Now more than ever, technology is influencing the way we do business, communicate, move through and around the world, access and manage our homes, receive and administer healthcare, make purchases, secure information, and protect our most valuable property. Morrison Foerster keeps pace with this rapidly evolving landscape across our internationally recognized corporate, finance, intellectual property, and litigation practices. MoFo Tech brings together our insights relating to fields such as blockchain and distributed ledger, cloud and as-a-service technologies, driverless cars, drones, fintech, computer hardware and software, the Internet of Things, semiconductors, and telecommunications. The MoFo Tech blog offers real-time, in-depth analyses of the trends and complex issues shaping the global technology industry.<h2>ABOUT MORRISON FOERSTER</h2>Morrison Foerster is a leading global law firm that transforms complexity into advantage for its clients. Our clients include some of the largest financial institutions, banks, consulting and accounting firms, and Fortune 100, technology, and life sciences companies. Highlighting the firm’s commitment to client service, leadership in market-changing deals and impact litigation, and values-based culture, Morrison Foerster has been repeatedly recognized as one of the top 10 firms on The American Lawyer’s A-List. Year after year, the firm receives significant recognition from Chambers and The Legal 500 across their various guides, including Global, USA, Asia‑Pacific, Europe, UK, Latin America, and FinTech Legal. Our lawyers passionately care about delivering legal excellence while living our values. Morrison Foerster has a long-standing commitment to creating a culture that respects and celebrates differences, while providing an inclusive environment. The firm has achieved Mansfield Certification Plus since 2018 as a result of successfully reaching at least 30 percent women, communities of color, and LGBTQ+ lawyer representation in a notable number of current leadership roles and committees. The firm also has a long history of commitment to the community and society through providing pro bono legal services, including litigating for civil rights and civil liberties, improving public education and fostering the wellbeing of children, advocating for veterans, promoting international human rights, enforcing the right to asylum, and safeguarding the environment.

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Scott Llewellyn’s practice focuses on complex litigation in federal and state courts around the country, with an emphasis on patent and trade secret disputes. Over the past decade, he has worked on some of the most significant, high–profile IP cases involving technology for televisions, smartphones, and self–driving cars, relying on 40 years of experience with computer hardware and software. Scott also has significant experience with business divorce cases before courts and arbitrators, involving a mix of trade secret, patent, tort, and contract claims relating to technology development and implementation.Scott also has successfully tried general commercial arbitration and agency matters, briefed and argued various appeals in federal appellate court, and tried more than 20 cases for the Denver City Attorney’s office, most of them jury trials.Scott also has an active pro bono practice, having worked on a variety of criminal and immigration appeals, and having represented Colorado criminal defense and mental health organizations in high–profile suits against the state of Colorado for violations of the constitutional rights of defendants.At MoFo, Scott serves on the board of the Morrison & Foerster Foundation. In the broader legal community, he serves on the boards of the Colorado Lawyers Committee and Drop in the Bucket (a charity that builds wells and sanitation systems in sub–Saharan Africa).After law school, Scott clerked for the Honorable Clarence A. Brimmer, District of Wyoming, and the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Ninth Circuit. He was also previously an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

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Scott Llewellyn’s practice involves complex litigation before state and federal courts around the country, with an emphasis on patent and trade secret disputes for high-tech companies, to which he brings more than 35 years of experience with computer hardware and software, in particular relating to the processing and transmission of audio, video, voice, and other types of data. Mr. Llewellyn has also tried commercial arbitration and agency matters; briefed and argued various appeals in federal appellate court; and tried more than 20 cases for the Denver city attorney’s office, most of them jury trials.

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MoFo Tech Law Summit – Tech and Antitrust: Policy Shifts in the Second Trump Administration

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Russia’s attack on the 2016 presidential election continues to command headlines but it’s only the latest incident of the U.S. being targeted by global adversaries in cyberspace, writes <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/4CiCCYElrZFXlPwkh9e3Ix">John P. Carlin</a>, chair of Morrison & Foerster’s <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/DkR3CZ6mvgUYgy0Psy0upG">Global Risk + Crisis Management Group</a> and co-chair of the firm’s <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/N08ZC1wBEMsXGKlnhY9IUc">National Security Practice</a>, in his new book, Dawn of the Code War. The book, which was co-authored by award-winning national security journalist Garrett Graff, tells the inside story of how the U.S. learned to fight back against its adversaries after the launch of a cyberwar.This first-hand account is based on Mr. Carlin’s over 15-year career as a senior federal government official where he served as Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, and Chief of Staff to then FBI-Director Robert Mueller. In his practice at Morrison & Foerster, Mr. Carlin regularly counsels industry-leading organizations in sensitive cyber and other national security matters including CFIUS, internal investigations, and government enforcement actions.To learn more about the book and how to combat the ongoing cybersecurity threat, please see Mr. Carlin’s recent media appearances or <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/3UyfC2k12XUQ3AgKhMQ2aa">visit the firm’s website</a>.<ul><li><a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/RKMzC31KE3svKVO7TYw2Ti">CBS This Morning</a></li><li><a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/COyqC4xYV2fx5GqYsN7ypz">CNBC’s Squawk Box</a></li><li><a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/7H3tC5y1VMC19O2gs4aOMM">MSNBC Live</a></li><li><a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/6fx2C68zGMSJmxqVsjWZU0">NPR’s 1A Podcast</a></li><li><a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/rm5hC73WYMuYN9wEsr_uBJ">Axios</a></li><li><a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/XISzC82BWgtgqxEOsKaVmo">National Law Journal</a></li></ul>

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Russia’s attack on the 2016 presidential election continues to command headlines but it’s only the latest incident of the U.S. being targeted by global adversar

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UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has presented the final UK Budget before Brexit. In this alert we outline the key tax proposals from the Budget applicable to companies and investors in the tech sector, including: a digital services tax for “tech giants”; additional conditions for Entrepreneurs’ Relief; amendments to the loss relief rules; and new tax-avoidance measures.Read our <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/ApFsC1wBEMsXNrJgTpO7nS">client alert</a>.

