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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.

December 14, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - AI in Automated Manufacturing
By: Stephanie Lynn Sharron
AI as applied to manufacturing will continue to trend upward, along with associated product liability concerns. Manufacturers will continue to seek out and implement solutions that integrate tools that use AI (including machine learning) to automate the manufacturing floor. Vendors of these tools may
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December 13, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 ‒ Generative AI Continues to Make Content Creation Easier
By: Anna Yuan and Joe Adamczyk
Improvements in AI’s image modeling and natural language processing capabilities have opened up new opportunities for content creators in business and artistic fields. Specialized AI models are being used by marketing teams to generate content like blogs, social media posts, emails, advertisements, and other
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December 12, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - Bioinformatics
By: Anna Yuan and Grace Gong
From improving genomic sequencing to discovering new drug formulations, AI plays a key role in advancing biomedical research. In particular, the field of bioinformatics, which involves the collection and interpretation of biological data using software tools, is undergoing a period of rapid transformation and
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December 09, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - Increasing Product Liability for AI and Software in the EU
By: Kristina Ehle and Stephan Kreß
The EU is ramping up strict and tort product liability for faulty AI and software. The current revision of the Product Liability Directive 85/374/EEC includes AI, software, and even digital services in the IoT space in the scope of “products” that fall under strict
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December 08, 2022 - Mergers + Acquisitions, Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
AI Trends for 2023 - AI Industry Faces Continued Headwinds In 2023
By: Jim Krenn and Andrew P Dixon
While the AI industry has continued to attract venture capital and produce exits in 2022, headwinds in the venture capital and broader capital markets have, as compared to 2021, resulted in a decrease in the number of venture capital financings and exits, as well
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October 07, 2022 - Litigation
Supreme Court to Address Section 230 for First Time
By: J. Alexander Lawrence, Aaron P. Rubin and Dillon Kraus
On October 3, 2022, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Gonzalez v. Google LLC, No. 21-1333, to address the scope of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The Court will consider whether Section 230(c)(1) immunizes website operators and other online service
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August 09, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
Federal Circuit Agrees with the USPTO on Inventors: Only Human, After All
By: Tessa J. Schwartz and Heather M. Whitney
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
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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