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Tech’s Latest Innovations Struggle to Live Up to the Hype
January 6, 2017
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas attracts thousands of exhibitors and attendees searching for the next big thing, with this year set to feature a cornucopia of technological innovation from connected fridges to drones, smartwatches and virtual reality headsets. At CES this week, many manufacturers will add virtual assistants from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon and Google to their products, while others will claim they have added “artificial intelligence” to everything from cars...
January 6, 2017
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas attracts thousands of exhibitors and attendees searching for the next big thing, with this year set to feature a cornucopia of technological innovation from connected fridges to drones, smartwatches and virtual reality headsets. At CES this week, many manufacturers will add virtual assistants from the likes of Microsoft, Amazon and Google to their products, while others will claim they have added “artificial intelligence” to everything from cars...
No Standard? No Review
January 6, 2017
While the Court did address the merits, and its enthusiasm for the appeal was tempered by the many cases brought to it about the BP Deepwater Horizon settlement, the Fifth Circuit offered this cautionary note about briefing the standard of review: “Bailey’s opening brief skips this step — it does not acknowledge the standard of review, and offers no arguments to show that the district court abused its discretion. Bailey therefore has waived an issue necessary to the success of the appeal.” Claimant...
January 6, 2017
While the Court did address the merits, and its enthusiasm for the appeal was tempered by the many cases brought to it about the BP Deepwater Horizon settlement, the Fifth Circuit offered this cautionary note about briefing the standard of review: “Bailey’s opening brief skips this step — it does not acknowledge the standard of review, and offers no arguments to show that the district court abused its discretion. Bailey therefore has waived an issue necessary to the success of the appeal.” Claimant...
Premonition: Motions Analyzer
January 6, 2017
Premonition, the Miami-based Artificial Intelligence company, releases Motions Analyzer, its latest report developed to increase the odds of winning in litigation by showing the win rate of motions in a particular court. By using the World’s largest litigation database, Motions Analyzer determines the best motion to make in developing a data-driven approach to litigation strategy with potentially better legal outcomes. For example, only Premonition knows a change of venue may be the best motion...
January 6, 2017
Premonition, the Miami-based Artificial Intelligence company, releases Motions Analyzer, its latest report developed to increase the odds of winning in litigation by showing the win rate of motions in a particular court. By using the World’s largest litigation database, Motions Analyzer determines the best motion to make in developing a data-driven approach to litigation strategy with potentially better legal outcomes. For example, only Premonition knows a change of venue may be the best motion...
Will Robots Ever Have Emotions?
January 6, 2017
Humans have emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, and anger; and maybe otheranimals have them too. Robots are getting increasingly smarter, for example, the driverless cars that are now navigating city streets. What would it take to make a robot emotional, and would we ever want them to have that capacity? According to obsolete ideas, rationality and emotion are fundamentally opposed because rationality is a cold, calculating practice using deductive logic, probabilities, and utilities....
January 6, 2017
Humans have emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, and anger; and maybe otheranimals have them too. Robots are getting increasingly smarter, for example, the driverless cars that are now navigating city streets. What would it take to make a robot emotional, and would we ever want them to have that capacity? According to obsolete ideas, rationality and emotion are fundamentally opposed because rationality is a cold, calculating practice using deductive logic, probabilities, and utilities....
Article on Intersection of Contract and Fiduciary Law
January 5, 2017
Paul B. Miller & Andrew S. Gold recently published an Article entitled, Introduction to Contract, Status, and Fiduciary...
January 5, 2017
Paul B. Miller & Andrew S. Gold recently published an Article entitled, Introduction to Contract, Status, and Fiduciary...
Predicting and Analyzing Factors in Patent Litigation
January 5, 2017
Patent litigation is an expensive and time-consuming process. To minimize its impact on the participants in the patent lifecycle,...
January 5, 2017
Patent litigation is an expensive and time-consuming process. To minimize its impact on the participants in the patent lifecycle,...
Moot Dispute Gets Boot
January 5, 2017
Sessa Capital, a hedge fund, supported the election of certain directors to the board of Ashford Prime, a hotel business. Ashford’s management rejected their applications, contending that they were incomplete. Litigation ensued, in which Sessa sought an injunction against the June 10, 2016 board election. The district court denied relief; Sessa appealed, and a motions panel of the Fifth Circuit denied an interim stay. Since that election proceeded, mootness became an obvious appellate issue....
January 5, 2017
Sessa Capital, a hedge fund, supported the election of certain directors to the board of Ashford Prime, a hotel business. Ashford’s management rejected their applications, contending that they were incomplete. Litigation ensued, in which Sessa sought an injunction against the June 10, 2016 board election. The district court denied relief; Sessa appealed, and a motions panel of the Fifth Circuit denied an interim stay. Since that election proceeded, mootness became an obvious appellate issue....
Mysterious radio signal traced to dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away
January 5, 2017
Photos: Wonders of the universePGC 1000714 was initially thought to be a common elliptical galaxy, but a closer analysis revealed the incredibly rare discovery of a Hoag-type galaxy. It has a round core encircled by two detached rings. Photos: Wonders of the universeNASA's Cassini spacecraft took these images of the planet's mysterious hexagon-shaped jetstream in early December 2016. The hexagon was discovered in images taken by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s. It's estimated to have a diameter...
January 5, 2017
Photos: Wonders of the universePGC 1000714 was initially thought to be a common elliptical galaxy, but a closer analysis revealed the incredibly rare discovery of a Hoag-type galaxy. It has a round core encircled by two detached rings. Photos: Wonders of the universeNASA's Cassini spacecraft took these images of the planet's mysterious hexagon-shaped jetstream in early December 2016. The hexagon was discovered in images taken by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s. It's estimated to have a diameter...
Mysterious radio signal traced to dwarf galaxy 3 billion light-years away
January 5, 2017
Photos: Wonders of the universePGC 1000714 was initially thought to be a common elliptical galaxy, but a closer analysis revealed the incredibly rare discovery of a Hoag-type galaxy. It has a round core encircled by two detached rings. Photos: Wonders of the universeNASA's Cassini spacecraft took these images of the planet's mysterious hexagon-shaped jetstream in early December 2016. The hexagon was discovered in images taken by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s. It's estimated to have a diameter...
January 5, 2017
Photos: Wonders of the universePGC 1000714 was initially thought to be a common elliptical galaxy, but a closer analysis revealed the incredibly rare discovery of a Hoag-type galaxy. It has a round core encircled by two detached rings. Photos: Wonders of the universeNASA's Cassini spacecraft took these images of the planet's mysterious hexagon-shaped jetstream in early December 2016. The hexagon was discovered in images taken by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s. It's estimated to have a diameter...
The 10 Most Important Legal Technology Developments Of 2016
January 4, 2017
Robert Ambrogi, The 10 Most Important Legal Technology Developments of 2016: 1. The legal industry gets smart about artificial intelligence. In my top 10 list last year, I considered it big news that AI had come to legal research in the form of ROSS Intelligence, a startup that uses IBM’s Watson platform to answer lawyers’ natural-language legal research questions. Just as last year closed out, another AI company, Premonition — which says it is applying AI to the largest legal database...
January 4, 2017
Robert Ambrogi, The 10 Most Important Legal Technology Developments of 2016: 1. The legal industry gets smart about artificial intelligence. In my top 10 list last year, I considered it big news that AI had come to legal research in the form of ROSS Intelligence, a startup that uses IBM’s Watson platform to answer lawyers’ natural-language legal research questions. Just as last year closed out, another AI company, Premonition — which says it is applying AI to the largest legal database...
