The UN General Assembly, on March 21, 2024, unanimously adopted a first-ever resolution on artificial intelligence (AI) to promote safe, secure, and trustworthy AI systems for sustainable development. The UN’s action reflects...more
The USPTO expounds a clear message for patent and trademark attorneys, patent agents, and inventors: use of artificial intelligence (AI), including generative AI, in patent and trademark activities and filings before the...more
On January 10, 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published Guidelines, applicable to any technology, for ascertaining compliance with the enablement requirement in view of the U.S. Supreme Court...more
Can generative AI offer legal advice? On November 16, 2023, the State Bar of California approved guidelines to help lawyers navigate their ethical obligations when using generative artificial intelligence (AI). Titled...more
With deepfakes going around the Internet, the ability of AI tools to generate convincing and hyperreal replicas of a person’s likeness has raised a number of new issues, including the ability of rights of publicity (or “name,...more
A closely watched and hotly debated life sciences patent dispute saw the U.S. Supreme Court affirm a narrow interpretation of patent enablement when filing for patent protection....more
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AI has the potential to revolutionize healthcare worldwide. In drug discovery, AI has already shown success. Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma and the UK-based AI company Exscientia developed DSP-1181 to treat obsessive compulsive...more
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U.S. households are drinking less milk these days. Instead, alternative plant-based “milk” beverages (made from soybeans, almonds, oats, coconut, etc.) are on the rise. A study reports that around 38% of households consume...more
We’ve all heard that mercury is poisonous — causes neurological damages, developmental defects, etc. Mercury thermometers have been phased out and replaced with non-mercury ones. But not so with dental amalgam (silver filling...more
No painful procedure or biopsy needed. We can test our blood to diagnose and even predict cancer.
The Human Genome Project, a joint effort between the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health, began...more
Does your morning coffee need a warning label other than “Caution: Contents Hot”? A California judge doesn’t think so.
In August, a California judge ended a decade long lawsuit alleging that dozens of coffee roasters and...more
On August 26, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Foundation Medicine, Inc.’s Foundation One® Liquid CDx, a quantitative next-generation sequencing (NGS) test that can detect mutations using circulating...more
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Guardant Health’s Guardant360 CDx assay marks a new era for genetic mutation testing in cancer treatment. On August 7, 2020, the FDA approved the first diagnostic test that...more