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Elections 2024 live updates: Biden heading to Italy to meet with nervous G-7 allies
Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail, with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.
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The Evolution of Lifestyle From Conformity to Individuality Unlocking the Secrets of
When we think about lifestyle, we often associate it with certain choices and behaviors that are influenced by societal norms and expectations. From the clothes we wear to the food we eat, there has always been an underlying pressure to conform to a certain way of living. However, in recent years, there has been a…
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Suspicious Minds: Protecting Tennessee Artists from Generative AI
Effective July 1, 2024, a revolutionary new law will protect Tennessee artists and musicians from unethical uses of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). The unprecedented Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (“ELVIS”) Act greatly expands the reach of Tennessee’s Protection of Personal Rights law by creating an enforceable property right in a person’s “name, photograph, voice, or…
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Interpreting the Printed Matter Doctrine in Inter Partes Review
In Ioengine, LLC v. Ingenico Inc. No. 2021-1227, 2021-1331, 2021-1332 (Fed. Cir. May 03, 2024), the case addresses the patentability/validity of three patents. In particular, this case discusses the application of the printed matter doctrine during inter partes review, the treatment of newly introduced claim constructions on appeal, and the PTAB’s anticipation and obviousness determinations….By:…
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Do legal AI tools that use RAG still hallucinate?
Large language models (LLMs) have a well-known propensity to “hallucinate,” or provide false information in response to the user’s prompt—note that the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s preferred term for this is “confabulate,” but this has yet to catch on. Researchers at Stanford University previously found that legal AI tools hallucinated 58–82% of the…
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Netherlands – The Dutch Data Protection Authority publishes guidance on facial recognition (May 2 2024)
On May 2 2024, the Dutch data protection supervisory authority (the Dutch DPA) published guidance on the processing of personal data when using facial recognition….By: A&O Shearman
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Federal Circuit Finds that a Narrowing Claim Limitation that Expressly Requires Optional Elements of a Markush Group from the Same Claim is Neither Contradictory Nor Indefinite
In Maxell, Ltd. v. Amperex Technology Limited, 2023-1194 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 6, 2024), the Federal Circuit reaffirms that a patent claim that includes narrowing limitations requiring only some elements of a Markush group recited in the same claim are not indefinite under Section 112 so long as the claim, when read as a whole, is…
