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Making AI Work for Us: The Defining Health System CEO Leadership Challenge of 2026
In 2025, AI adoption in healthcare operations moved from theoretical to practical via scaled health system investments in various agentic workflows.
AI Wrapped 2025: The Year Hypothetical AI Risks Became Operational Reality
U.S. state legislatures and courts turned AI governance into an operational obligation and reshaped the AI compliance landscape heading into 2026.
Patent Owner Beware: Provisional Deletions and the Limits of Incorporation by Reference
In DDR Holdings, LLC v. Priceline.com LLC.,1 the Federal Circuit held that a change in the scope of the invention from the provisional application to the nonprovisional application can affect the scope of the invention. The court held that, in view of the deletion of any reference to “merchant” providing “services” in the final nonprovisional specification, which was originally described in the provisional application, the claim term “merchant” was properly interpreted to mean producers, distributors or resellers of the goods to be sold, but not of services. It was insufficient that the nonprovisional application incorporated the provisional application by reference because a skilled artisan would recognize that the nonprovisional specification removed the description of “merchants” providing “services,” and that deletion, which was clear, would inform the skilled artisan that the patentee intended “merchants” to exclude services.
