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Generative AI: A global guide to key IP considerations
Artificial intelligence (AI) raises many intellectual property (IP) issues.
United States | Publication | May 2022
We have warned for several years of federal and state Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) investigations potentially resulting in criminal exposure for employers who are claimed to have willfully violated workplace health and safety standards. Now, a federal grand jury has indicted the operator and management personnel of a Wisconsin corn mill where a May 2017 explosion killed five workers and injured many more. The indictments include two counts relating to willful violations of OSHA grain-handling standards.
In particular, the grand jury charged the managers with document falsifications prior to and obstruction of the OSHA investigation of the incident, including:
The cautionary tale is plain—the cover-up is usually worse than the offense itself. Employers and facility owners and operators with responsibility for OSHA compliance must ensure they (1) have appropriate written policies and procedures in place to identify and reduce, eliminate and/or meaningfully address workplace hazards; (2) ensure workers are adequately and routinely trained concerning those hazards and their avoidance, as well as safe work practices for the various tasks in which they must engage; (3) conduct attorney-directed internal investigations of OSHA-reportable incidents to ensure work product protection applies to the conduct of those efforts and (4) engage forthrightly with OSHA when incidents occur that could subject the company to citations.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) raises many intellectual property (IP) issues.
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The UK remains a world leader in offshore wind, accounting for roughly 20 percent of global offshore wind capacity, with 11.3 GW operational. It is forecast that installed capacity will rise to 19.5 GW by mid 2020s.
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On 21 May 2024, the European Council (or Council) adopted the so-called ‘Hydrogen and decarbonised gas market package’ (the Gas Package). The package contains a recast of the 715/2009 gas regulation (Gas Regulation) and a recast of the 2009/73 gas directive (Gas Directive) aimed at reforming the existing EU regulatory framework to support the deployment of renewable and low-carbon gases, in particular hydrogen. As such, it represents a major development in the EU gas market.
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