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Annual ISDC Reporting

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 11.07.19

The annual Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee recently issued its annual report to Congress. The report, found here, contains details of the state of the federal suspension and debarment program for Fiscal Year 2018 (note the significant timelag). The report notes a focus on cybersecurity contractor compliance issues, and proposals to modernize/streamline lead agency coordination. Otherwise, total numbers of suspensions, proposed debarments, and debarments continued to decline year-over-year, while pre-notice interactions with contractors continued to comprise a significant portion of SDO offices’ dockets.

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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....