US Fifth Circuit’s discovery ruling unlikely to deter SEP litigants, lawyers say  MLex

With the sweeping victory for Democrats in the US midterm elections, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his colleagues in Congress now have several tools at their disposal to investigate corrupt...

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman’s Co-Managing Partner Moish Peltz was quoted in MLex on how the shift from “AI” to “SI” in corporate branding could affect

聊天機器人平台 Character.AI 的營運公司 10 月在美國聲請破產、準備出售資產。美國司法部的破產管理官與 39 州加華盛頓特區要求法院指派隱私監察人，就使用者資料能否隨資產出售、以什麼條件出售向法院提供意見，公司主張隱私權政策已允許移轉。依 MLex 的報導，法官 10 月 30 日沒有要求指派，但鼓勵公司考慮。

Character Technologies, the company behind the chatbot platform Character.AI, filed for bankruptcy in the US in October and plans to sell its assets. The U.S. Trustee at the Justice Department and 39 states plus Washington, D.C. asked the court to appoint a privacy ombudsman to advise on whether, and on what terms, user data can be sold with the assets, while the company argues that its privacy policy already permits the transfer. According to MLex, the judge did not require an appointment on 30 October but encouraged the company to consider one.

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