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H. Michael O'Brien
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced on March 27 its plan to hold a public hearing on May 16 "to receive information from all interested parties about the potential safety issues ...
In my September 2016 blog post, The Impact of the Smart Home Revolution on Product Liability and Fire Cause Determinations, I forecast that "dumb products made smart by connecting...
Michael O'Brien (Partner-White Plains) authored "The Triple Threat of the Internet of Things" in the June 15, 2017, Expert Analysis column of Law360.
Gartner Inc. has predicted that the "smart home" market will grow from 339 million applications in 2016 to more than a billion by 2018.
With Philip Quaranta
The recent WannaCry ransomware cyberattack provided another chilling reminder of the potential disruptive power behind the Internet of Things.
When the failure of a smart product leads to a fire, the challenge of how smart home applications should be evaluated and examined as a potential cause becomes a more complex undertaking...
When the failure of a smart product leads to a fire, the challenge of how smart home applications should be evaluated and examined as a potential cause becomes a more complex undertaking...
The phenomenal growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), widely hailed in 2015, has been greater than originally forecast.
The rapid emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) led to the establishment of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) in the spring of 2014 by five primary stakeholders: AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, IBM and Intel.
The exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) is far outpacing the ability of stakeholders to address safety standards and security concerns.
This is the third in a series of blogs examining the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its consequential impact on product liability risk.
The Internet of Things and the Inevitable Collision with Products Liability, published in February 2015, identified a number of factors leading to the emergence and phenomenal growth of the Internet of Things.
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