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Toymaker Mattel has announced plans to sell a nursery gadget that will listen to infants and watch over them, record their sleep patterns, and even play a lullaby should they awaken. Skeptics are asking if the device, similar to Amazon.com's Echo with its Alexa voice assistant, will violate children's privacy and deepen a trend of surrendering intimate human connections to technology that talks and listens.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recalled approximately 465,000 pacemakers this week after concerns started to grow over the devices vulnerability to hacking. The recall, announced on Tuesday , is not intended to remove the pacemakers as that would be not only invasive but would also put the patient at serious risk since medical procedures involving pacemakers are often complex; rather, the manufacturer created a new firmware update that medical professionals can apply to the patient.
Employers who operate in a multi-state environment should take note of a recent case out of the Sixth Circuit Stone Surgical, LLC v. Stryker Corporation involved a departing sales representative from Stryker, a medical-device manufacturing company headquartered in Michigan.
The Supreme Court of the United States traced two centuries of analysis related to enhanced damages in patent cases to conclude that the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's two-part test, announced nearly a decade ago in In re Seagate , was unduly rigid and impermissibly constrained a district court's discretion. Halo Electronics, Inc. v.