On April 7, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released two memoranda on revised policies for the federal government’s acquisition and adoption of AI, pursuant to President Trump’s January AI Executive...more
4/14/2025
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Coal Industry ,
Data Centers ,
Energy Policy ,
Executive Orders ,
Government Agencies ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
New Guidance ,
OMB ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Technology Sector ,
Trump Administration
The Trump administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy received 8,755 comments in response to its Request for Information for the development of its AI Action Plan implementing the Trump AI Executive Order issued...more
3/24/2025
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Copyright ,
Data Security ,
Executive Orders ,
Export Controls ,
Infrastructure ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Machine Learning ,
National Security ,
Preemption ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Research and Development ,
Shareholders ,
State and Local Government ,
Technology Sector
On February 11, Vice President JD Vance delivered remarks to world leaders, policymakers, and technology executives at the AI Action Summit in Paris, France. His speech provided a public look into how the Trump administration...more
The United States Copyright Office issued the second part of its Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (Report), which focuses on the question of how AI affects copyrightability.
This segment of the Report...more
On July 11, 2024, Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) introduced the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act)....more
The Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group, headed by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD), Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM), and Senator Todd Young (R-IN) released a roadmap for congressional AI policy....more
5/17/2024
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Civil Rights Act ,
Copyright ,
Innovation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Investment ,
National Security ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Research and Development ,
The Copyright Act ,
Transparency ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
President Joe Biden’s October 2023 Executive Order on AI directed agencies to institute a significant number of actions on AI. On April 29, 2024, the White House announced that federal agencies had completed “all of the...more
5/3/2024
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Automated Decision Systems (ADS) ,
Bias ,
Biden Administration ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
Healthcare ,
Intellectual Property Litigation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Labor Standards Enforcement ,
Machine Learning ,
National Security ,
NIST ,
OFCCP ,
Risk Management ,
Subcontractors ,
Transmission Grid
Welcome to this week’s issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies.
This week, we discuss the continued contentious matter of the use of...more
1/11/2024
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Consumer Protection Laws ,
Copyright ,
Copyright Office ,
Data Privacy ,
EU ,
Executive Orders ,
Fair Use ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Japan ,
Machine Learning ,
Training ,
Transparency
Just when observers thought Qualcomm could celebrate its successful litigation with Apple another decision has come down which could have major implications for Qualcomm’s business going forward.
In much-anticipated 233-page...more
5/28/2019
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FRAND ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
IP License ,
Monopolization ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Qualcomm ,
Sherman Act ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
Telecommunications
Last week, in response to a request for a preliminary ruling by a German court hearing a patent infringement action brought by Huawei against ZTE, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) took up the question of...more
7/24/2015
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EU ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
FRAND ,
Injunctive Relief ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Remedies ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)