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Pamela Church chairs the Firm's North America Intellectual Property & Technology Practice. She also served as a Steering Committee member of the Firm's Global Consumer Goods and Retail Industry Group. Pamela has been consistently recognized as a leader in Intellectual Property by Chambers USA and the Legal 500 USA, as well as an "IP Star" by Managing IP since 2012. World Trademark Review recognized Pamela in 2021 with gold band ranking in the area of prosecution and strategy, and included her in their 2021 WTR Global Leaders Guide. In 2020, Managing IP also recognized Pamela as one of the "Top 250 Women in IP." and in 2019 she was honored as the exclusive winner of the 2019 Client Choice IP – Trademarks award for New York. She has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and implementing transactions involving the acquisition, development, exploitation and sale of IP rights, including mergers and acquisitions, licenses, joint ventures, strategic alliances, research and development collaborations, digital publishing, e-commerce, outsourcing and corporate finance transactions.
In Corporate Compliance

United States: Generative AI: Harnessing the Power and Mitigating Risk

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On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 we are hosting an in-person client event in our New York office on Generative AI: Harnessing the Power and Mitigating Risk. The program includes an exciting in-house counsel panel featuring key speakers from Calix, Wolters Kluwer and Tiffany & Co. We’ll also hear from a cross-discipline Baker team who will discuss legal and regulatory considerations and mitigating risk when using Gen. AI,

In Product Regulation & Liability

United States: Federal Trade Commission Floats New Rule Making it Easier for Consumers to “Click to Cancel” Subscriptions

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If you sell goods and services to consumers through automatically renewing payment plans, free or discounted trials that convert into full plans, or other “negative option features” that interpret a consumer’s silence as permission to keep charging them, you should monitor and consider submitting comments on the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed Negative Option Rule. The proposed rule would impose detailed transparency, consent, simple cancellation and annual reminder requirements on companies that use any medium to offer recurring subscriptions for products or services, and allow the FTC to seek civil penalties of over USD 50,000 per violation and consumer redress for violations.