Topic: Product liability

We discuss how different regulatory frameworks for driverless cars across the UK, US and Australia are extending to manufacturers, operators and software providers.

In this post, we cover Winters v. OpenAI, Inc. et al., a San Francisco Superior Court lawsuit filed by Scott Winters, a 55-year-old Florida pastor who claims that responses from ChatGPT-4o contributed to a near-fatal pulmonary embolism.

The CJEU’s forthcoming decision on so called “long arm jurisdiction”, under which courts have assumed jurisdiction beyond the limits of strictly national or contractually defined territories could enable far-reaching centralisation of patent litigation in the EU, turning authorised representatives into jurisdictional anchors and significantly increasing procedural and liability risks for global market participants.