Monthly Archives: May, 2020

Intel Set to Acquire Moovit for $900m

Chip maker Intel announced it has acquired urban mobility app developer Moovit for $900 million. Moovit is a mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) solutions company, best known...

CDC Issues Recommendations for Workers in Meat Processing Facilities

On May 1, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released a preliminary report discussing modified guidelines for workers in meat processing facilities during the...

States, Fed. Government File Dairy Antitrust Suit

The United States of America, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin sued Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. (DFA) and Dean Foods Company on May 1 to halt...

Briefing Begins in Egg Price-Fixing Appeal

Appellant food retailers, including Kroger, Safeway, HyVee, and others, have filed their brief in a Third Circuit appeal of their loss in an antitrust...

USPTO Rules That AI Cannot Invent Patents

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled last week that artificial intelligence systems cannot be credited as an inventor in a patent. This...

Trademark Case Features as First Public SCOTUS Argument

The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments via public teleconferencing for the first time in its history, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic....

Farmers Use Remote Crop Monitoring to Run their Farms During COVID-19

In order to enable farmers to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic, some crop-monitoring services have offered their services for free. This technology is...

Senators Introduce Data Privacy Bill For Contact Tracing During COVID-19

Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) have announced plans to introduce the COVID-19 Consumer Data Protection...