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Essential Corporate News – Week ending 11 July 2025
On 1 July 2025, the Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) published three new board committee guides to accompany the QCA Environmental and Social Guide published in December 2024.
Machine versus the tax man: AI inventors and the research tax credit
Bloomberg Tax
United States | Publication | October 2020
On July 29, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office received two patent applications: one for a light beacon that flashes in a unique manner to attract attention, and the other for a beverage container based on fractal geometry. USPTO Applications No. 16/524,350 & 16/524,532. These were not ordinary patent applications. The sole inventor listed on the applications was DABUS, an advanced AI algorithm billed as a ''creativity machine.'' The inventions described in these patent applications were developed by DABUS without human intervention.
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Climate change litigation update
In the two years since our last climate litigation update, the prevalence and variety of global climate litigation around the world has continued to increase.
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L’AMF propose un encadrement pour l’usage de l’IA dans les services financiers : quelles obligations pour les institutions financières?
Selon un rapport conjoint du Bureau du surintendant des institutions financières (BSIF) et de l’Agence de la consommation en matière financière du Canada (ACFC), environ 70 % des institutions financières fédérales prévoient utiliser l’IA d’ici 2026 .
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