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On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order on Improving the Nation s
Cybersecurity (the Order). The Order emphasized the current
cyberattack landscape targeting the public and private sectors and
the need to heighten efforts and increase resources to defend
against this threat environment. The Order comes following recent
high-profile cyber incidents, such as the Colonial Pipeline
ransomware, the SolarWinds attack, and the exploitation of
Microsoft Exchange zero-day vulnerabilities. Echoing the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity
Framework s Five Functions, the Order called for the federal
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On January 4, 2021, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published proposed rules for comment changing regulations promulgated under the Bayh-Dole Act (35 U.S.C. §§ 200-204), which allow businesses and nonprofit institutions, in most circumstances, to take title to inventions made under federally funded projects (subject inventions) and to freely commercialize items, and methods used to produce items, embodying subject inventions.
Principal among the changes proposed is a reboot of 37 C.F.R. § 401.6, titled “Exercise of march-in rights,” where NIST proposes additional processes and instructions for the consideration and exercise of such rights by an agency. Over 18,000 comments were received by NIST (the deadline was April 5, 2021), the majority of which addressed NIST’s attempt to clarify that the Government’s ability to “march in” and wrest control of a patented invention
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President Biden recently signed an executive order, “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” signaling a significant increase in regulatory oversight of government contractors’ cybersecurity programs. This action came on the heels of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, which caused fuel shortages and panic across the East Coast of the United States, and just a few months after the massive Solar Winds breach. The executive order emphasizes the significance of protecting the country’s information technology systems that underly the critical infrastructure for which U.S. citizens depend upon, and that “… the prevention, detection, assessment, and remediation of cyber incidents is a top priority and essential to national and economic security.”