of Privacy Policy Violations

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On October 14, the California Attorney General released a new online form designed to crowdsource reporting of allegedly inadequate privacy policies. The tool allows users to report violations of the California Online...more

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TechConnect - Your Law Firm Link to Industry News - September 2016

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Letter from the Editors - Dear Readers, The world of raising capital for emerging companies has experienced a revolution. Prior to the enactment of the JOBS Act in 2012, raising capital for private companies was...more

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Various Ways to Raise Capital

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The world of raising capital has been evolving over the last several years. Offerings of securities generally used to fall into two main buckets: (i) private placements under the old Rule 506 or (ii) a public offering. With...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

NAD Revisits Crowd-Sourced Substantiation

Traditionally, when companies wanted to advertise that consumers preferred their product over another product, the companies would substantiate their claim by running a survey. Consumers would be stopped in a mall, called, or...more

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Data Privacy Considerations for Starting or Evaluating a Bounty Program

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Data security officers typically look for security risks by monitoring reports from automated security systems, listening to employees’ reports of security issues, and/or auditing IT systems. There is a great deal of debate,...more

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FDA Invites Genome Scientists to Come Play in the precisionFDA “Sandbox” - NGS Technologies Take Center Stage at Agency Campus

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On November 12th and 13th, the Food and Drug Administration hosted genome scientists from across the nation at its campus in White Oak, Maryland. Two public workshops engaged presenters and audience members on various...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

New NAD Decision Addresses Crowdsourced Reviews

The NAD recently determined that Euro-Pro could not support a claim that its Shark vacuum receives “more 5-star online reviews than any other vacuum brand.” To support the claim, Euro-Pro had looked at over 4,000 verified...more

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Treasury Releases Discussion Paper on Crowd-Sourced Equity Funding

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On 8 December 2014, the Australian Government Treasury (Government) released a Discussion Paper on crowd-sourced equity funding (crowdfunding). Crowdfunding is an emerging global funding approach that allows smaller...more

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USPTO Explores Crowdsourcing Prior Art

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In a Federal Register Notice dated November 12, 2014, the USPTO solicited public comments on the “use of crowdsourcing to identify relevant prior art,” and announced a related roundtable to be held on December 2, 2014 at the...more

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