Seeing 2020: Outlook for the Unmanned Industry
David St. John-Larkin spoke on the topic of Seeing 2020: Outlook for the Unmanned Industry.
Cloud Atlas: Red Flags, Offramps and Indemnification in Contracting
David St. John-Larkin spoke on the topic of Cloud Atlas: Red Flags, Offramps and Indemnification in Contracting.
Creative Solutions for Legal Challenges Facing Autonomous Vehicle Companies
David St. John-Larkin spoke on the topic Creative Solutions for Legal Challenges Facing Autonomous Vehicle Companies.
Artificial Intelligence and Patent Prosecution
David St. John-Larkin spoke at the virtual 18th Annual Rocky Mountain Intellectual Property & Technology Institute Virtual Conference.
AUVSI Xponential 2023
David St. John-Larkin spoke at the AUVSI Xpotential.
Why the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Were Struck Down
The decades-long fight over net neutrality appears to be over. In one of the first appellate decisions since the Supreme Court of the United States overturned Chevron deference in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Ohio Telecom Association v. FCC (2025) held that...
LA City Council Votes to Increase Wages for Airport and Hotel Employees
On December 11, 2024, the Los Angeles City Council approved proposed changes to the city’s Living Wage Ordinance (LWO) and Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance (HWMO) that, if implemented, would incrementally increase the minimum wage for certain tourism workers, namely airport employees and employees of hotels with more than 60 rooms. The proposal ...
Insight Into the Upcoming Trump Administration’s Antitrust Policy
With the nomination of Commissioner Andrew Ferguson as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) and Gail Slater to helm the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division, the second Trump administration’s antitrust policy is coming into focus.[1] Both individuals come from the Republican party’s populist wing, which ha...
Safeguard Business and Personal Reputations Using the Sharp Tool of a Defamation Action
You are your reputation. A good one is a prized possession for businesses and individuals alike. And, as with most valuable assets, what takes years to painstakingly build may take only a day or a few keystrokes to destroy. Particularly in today’s digital era, the impact of a false accusation or unfair negative characterization against an indi...
CPUC Closes Years-Long Microgrids Proceeding, Limiting Off-Grid Distributed Energy Resources That Could Support Data Centers and Industrial Decarbonization
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued its Decision Adopting Implementation Rules for Multi-Property Microgrid Tariffs and Other Matters on November 18, 2024,[1] closing the final chapter of a years-long rulemaking[2] (the Microgrids Proceeding) that many say underdelivered on California’s legislative and policy mandates to c...