Lawyers

• IBM Gets the Patent for ‘Out of the Office’ Email Responder

  U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted IBM the patent for “Out of the Office” email auto responder, in the year 2017.

• Trump Will Likely Be Questioned About Travel Ban in Meeting with CEOs

  President Donald Trump will likely be faced with questions pertaining his Muslim immigration ban when he meets with the CEOs of major U.S. companies on Friday at the White House.

• Japanese Company to Replace 34 Human Personnel With AI Workforce in March

  Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance will replace 34 office workers with IBM's Watson Explorer Artificial Intelligence in March.

• Big businesses back affirmative action before U.S. Supreme Court

  Three major companies, citing the under-representation of minorities in science and technology fields, are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in university admissions in a closely watched case to be argued next month.

• NY insider trading ruling tests prosecutors beyond Wall Street

  A court ruling that sharply curtailed the ability of prosecutors including Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara to pursue insider trading cases is increasingly testing regulators' abilities across the country.

• U.S. judge says to likely vacate insider trading guilty pleas over IBM deal

  A U.S. judge said Thursday he would likely vacate the guilty pleas of four men accused of engaging in an insider trading scheme ahead of an IBM Corp deal, as fallout continued from an appellate ruling curtailing authorities' abilities to pursue such cases.

• U.S. corporations winning fight over human rights lawsuits

  A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2013 that made it all but impossible to sue foreign companies in U.S. courts for alleged roles in overseas human rights abuses is proving to be a boon for U.S. firms too, court documents show.

• U.S. corporations winning fight over human rights lawsuits

  A landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2013 that made it all but impossible to sue foreign companies in U.S. courts for alleged roles in overseas human rights abuses is proving to be a boon for U.S. firms too, court documents show.

• U.S. authorities face new fallout from insider trading ruling

  U.S. prosecutors, already smarting from a appeals court ruling that weakens their ability to crack down on future insider trading, on Thursday faced widening fallout from the decision as some existing cases threatened to unravel.