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The Creating Helpful Incentives to Protect Semiconductors Act (the CHIPS Act or the Act) was signed into law in August 2022, providing for a total of $52.7 billion in appropriations from 2023 through 2027. This article describes certain key developments in the period from passage of the CHIPS Act through the present day, including a summary of commitments by semiconductor companies to increase capital investment in the United States (possibly reflecting incentives created by the legislation). We also provide a brief survey of key grantmaking and investment activity by U.S. government agencies since passage of the Act. Finally, we discuss the Act’s likely future, as well as analogous policy developments in critical East Asian manufacturing centers.
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Emerging Legal Terrain: IP Risks from AI’s Role In Drug Discovery
By Fredrick Tsang, Antonia Sequeira and Carl Morales
This article explores the benefits and risks of AI-driven drug discovery from the legal perspective. Since the law governing IP rights in AI-driven drug discovery is still in its infant state, any future legal development is likely to have significant implications in many areas.
LLM Customization With A Path to Human Inventorship and Patent Rights
By Jim Soong
A statutory predicate to the contractual outcome regarding ownership of patent rights is the requirement of a sufficient contribution by a natural person in the effort that yielded the output. The issues implicated by this requirement are one development among more to come as patent law and policy try to catch up to proliferating AI technology.
Adidas Stripe Design Battle Reveals Intricacies of Trademarks In the Fashion World
By Nicole D. Galli, Laura Talley Geyer and Alexa Elder
Although the bitter legal battle between Adidas and Thom Browne is far from over on either side of the pond, the case illustrates the challenges of ensuring trademark protection for simple and widely employed design elements.
Is It Possible to Reconcile the Two Sides In the AI Copyright Debate?
By Maria Dinzeo
The points and counterpoints brought up by experts at a Stanford Law conference provide insight on the future relationship between AI and copyright creators.
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