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Trevor has over 30 years of experience in providing corporate and international tax advice. His practice focuses on advising client on the tax planning aspects of international transactions and strat

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The UK’s Last Budget Before Brexit – Tech, Tax and Temerity

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UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has presented the final UK Budget before Brexit. In this alert we outline the key tax proposals from the Budget 

The UK’s Last Budget Before Brexit – Tech, Tax and Temerity

FDA is tackling cybersecurity threats head-on and expects industry to do the same.  Earlier this month, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., announced a series of developments designed to keep pace with evolving cybersecurity threats to medical devices.  Industry should take note, as these developments detail the agency’s current expectations for companies preparing to combat future threats.  As part of FDA’s effort to get in front of these issues before they happen, it launched its first ever <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/UCt5C1wBEMsXJvjMCpiJXn">Medical Device Cybersecurity Regional Incident Preparedness and Response Playbook</a> (the “Playbook”).  FDA also announced two memoranda of understanding designed to improve information sharing about cybersecurity risks.  Finally, just last week, FDA released an update to guidance from 2014 concerning premarket expectations for devices susceptible to cybersecurity threats. Read our <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/PIjkC2k12XUQ5nxpC2e8Lk">client alert</a>.

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Erin Bosman is chair of MoFo’s Class Actions and Mass Torts Practice Group and is a founder and co-head of the Artificial Intelligence Group. Clients value her business strategy, seeking her comprehensive counsel throughout the product life cycle, especially in high-stakes litigation and product recalls.

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Erin Bosman is chair of MoFo’s Class Actions and Mass Torts Practice Group and is a founder and co-head of the Artificial Intelligence Group. Clients value her business strategy, seeking her comprehensive counsel throughout the product life cycle, especially in high-stakes litigation and product recalls.

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Julie Park provides analytic and strategic counsel for issues in product life cycle, product liability and defective products, consumer class actions, and more.

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Julie Park | Product Liability Lawyer

Julie Park protects her clients’ products no matter what kind of product issue they face—whether it is planning for new product development, recalling an existing product, or defending clients against product liability or consumer class actions. Drawing on her deep technical and legal expertise, Julie counsels clients on consumer product safety regulation and pharmaceutical and medical device preemption while also managing complex and multijurisdictional litigation both in state and federal court.

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FDA Announces New Efforts to Combat Cybersecurity Threats in Medical Devices

FDA is tackling cybersecurity threats head-on and expects industry to do the same.  Earlier this month, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., announced a serie

FDA Announces New Efforts to Combat Cybersecurity Threats in Medical Devices

ICT standardization is a key part of the European Union’s package of measures designed to improve Europe’s competitiveness and productivity. As part of the EU’s Digital Single Market initiative, the European Commission has been working on common ICT standards that would ensure the interoperability of digital technologies, services, and devices. Standardization in the ICT sector is important both for software and hardware developers because it covers areas such as data management and interoperability as well as security of smart devices. The Commission has encouraged businesses operating in the EU to get involved in various standards-related organizations and to participate in the newly-created platform on European standardization.Read our <a href="https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/4FeQCR65kXUXxXYXCP6Kzo">client alert</a>.

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Wolfgang advises clients on contentious and non-contentious matters involving their most valuable intellectual property assets in the digital, high-tech, life sciences, and pharmaceutical industries.

Wolfgang Schönig

Wolfgang Schönig is a partner of Morrison Foerster (International) LLP based in our German office in Berlin. His practice specialty is advising on IP aspects relative to transactions in, among others, the life sciences, AgTech and pharmaceuticals industry, as well as legal representation in IP disputes. Wolfgang is specialized in research and development collaborations, complex licensing agreements, technology acquisitions, know-how protection strategies, and employee invention law.

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Alistair Maughan co-leads Morrison & Foerster's European Technology & Commercial Practice.

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Alistair advises on the deployment of new technology platforms involving, for example, the internet of things, AI and machine-learning, and blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

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Digital Single Market Update: Technology Standardization in the EU

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ICT standardization is a key part of the European Union’s package of measures designed to improve Europe’s competitiveness and productivity. As part of the EU’s

Digital Single Market Update: Technology Standardization in the EU

Be Morrison & Foerster’s guest at 451 Research’s Tech M&A Summit, an event that promises to help potential participants in the machine-learning acquisitions frenzy to navigate this emerging technology trend.Fueled by a motivation to unlock the value of big data, machine-learning companies are being acquired in record numbers, with M&A activity overall on pace to be three times higher than it was just three years ago, according to 451 Research’s M&A KnowledgeBase. But executing a successful machine-learning deal requires knowledge that only professionals familiar with the space can provide.Scheduled for Thursday, November 1 in Palo Alto, Calif., the program will include talks, panel discussions, and networking opportunities designed to help corporate development professionals, M&A attorneys, VCs, private equity professionals, bankers, and C-level executives at technology companies to succeed in the machine-learning acquisitions arena.Register <a href="http://go.451research.com/join-mofo-tech-ma-summit-palo-alto-2018.html">today</a>.