Alex Fields
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Who governs AI? The federal government's challenge to state regulation — What organizations need to know
FILE PHOTO: A message reading "AI artificial intelligence", a keyboard, and robot hands are seen in this illustration. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab August 12, 2026 - Artificial intelligence ("AI") regulation in the United States is at an inflection point.
State AI laws under federal scrutiny: Key takeaways from the executive order establishing federal AI policy framework | JD Supra
On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” (“Executive Order 14365”) which establishes a federal policy aimed at addressing the growing number of state-level AI regulations governing the AI ecosystem: “to sustain and enhance the United States’ global AI dominance through a minimally burdensome national policy framework for AI” (the “Policy”).
Unintended consequences: how recent data protection rulings threaten Europe's digital future
A man holds his briefcase while waiting in line during a job fair in Melville, New York July 19, 2012. The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rebounded last week, returning to levels consistent with only modest job growth after a seasonal quirk caused a sharp drop the prior period. REUTERS/Shannon...
Unintended consequences: how recent data protection rulings threaten Europe's digital future
(June 26, 2025) - Rachel Feldman, Alex Fields and Candace Yifru of White & Case LLP discuss decisions from Germany's Federal Court of Justice and the European General Court on the availability of compensable non-material damages when there is "loss of control" of one's personal data under the GDPR.
The Hyperborean — Jesse Thomas Cook | In Review Online
Credit: Collingwood Film Co. Perhaps the first film where an alien ice mummy fails a breathalyzer test, Jesse Thomas Cook’s The Hyperborean aims for nothing less than the sort of self-consciously absurd fun that such an image suggests. Structured as a series of flashbacks, with corporate lawyers and investigators trying to piece together the events of a fateful family gathering, the film alternates between present-tense scenes of dialogue and moments that occurred earlier in the night.
Light, Time, and Space: The Eclipse Films of Kevin Jerome Everson
Viewed from one angle, Kevin Jerome Everson’s eclipse studies are as anomalous as the phenomena they capture. Everson’s body of work documents Black life with a particular emphasis on work and pastimes. He is known for his formal innovation with duration and sound, but these are typically used to emphasize the scales of human experience.
The Garden Cadences — Dane Komljen | In Review Online
Dane Komljen’s previous film, Afterwater (2022), is a triptych exploring the boundaries of humanity’s relationship with gender and the environment. It begins with an observational segment quietly following a couple who work in a lab and then go out to a lake, then freely adapts the text of a Spanish novel, and ends with an abstract science fiction sequence which imagines a future where the binaries of gender and civilization-nature are dissolved.
Breathless — James Benning [Cinéma du Réel '24 Review] | In Review Online
James Benning’s 2021 film The United States of America works through 50 landscapes, one from each state in alphabetical order, only to end its credits with a list of the locations where these were shot — all in California. That film’s punchline is the loudest example of a challenge to the fiction-nonfiction distinction that Benning has mounted throughout his career. His latest film, Breathless, continues this explicit focus on metatextual games.
2024 Nevermore Film Festival
In one way, horror fans have a lot to be happy about. Over the past decade, the genre has broken out of its “midnight movie” cage and become a mainstay in arthouse festival programming and critics’ year-end lists. Genre film is an increasingly popular choice for young filmmakers looking to break through professionally, offering better hopes for a commercial return on investment than conventional drama, and thus easier sources of funding.
UNDR — Kamal Ajafari [IFFR '24 Review] | In Review Online
Credit: Kamal Ajafari/IFFR The tragic history of the Nakba — the Israeli occupation — and the resulting diaspora have led to a distinctive voice among Palestinian experimental filmmakers. A recent generation of artists like Basma Alsharif, Rosalind Nashashibi, and Razan AlSalah have made films that use varied tools, from animation and Google Maps to elusive metaphors and genre film, to express the violence of displacement and the longing for a stolen homeland.
Potenciais à deriva — Leonardo Pirondi [IFFR '24 Review] | In Review Online
Credit: Leonardo Pirondi/IFFR For the past several years, Leonardo Pirondi has created a fascinating body of experimental works that play with fictional documentary frameworks to produce complex layers of meaning.
Desire Lines — Jules Rosskam [Sundance '24 Review] | In Review Online
Desire Lines is a hybrid film that understands the themes it wants to address, but struggles to find the formal means. Part conventional talking heads documentary, part experimental dramatization, it’s a record of gay, transmasculine experience.
Nine Lives of the Avant Garde
Given the lack of avant-garde films in the Cat Movies collection currently featured on the Criterion Channel—a cat movies program with no Carolee Schneemann?!—I thought I would curate a supplementary program focused exclusively on experimental works. I tried to balance canonical works with lesser known classics and contemporary artists. Many thanks to the people who suggested some of these films, and especially to the artists who made their works available.
