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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Strengthened AI Oversight in the Netherlands

Transforming Tomorrow: The Rise of AI in the Workplace

Current State of the AI VC Financing Market

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

In March 2017, the Corporate Counsel of the Corporation Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association introduced a 43-page draft bill that would amend the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) to, among other things, facilitate Delaware corporations’ use of blockchain technology to keep corporate records and communicate with stockholders.The proposed legislation would achieve the first end by specifying that the ledger that corporations are required to maintain as evidence of their stockholders’ identities may be “administered by or on [the corporation’s] behalf” as opposed to “maintained by the corporation,” as the legislation currently provides. In this way, the proposed legislation would clarify that a corporation does not need to have its ledger maintained by an individual such as a corporate officer or transfer agent.The draft bill would further make blockchain technology an option for Delaware corporations’ use in maintaining corporate records by clarifying that corporate records may be kept on “one or more electronic networks or databases (including one or more distributed electronic networks or databases).”To enable Delaware corporations to use blockchain technology to communicate with stockholders, the proposed legislation would amend the DGCL to clarify that the written notices required by certain sections of that law may be sent via “electronic transmission,” and that an “electronic transmission” can include “one or more distributed electronic networks or databases.”If the proposed legislation is approved, it would be enacted by August 2017.

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U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc.

Ascendent Capital Partners

Astellas 

Qatalyst Partners/Multiple Transactions

Southwest Gas

Axalta

Winterhawks Sports Group

Vimian Group AB/Multiple Transactions

Fidelio Capital/Multiple Transactions

Odevo AB/Multiple Transactions

Verdane

Aegis Ventures

Evercore Partners/Multiple Transactions

Ducera Securities/Multiple Transactions

Exantas Capital Corp.

Vonage/Multiple Transactions

Whitestone REIT/Multiple Matters

DaVita/Multiple Transactions

Inovalon/Multiple Transactions

DST Systems/Multiple Transactions

Banc of California/Proxy Contest Defense

Rao’s Specialty Foods/Advent International

TMI Hospitality/Starwood Capital Group

Kajima/IDI

Terumo/CaridianBCT

AmREIT/Takeover Defense

American Pacific/Proxy Contest Defense

NTT Data/Multiple Transactions

GMAC LLC/Transformative Transactions

HLTH Corporation/Multiple Transactions

Jean Coutu Group/Eckerd and Brooks

New York Stock Exchange/Transformative Transactions

Merrill Lynch/Entergy-Koch Energy Trading Business

Novartis AG /Multiple Transactions

JLB Group/Sneakz

Catalyst Biosciences/Targacept

Mighty Leaf Tea/Peet’s Coffee

VIEW Entertainment/ESOP

Braintrust Investments/Multiple Transactions

Robert’s American Gourmet Foods/VMG Partners

Seal-It/Printpack

Quest Diagnostics/Focus Diagnostics

Soros Fund Management/Dune Capital Management/Purchase of DreamWorks Library

Regis Corporation/Reverse Morris Trust Acquisition of Sally Beauty

Apropos Technology/Proxy Contest Defense

Specialty Laboratories/AmeriPath

Centerpulse Ltd./Sale of Multiple Business Segments

IDT/Unsolicited Offer for ITXC

Strategic Software Holdings/Unsolicited Offer and Proxy Contest

Click Commerce/Unsolicited Offer by Insight Venture Management

Dycom Industries/Arguss Communications

Barrick Gold/Homestake Mining Company

Merlin BioMed Group/Multiple Transactions

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson/Multiple Transactions

S.A. Industrias Votorantim/Lafarge S.A.

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Profit Recovery Group/Shareholder Rights Plan

Syngenta AG/FLINT Fungicide Business

Welch Allyn Data Collection/PSC Inc.

Brach’s Confections/Tootsie Roll

Groupe Danone/McKesson Water Products

First Bell Bancorp/Shareholder Proposal

Consolidated Fruit (BVI) Ltd. /Chiquita Brands Investment

SMG-II/Multiple Transactions

Hochtief AG/Turner Corporation

Sulzer Medica Ltd./Guidant Corporation

Tiger Management/Provident Companies Stock Purchase

Ispat International N.V./Inland Steel

The BOC Group plc/Ohmeda Healthcare

Kollmorgen/Unsolicted Tender Offer and Proxy Contest for Pacific Scientific

Trizec Hahn/Clark USA

Raab Karcher AG/Wyle Electronics

SafeSpace Productions LLC

Bergen Brunswig/IVAX Proposed Merger of Equals

ARM Financial Group/Multiple Transactions

Cia. Bozano, Simonsen/Embraer

Museum of the City of New York

MCA (Universal Studios)/Interscope Records

National Broadcasting Company/MSNBC Joint Ventures with Microsoft

Clark USA/Occidental Petroleum/Gulf Resources

The Seagram Company/Universal Studios

Viacom Inc./Multiple Transactions

Booker plc/Marine Harvest International

Cadbury Beverages/Dr.Pepper/Seven-Up Stock Purchase

Medco Containment/Flex Rx Pharmacy Services

Harlequin/Exposures Inc.

Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Rehabilitation/Multiple Transactions

Proposed Acquisition of UST Bank/Connecticut

The Manhattan Savings Bank Conversion Merger

First Boston Asset Management/Sale of Business Segment

Solomon Partners Securities, LLC

A leading multinational investment bank and financial services firm /Multiple Transactions

BMO Capital Markets

Centerview Partners/Multiple Transactions

Perella Weinberg Partners

Deutsche Bank Securities/Certegy

Credit Suisse Securities/Multiple Transactions

Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin/Multiple Transactions

Lehman Brothers/Multiple Transactions

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Spencer Klein is a corporate partner and serves as co-chair of the firm's global Mergers & Acquisitions Group.

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Spencer Klein is a partner in the Corporate Department and serves as co-chair of the firm's global Mergers & Acquisitions Group and head of the Corporate Department in New York. Mr. Klein focuses his practice on M+A transactions and related matters such as proxy contests and takeover defense counseling.

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Delaware Paves the Way for the Use of Blockchain Technology

A Rush to Patent the Blockchain Is a Sign of the Technology’s Promise

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In March 2017, the Corporate Counsel of the Corporation Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association introduced a 43-page draft bill that would amend the D

Delaware Paves the Way for the Use of Blockchain Technology

The House of Representatives has passed legislation – called The Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act of 2017 (the “Act” or “H.R. 985”) to fundamentally change all stages of class action litigation.For example, the provisions require stricter “typicality” requirements for class members, the disclosure of conflicts of interest between class counsel and named plaintiffs, an administratively feasible way to identify class members, capping distribution fees to class counsel, staying discovery pending motion practice, and automatic appeals of class certification rulings.Additionally, the bill would change the multidistrict litigation (MDL) procedure, including a requirement for the plaintiff in personal injury claims to submit evidence of the harm and causation within 45 days of filing or transfer.H.R. 985 is part of a larger effort to pass litigation reform through Congress in the era of President Trump.We expect passage of the key provisions of the Act in the Senate to be contentious and will continue to track the Act through the legislative process while updating this client alert with any developments.

House Passes Bill Proposing Sweeping Changes to Class Action Litigation