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On January 30, 2020, Apple and Broadcom were slapped with one of the largest patent jury verdicts of all time—$1.1 billion—for infringing Caltech patents on Wi-Fi technology. Caltech filed the lawsuit in 2016 alleging that Apple and Broadcom jointly infringed Caltech’s patents on new types of error correction codes that fix glitches occurring during data […]

Introduction: With election season upon us, election security is a topic of much debate and utmost importance. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Drew Bagley and Robert Sheldon, two thought leaders at the leading cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to discuss some of the issues facing cybersecurity in U.S. elections, and the challenges involved with […]

On January 13th, 2020, Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie gave fans an opportunity to become more invested with an NBA player than ever before. The launch of Dinwiddie’s DREAM Fan Shares allows accredited investors to use digital tokens to invest in Dinwiddie’s three-year, $34 million guaranteed contract. The Ethereum-based blockchain platform claims that it will […]

Facial recognition “creates a ‘template’ of the target’s facial image and compares the template to photographs of preexisting images of a face(s) (known).” The technology is used by a wide range of groups, including law enforcement, airlines, and retail stores. Proponents of facial recognition emphasize its advantages, such as improving security and preventing fraud. Conversely, […]

Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the marketing of a software program, Caption Guidance, that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help medical professionals administer cardiac ultrasounds. Caption Guidance helps the user capture high quality diagnostic images of a patient’s heart. After the images are captured, a cardiologist reviews the images […]

The Supreme Court will hear one of the most significant copyright law cases of the 21st century. The Google v. Oracle oral argument is scheduled for March 24th, with a decision likely by June. The foremost question presented is whether application programming interfaces (“APIs”) are copyrightable. A holding affirming that APIs are original works of authorship […]

The United States Supreme Court may take up two cases this term resolving critical questions about the constitutionality and scope of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”). The Court is currently reviewing briefs in support and opposition of certiorari from the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Duguid v. Facebook, Inc., 926 F.3d 1146 (9th […]

This January, Facebook updated its content policy covering “deepfakes.” Deepfakes range from the benign, such as modifications of scenes in the movie Forrest Gump, to the nefarious, like the massive volume of artificially-created porn featuring female celebrities. Facebook’s policy, which governs organic content, prohibits all media that has been edited in a way that “would […]

On January 22, 2020, a putative class action lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of Illinois claiming startup app Clearview AI has amassed a facial recognition database using more than 3 billion images extracted from social media websites. The case, Mutnick v. Clearview AI, seeks certification of a nationwide class and an Illinois class, alleging the […]

On January 8th, the Department of Transportation released its latest set of guidelines for driverless cars, entitled “Ensuring American Leadership in Automated Vehicle Technologies: Automated Vehicles.” Issued on an annual basis, this is the fourth time that the Department has released such guidelines, and this year the Department is placing a special emphasis on two […]