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Fenwick’s TechWeek Takes: 5 Tips for Female Founders
On June 5, Fenwick teamed up with the Female Founder Collective and AmplifyHer Ventures at a16z’s New York Tech Week for a discussion about empowering, educating, and connecting female entrepreneurs….By: Fenwick & West LLP
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AI & Creativity, a NY Tech Week Salon
AI has been dramatically altering the creative landscape, offering new possibilities and challenges for content creators, media and gaming companies, and technology platforms….By: Fenwick & West LLP
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This Week in 340B: June 18 – 24, 2024
Find this week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick summary of relevant updates from the prior week in this industry-shaping body of…
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Close but no cigar: IRS releases updated draft Form 6765 “attempting” to reduce the heightened level of detail required to claim the research credit
On June 21, 2024, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released an early draft of revised Form 6765, Credit for Increasing Research Activities. Following the release of the September 2023 draft Form 6765 which dramatically increased the informational and substantiation requirements to claim the research credit, there was significant public feedback, and the IRS has indicated…
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Name That Artist: How AI Music is Shaping the Right of Publicity
Every industry today is abuzz with the possibilities of artificial intelligence, and music is no exception. In the year since the AI-generated hit “Heart on My Sleeve,” courts have started to tackle AI issues in the arts head-on. In Concord Music Group v. Anthropic, one of the leading cases in this area, plaintiffs, including Capitol…
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Court Dismissed Several Counts Against Transportation “Broker” on Basis of Vicarious Liability, but Held that Issue of Negligent Entrustment of Driver May Ultimately Go to Jury
Allen v. Foxway Transportation, Inc., 2024 WL 0478015, No. 4:21-cv-00156 (M.D. Pa. Dec. 7, 2023) – In a tragic, fatal collision between a tractor trailer and a passenger vehicle, which was disabled after striking a deer, the issue presented to the court was relative to whether a “broker” company that arranged for the specific motor…
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Texas Retina Associates Notifies Nearly 300k People of Recent Data Breach
On June 26, 2024, Texas Retina Associates (“Texas Retina”) filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Texas after discovering that confidential information that had been entrusted to the company was subject to unauthorized access. In this notice, Texas Retina explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to…
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Cyberattack at CDK Global Triggers Investigation into Business Interruption Claims on Behalf of Automotive Retailers
Recently, CDK Global reported that it was the target of not one but two large-scale cyber attacks. In response, CDK Global took steps to protect its IT network as well as the sensitive information in its possession. However, by taking its systems offline, CDK Global left the 15,000+ car dealerships that use CDK software unable…
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Lessons Learned from the Exactech Recall: How We Can Improve Medical Device Safety in the Future
In response to scrutiny from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Exactech has recalled hundreds of thousands of defective medical implant devices sold between 2004 and 2021. Despite these recalls—which began in 2021—the FDA sent a Warning Letter to Exactech on March 12, 2024 informing the company that its manufacturing, packaging, storage and/or installation…
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Registration Opens for July Webinars on Minnesota’s PFAS in Products Law; MPCA Publishes Summary of Comments on CUUs
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) will hold two public webinars in July to provide updates and answer questions on Minnesota’s per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in products law (Amara’s Law), which takes effect in stages between 2025 and 2032……By: Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.