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On March 7, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) released new materials for review and discussion at the agency’s board meeting on March 8, 2024. Among the materials released were draft risk assessment and automated decision making regulations, updates to existing regulations, and enforcement updates and priorities….By: Ballard Spahr LLP

Goodwin Partner Raymond Fang talks with TusPark’s head of UK innovation and real estate, Wei Meng, about building life sciences ecosystems and the operational nature of real estate in the sector….By: Goodwin

CYBERSECURITY – CISA, FBI + MS-ISAC Issue Warning on Phobos Ransomware – To help organizations protect against ransomware, CISA, the FBI, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released a cybersecurity advisory warning organizations about the Phobos ransomware, and provided indicators of compromise and tactics, techniques, and procedures used by Phobos as recently…

Rai Strategic Holdings, Inc. v. Philip Morris Products S.A. (Feb. 9, 2024) – On February 9, 2024, in Rai Strategy Holdings Inc. v. Philip Morris Products S.A., the Federal Circuit vacated the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) finding that claimed ranges of length rendered Rai’s vape device claims invalid for lack of written description….By:…

On March 5, 2024, Anthropic announced the release of three powerful versions of Claude 3. Early reports here and elsewhere suggest these new large language models may give GPT 4 a run for its money both in terms of performance and cost….By: EDRM – Electronic Discovery Reference Model

On March 8, 2024, Orsini Pharmaceutical Services d/b/a/ Orsini Specialty Pharmacy (“Orsini”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Montana after discovering that an unauthorized party had gained access to an employee’s email account. In this notice, Orsini explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access…

In Gilliard v. Manhattan Nuvo LLC, New York’s Appellate Division, First Department held that the assumption of the risk doctrine did not extend to an accident at a birthday party at a hookah (a water pipe used to smoke specially curated tobacco) lounge. Although the birthday party at the premises was arguably a place of…

Smalis v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., 2023 WL 8479242 (W.D. Pa. 2023) – The plaintiff, a customer of the defendant’s store, slipped and fell on water located on the floor of the men’s restroom. After the defendant removed the case to federal district court, it filed a motion to dismiss….By: Marshall Dennehey

On March 8, 2024, UC San Diego Health (“UCSD Health”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of California after discovering an email phishing attack gave an unauthorized party access to various email accounts. In this notice, UCSD Health explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access…