Surgical robots have quickly become the standard for a wide variety of surgical procedures. On jdsupra.com Mihai Vrasmasu has summarized the trends in product liability litigation in the surgical robotics... read more →

In an in-depth interview, Steven Steinborn, attorney and partner at Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C., talks about the role of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. It has regulatory authority... read more →

The debate about diesel driving bans and hardware upgrades is still in full swing in Germany. How useful are they? Is there a legal basis to force hardware upgrades by... read more →

Can Social Media Monitoring support pharmacovigilance? An Italian team of scientists has examined the question. Read the whole study.

Brexit brings a lot of challenging problems, some easier to solve, others harder. One of them is pharmacovigilance. How will it be affected by Brexit? The European database EudraVigilance for... read more →

That artificial intelligence and the product liability questions that come with it are not only a topic for lawyers in Europe, but legal experts all over the world, is obvious.... read more →

While in the past TVs were mainly about how robustly they were built, these days they are subject to completely different certification requirements. For smart TVs, for example - and... read more →

We encounter them every day on the Internet, whether it's on Amazon, Google or other shopping sites: algorithms recommend other products we might be interested in. But although they are... read more →

Who is liable for IT security gaps? That varies from case to case, but in Germany, the conventional laws on product safety and liability apply. And those, IT security associations... read more →

Dr. Hans-Jürgen Schlinkert, who is head of the working group "Legal Framework" in the German ‘Platform Industry 4.0’, answers three questions about artificial intelligence and the connected industry and its... read more →