Artificial intelligence dominated this year's emerging technology updates from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Copyright Office. These agencies, among many others, were kept quite busy under the directives...more
1/10/2025
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Trade secrets have become a de facto intellectual property right for securing valuable artificial intelligence information.
Despite regulatory trends toward greater transparency of AI models, federal policy acknowledges,...more
3/5/2024
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On Oct. 30, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on safe, secure and trustworthy artificial intelligence.
The executive order provides a sprawling list of directives aimed at establishing standards for AI safety...more
11/6/2023
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Partners Brian Rosenbloom and Jennifer Maisel will present a webinar titled "Intellectual Property Protection Strategies for AI in the Power Electronics Industry" for the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) Power...more
Partners Jenny Colgate and Jennifer Maisel will present a webinar titled "Artificial Intelligence Litigation Risks for the Medical Technology Industry" for Medmarc, the leading expert in the products liability risks facing...more
8/8/2023
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Medical Technology Companies ,
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Trade Secrets ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices ,
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This second part of a two-part series on U.S. regulation of artificial intelligence systems highlights state legislation and litigation to watch concerning AI systems, and provides practical takeaways as we look toward the...more
8/3/2023
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Compliance ,
Confidentiality Policies ,
Copyright Litigation ,
Deep Fake ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Driverless Cars ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
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Hiring & Firing ,
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This first part of a two-part series on U.S. regulation of artificial intelligence systems provides an overview and modern context for the existing regulatory, legal and risk management landscape for AI systems in the U.S.,...more
8/2/2023
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The startlingly fast developments in generative artificial intelligence technology over the last few years have caused numerous questions and issues to be raised about the protection and registrability of copyrighted works...more
Spurred by the vast potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, many countries are evaluating whether existing legal frameworks for intellectual property (IP) protection are adequate or...more
Generative content is having a moment in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) powered by blockchain platforms. Continued investment and growth in the NFT market is bringing into the mainstream legal edge cases concerning...more
The U.K. released a National AI Strategy with a ten-year plan to make Britain a global AI superpower in our new age of artificial intelligence. The Strategy intends to “signal to the world [the U.K.’s] intention to build the...more
At this point you have probably heard about one of the many incidents where an AI-enabled system discriminated against certain populations in settings ranging from healthcare, law enforcement, and hiring, among others. In...more
In Van Buren v. United States, the Supreme Court resolved a circuit split as to whether a provision of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) applies only to those who obtain information to which their computer access does...more
As part of its three-part series on the future of human-computer interaction (HCI), Facebook Reality Labs recently published a blog post describing a wrist-based wearable device that uses electromyography (EMG) to translate...more
Website operators can consider a host of potential legal claims against entities that scrape their sites’ content without authorization, such as breach of a well-crafted terms of service agreement, copyright infringement,...more
Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the FTC Act and a December 11, 2020, resolution of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) entitled “Resolution Directing use of Compulsory Process to Collect Information Regarding Social Media and...more
Nearly a year after the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) went into effect, Californians now have a chance to weigh in on the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), which is on the November 3, 2020, ballot as...more
On October 6, 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark office (USPTO) released a report titled “Public Views on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual property Policy.” The report follows the USPTO’s August 2019...more