Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 217: Japanese Investment in North Carolina’s Life Sciences Industry with David Robinson of Maynard Nexsen
Legal Alert | Japan is Primed for Increased Foreign Direct Investment
Patent Grace Period Considerations in Australia, Japan, South East Asia and the U.S.
Greater Speed and Efficiency: Steps IP Offices Around the World Are Taking to Streamline the Patent Process
Nota Bene Episode 109: Asia Q1 Check In: China’s Emergence as the Number One World Economy and New Hegemonic Role in Asia with Paul Kim
Nota Bene Episode 69: Asia Check In: The Coronavirus’s Impact on Business, the Trilateral Summit, and Japan’s Criminal Justice System with Paul Kim
Dr. Frederick Ch’en discusses generic drugs and the changing pharmaceutical landscape in Asia
Spencer Klein Talks M&A with Mergers & Acquisitions Magazine
As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries, understanding the evolving regulatory landscape is more critical than ever. Our APAC AI Monitor series offers in-depth analysis of key legal developments across...more
Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top Conducting effective cross-border internal investigations is more critical than ever for companies facing increasingly complex regulatory frameworks across the globe....more
The 2020 amendment to the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (“APPI”) stipulates that the APPI must be reviewed every three years — the time for a review has arrived. In the past, since its enactment in 2003, major...more
Japan adopts a soft law approach to AI governance but lawmakers advance proposal for a hard law approach to generative AI foundation models. Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (“AI Regulations”) Japan currently...more
Welcome to this week’s issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies. This week, we discuss the continued contentious matter of the use of...more
By now, many of us are using AI, advising others about how to use AI, and waiting for some legislative miracle to give us some guardrails for what we can or cannot be doing with AI. A lot of effort has been put into tracking...more
Welcome to the first edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! With both the temperature and artificial intelligence developments heating up, the time is ripe to provide periodic updates this summer on recent legal...more
For global healthcare companies that process personal information in Japan and/or import personal information from Japan, there are new requirements that must be considered in preparing data transfer or processing agreements,...more
Discussion with two former senior prosecutors on how to handle cases involving Japanese multinational corporations - It is not unusual for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate non-U.S. multinational corporations...more
CYBERSECURITY - ECRI Names Cybersecurity Attacks as Top Health Technology Hazard for 2022 - ECRI has been publishing its annual report of health technology hazards for the past 15 years. According to ECRI’s Device...more
On 3 August 2021, Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission (“PPC”) published its long-awaited Guidelines on amendments enacted in 2020 (the “2020 amendments”) to Japan’s Act on the Protection of Personal Information...more
Global data privacy legislation has steadily advanced over the past several years, with one of the most comprehensive and well-known laws being the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), governing personal data...more
The Japanese government has released the effective dates of substantial amendments to the Japanese Act on the Protection of Personal Information (“APPI”). The revised Act will fully come into effect on 1 April 2022. ...more
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, our 9th McDermott International Seminar Series will be held as a virtual series, with eight sessions taking place between January 21 – February 4, 2021. Though we cannot see you in person,...more
On May 1, the Personal Information Protection Committee in Japan (PPC) released guidance (only available in Japanese) on the use of contact tracing mobile apps (Apps) as one of the mechanisms to combat the spread of COVID-19...more
UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - Cybersecurity Standards Issued for Government Contractors - On January 31, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and...more
A constantly evolving framework of laws governing how multinational businesses can contact customers to how nonprofits report business income to how overtime is calculated and paid will influence how companies do business...more
Join ACEDS at this year's Tokyo Summit! Dr. Kenzo Fujisue, Member of House of Councillors (Upper House), Japanese Parliament, will be this year's Keynote Address on "Cyber Security in the Age of Big Data - The State of...more
As we previously reported the EU and Japan reached a tentative deal last summer to ease data transfer restrictions between them. That deal has now been approved by both the European Commission and by Japan and is effective...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine California's new sweeping privacy law, two U.S. agencies' report on "botnet" threats and the European Parliament's call to suspend the Privacy Shield....more
New York Attorney General Announces Record Number of Data Breach Notices in 2016 - On March 21, 2017, the New York Attorney General's Office announced that it received 1,300 reported data breaches in 2016—a 60 percent...more
New data protection laws are scheduled to go into effect in Japan (May 30) and China (June 1) that significantly change the rules governing the collection, storage, and transfer of personal information in each country....more
The Social Security and Tax Number (“My Number”) System (the “System”) will go into effect in January 2016, and the government will start distributing My Numbers to all citizens in October 2015. The Act on the Use of Numbers...more