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3/27/2025 2:53:33 PM 400 Euro GDPR Compensation: Appeal in Bindl vs. Commission Case to ECJ By Johannes Berchtold Friederike Wilde-Detmering Hannah von Wickede In the legal dispute Bindl vs. the European Commission (T-354/22), the plaintiff announced on his website that both he and the European...
3/27/2025 1:13:52 PM Does new PTAB interim guidance foreshadow a rise in patent assertions? By Gerard Donovan It has been a busy week of news out of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Last week Law360 reported that after the current voluntary...
3/26/2025 8:08:15 PM UK, France, and Switzerland Launch International Task Force to Combat Bribery in the Wake of America’s FCPA Pause By Daniel Ahn Evan Barr Mark Bini Calvin Chan Lara T. Gatz Ali Ishaq Rosanne Kay Michael Lowell Rizwan Qureshi Kate Seikaly Thomas Suddath Kaela Dahan Rafael Szmid Natalia Terezakis +11 more... Show less On March 20, 2025, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office, France’s Parquet National Financier, and Switzerland’s Office of the Attorney General...
3/26/2025 7:28:39 AM Nuclear Power for Ships: A Viable Low-Carbon Propulsion Solution? By Roberto Peroni As the shipping industry faces mounting pressure to decarbonize, nuclear power is emerging as a potential low-carbon alternative to...
3/25/2025 9:40:37 PM Veto means no new AI regulation for the Data Center Capital of the World By Gerard Donovan Virginia's High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Developer and Deployer Act (HB2094), passed in February, would have regulated AI in the...
3/24/2025 6:15:12 PM From RAG to Richness: Decoding AI Terminology By David Cohen Like it or not, we have all been thrust into the age of artificial intelligence (AI). Personally, I am optimistic that the benefits of AI...
3/24/2025 5:06:51 PM Will Florida be next to add to the "Right to Repair" state law thicket? By Gerard Donovan In recent years, several states have enacted “Right to Repair” laws that aim to provide individuals and businesses unaffiliated with the...
3/24/2025 3:45:37 PM UK Tech Secretary suggests compromise on AI copyright proposal By Henry Birkbeck UK technology secretary Peter Kyle has acknowledged enormous pushback from the creative industries to the text and data mining exception...
3/19/2025 3:31:57 PM DC Circuit affirms AI cannot be author under Copyright Act By Gerard Donovan The DC Circuit's Thaler v. Perlmutter decision primarily considered one question: Can a non-human machine be an author under the...
3/19/2025 12:15:16 PM 1.500 EUR GDPR fine against Employee for unlawful Database Query By Johannes Berchtold Hannah von Wickede In a recent ruling, the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart (HRC) has set an interesting precedent in the realm of data protection and...
3/19/2025 9:38:18 AM Are you DMCC ready? Supercharged CMA consumer law powers go live on 6 April 2025 By Tom Gates Are you ready for (some of) the UK consumer law changes on the horizon? Various parts of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers...
3/17/2025 5:20:43 PM Protest POV: Show Your Work! GAO Sides with Protestor Challenging Flawed Labor Rate and Price Risk Evaluation By Kendra Perkins Norwood Mitch Bailey Bradley Myrthil On March 4, 2025, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) sustained a protest challenging the Air Force’s determination that the...
3/12/2025 8:00:28 PM HHS-OGC Closes ROs and Terminates Additional Attorneys By Scot T. Hasselman Following on my post yesterday regarding early retirements and separations at HHS, we understand today that over 120 HHS-OGC lawyers were...
3/12/2025 12:45:20 PM Can Data Subjects access the DPA between a Controller and a Processor? By Johannes Berchtold Hannah von Wickede The question of whether data subjects can access the data processing agreement (DPA) between a Controller and a Processor frequently...
3/11/2025 5:48:19 PM Expect HHS Retirements To Be Material By Scot T. Hasselman Many employees at HHS and its 13 operating and staff divisions (e.g., FDA, HHS-OIG, CDC, NIH) are eligible for either early retirement...
3/11/2025 9:32:10 AM UK Government consultation on Oil and Gas Price Mechanism By Simone Goligorsky Nicole Cheung The Government launched a consultation on 5 March 2025 concerning the replacement of the Energy Profits Levy (EPL). The EPL was...