B&P Costs Don't Include Sub Costs Or Profit
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 07.30.04
In Gentex Corp. v. U.S. (June 10, 2004), the Court of Federal Claims decided two issues of first impression for the court adversely to the contractor: (1) even when a solicitation specifically requests teams to respond, the B&P costs of teammates of the prime are not recoverable unless they are in a joint venture or in some other way are prime contractors themselves and (2) profit is not recoverable on the contractor's costs.
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AI Companies Prevail in Path-Breaking Decisions on Fair Use
Last week, artificial intelligence companies won two significant copyright infringement lawsuits brought by copyright holders, marking an important milestone in the development of the law around AI. These decisions – Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta (decided on June 23 and 25, 2025, respectively), along with a February 2025 decision in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence – suggest that AI companies have plausible defenses to the intellectual property claims that have dogged them since generative AI technologies became widely available several years ago. Whether AI companies can, in all cases, successfully assert that their use of copyrighted content is “fair” will depend on their circumstances and further development of the law by the courts and Congress.
Client Alert | 3 min read | 06.30.25
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FDA Targets Gene Editing Clinical Trials in China and other “Hostile Countries”
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