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Cannabis Patents: How Evolving Marijuana Laws Affect Plant, Seed, and Processing Innovation
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The uneven evolution of federal and state cannabis laws continues to frustrate cannabis business operations, including, but not limited to, how intellectual property is created, valued, and deployed. While trademark rights remain closely tethered to lawful commercial use in interstate commerce,[1] patent rights operate under a different legal framework—one that has historically permitted…
Just Another NDA? Why M&A Confidentiality Agreements Are Different
When it’s time to finally sell your company or if you’re exploring a potential acquisition target, one of the first documents you will encounter is the confidentiality agreement or non-disclosure agreement (“NDA”). You say to yourself, I’ve seen hundreds of NDA’s (perhaps more) in my day-to-day business, so “I’m fine signing just another NDA!” However,…
Texas Passes TRAIGA: What the New AI Law Means for Your Business
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Artificial Intelligence and Lawyering: Why Machines Can’t Do Our Jobs
Just about every week, someone asks one of us how our work is being affected by artificial intelligence (“AI”), and especially about the large language models (“LLMs”), such as ChatGPT, that have become prevalent in everyday life. As commercial litigators, AI has limited application to the work that we do. Certainly, it can be helpful…