Software, Interim Final Rules (IFR), Export Controls

First Significant Changes in Over a Decade to US Export Controls on Space-Related Items and Activities

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 11/4/2024

U.S. export controls on space-related items were last significantly revised in 2014. Since then, the industry has continued to evolve towards a wider range of public-private partnerships and purely commercial activities,...more

Biden Administration Restricts U.S. Exports of Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment, Software, and...

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 11/28/2022

On October 7, 2022, the Biden Administration announced new restrictions on exports to China of advanced integrated circuits (“ICs”), computers and components containing advanced ICs, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and...more

US Drops New Export Controls on the Chinese Semiconductor, Advanced Computing, and Supercomputer Industries

ArentFox Schiff on 10/11/2022

On Friday, October 7, 2022, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) released an interim final rule containing an enormous set of export controls that will likely damage the Chinese semiconductor, advanced computing, and...more

Commerce Revises Export Rules on Entity List Companies Involved in Standard-Related Activities

Wiley Rein LLP on 9/14/2022

On September 9, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule authorizing the release of certain U.S. technology and software in the context of standards-related...more

Commerce Department’s New Export-Related Restrictions Inhibit Semiconductor Design by and Manufacturing for Huawei

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 5/19/2020

In response to the announcement on Friday by the U.S. Department of Commerce of new export-related restrictions targeting Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and several of its non-U.S. affiliates (collectively, Huawei), Sen. Ben...more

U.S. imposes strict export controls on certain artificial intelligence software for automating the analysis of geospatial imagery

Hogan Lovells on 1/30/2020

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published an interim final rule on 6 January 2020 imposing licensing requirements on certain artificial intelligence software specially designed to...more

BIS Publishes a Temporary Unilateral Control on a Type of Machine Learning Software for Automating Analyses of Geospatial Imagery...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/7/2020

Key Points - On January 6, 2020, BIS published an interim final rule to add a new worldwide (minus Canada) unilateral export control on a type of geospatial imagery software specially designed for training Deep...more

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