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MoFo Tech brings together legal insights and in-depth analyses on trends and complex issues shaping the global technology industry, covering fields such as blockchain and distributed ledger, cloud and SaaS technologies, driverless cars, drones, FinTech, computer hardware and software, the IoT, semiconductors, and telecommunications.

August 09, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
Federal Circuit Agrees with the USPTO on Inventors: Only Human, After All
By: Tessa J. Schwartz, Heather M. Whitney and Hogene L Choi
The Federal Circuit made headlines when it affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia’s holding that an artificial intelligence (AI) cannot qualify as an “inventor” under the Patent Act – only (human) “individuals” can. The patent application at the heart of
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December 15, 2021 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends For 2022 - Export Control/CFIUS
By: Charles L. Capito and Rachel Park
AI and machine learning technologies remain a focus of the U.S. government’s national security apparatus. AI is a key sector in the Unites States’ race against China to remain at the forefront in the development and deployment of emerging technologies, and a concern for
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December 14, 2021 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends For 2022 - Augmented Reality and Digital Twin Technology
By: Wendy J. Ray
Over the past few years, companies have piloted efforts to use augmented reality and digital twin technology to reduce development time and operating costs, speed up time to market, and enhance product or service development. A digital twin is a virtual replication of a
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December 13, 2021 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends For 2022 - AI For Natural Language
By: Tessa J. Schwartz
2022 will see a continued trend of using AI to develop natural language capabilities for machines to better understand, communicate, and even code or “author” works. 2021 saw a rise in automatic and semi-automatic analyses of large quantities of data, including sorting, parsing, and
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December 10, 2021 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics, Mergers + Acquisitions
AI Trends For 2022 - AI Industry Poised for Successful 2022
By: Jim Krenn
The AI industry continues to mature as venture investment increased significantly in 2021 and exit values for venture-backed AI companies significantly outpaced venture investment in AI companies in 2021. According to PitchBook, AI companies have produced over $166 billion in value through IPOs and
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December 09, 2021 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends For 2022 - The IRS will use increased budget resources to achieve a main objective
By: Shane M. Shelley and Edward L. Froelich
The IRS plans to audit the wealthiest corporate, partnership, and individual taxpayers to achieve some of its main objectives in 2022. In his recent testimony before Congress , IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig identified the allocation of additional resources to enhance the IRS’s data
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December 08, 2021 - Regulatory, Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends For 2022 - FDA Regulatory
FDA is actively monitoring the use of AI and machine learning (ML) software in medical devices and clinical developments, and has taken a number of first steps in building out a regulatory framework. In 2021, FDA published the AI and Machine Learning Software as
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December 02, 2021 - Tech Talks, Mergers + Acquisitions
MergerMarket Dealcast Presents: Trends in Tech M&A
By: Eric T. McCrath
In the first of a four-part podcast series on tech M&A in partnership with MergerMarket, Corporate Department Co-Chair Eric McCrath sat down with host Julie-Anna Needham to discuss cross-border M&A, accelerated digitalization due to COVID-19, and trends in U.S. acquisitions into Europe. Listen to
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October 20, 2021 - Privacy + Data Security, Regulatory, Tech Talks, Financings
Above Board Podcast: 2021 Cyber Events Shaping the Horizon
By: Alex Iftimie, David M. Lynn and Brandon L. Van Grack
In this episode of MoFo’s Above Board podcast, host, co-chair of MoFo’s Corporate Finance | Capital Markets practice, and former Chief Counsel of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance Dave Lynn speaks with Alex Iftimie, co-chair of MoFo’s Global Risk and Crisis Management group,
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September 08, 2021 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics, Intellectual Property
AI as a Patent Inventor – an Update from South Africa and Australia
By: Alistair Maughan, Georgia Wright and Anna Yuan
Although the European, U.S., and UK Patent Offices have denied patent applications on the grounds that an AI system cannot be listed as an inventor, not every country seems to be following that approach and some may be set to buck the trend. Last
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Welcome to the MoFo Tech Blog

Federal Circuit Agrees with the USPTO on Inventors: Only Human, After All

By: Tessa J. Schwartz, Heather M. Whitney and Hogene L Choi

AI Trends For 2022 - Export Control/CFIUS

By: Charles L. Capito and Rachel Park

AI Trends For 2022 - Augmented Reality and Digital Twin Technology

By: Wendy J. Ray

AI Trends For 2022 - AI For Natural Language

By: Tessa J. Schwartz

AI Trends For 2022 - AI Industry Poised for Successful 2022

By: Jim Krenn

AI Trends For 2022 - The IRS will use increased budget resources to achieve a main objective

By: Shane M. Shelley and Edward L. Froelich

AI Trends For 2022 - FDA Regulatory

MergerMarket Dealcast Presents: Trends in Tech M&A

By: Eric T. McCrath

Above Board Podcast: 2021 Cyber Events Shaping the Horizon

By: Alex Iftimie, David M. Lynn and Brandon L. Van Grack

AI as a Patent Inventor – an Update from South Africa and Australia

By: Alistair Maughan, Georgia Wright and Anna Yuan