Over the past year, groups of plaintiffs filed multiple copyright infringement claims against companies behind generative artificial intelligence software. These lawsuits allege that training AI models involves mass-scale...more
The FTC recently published a policy statement with its enforcement priorities for the misuse of biometric information. To be clear, there are no new federal laws that specifically regulate the collection or use of biometric...more
5/30/2023
/ Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Employees ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FTC Act ,
Independent Contractors ,
Policy Statement ,
Section 5 ,
State Privacy Laws
The Illinois Supreme Court recently clarified when a Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) claim accrues: each time, and not just the first time, a person’s biometric information is collected without consent. BIPA requires...more
3/7/2023
/ Biometric Information ,
Biometric Information Privacy Act ,
Data Collection ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Litigation ,
Fingerprints ,
IL Supreme Court ,
Illinois ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
State and Local Government
Will the FTC be the new vanguard for federal privacy laws about consumer data? The agency has expressed broad concerns about data handling, including lax data security, harm to children, discrimination and retaliation against...more
A bipartisan, bicameral group of legislators in the U.S. Congress recently published a draft Trademark Modernization Act to reform the trademark application process and the remedies for trademark infringement. The draft TM...more
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Inventorship, Patenting and AI: The Public Comments on Patenting Artificial Intelligence Inventions -
Interest in artificial intelligence has become so keen that questions previously found only in works...more
8/5/2020
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Common Sense Exception ,
Copyright Office ,
DMCA ,
Fraud ,
Inventions ,
Misappropriation ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Public Comment ,
Remedies ,
Section 103 ,
Trade Secrets ,
Trademark Application ,
USPTO