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New USPTO procedures allow patent owners to respond to ex parte requests pre-reexamination. Patent owners should consider strategically leveraging these procedures to prevent their patent claims from being cancelled or narrowed through reexamination.

The children’s privacy risk model is changing in the United States. Historically, many businesses could credibly say they did not know whether children or teens were using their apps and services. Now, that defense is becoming harder to sustain, bringing with it a wave of potential compliance obligations.

Delaware recently became the sixth state to enact the Uniform Law Commission’s Uniform Act, with minor modifications (the Delaware Act). This two-part article describes the innovations, certainty and paradigm provided by the Uniform Act and Delaware’s revisions to the Uniform Act. Part One includes background regarding assignments for the benefit of creditors, including historical shortcomings that the Uniform Act is intended to address.

A current work-for-hire dispute over rights to the musical adaptation, cast album compositions and sheet music based on the children’s horror novel Goosebumps: Phantom of the Auditorium explores the inter-relationship of work-for-hire and copyright-ownership language in agreements signed both before and after the Goosebumps play was created.

Along with wild growth and the evolution of the global sports industry over the last few years, the sports legal market is undergoing a profound transformation as more firms focus on building standalone sports and entertainment groups.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly embedding itself into legal workflows, but much of the conversation treats all use cases as if they carry the same level of risk, even if they do not. The more useful question is not whether AI works, but where it can be safely applied and where it cannot.

Firms are investing heavily in AI-powered business development tools and simultaneously ignoring the data foundation those tools require to function. You cannot prompt your way out of bad data. Garbage-in, garbage-out. On a galactic scale.

In a recent case, a Chapter 11 debtor sought to employ an accounting firm under section 327(a), the principal of which was the first cousin of the owner of the debtor corporation. The U.S. Trustee objected to the retention, arguing that the debtor’s cousin was an insider. But the bankruptcy judge disagreed.