The California Supreme Court Clarifies Section 16600 as Applied to Business Contracts and Holds That an Independently Wrongful Act Is Necessary to Prove Interference With At-Will Contracts | Orrick - Trade Secrets Group - JDSupra
The most powerful tool capable of invalidating competitive restraints under California law is Business and Professions Code section 16600. That statute states that “[e]very contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade or business of any kind is to that extent void.” California courts have historically used that statute to void non-compete and non-solicit provisions in agreements between employees and employers or buyers and sellers of a business.
Trade Secret Ownership: Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law | JD Supra
When a plaintiff asserts claims of trade secret misappropriation, it must own the underlying trade secrets, right? Wrong. According to the Third Circuit’s April 30, 2020 decision in Advanced Fluid Systems, Inc. v. Huber, under state law, the plaintiff only needs to prove lawful possession. In 2009, Advanced Fluid Systems, Inc.
Does the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine Apply Under the DTSA? It Depends on the State. | JD Supra
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Protecting IP in a COVID-19 Remote-Work-World | JD Supra
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Congress Aims to Restrict Use of Non-Competes Nationwide | JD Supra
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Huawei Alleges “Selective Prosecution” by the DOJ | JD Supra
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FOIA Exemption 4 Tightens the Spigot on Public Disclosure of Bottled Water Sourcing Records | JD Supra
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OPEN SECRETS: Can Business Methods Based On Blockchain Technology Constitute Trade Secrets? | JD Supra
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Court Declines To Exercise Pendent Venue Over A Patent Case And Denies Section 1400(b) Discovery | JD Supra
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Revised Trade Secrets Disclosures May Be Costly | JD Supra
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Use It Or Lose It: Assert All Prior Art References During IPR | JD Supra
The defendants in this case chose not to assert all relevant prior art patents and printed publications during an IPR (in order to increase their likelihood of joinder with an instituted IPR) and were subsequently precluded from asserting that prior art in defense to an infringement action in the Northern District of Texas.
Court Reconsiders And Grants Motion To Transfer For Improper Venue In Light Of TC Heartland
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Meet 'Patriot Front': Neo-Nazi network aims to blur lines with militiamen, the alt-right
Led by an 18-year-old Texas man, the far right splinter group born from the fallout over Charlottesville connects flyer-plastering activists online around the country. When the flyers first began appearing around Kitsap County — a mostly rural place in Washington’s southwestern Puget Sound, centered around the midsize city of Bremerton and its U.S. Navy shipyard — officials just quietly took them down.
Reversed! Failure To Assert Robust Nonobviousness Arguments During IPR Led To Reversal By The Federal Circuit
During inter partes review proceedings, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) is required to give claims their broadest reasonable construction in light of the specification. See 37 C.F.R. § 42.100(b). Thus, when the PTAB imports claim limitations based on the invention’s preferred embodiments, its decision upholding patent validity may be subject to reversal.
Accounts Frozen: DOJ Alleges Seven Defendants Conspired To Misappropriate Trade Secrets
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Court Cites Risk Of Competitive Misuse To Deny Modification Of Protective Order
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Beware Of Firing Your Own Witness Prior To Trial - Intellectual Property - United States
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Beware of Firing Your Own Witness Prior to Trial
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Courts Still Heavily Favor Rule 65 TROs Over DTSA Ex Parte Seizures
The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 was signed into law by President Obama on May 11, 2016. While the DTSA has been on the books for over a year, relatively few courts have addressed the ex parte seizure provision and even fewer have actually granted a seizure under the DTSA. This is likely due to the DTSA’s requirement that courts order property seizures only in extraordinary circumstances.
Inadequate Disclosures Preclude Monetary Damages Recovery In Trademark Infringement Suit - Intellectual Property - United States
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Inadequate Disclosures Preclude Monetary Damages Recovery in Trademark Infringement Suit
Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment, Sazerac Co., Inc., et al. v. Fetzer Vineyards, Inc., Case No. 3:15-cv-04618-WHO (Judge William H. Orrick) As any practitioner who has sought to establish trademark infringement already knows, likelihood of confusion is difficult to prove at trial. Nonetheless, a recent Order in Sazerac Co., Inc., et al. v. Fetzer Vineyards, Inc.
Nice Try: Federal Circuit Denies Uber Engineer's Writ, Affirming The District Court - Intellectual Property - United States
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Nice Try: Federal Circuit Denies Uber Engineer’s Writ, Affirming the District Court
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