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CISOs, compliance officers, corporate boards, and other senior executives are quick to worry these days about the risks of artificial intelligence – but fear not! Some of the brightest minds in technology have built a tool to...more
Short answer: Yes, but… Short answer: Yes, but… Many practitioners in sensitive technology areas file patent applications with non-publication requests or may abandon their applications if examination is not going well...more
Federal Communications Commission Takes Further Action Against Provider Facilitating Illegal Tax Robocalls - Following up on its previous enforcement actions, the Federal Communications Commission’s (Commission)...more
What You Need To Know In A Minute Or Less Generative AI or “GenAI” is already transforming how we handle discovery in numerous ways, including: Providing faster access to meaningful information and key documents to help...more
My esteemed colleagues, Kelly Twigger and Doug Austin, both posted about a recent discovery decision out of a federal district court in Florida, case no. 8:23-cv-102-MSS-SPF, styled, Byte Fed., Inc. v. Lux Vending LLC. and...more
On March 18, the USPTO issued a guidance document on how to examine claims that recite functional limitations without necessarily using the term “means” under 35 U.S.C. § 112. The guidance document aims to improve clarity,...more
In this episode of Trending Now - An IP Podcast, Janet Cho and Amy Pruett provide an update on recent cases and some of the legal issues involved with using datasets to train AI models....more
Sweepstakes promotions can be valuable tools for businesses seeking to attract new customers. Unlike static ads, newsletter sign-ups and other basic website registration forms, sweepstakes incentivize consumers to provide...more
A pending lawsuit raises an interesting copyright infringement question – does scraping an AI-generated database of job listings constitute copyright infringement?...more
On April 17, 2024, EPA formalized a new policy requiring greater coordination between its criminal and civil enforcement programs. This change, which comes amidst a substantial jump in civil and criminal enforcement actions, ...more
In an era where legal research is increasingly facilitated by advanced tools, both traditional and cutting-edge, the reliability of the information these tools provide and the attorney’s fundamental role in vetting this...more
“Missing participants” have long been a thorn in the side of plan sponsors and administrators, as they are owed a retirement benefit, but are unable to be found or unresponsive to plan communications. As a partial solution,...more
FDA recently announced the launch of a new searchable database containing almost 17,000 tobacco products that may be legally marketed in the U.S. The database provides information on each tobacco product including product...more
A coalition of 23 Republican AGs, led by Arkansas AG Tim Griffin, filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in American Securities Association v. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...more
In today's digital landscape, where data is often dubbed the "new oil," ensuring the smooth operation of databases is crucial for businesses. Regular oversight, including monitoring database metrics, is essential to optimize...more
In analyzing patent obviousness, how “simple” must the relevant technology be in order for “common sense” to supply a limitation missing in the prior art? Ever since the Supreme Court referenced “common sense” five times...more
Unauthorized Access, Troutman Pepper's privacy and cybersecurity-focused podcast, spotlights the human aspect of the cybersecurity industry, introducing you to the remarkable personalities that make the industry amazing....more
On January 25, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) issued a Public Notice announcing compliance deadlines associated with the FCC’s Sixth Caller ID Authentication Report and Order (Sixth Report and...more
Escalating Impacts of Catastrophic Weather - Large insurance losses are increasingly being caused by hazardous weather events such as hurricanes, floods, lightning strikes, high winds, large hail, and wildfires....more
In joined Cases C‑26/22 and C‑64/22, related to the German Credit Reference Agency Schufa (see A&O blog on the automated decision making case), the CJEU considered the retention of personal data regarding individuals who had...more
In this fifth and final post in our blog series addressing challenges related to the discovery of chat data, our eDiscovery experts continue providing practical advice for businesses when encountering chat data in...more
The legal world recently learned an important lesson about the blind adoption of generative AI when two New York attorneys were sanctioned for using ChatGPT to write a brief that included entirely fabricated cases. The firm...more
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan recently published a proposed rule requiring lawyers to disclose any time they use artificial intelligence to help them write legal filings. Per Danielle Ferguson...more
[Editor’s Note: This article was first published November 15, 2023 and EDRM is grateful to Tom Paskowitz and Robert Keeling of our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those of...more
Over a year after it was introduced to the New York State Legislature, the NYTA was passed by both the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate in late June; however, as of the date of this article, the bill...more