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 OxFirst is pleased to host a free webinar with Judge
Victor Diz Torres
, Judge at the Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Rio de
Janeiro
, Brazil, speaking in his private capacity.

Injunctions — Perspectives from the Judiciary of Brazil
Tuesday, 13 May 2026 15:00 UK | 16:00 CET register here: https://oxfirst.com/insights-&-news/injunctions-brazil-judiciary-may-12/

The discussion

OxFora’s 14th IP & Competition Forum to examine SEPs,
injunctions, long-arm jurisdiction and international patent strategy

Munich, Germany — 23–24 June 2026 — As patent
disputes increasingly cross borders, courts, competition authorities and patent
offices are becoming central actors in the global governance of innovation.
Questions once seen as technical — standard-essential patents, injunctions,
FRAND,

The U.S. Treasury Department recently issued two press
releases concerning cybersecurity. 
First, the Treasury Department created a cybersecurity information sharing
initiative for U.S. digital assert companies. 
Second, the Treasury Department sanctioned actors who stole trade
secrets involving cybersecurity tools from a U.S. company.  The Press Releases are below. 

Treasury Launches Cybersecurity Information Sharing
Initiative for

Join us for the 14th IP & Competition Forum
Munich, June 23–24

🌐 http://www.oxfora.org
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https://oxfirst.com/14th-intellectual-property-and-competition-forum/

📍 Venue: DPMA Forum, Deutsches
Patent und Markenamt (German Patent Office)

With a strictly limited number of places, we are
pleased to share a final overview of the level of participation already
confirmed.

📩 Enquiries &
registration:

President Trump has released a framework for AI regulation
for Congress.  The Press Release states:

The Trump Administration is committed to winning the AI race
to usher in a new era of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and
national security for the American people. Achieving these goals requires a
commonsense national policy framework that both enables

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a
report concerning privacy risks associated with utilizing AI in the federal
government.  The privacy risks raised by
experts include:

Risks Associated with Protecting Privacy When Using AI

The experts identified 10 key risks related to privacy when
using AI, including potential invasions of privacy from data

The U.S. Department of Justice has released a Corporate Enforcement
Policy concerning national security which allows U.S. corporations to voluntarily
disclose violating white collar crime rules, including importantly, export control
laws, and avoid prosecution (except in limited circumstances).  The Press Release states:

The mission of the Department of Justice’s National Security
Division (NSD) is to

Tom Wheeler at the Brookings Institution has published an
excellent short paper titled, “Governing the AI Transition: Lessons from the
1996 Telecommunications Act.”  Mr. Wheeler
states, in part:

The relevance of the Telecom Act of ’96 to the policy
challenges of AI is not because AI is telecom, but because
technological transitions produce bottlenecks that become the
birthplace of durable private