Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast S3E3: AgTech Innovation and Robotics with Burro CEO Charlie Andersen
RPA As A Digital Transformation Catalyst
In today’s global economy, product research and development (R&D) has historically been concentrated in the U.S. and China. However, these efforts are beginning to decentralize and spread into new regions, such as Japan and...more
Implications for CFIUS Reporting and Review - The Executive Branch, through the National Science and Technology Council and the National Security Council, committed in 2020 to identify that are potentially significant to...more
Know Your Customer (KYC) is a fundamental process used by Financial Institutions (FIs) to verify the identities of their customers and assess the associated financial crime risk. Its primary goal is to prevent money...more
Morrison Foerster is pleased to share with our clients and friends the results of our 2023 Tech M&A Survey, published in conjunction with Mergermarket. Mergermarket surveyed 300 dealmakers from around the world in order to...more
We are probably still years away from Wall Street being overrun by actual robots. Nonetheless, artificial intelligence (AI) tools are divisively integrating into all aspects of society—from the classroom to the courtroom....more
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning applications like ChatGPT are the hot new technologies expected to changes our lives fundamentally. Taking the human element out of monotonous tasks promises to increase...more
If artificial intelligence keeps improving, automating ever more jobs, what will happen? Many people are job optimists, arguing that the automated jobs will be replaced by new ones that are even better. After all, that is...more
...Robots are everywhere – but perhaps just not how everyone imagined them. For decades, the promise of robots brought to mind devices like R2D2 and C3PO, or perhaps Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons – autonomous, intelligent...more
The Law Reform Committee (LRC) of the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) established a Subcommittee on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to consider and make recommendations regarding the application of the law to AI systems....more
Hyundai is reportedly in the process of purchasing a large controlling interest in robot innovator Boston Dynamics from SoftBank in a deal valued at $1.1 billion. The transaction, under which Hyundai will reportedly obtain...more
This article is the fifth in a five-part series. Each of these articles relates to the state of machine-learning patentability in the United States during 2019. Each of these articles describe one case in which the PTAB...more
On 19 February 2020, the European Commission released a white paper with its long-awaited proposals on regulating artificial intelligence. The white paper contains far-reaching proposals that, if adopted, could have a...more
On August 26, 2019, Laura Peter, the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO, posted an update on the USPTO’s efforts to promote and protect AI-technology innovations and...more
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a promising new technology — except that lots of compliance officers might already use this technology and not know it. There’s an even larger chance that you are already facing compliance...more
By all accounts 2019 will bring significant expansion in the use and development of artificial intelligence (AI) by the U.S. federal government. Notwithstanding some well-publicized rejections by industry of the use of their...more
The development and deployment of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI), robots, and other automated systems are transforming workplaces globally, redefining needed workforce roles, skills, and jobs, and...more
On November 12, 2018, Littler Mendelson P.C. hosted a Roundtable of distinguished leaders from government, industry, and academia to discuss the rapid evolution of the workplace and workforce due to AI, robotics, and other...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) encompasses technologies that have become increasingly relevant — and strategically important — to companies of all sizes across a wide range of fields. For example, AI technologies such as...more
On Sept. 25, House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology Chairman Will Hurd (R-TX) and Ranking Member Robin Kelly (D-IL) released a white paper on the intersection of public policy and...more
It may be time to give greater consideration to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for patent disputes. The rapid changes brought about by the technological revolution have in many instances shortened the economic lifecycle...more
The “future of work” is the topic du jour these days for pundits, academics, policy makers, employers and unions alike. Numerous conferences, white papers, academic studies, and media investigations have all explored this...more
Recent technology news provides its usual mix of hope, distractions and hand-wringing-worthy developments. (Granted, one of these items is not so much “news” as an ever-present truth about TOS.)...more
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us and countries across the world are grappling with ways to capitalize on its opportunities and mitigate its risks....more
With the potential addition of autonomous cars and trucks to commercial fleets, commercial insureds should reassess coverage under their commercial auto, products liability, and cyber insurance policies. Automation,...more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in industries from manufacturing to the medical profession. Developments in the last ten years have delivered AI technology, once a fiction reserved for the movies, to private...more