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Air Force Debarment Official To Speak At OOPS

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 04.20.12

We are pleased to announce that Steven A. Shaw, Deputy General Counsel for Contractor Responsibility, Office of Air Force General Counsel, will be speaking at our Annual Ounce of Prevention Seminar being held May 9-10 in Washington DC. The Air Force suspension and debarment program is regarded as one of the most sophisticated in the federal government and is the model many agencies are adopting.


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Client Alert | 10 min read | 03.19.26

Emotional Perception Redefines AI Patents: The UK Supreme Court’s Groundbreaking Shift in Computer-Implemented Inventions

[1] In a recent development, the UK Supreme Court ruled that Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are not excluded from patentability due to being a computer program “as such.” In doing so, the Court set out the framework of a new test for the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to use when evaluating the patentability of computer. The ruling breaks down barriers to the patenting of AI algorithms in the UK and paves the way for a wider change in the UK IPO’s approach to assessing excluded subject matter....