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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AI Transparency in Healthcare: Navigating a Changing Regulatory Landscape

Recentive: Federal Circuit’s Patent-Eligibility Guideposts for Machine-Learning Inventions

Japan’s Approach to AI Regulation in 2025

Federal Circuit Clarifies Requirements for Prior Art Under Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)

AI Agent as a Service in Medtech - Key Considerations for Commercial Contracts

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On January 6, 2025, FDA published a draft nonbinding guidance document setting out a framework for drug sponsors, manufacturers, and other interested parties (referred to as “sponsors”) to evaluate the credibility of AI models producing data or information intended to support:<ul><li>FDA regulatory determinations regarding a drug’s safety, effectiveness, or quality (i.e., approval of a New Drug Application), or</li><li>Conformance with FDA’s requirements regarding a drug’s safety, effectiveness, or quality (i.e., post-market surveillance).</li></ul>Read the <a href="https://lifesciences.mofo.com/topics/fda-releases-draft-guidance-on-evaluating-the-risk-and-credibility-of-ai-used-in-establishing-drug-and-device-safety-effectiveness-and-quality" target="_self">full blog post</a>.

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Ashley E. Quinn is an associate in Morrison Foerster’s San Diego office.

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Brigid is a food, drug, and medical device lawyer who counsels life sciences companies on a wide range of U.S. Food & Drug Administration pre- and post-market regulatory issues.

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Brigid is a food, drug, and medical device lawyer who counsels life sciences companies on a wide range of U.S. Food & Drug Administration pre- and post-market regulatory issues.

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Co-Chair, Litigation Department

Erin Bosman is the global co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s litigation department. Erin is also the founder and co-head of the Artificial Intelligence group and former chair of the Complex Litigation + Advisement practice 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 the Global Co-Chair of Morrison Foerster’s Litigation Department. Erin is also the founder and co-head of the Artificial Intelligence Group and former chair of the Complex Litigation + Advisement Practice 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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A children&rsquo;s monthly subscription service product

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A major technology company

A smart fitness equipment company

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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 Releases Draft Guidance on Evaluating the Risk and Credibility of AI Used in Establishing Drug and Device Safety, Effectiveness, and Quality

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FDA Releases Draft Guidance on Evaluating the Risk and Credibility of AI Used in Establishing Drug and Device Safety, Effectiveness, and Quality

EU countries will need to designate supervisory authorities (SAs) for the EU AI Act by August 2025. Contrary to GDPR, for example, a single country is allowed to appoint multiple AI SAs. Furthermore, an SA could be appointed to supervise AI in healthcare, and a different SA to supervise AI in the banking and finance sector. Most EU countries are yet to decide on their approach to supervising AI, but we predict that several countries will appoint multiple SAs. Namely, the Netherlands has already appointed its Authority for Financial Markets and National Bank to handle market surveillance and the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate to oversee the use of AI in critical infrastructure, and all other SA tasks will be placed with the data protection authority. This fractured landscape will require an increased effort for organizations subject to the EU AI Act to stay on top of all decisions and guidance by their relevant SAs, which will especially be relevant in the early days of the EU AI Act, when a number of key concepts will not have crystallized yet.

AI Trends for 2025 - Strengthened AI Oversight in the Netherlands

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Marijn Storm specializes on the intersection of law and technology, with a focus on cutting-edge technologies, such as (generative) artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models, ethical tech, and biometrics. 

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Whitney Lee is an associate in the firm’s Privacy + Data Security and Crisis Management practice groups. She is based in the firm’s Washington D.C. office.

Whitney Lee

Whitney Lee is an associate in the firm’s Privacy + Data Security and Global Risk + Crisis Management practice groups. She is based in the firm’s Washington D.C. office.

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AI Trends for 2025 - Strengthened AI Oversight in the Netherlands

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In 2025, tools relying on sophisticated AI will increasingly be applied in the workplace. This will certainly go far beyond AI-based pre-selection processes for job applicants and work allocation software, e.g., in large logistics companies. EU Data Protection Authorities and the privacy community will need to develop comprehensive guidelines for the use of such AI‑based tools, allowing companies to benefit from the technological progress while safeguarding the employees’ privacy.

AI Trends for 2025 - Transforming Tomorrow: The Rise of AI in the Workplace

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For more than two decades, Hanno has advised and represented leading domestic and international corporations in a wide variety of industries, including technology, consumer products, automotive, and 

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Hanno Timner is a partner in the Berlin office and head of the Employment and Labor practice group in Germany. He advises and represents national and international employers in all labor law issues and disputes.

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AI Trends for 2025 - Transforming Tomorrow: The Rise of AI in the Workplace

AI Trends For 2022 - Export Control/CFIUS

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While the broader venture capital financing market continues to experience headwinds and turbulence, artificial intelligence (AI) deal activity has been a bright spot for companies and investors, with relatively robust deal activity and sustained investor interest, which are expected to continue into 2025.According to CB Insights, while the dollar amount of AI funding dropped quarter-over-quarter due to a decreased number of $1B+ unicorn financing mega-rounds, global AI deal count rose by 24% quarter-over-quarter to reach 1,245 deals in Q3 2024, marking the highest quarterly level since Q1 2022, and contrasted with an overall drop of 10% quarter-over-quarter in the broader venture financing market. The number of deals is indicative of broad investor appetite and interest in AI as a driver of investment return for the foreseeable future and extends across various aspects of the AI and machine-learning marketplace, including horizontal platforms, vertical platforms, semiconductors, and autonomous machines. In addition to traditional VC investors, PitchBook also reports continued investment by and interest of the largest of the world’s corporations in AI to ensure competitive positioning in various industries, and those activities portend well for the AI venture market writ large and the financing market specifically.As in the past, the United States continues to lead in AI funding and deals—being responsible for 2/3 of all deals in the sector—as compared with the rest of the globe. It remains to be seen whether the mergers and acquisitions and IPO markets, which have been choppy in 2024, will correct and support the continued investment in the AI venture capital market that has been encouraging in 2024. However, the continued broad support across industry players, coupled with the new administration’s installation of a number of major proponents of AI in high-level positions, has many believing the momentum behind AI will continue through 2025.

AI Trends for 2025 - Current State of the AI VC Financing Market

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Co-Chair of Emerging Companies + Venture Capital Practice

Jim has extensive experience representing private and public companies and investors in significant business transactions from formation through liquidity. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financings, and emerging company counseling. His clients span a broad range of industries, with a concentration in life science and technology companies.

Jim Krenn

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Of Counsel

Andrew Dixon is a corporate Of Counsel in the firm's San Diego office.

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Andrew Dixon

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AI Trends for 2025 - Current State of the AI VC Financing Market

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

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We have already begun to see the use of AI-enabled tools to perpetrate cyber-attacks and fraud, but it will get much worse before it gets better. AI will serve as a multiplier for existing cybercrime, including phishing and deepfakes, illicit data collection, automated network attacks, data poisoning, and more. At the same time, attackers will work to manipulate existing models to both steal algorithms and exploit vulnerabilities.

AI Trends for 2025 - The Bad Guys Have AI, Too