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Canadian IP litigation 2024: a year in review

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In 2024, we witnessed several notable developments in Canadian IP litigation. These included the Supreme Court granting leave for an appeal on the patentability of methods of medical treatment, a successful patent invalidity...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Analyzing President Biden's Ambitious Cybersecurity Executive Order

In his final days in office, President Biden signed an ambitious executive order to improve the federal government's approach to cybersecurity. Executive Order 14114 ("Executive Order"), issued January 16, 2025, titled...more

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What’s New in Wireless - February 2025

The wireless industry has revolutionized the way we connect, from facilitating teleworking, distance learning, and telemedicine to allowing the American public to interact virtually in almost all other aspects of their daily...more

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State AGs Publish Guidance on How State Laws Apply to AI

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On December 24, 2024 and January 13, 2025, the Oregon Attorney General’s Office and the California Attorney General’s Office published advisories (collectively, “Advisories”) explaining how existing statutes may be used to...more

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CISA Releases the AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook to Strengthen AI-related Cybersecurity Information Sharing and...

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On January 14, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook (the “Playbook”) to provide guidance to organizations within the AI community (including AI...more

Pillsbury - Global Sourcing Practice

EU AI Act: First Set of Requirements Go into Effect February 2, 2025

The first binding obligations of the European Union’s landmark AI legislation, the EU AI Act (the Act), came into effect on February 2, 2025. Essentially, from this date, AI practices which present an unacceptable level of...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Navigating DeepSeek’s Challenge: President Trump’s Stargate Initiative and Preparing Businesses for AI Leadership

What Is the Stargate Initiative? Announced by President Donald Trump on January 21, 2025, the Stargate Initiative is a monumental $500 billion public-private sector investment aimed at enhancing the United States’ AI...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Breaking the AI Black Box: How DeepSeek’s Deep-Think Forced OpenAI’s Hand

DeepSeek’s Deep-Think feature takes a small but meaningful step toward building trust between users and AI. By displaying its reasoning process step by step, Deep-Think allows users to see how the AI forms its conclusions,...more

Perkins Coie

Trump Reverses Biden's AI Policy and Charts New Course on AI

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Among the over 70 executive orders rescinded by President Trump on his first day in office was President Biden’s executive order on artificial intelligence (EO 14110). Three days later, President Trump issued his own AI...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

The Future of Telemedicine Prescribing Comes Into Focus: New Final and Proposed Rules

On January 17, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly published two final rules addressing the prescription of controlled substances via telemedicine in...more

A&O Shearman

Major Crypto Exchange Pleads Guilty, Agrees To $297 Million Penalty; Founders Secure DPAs

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On January 27, 2025, one of the largest global cryptocurrency exchange platforms (the “Exchange”) pled guilty to one count of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and agreed to pay $297 million in connection...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

CFPB Files “Emergency Notice” in 1071 Final Rule Case and Does Not Oppose Stay of the 1071 Rule; Agency Also Seeking a “Pause” in...

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Hours before a scheduled hearing yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) filed an “Emergency Notice” in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit with respect to the ongoing litigation...more

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United States - VAT: States Searching for Uniform Solution to Tax Digital Products - Monthly Indirect Tax Alert – January 2025

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Digital goods are currently taxed in 31 states. The large market states where such products and services are generally not subject to tax, include California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Virginia....more

Carlton Fields

Plotting a Course for Your 2025 Data Security Plan

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Trying to plot the course for a data security plan in 2025 requires piecing together the maps of various cartographers and decoding each map’s legends and keys....more

DLA Piper

EU AI Act’s Ban on Prohibited Practices Takes Effect

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The first compliance deadline set out in the European Union (EU)’s Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, or the EU AI Act, took effect on February 2, 2025. ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

OEMs Seek to Enjoin Enforcement of Maine Right to Repair Act

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On Friday, January 31, 2025, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation (“Auto Innovators”), a trade association representing manufacturers in the auto industry, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Maine seeking to enjoin...more

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Third Circuit Demands Greater Clarity from SEC Regarding Digital Asset Regulation

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After two and a half years, Coinbase, Inc. (Coinbase) and other crypto market participants may finally get an answer for why the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has declined to promulgate rules clarifying how and...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Melinta Therapeutics, LLC v. Nexus Pharms., Inc.

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Minocin® (minocycline) - Case Name: Melinta Therapeutics, LLC v. Nexus Pharms., Inc., Civ. No. 21-2636, 2024 WL 4799896 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 15, 2024) (Kness, J.)  Drug Product and Patent(s)-in-Suit: Minocin® (minocycline);...more

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Federal Investigators Continue Their Focus on Procurement

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A flurry of federal prosecutorial activity in late 2024, as well as a statement from several institutional stakeholders in a key federal initiative to combat procurement fraud, provided a valuable reminder for government...more

White & Case LLP

Texas Attorney General's Landmark Privacy Lawsuit Signals New Era in Data Privacy Enforcement

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The Texas Attorney General has emerged as a significant regulatory enforcement authority for data privacy in the US. Traditionally, data privacy enforcement in the US has emanated from the Federal Trade Commission and other...more

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DeepSeek, Model Distillation, and the Future of AI IP Protection

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A flurry of developments in late January 2025 has caused quite a buzz in the AI world. On January 20, DeepSeek released a new open-source AI model called R1 and an accompanying research paper....more

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How Employers Should Prepare for H-1B Employment Pre-Registration in March 2025

With the H-1B cap pre-registration period quickly approaching, now is the appropriate time to review your hiring needs, identify those individuals you intend to sponsor for H-1B employment authorization, and gather the...more

DLA Piper

AI Literacy Requirements are in Effect : AI Skilling and Lifelong Learning in the Workplace

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It’s time to ensure your staff know how to tell weights from biases, and transformers from diffusion models. 2nd February marked the date the EU AI Act’s much-talked-about AI literacy requirements officially came into...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

AI News Roundup – U.S. Copyright Office declares generative AI outputs uncopyrightable, U.K. move to open up works for AI training...

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

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

House Committee Will Hold Hearing on “The State of U.S. Science and Technology: Ensuring U.S. Global Leadership”

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology will hold a hearing on February 5, 2025, on “The State of U.S. Science and Technology: Ensuring U.S. Global Leadership.” According to the Hearing Charter, the purpose of...more

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