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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

USPTO Director Cracks Down on Patent Owner for Withholding Data and Imposes Severe Sanctions

The Director of the USPTO initiated sua sponte review of a PTAB panel’s decision to impose sanctions based on patentee’s conduct during IPR proceedings.The PTAB cancelled all of patentee’s claims, including those not...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – AI safety global summit, deepfake crackdown, EU AI regulation criticism, and more

To help you stay on top of the latest news, our AI practice group has compiled a roundup of the developments we are following....more

Smart & Biggar

Supreme Court of Canada to hear method of medical treatment appeal

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On September 19, 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada granted Pharmascience leave to appeal a Federal Court of Appeal decision affirming a trial decision that upheld the validity of Janssen’s patent relating to paliperidone...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - September 2024 #3

Vascular Solutions LLC v. Medtronic, Inc., Appeal No. 24-1398 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 16, 2024) In our Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit evaluated certain heavily litigated claims directed to guide catheters. The patents...more

WilmerHale

Service Agreement Lessons From July's Global Tech Outage

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In the early morning hours of a random summer Friday in July, IT systems around the globe began to experience widespread crashes. Initial fears of a massive cyber or other malicious attack by a state-sponsored actor or...more

Hogan Lovells

Texas AG uses consumer protection law to enforce against B2B clinical health GenAI company

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Texas Attorney (“AG”) General Ken Paxton announced a first-for-Texas settlement against a generative AI company using patient data and providing products to healthcare facilities....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Why Human-Created Input Data Is Needed to Maintain AI Models

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By now, we all know that Generative AI models are trained on massive amounts of data, much of which is collected from the Internet, as well as other sources. And we also know that Gen AI is being used to generate massive...more

Osano

The Privacy Insider Podcast Ep. 7: David, Goliath, and Data Privacy Part II: Max Schrems

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If you’re in the privacy industry, you know Max Schrems: Renowned privacy rights advocate and the David who took on Facebook’s Goliath to shine a light on the misuse of consumer data. But that’s just one facet of what he...more

Hogan Lovells

Dutch DPA’s fine decision suspended by Dutch court amidst “(commercial) legitimate interest-controversy”

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Once again, a Dutch district court has recalled a decision of the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch DPA) for its too strict interpretation that purely commercial interests cannot be legitimate interests under Article...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Argentieri Speech and 2024 ECCP: Data Access and Data Analytics

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri’s speech highlighted a critical shift in the DOJ’s approach to evaluating corporate compliance programs. As outlined in the updated 2024 Evaluation of Corporate...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

A Look At UK, EU And US Cartel Enforcement Trends

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Demonstrating both increased cross-border collaboration and the adoption of novel theories of cartel violations, the European Commission and the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, together with the U.S. competition...more

Erise IP

What’s Trending in Trademarks: September 2024

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Every month, Erise’s trademark attorneys review the latest developments at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in the courts, and across the corporate world to bring you the stories that you should know about: Meghan...more

Troutman Pepper

Amendments Align Pennsylvania’s Breach Notification Law With Majority of States

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Earlier this year, Governor Josh Shapiro signed amendments to Pennsylvania’s Breach of Personal Information Notification Act (BPINA) into law, which go into effect on September 26. As part of the implementation of these...more

Baker Donelson

AI Firm Reaches Settlement With Texas Attorney General Over Misleading Accuracy Claims

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Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, (the Attorney General) announced on September 19, 2024, a landmark settlement with Pieces Technologies (Pieces) over allegations of false and misleading claims about the capabilities of its...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

HHS Abandons Appeal in Public Website Pixel Case, But CEs and BAs Should Expect Continued Scrutiny

The HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has abandoned its appeal of a federal judge’s ruling overturning OCR’s guidance prohibiting covered entities (CEs) and business associates (BAs) from using the web-tracking technologies...more

BakerHostetler

Federal Circuit Rebukes District Court for Patent Eligibility Decision Involving Extended-Release Formulation Patent

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit admonished the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware on Wednesday for abuse of its discretion in finding the disputed claims invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 101, “a...more

Ankura

Navigating the NY DFS Cybersecurity Amendments: A Timeline for 2024 Through 2025

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In December 2023, the New York Department of Financial Services (NY DFS) issued amendments to the cybersecurity requirements, originally adopted in 2017, which include expanded control requirements and stricter reporting...more

Proskauer - Trade Secrets

EV Trade Secrets Litigation Series: EV Trade Secrets Dispute Takes a Twist as $71M Verdict is Overturned

Continuing our series on electric vehicle (EV) trade secret litigations, a federal judge has overturned a jury’s verdict awarding $71 million to Zunum Aero, Inc. for The Boeing Company’s violation of the Washington Trade...more

Linda Liu & Partners

Invalidation Approaches and Specification Crafting Concerning “Parameter Features”

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Limitation by “parameter features” is a love-hate claim drafting approach. It’s highly praised by applicant/patentee because it leads to great the difficulty in searching and finding prior arts that directly disclose the...more

Troutman Pepper

Preventative Medicine: Health Care AI Privacy and Cybersecurity – Part 2 — The Good Bot Podcast

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Join Troutman Pepper Partner Brett Mason for a podcast series analyzing the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), health care, and the law. In this installment, Brett is joined by Partner Brent Hoard and Andrea...more

Mayer Brown

US Department of Commerce Issues Proposal to Require Reporting Development of Advanced AI Models and Computer Clusters

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On September 9, 2024, the US Department of Commerce’s (“Commerce”) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released notice of a proposed rule to create a mandatory reporting requirement for artificial intelligence (AI)...more

DLA Piper

Navigating AI Liability Risks

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Our webinar explored liability that can be incurred from the creation use or deployment of AI systems and raised some important questions around the current and future regulatory landscape applicable to AI and liability. We...more

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real...

Anatomy of a Data Center

Traditional and social media are thick with reports and predictions of the remarkable increase in size, power consumption and significance of data centers. Not only technology companies but real estate and energy developers,...more

International Lawyers Network

Technovations & Labor Practices: Little Known IP Law For Developing Countries

Some years back, a young Kenyan graduate, working as an intern for a public state corporation, developed an innovative solution that earned his employer a global innovation award. However, his application for intellectual...more

Linda Liu & Partners

A Preliminary Analysis of the Strategies That Can Be Adopted in Trademark Refusal Appeal Cases Where Trademarks Are Identical or...

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China, which has enjoyed the reputation of being the “World’s Factory” and an “Important World Market” for many years, has also topped the global list in trademark applications for 20 consecutive years. Due to China National...more

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